Category:Arguments

A

• Argument stubs
• Arguments against belief
• Arguments against organized religion
• Arguments against the existence of God
• Arguments for belief

A cont.

• Arguments for the existence of an afterlife
• Arguments for the existence of God
• Arguments for the truth of a holy book

B

• Bad arguments

C

• Criticisms of atheism

N

• Non-arguments for the existence of God

P

• Pragmatic arguments
• Presuppositional arguments

S

• Strawman arguments

7

• 747 Junkyard argument

A

• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
• Accident fallacy
• All gods are aspects of the same God
• All religions are equally valid
• Animal sacrifice
• Apologetics and dinosaurs
• Apologetics is effective
• Are you a good person?
• Argument from apologetics
• Argument from authority
• Argument from incompatible attributes
• Argument from inconsistent revelations
• Argument from Intimidation
• Argument from locality
• Argument from nonbelief
• Argument from Old Book
• Argument from poor design
• Argument from religious impermanence
• Argument from the inconceivability of personal annihilation
• Argument from the overall message
• Arguments en faveur de l'existence de Dieu
• Argumentum ad crumenam
• Argumentum verbosium
• Association fallacy
• Atheism is a religion
• Atheism is based on faith
• Atheists are angry at God
• Atheists are just in denial
• Atheists are ugly
• Atheists believe in nothing
• Atheists cannot know anything
• Atheists had a bad experience
• Atheists know there is a God
• Atheists worship materialism
• Avoidance of hell

B

• Bad arguments against the existence of God
• Banana argument
• Biblical argument for organized religion
• Brian's Paradox
• By definition God is a being who is worthy of worship

C

• Call for Proof
• Can God create a rock so heavy that he can't lift it?
• Ce n'est pas dans ma Bible

C cont.

• Christianity is not a religion
• Christians disagree over everything
• Chuck Missler's jar of peanut butter
• Common consent argument for the existence of God

D

• Darwinism leads to social Darwinism
• Argument from design
• Distinguishing between God and Satan

E

• Earth is at the center of the universe
• Everyone believes in something
• Evidence for the existence of Satan
• Evidentiary argument
• Evolution is only a theory
• Extremists have perverted religion

G

• Glendower problem
• God can't be defined
• God commanded atrocities in the Old Testament
• God doesn't believe in atheists
• God enables faith by withholding proof
• God obviously exists
• God should be worshipped
• God wrote the Bible
• Gödel's incompleteness theorem

H

• Heaven precludes genuine charity
• Holy books are outdated
• Humans are not animals
• Humor is the best argument against religion
• Hypocrisy of celebrating religious holidays

I

• I used to be an atheist
• Israel proves God exists
• It takes more faith to disbelieve than it does to believe

J

• Jesus died for your sins
• Jesus existed and was deified by later Christians

L

• Laminin argument
• Life cannot form in the presence of oxygen

M

• Many accurate copies of my holy book exist
• Argument from the meaning of life
• Argument from miracle testimony
• Moral failure of mainstream religion
• Mutually-contradictory apologetics
• My holy book is true
• My holy book says my holy book is true

N

• Naturalism implies atheism
• Not all events necessarily have causes
• Notable criticism of the argument from design

N cont.

• Notable statements of the argument from design

O

• Occam's Razor
• Omnipotence paradox
• Organised religion is necessary
• Outsider test

P

• Parachute analogy
• Presentism
• Presuppositional apologetics
• Problem of evil
• Problem of evil (evidential)
• Problem of external testing
• Problem of Hell
• Problem of non-God objects
• Proof of God would undermine free will

R

• Religion is another way of knowing
• Religion provides hope
• Religion was invented to control people
• Religious belief is beneficial to society
• Religious belief is not a choice

S

• Science can't touch god
• Science is a faith
• Science should limit its inquiries
• Argument from scriptural codes
• Argument from scriptural inerrancy
• Second law of thermodynamics implies the universe is of finite age
• Argument from the second law of thermodynamics
• Selective use of Old Testament law
• Some religions are more harmful than others

T

• That's not in my Bible
• The Bible was written by eyewitnesses
• The Gregorian calendar proves that Jesus existed
• There are no atheists
• They're not true Christians
• Turtles all the way down

U

• Argument from uniqueness
• Unmoved mover

W

• Who created God?
• Why are atheists so obsessed with religion?
• Why is there something rather than nothing?
• Argument from the world as an interacting whole

Y

• You are a communist
• You can't prove God doesn't exist
• You cannot put God to the test
• You just want to sin