The dumbest fucking arguments you've ever heard.

[Invisible Sky Fairy]

"How can you not believe in God when a snobby member of our family shares a name with a snobby TV character?"

Yeah.

[abaris]

To tell the truth, the dumbest arguments I read on this very board. Also the most depicable ones such as defending slavery and genocide. Might file that under criminally dumb. Believing in Adam and Eve being real is filed under fundamentally stupid in my system as is believing the earth to be 6000 years old. In short, whenever someone flaunts ignorance as a virtue, it's time to run for shelter.

[Mudhammam]

The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism is a pretty good example of philosophy in the wrong hands. It's not the dumbest argument theists use, but it tops the list when it comes to "stupid arguments conceived by reputed intellectuals in the theist community."

[Rev. Rye]

Here's two:

Sometime last year, some guy came on these forums saying "9, therefore God exists." I took that argument down with a refresher course in second grade math and a clip from Darren Aronofsky's Pi.

Also, Bill O'Reilly's "tide goes in, tide goes out" is difficult to beat in terms of sheer idiocy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzkRHFl2ppw

[Delysid]

After explaining to an acquaintance that I had doubts about the existence of a god since I was 5 or so and that around the time I was 14 those doubts were strengthened when I actually READ the bible, this person said to me that at 5 and even at 14 I was far too young to be able to form an opinion on something as complex as god. They said I was also far too young to understand the "true depth of scripture" and that the bible's words have many more layers of meaning to them than I could have imagined at 14.

They then went on to say that now I am older, at 21, I should give god and the bible another chance because now and only now that I am older will I truly be aware enough and intelligent enough to accept jesus into my life. So basically it's the whole "You were never really a true Christian" argument - which is absolutely hilarious.

[Chas]

Thanks to Kirk Cameron, I now have a mission in life. I'm going to go back to uni, take advanced degrees in biological and genetic engineering, obtain a huge government grant, built a state of the art research facility, and create the CrocoDuck.

Then, I'm going to train it to eat Kirk Cameron.

Boru

You will likely need to include vulture genes - they can eat decaying, rotten meat without ill effect.

[The Reality Salesman01]

Sorry, but this is going on right now and I couldn't help myself:

Huggy said that a woman's pulse stopped for 45 minutes. She was pronounced dead, and then she came back to life. He said this was proof that people can be resurrected.


I told him that whatever she was, she clearly wasn't dead. I told him that if life was still possible on a cellular level, any assertion of death is premature.

He told me I was wrong and that death can be defined simply by a significant duration of a lack of pulse. And gave me a definition of Clinical Death.

I gave him the following quote and he actually thought it supported his position, he posted the following while continuing the same nonsense with Norman. The bold was Huggy's:

Seriously.

And what about the link TRS posted?

This one?
http://www.livescience.com/46418-clinica...tions.html

What is death?

Despite its frequent use, the term "clinical death" doesn't actually have a consistent meaning, said Dr. James Bernat, a neurologist at Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine in New Hampshire. In most hospitals, the doctor in charge of a patient's care makes the death determination, and there aren't universal guidelines for when to make that call, he said.

"You're dead when a doctor says you're dead," Bernat told Live Science.

Totallly missed the relevant part that preceded it! NO UNIVERSAL GUIDELINES!!!

[Jackalope]

What reallygets me is those who will say that god is ineffable, beyond human understanding - and in the same breath tell me what this god wants from us.


Um, what?

[The Reality Salesman01]

A good theistic argument really should have a contradiction in one the first few lines.

[Delysid]

What reallygets me is those who will say that god is ineffable, beyond human understanding - and in the same breath tell me what this god wants from us.


Um, what?

Yes this is absolutely hilarious. I once had someone pull this on me. They sat and told me how wrong I was for attempting to understand god or ask for proof of god on a logical level because "god is beyond your understanding." Then when asked about evil and wrongdoings in the world they seemed to have such a nuanced, intricate understanding of the inner workings of god's mind and how even though sometimes it may seem like he doesn't care about us he is doing all of that for a reason and blah blah blah. It's very interesting how quick they switched from "there's no way to truly understand god" to "well this is how god works and here's why you're wrong."