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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Mon Mar 26, 2018, 04:55 AM Mar 2018

Questions that theists can provide no good answer for:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1218275958

The first, of course, is: does the Creator exist?

The general theistic response is that a god exists, and that all other gods except yours are a human invention. The theists often reason that, because they cannot find any evidence contradicting a god existing, that proves or heavily argues that god exists. The major weakness of this argument is that, if they have no idea what the Creator looks like, or what form the Creator takes, they have no idea how to look, or what to look for.

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Questions that theists can provide no good answer for: (Original Post) DetlefK Mar 2018 OP
Zues is real. Eko Mar 2018 #1
He's good at casting asparagus though. trusty elf Mar 2018 #2
Indeed. trotsky Mar 2018 #3
The theists will invariably agree that they have no good answer for this question. Act_of_Reparation Mar 2018 #4
And, as Hawking's death reminded us Pope George Ringo II Mar 2018 #5
Yeah, an awful lot of them are really getting off Mariana Mar 2018 #6
It's the christian thing to do. Pope George Ringo II Mar 2018 #7

Eko

(7,231 posts)
1. Zues is real.
Mon Mar 26, 2018, 05:26 AM
Mar 2018

I had him over the other night and we played darts, he sucked at it for some reason.

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)
4. The theists will invariably agree that they have no good answer for this question.
Mon Mar 26, 2018, 08:57 AM
Mar 2018

Because the best argument they've managed to come up with in the past hundred years or so is, "OH YEAH WELL YOU DON'T HAVE ANY EVIDENCE EITHER."

Which sounds really appealing if you don't understand statistics, which very few of them appear to.

Pope George Ringo II

(1,896 posts)
5. And, as Hawking's death reminded us
Mon Mar 26, 2018, 09:59 AM
Mar 2018

The best argument they've been able to come up with boils down to, "Just you wait until after you're dead! You'll see! Nyah!"

Mariana

(14,854 posts)
6. Yeah, an awful lot of them are really getting off
Mon Mar 26, 2018, 12:06 PM
Mar 2018

on their fantasy that Hawking is being tortured right now, and will be for eternity.

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