How to easily defeat any argument for God

[Alan V]

I'm really interested to know what you guys think of this argument:

CommonSenseAtheism.com/?p=8854

Theists often don't know how to respond I find or their responses are poor.

I don't think Luke Muehlhauser understood the arguments he was critiquing. "If everything requires a Creator, then so does God" is pointing out an inconsistency, a kind of special pleading or double standard, implicit in theistic argumentation. It is saying that defining a God in such a way as to answer the question really just begs the question of whether such an exception exists. Same for "Anything complex requires an intelligent designer."

As for "Why?" questions, they assume there is a "why" when there may be none. If "Why?" asks for meaning, and instead all we have are descriptions without meanings, then it doesn't help to try to answer. All we can say are that the reasons we offer are both necessary and sufficient, like answering "Who created me?" by saying "My parents."

Further, atheists have any number of arguments, including the one Muehlhauser considers best or "show stopping." This is not to say that some arguments aren't better than others for some people. But that's why atheists have such a wide range of arguments. I'm glad he found the one which was convincing to him.