Tag Archives: Gnus
God of the Gaps: Five Problems with a Terrible Slogan
Perhaps the most amusing trait of internet atheists is their tendency to dismiss every evidence of God’s existence as a “God-of-the-gaps” argument. Their concern is that “goddidit” is a lazy man’s approach to explaining phenomena; can’t every mystery be erased by invoking an all-powerful, all-knowing creator?
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Tagged "God-Did-It"?, Gnus, God-of-the Gaps, McAtheism, Things Science Can't Explain
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Believing in One Less God than You…Four Problems With a Terrible Slogan
It’s difficult to take “New Atheism” seriously when it keeps propounding “arguments” like this:
“I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours”
This is rather like arguing that a triangle is a square with one angle fewer, or that a bachelor is just a married man without a spouse.
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Tagged Apologetics, Faith and Reason, Gnus, McAtheism, New Atheism, One less God than you, popular
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