Bad Arguments for God

[anticitizen]

I read your article and you asked several times why people find these lame arguments compelling. I actually have an entire video series that explains the psychological science behind these beliefs. For example, "God of the Gaps" is the result of need for cognitive closure generating a primacy effect that is filled with anthropomorphization.

Psychology of Belief, Part 8: Need for Closure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jHO-7aodbw

Psychology of Belief, Part 9: Agenticity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwP9QusSxfc

I highly recommend you watch the rest of the series. I may or may not be exactly correct in my arguments, but at the very least, the videos give a nice summary of many of the "classic" experiments in social psychology and how they relate to religious beliefs.

AnticitizenX

I don't know about you, but I'm sick and tired of poor and inconsistent arguments for the existence of God.

I wrote an article on my website which points out the flaws and incoherence of the teleological and cosmological arguments.

Check it out at http://www.blazingtruth.com/2011/07/god-...-universe/

Is there anything I missed? Discuss it below.

Thank you for your time,

D