Open letter to any new atheists starting threads in this forum:
Please do not present any of the following arguments and think you're offering us anything new or even anything that theists haven't heard and debunked a million times already. Many of us are ex-Atheists and even those who aren't are still savvy enough that we've heard all the endlessly recycled, canned atheistic arguments. If you do offer these arguments, do not expect anything more than irritated "please get out" or "please stop talking" retorts. Hearing the same tired arguments over and over gets old.
Rule of Thumb: If Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett, Harris, or Atkins have used the argument you're about to post, we've heard it already.
Among the specific arguments we've already heard include but are not limited to:
See how easy that was?
Please do not present any of the following arguments and think you're offering us anything new or even anything that theists haven't heard and debunked a million times already. Many of us are ex-Atheists and even those who aren't are still savvy enough that we've heard all the endlessly recycled, canned atheistic arguments. If you do offer these arguments, do not expect anything more than irritated "please get out" or "please stop talking" retorts. Hearing the same tired arguments over and over gets old.
Rule of Thumb: If Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett, Harris, or Atkins have used the argument you're about to post, we've heard it already.
Among the specific arguments we've already heard include but are not limited to:
- the Problem of Evil
- The Reverse Ontological Argument
- "Who created the creator"
- Hideness of God Argument
- Phantom Third Option to Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit
- "There's no evidence Jesus even existed"
- "The multiveres theorem answers the teleology argument"
- The Free-will/Omniscient God Paradox
- The Omnipotent Paradox
- "God commits genocide"
- "Morality is subjective"
- "The universe is so big, it can't possibly be made for humans"
- The Non-Primacy of the Mind Argument
- The Argument from Insufficient Evidence
- "There are so many god(s), how can you know YOURS is the real one?"
- Various (seriously, various) objections to the Kalam
- "Evolution has disproven Genesis" <--my favorite
- "Atheists have already debunked the classic theistic arguments a million times already"
See how easy that was?
All generalizations are false.