One Less God - Greg Koukl

Taken from our blog, Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason answers the question, "How do you respond to an atheist who says 'I just believe in one less god than you do.'?". For more information, visit http://www.str.org.

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[ransomdave]

"We dismiss a bunch of Gods because they are not believable, we accept one because he is" You can't see that all believers think that exact thought about their particular God/Gods? Because that's the crux of the argument...

[WestonPDX100]

@STRvideos You're fighting a losing battle my friend. Your faith is the superstition of 1st century illiterates. As people become more educated, and learn how to think critically, they're realizing how ridiculous your arguments are.

[fukkensully]

you have no good reason for believing in your god. just because you DO believe... doesn't mean you have a good reason for doing so.

[TheTomtompiper]

@MrItchyElbow Personally I'm agnostic as to the chance that their may be a God, but Atheist to your God as there is not one shred of evidence for him. You claim to have presented some, but I have looked and cannot find one jot, one iota, so maybe you can elucidate, enlighten me. I await your citations and links with baited breath, yours faithfully TheTomtompiper.

[MrItchyElbow]

@TheTomtompiper Oh yeah, maybe you should read the other comments. As far as your claims, I guess you didn't, you just pumped yourself into the dialog. I'm assuming you agree with evensgrey, but since it is an assumption why don't you enlighten me about your stance on this topic. If you say you don't care if there is a god? That's catching among the atheist community. It's a form of retreat and let's see what they do if we taunt them enough kind of maneuver.

[TheTomtompiper]

@MrItchyElbow did you write it in invisible ink? And I have not made any claims so how do you suggest I provide evidence, and what am I providing it for, are you on drugs?

[evensgrey]

@MrItchyElbow Which of my very simple, clear statements were you unable to understand?

[evensgrey]

@MrItchyElbow You forgot to specify what you mean by 'begin', for the obvious reason of wanting to always be able to move the goal posts somewhere else when you get the explanation of any specific beginning.

What are you hallucinating that causes you to randomly assume that there's any indication of the universe coming to an end in the near future?

[MrItchyElbow]

@evensgrey What? That doesn't make sense.

[MrItchyElbow]

@evensgrey What failure, the failure to see the answers that you provide about how things began. Apparently, how things began doesn't rate highly in atheist books. The how did everything begin has to be more complicated than "In the beginning God..." Well, by examining creation, science finds out much about how creation works, and is put together, not simple. Science, though, cannot tell you how it all began. Science is incomplete and by the looks of things, running out of time. Tick tock.