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8Scott Alexander
Paul Wright and MBlume are right. I used that as an example of a bad argument that people should not be making. The thesis of the first half of my article is the same as the last paragraph of your comment, and I agree with you 100% on it. The thesis of the second half of my article, in contrast, is that you need to beware, lest opponents interpret your position as an invitation to recite their favorite debating points rather than actually listen to what you are saying. I congratulate you on your understanding of the first half, but you might want to read the second half over again :)
8PaulWright
You've taken Yvain's example of a bad argument to use as if it were his argument, and then called it wrong headed. You're agreeing with Yvain. There is a difference between using an argument and quoting it.
6MBlume
This was the point of the original post.
Furcas150

From what I've seen, most theologians don't even believe that they know how to defend what they believe. The most common sentiment among them seems to be that the part of theology that seeks to demonstrate the existence of God is the crudest and least interesting part. Those theologians who do bother to try and support their belief with arguments, like Swinburne and Plantinga, rarely agree with one another.

In any case, comparing theologians to physicists as you do is silly. Physicists are the experts of physics because they know about the most accurate the... (read more)

0thomblake
Indeed. Ignorant atheists piss me off. No, you don't have to go along with everything your culture does just because everybody else thinks it's a good idea... but you'd better have a damn good reason for rejecting it.. But there really are a lot of atheists for whom it comes down to something like "talking snake? C'mon!". It's worse than being religious. What's worse is a lot of these folks love being polemical - they don't have good reasons for being atheists but want to be loud jerks about it, so religious folk get the idea that atheists are just uninformed rude jerks.