What's the most lame evidence or argument for the existence of God?

Question

What's the most lame evidence or argument for the existence of God that you've ever heard?

Answer 1

The least defensible reasoning of so-called religious people is:

"I was born a [whatever], and I'm gonna die a [whatever]."


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Answer 2

The most lame argument I have ever heard is a one-word argument: faith. The implication being that faith is just this empty catch-all thing that neither requires nor possesses any evidence. That is not faith, that is blind credulity and the two are not coterminous. That one-word argument has all the backbone of a paramecium and is actually an insult to the Bible and an insult to the evidence for the existence of God.

Answer 3

The concept or belief in God is not a result of fear in its origination but to its realization. For example, when it rains, you use an umbrella to protect yourself against rain but before the thought of using the umbrella, did not the umbrella exist? Of course God is Higher, and if we were able to see God, would that make him more worthy of worship or less? Scientifically you have to believe in God b/c matter is based on cause and effect so it can not go indefinitely unless matter is perfect and eternal, which it is not b/c matter continuously changes but some thing perfect would not require change b/c it is sustained by itself. So matter has a end, but none the less if you believe that matter always existed and is perfect, who was the Decision Maker to initiate the original change of creation, since you believe in its eternity, you must accept it as perfect in the first place. Thus God must be in the formula as the Originator of creation and its attributes of cause and effect.

Answer 4

Do I have to pick just one? :o( There are so many:

"Because the Bible says blah blah blah, therefore God exists." Using a holy book to prove your god is real? Uh, no, doesn't work that way.

"Whenever I pray, I get a warm, peaceful feeling inside, therefore God exists." Whenever I visit Sedona, AZ, I get similar feelings; does that mean Cathedral Rock is God? If someone gets good feelings from smoking a joint, does that mean God's name is Mary Jane?

"The universe had to have come from SOMETHING, therefore God exists!" It came from an infinitely dense point called a singularity. How it came to be in that condition, and what form it took before then, we don't know and may never know, but it certainly doesn't mean that God is the default answer.

"[Insert scientific finding or theory here] is too complicated and I don't understand it; therefore, God exists." Christians worship a "god of the gaps," something to fill in whatever they don't immediately comprehend. At one time, nobody understood thunder, and that was attributed to God. Nowadays, they attribute God to quantum theory and certain cosmic phenomena because the more obvious things have been explained.

"My cousin's best friend's husband was healed of cancer when his church prayed for him, therefore God exists!" Cemetaries are filled with people who died of diseases, even though their families prayed for them--therefore, God doesn't exist.

"Humans have laws and morals, and those had to have come from somewhere--therefore, God exists." This assumes that humans are just too stupid and evil to have invented certain clever concepts all on their own. NEWS FLASH: religious people are not more moral than the non-religious! They are responsible for more atrocities than I can name here. If God gave them morals, then they would not act immorally.

Answer 5

I don't know. But I can give you good ones.

One doesn't sit in a chair and say, "This is a very exellently crafted chair!" and then turn around and look at the intricacy of the universe, human bodies, and everything else and say, "uuuh, that just happened. What luck!"

And if that's not good, if you look at the Bible and see how many copies (copies of the original) we have, (number in the thousands) it would seem that it'd be a no brainer to accept them as fact.

Yet we look at Plato and Shakespeare, whos copies (copies of the original) simply number in the double digits and NEVER doubt a word in those.

Answer 6

Why would you look for a lame argument? It's easier to just not believe if you chose not to; why justify tit by searching for a "lame" argument. It seems you should be trying to find the most powerful argument, then, if possible, providing just as powerful a counter-argument.

Answer 7

"I know the bible is true because it says so." And "It must be true because look at how many people believe it's true!" (Never mind that no two churches can agree implicitly on how to interpret the bible -- religions disagree *vehemently* with each other where the bible is concerned.)

I also love the responses rejoicing over the idea of God loving everyone so much that he gave them a choice between heaven and everlasting damnation.

Answer 8

It's in the bible
The bible says so
he does exist you just have to have faith that he does
how can you not believe in god
if you don't believe in god you'll go to hell
god is all around us
god will judge you when you die

I'm sure believers can come up with more than I can

Answer 9

The Catholic Church, the pope, and the four book abridged version of the fifty or so book Gnostic Bible that most books hail as the full word of God.

Answer 10

They're all lame, how could they not be?

The best ones are when they refer to simple scientific procedures, like the Sun rising / setting, a flower, baby being born.

I did see another good one too "Because I feel him" - A true classic

Answer 11

I personally like the argument-
"If the earth was just a little different we couldn't live on it. 20 degrees hotter or colder and we couldn't live. If the air had to much Chlorine we would die. etc. So there MUST be a god and he MUST love us to have saved us."