Don't presume that just because someone rolls their eyes and points out the fallacies in certain goofy "evidence for God" arguments, that they're an atheist. THere are quite a few goofy arguments *against* the existence of god(s) that I cheerfully puncture too. I'm not anti-God, I'm anti-nonsense.
Why are they so interested in God if they don't believe in God?
Has it ever occurred to you that they might be open-minded enough to look into a thread like this to see whether they might have overlooked something that might challenge their atheism and require them to change their position? Apparently it hasn't.
Plus, of course, threads with titles like these often contain a lot of atheist bashing (because, you know, they must be real fools if they don't fall to their knees in the face of fallacious arguments and weak "evidence" of God like this), so I imagine a number of them would come by to defend their beleaguered group.
Try posting a thread claiming multiple lines of evidence *against* the existence of God and see how many non-atheists descend... But at least in that case, no one would be silly enough to ask, "why are the believers so interested in the non-existence of God if they believe in God"?
This also puzzles me. If believers are content with their souls, why not leave mine alone?
I suspect that believers are very insecure, because they know in their hearts that Noah's Flood never happened; because they know that evolution is firmly based on real science from many branches.
ID is merely an attempt to prove the existence of a certain god--the god of Leviticus morality. IDists have never once contributed a single thing to medicine or technology.
IDists remain ignorant not only of biology, geology, etc., but hellbender and the like continue to discount the pixie theory.
The pixie thoery does not rely on any text from 2000 years ago, but we make it up as we go along. This is more productive, and saves pixies from silly arguments against them.
As a believer, pixies and rain gods get along quite well.
"Don't presume that just because someone rolls their eyes and points out the fallacies in certain goofy "evidence for God" arguments, that they're an atheist."
I didn't presume anything, I'm talking about the ones who claim atheism.
"Has it ever occurred to you that they might be open-minded enough to look into a thread like this to see whether they might have overlooked something that might challenge their atheism and require them to change their position?"
LOL if only
" Plus, of course, threads with titles like these often contain a lot of atheist bashing (because, you know, they must be real fools"
Theres more atheist bashing going on in Christian churches than on FR.
if they don't fall to their knees in the face of fallacious arguments and weak "evidence" of God like this), so I imagine a number of them would come by to defend their beleaguered group."
This kind of goes back to your "open minded" comment. I would hazard to guess they are atheists because, to them, ALL evidence since the beginning of time is "fallacious arguments and weak evidence of God.
I'm just one of the "naive audience", as one egotistical and superior atheist says, but I think some, not all, but some atheists join these threads hoping to steal a soul from God, but thats just my humble opinion.