What do you think is the most obvious fact that theists deny in order to maintain their faith?

Answer 1

This depends on the type of belief that they harbor.

Some Christians can deal with a Bible that contains inconsistencies, but others cannot, and they therefore create all kinds of meandering apologetic arguments to "prove" that the Bible is really consistent.

Some have trouble dealing with evolution, and so they must deny that the mounting evidence points ever more convincingly that natural selection, not divine intervention, led to the multiplicity of species.

Some have difficulty accepting the size of the universe, and so deny the significance of a universe that is billions of light years across.

But among the most significant facts is the absolute animal nature of humanity, the absolutely insignificant difference between human beings and our animal cousins. To assert that a God intervenes with human lives (keeping some alive while others die, solving financial problems, even finding parking places near our destinations) is such an absurd notion, but is held by almost every theist.

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Answer 2

i might say that atheist do deny God considering that being an atheist ability you do no longer have faith in any deity, yet i might say that theist do no longer deny info because of the fact i'm a theist and that i take advantage of info standard.

Answer 3

All that is required to be a theist is to deny that there is 'no God'. God could be defined in any way. It's much harder to support atheist beliefs, than to have God to explain, for instance, the existance of anything. The most obvious fact that Atheists must tackle is, I am, we are, the universe is.

Answer 4

The absolute lack of even a remote shred of tangible, empirical evidence in support of a personal god. Despite the zillions of claims of miracles, not a SINGLE believer has ever cured an amputee by faith healing, levitated, or turned water into wine under any sort of laboratory setting.

Answer 5

Themselves

(being a Christian Theist)

Answer 6

The age of the Earth and of the Universe. It is backed up by geology, astronomy and by archaeology, but all their findings are denied by christians and many other theists alike.
My second candidate would be evolution.

Answer 7

Speaking of an obvious fact dealing with Christian dogma:

If their God can do anything, and their God makes the rules, and their God is Love, then why would He chose to let people be tortured in Hell for Eternity when He could have just made them no longer exist? Could they themselves not think of more loving things to do with people who didn't want to be with their God for all eternity than to torture them?

Answer 8

The real age of the earth. 4.5 billion years and counting or 6000 years according to genesis. Creationists watched too much Flinstones.

Answer 9

Atheists? Well,let me think...um,ok. How about the fact that the Church is 2000 years old,currently has a membership of two billion or a third of the world and will obviously be around long after every atheist has died and turned to dust and been forgotten.
Oh,wait...you said "theists". Gee,I don't know. Except they must be doing something right.
They're certainly doing better than the American Atheists Society.

Answer 10

That prayer does absolutely nothing. They are in utter denial when if comes to understanding that answered prayers are nothing more than coincidence. If I only had a nickel for every theist whose told me that god has "spoke to them" or "answered their prayers", to which I'll say, "how do yo know it was god and not coincidence?" and they'll say something like, "because I felt his presence" or, "you'd understand if you had faith."

Yeah, that's just what I need, the ability to put aside rationality and plead to an imaginary entity for help.