Atheists, what do you believe is the best argument for the existence of a deity?

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Oh really? Please, do enlighten me sir, I'd love to know what position you think it is I have faith in.

Metaphysical Naturalism... if you believe it is true. Without faith, you cannot know. To know 'God': you must have faith.

The best argument for the existence of a deity is a joint argument... how depraved the humor of reality appears to be combined with my absurd luck. Absurdity of reality proposes an absurd answer... and as an atheist: a god or gods seems to be absurd.

So the best argument for a deity is not the chances of it, it is not how perfectly everything fits, it is not because we can't explain things, it is not because it seems sensible, it is not because love is apparent in the universe, it is not because because the world seems intelligently designed, it is not because tradition dictates it so...

It is because it is fucking ridiculous. Which puts it on par with the universe.

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Huh? I didn't say you had faith. I said faith is the only way belief in God is possible, considering the Christian position. Therefore arguments for material existence don't address that subject.

Perhaps that's how I come to the conclusion that fine tuning is perhaps the weakest argument for God's existence.

IOW I could enter this discussion at the same level as non believers because there is no difference in my position to yours.

But maybe you're right... at this current moment in time I would find a scientific study of God to be absurd. There really is no need to go beyond what science already proposes.
Assuming dysteleology (no purpose or goal) is a metaphysical position and not subject to observation or scientific demonstration. When a divine hand cannot be observed through scientific methods, that is insufficient reason to conclude that a divine hand does not exist or is not active. A scientific viewpoint therefore shouldn't draw dysteleological conclusions. (paraphrase of John H Walton - The Lost World of Genesis One.)

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Few things would be so ridiculously absurd as trying to find scientific evidence of a thing that is not scientific.