Straw Man

yoel haalmoni (core@rof.net)
Sun, 20 Apr 1997 09:32:15 -0600 (MDT)

>Mr. Till,
>
>First of all, most people do believe in God for many of those reasons. If
>you ask the average person on the street if and why they believe in God,
>the most common response will be, "well, how did everything get here?" A
>crude form of the cosmological argument, yes, but the argument
>nevertheless.

yoel:

If "how did EVERYTHING get here" is a valid "argument", then "how did God
get here?" is even more valid, since it is inclusive (God is included in
"everything")

Theists try to exclude God from the initial premise of the argument. The
skeptical "then how did God get here" question does not seek to make an
exception for a fairy-creature whose existence in questionable to say the
least.

Since God is only "revealed" on archaic and faulty papers and within the
minds and mouths of theists, he will forever exist as an unsupportable
theory. He is neither tangible nor present, and is not testable
scientifically. He exists, questionably, outside of the realm of science,
proof, and relevance.