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Argument From Design (II), aka God Of The Gaps, aka Argument From Personal Incredulity (II), aka Design/teleological Argument (IV)
1. Isn't X amazing!
2. I don't understand how X could be, without something else (that I don't really understand either) making or doing X.
3. This something else must be God because I can't come up with a better explanation.
4. Therefore, God exists.
Consider this
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
Dave Barry


Atheism News from Google
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Religulous: TIFF press conference diaries
National Post, Canada - 14 minutes ago
... spiritual beliefs — he says he prefers to call himself a rationalist, rather than an atheist or agnostic — and insisted that he wasn't anti-Catholic. ...

Why..., Believe a Lie..., About Genesis??
OpEdNews, PA - 1 hour ago
... in ignorance about what is written by Moses and 2) won’t be blindly indoctrinating students into atheism without balancing their class with both views. ...

Leave doctors' religion alone
Canoe.ca, Canada - 4 hours ago
But if an atheist believes terminating a viable pregnancy is not something he or she can in good conscience do, that person can be hauled before the HRC? ...

Off the Record
Catholic Culture - 5 hours ago
... of faith for me and legislate it for someone who doesn't share that article of faith, whether they be agnostic, atheist, Jew, Protestant, whatever. ...

The Election: Religion, Simulation and Prediction
ABC News - 6 hours ago
Relevant to the issue of presidential politics and religion was Warren's later statement that he'd never vote for an atheist for president, since, ...

When Did Freedom Become An Orphan?
RealClearPolitics, IL - 6 hours ago
But freedom isn't freedom without the right to pursue what you value -- money or knowledge, pleasure or sacrifice, God or atheism, community or misanthropic ...

When Did Freedom Become an Orphan?
Patriot Post - 8 hours ago
But freedom isn't freedom without the right to pursue what you value -- money or knowledge, pleasure or sacrifice, God or atheism, community or misanthropic ...

Coming To Judaism
Israel e News, Israel - 9 hours ago
... where books peddling atheism are sure-fire best-sellers, and faith in anything but science is portrayed as a sort of feeblemindedness. ...

The Americanization of Cuban Mel Martinez
Arkansas Online (subscription), AR - 9 hours ago
He wore the Catholic medal to his school games in defiance of the atheist regime that had seized control of his homeland. For this he drew stares and ...

God on trial
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 9 hours ago
Perhaps it is no coincidence that David Hume, who in support of his atheism expounded the problem of suffering, also said: "I am apt to suspect the negroes ...

Seasons fly by in the blink of an eye
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,  United States - 10 hours ago
"I am an atheist," he said, "but a Catholic one." Jack and I took a nine-hour bus ride to Morelia, the capital of Michoacán. ...

SEATTLE: Ron Reagan returns to airwaves starting Monday on KPTK-AM
TheNewsTribune.com, WA - 10 hours ago
Ron Reagan, the liberal son of President Ronald Reagan, is going back on the radio. Starting Monday, “The Ron Reagan Show” is scheduled for live broadcast ...

Earning Middle America's revulsion
Beliefnet.com, NY - 11 hours ago
I found this comment from a libertarian atheist friend of McArdle's striking: I'm not a huge fan of McCain's nor of Palin's reported social conservativism, ...

Rallying The Right, Confounding The Left
Hartford Courant, United States - 12 hours ago
Nor is she an atheist on pork barrel spending. She's a politician, which means she's taken some irreconcilable positions in office and as a candidate. ...

Festival fetes area's cultural diversity
GoErie.com, PA - 12 hours ago
The two became Russian refugees who sought asylum in the United States for being "believers" -- Orthodox Christians -- in a militantly atheist Soviet Union. ...

The Glebe faces a crossroadsDifference in bond types might confuse ...
New River Valley Current, VA - 13 hours ago
Residents and employees can be of any religion, as well as atheist. Meanwhile, the bells and whistles it offers were aimed at seniors with solid retirement ...

Sartwell: Extend choice to doctors, too
Austin American-Statesman, TX - 13 hours ago
I am a pro-choice atheist. But I support a regulation, recently promulgated by the Bush administration, that would cut federal funding to nearly 600000 ...

The Economic Problem of Sin
American Thinker, WA - 13 hours ago
... be targeted and intended to really end poverty (the fewer the poor, the more the religious rich can keep - an angle the atheist Marx never quite got. ...

Miller: Government crippled by God
Daily News Tribune, MA - 14 hours ago
"I couldn't vote for a person who was an atheist, because I would think - I think the presidency is a job too big for one person. ...

Miller: Government crippled by God
Milford Daily News,  USA - 14 hours ago
"I couldn't vote for a person who was an atheist, because I would think - I think the presidency is a job too big for one person. ...

Disuniting colours of fanaticism
Times of India, India - 14 hours ago
There are Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and atheist fundamentalists (sometimes called communist), not to mention so-called ‘pro-life’ fundamentalists who murder ...

Miller: Government crippled by God
MetroWest Daily News, MA - 14 hours ago
"I couldn't vote for a person who was an atheist, because I would think - I think the presidency is a job too big for one person. ...

The Great Populist Divide
Huffington Post, NY - 16 hours ago
"Today," he declared in 1950, "we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between Communistic atheism and Christianity...the chips are down - they are truly ...

Kevin Rennie | NOW YOU KNOW
Hartford Courant, United States - 18 hours ago
Nor is she an atheist on pork barrel spending. She's a politician, which means she's taken some irreconcilable positions in office and as a candidate. ...

Opinion: Mu'ammar Al-Qathafi: The Man Behind The Name
Tripoli Post, Libya - 18 hours ago
... as expounded in the Green Book rejects capitalism and its accompanying colonialism and imperialism and the former Marxist ideology with its atheism. ...

Politics and Religion in America: Imagine There's No Heaven
Center for Research on Globalization, Canada - 19 hours ago
... "The Dangerous Fanaticism of a Few People Who Happen to Be White, Male, and Atheist." His whole brand is opposition to the supposed danger of atheism. ...

Opinion: Mu'ammar Al-Qathafi: The Man Behind The Name By BY Muhammad
Tripoli Post, Libya - 20 hours ago
... as expounded in the Green Book rejects capitalism and its accompanying colonialism and imperialism and the former Marxist ideology with its atheism. ...

A Class Act
Times Online, UK - 21 hours ago
A recent poll suggested that almost any label would be better for a political candidate than being considered an atheist. Sarah Palin, beauty queen, ...

A Class Act
Times Online, UK - 21 hours ago
A recent poll suggested that almost any label would be better for a political candidate than being considered an atheist. Sarah Palin, beauty queen, ...

Imagine There's No Heaven
OpEdNews, PA - 22 hours ago
And their tolerance extended to tolerance of atheism: "Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the ...

Imagine There's No Heaven
American Chronicle, CA - 22 hours ago
... "The Dangerous Fanaticism of a Few People Who Happen to Be White, Male, and Atheist." His whole brand is opposition to the supposed danger of atheism. ...

REMAIN FAITHFUL: Conference Hopes to Mobilize the Faithful to ...
Virtue Online, PA - 22 hours ago
Even leaving aside the virtual atheism of Bishop Spong's 'Twelve Theses', we've had bishops claim that the church can 're-write the Bible', ...

Francis Bacon remembered
Times Online, UK - 22 hours ago
A loner who loved parties, an atheist obsessed with religious subjects, a generous friend who turned venomous in a trice — Francis Bacon’s character had as ...

Tenant won’t quit to lodge landlord’s daughter, HC says beat it
Expressindia.com, India - 23 hours ago
Your case is worse if you are a landlord, an atheist, have an only vdaughter and, to top it all, your family believes in informal meals not confined to ...

Ghost Town: TIFF press conference diaries
National Post, Canada - 23 hours ago
"Ricky, you're very open about your atheism. Did this film change your opinion about the after-life?" Gervais: "No, I don't believe in ghosts, fairies, ...

Fundies: Great News! Everybody's An Atheist By A Quarter 'Til 2!
OpEdNews, PA - 23 hours ago
21st century reality got you feeling blue? Wondering if anything is left to believe in anymore? We have the perfect antidote for you! ...

Remembering Nissim Ezekiel
Hindu, India - 23 hours ago
Nissim said, in his interview: “…with the first LSD experience, I gave up atheism — it just collapsed. Religion and its mysteries became more acceptable. ...

The problem is not the qualifications of the candidate, it's the ...
OpEdNews, PA - 23 hours ago
Ed Martin is an unindicted curmudgeon. He is not a Democrat, Republican, conservative, liberal, deist, atheist, or a member of any -ism.

Second Opinion: Disuniting colours of fanaticism
Times of India, India - Sep 6, 2008
There are Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and atheist fundamentalists (sometimes called communist), not to mention so-called ‘pro-life’ fundamentalists who murder ...

Ron Reagan, ex-president's son, back on radio
kgw.com (subscription), OR - Sep 6, 2008
AP Ron Reagan, the liberal, atheist son of the late President Ronald W. Reagan, is going back on the radio. Reagan, 50, previously hosted a radio talk show ...

Ron Reagan, ex-president's son, back on radio
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald, WA - Sep 6, 2008
AP SEATTLE Ron Reagan, the liberal, atheist son of the late President Ronald W. Reagan, is going back on the radio. Reagan, 50, previously hosted a radio ...

Ron Reagan, ex-president's son, back on radio
Bellingham Herald, WA - Sep 6, 2008
AP State SEATTLE -- Ron Reagan, the liberal, atheist son of the late President Ronald W. Reagan, is going back on the radio. Reagan, 50, previously hosted a ...

When did the idea of freedom become a political orphan?
Chicago Tribune, United States - Sep 6, 2008
But freedom isn't freedom without the right to pursue what you value—money or knowledge, pleasure or sacrifice, God or atheism, community or misanthropic ...

When did the idea of freedom become a political orphan? Steve Chapman
Chicago Tribune, United States - Sep 6, 2008
But freedom isn't freedom without the right to pursue what you value—money or knowledge, pleasure or sacrifice, God or atheism, community or misanthropic ...

A tryst with the king
Daily News & Analysis, India - Sep 6, 2008
The sight of devotees queuing up to pay homage to the deity deconstructs faith for the atheist. Pratik Ghosh tries to get a glimpse of the elephant god The ...

Surprise endings can be a starting point for reflection
Guelph Mercury, Canada - Sep 6, 2008
But Jack, who is as close to being an atheist as a preacher's kid can be, does play hymns on the piano for his father and visits Reverend Ames, ...

People should inform, respect, love nonbelievers, too
Record-Searchlight, CA - Sep 6, 2008
So if someone was a declared atheist, yet wanted to find out what Unity is all about, I'm sure they would be welcomed and treated with respect. ...

Conflict Tests Ties Between the Georgian and Russian Orthodox Churches
Georgiandaily, NY - Sep 6, 2008
By SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY MOSCOW — While the leaders of Russia and Georgia exchange recriminations, Christians in the two nations are worrying about the damage ...

"The hippest guy in the room:" Poet Robin Blaser, 83
Vancouver Sun,  Canada - Sep 6, 2008
His unconventional spirituality came out as we discussed his surprising views about religion, God, atheism, academia, love and, with the recent death of his ...

A Case for Faith
IntelliPoker, Germany - Sep 6, 2008
I became a believer in late 2003 due in large part to a book called “A Case for Christ” written by a former atheist by the name of Lee Strobel. ...

Conflict Tests Ties Between the Georgian and Russian Orthodox Churches
Gadsden Times (subscription), AL - Sep 6, 2008
MOSCOW — While the leaders of Russia and Georgia exchange recriminations, Christians in the two nations are worrying about the damage that the bitter ...

Church promotes universal appeal
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN - Sep 6, 2008
She considers herself more agnostic than atheistic, partly because she doesn’t like the connotations associated with atheism. “To me, an atheist is sort of ...

Conflict Tests Ties Between the Georgian and Russian Orthodox Churches
Gainesville Sun, FL - Sep 6, 2008
MOSCOW — While the leaders of Russia and Georgia exchange recriminations, Christians in the two nations are worrying about the damage that the bitter ...

Conflict Tests Ties Between the Georgian and Russian Orthodox Churches
Gatorsports.com, FL - Sep 6, 2008
MOSCOW — While the leaders of Russia and Georgia exchange recriminations, Christians in the two nations are worrying about the damage that the bitter ...

Conflict Tests Ties Between the Georgian and Russian Orthodox Churches
New York Times, United States - Sep 6, 2008
By SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY MOSCOW — While the leaders of Russia and Georgia exchange recriminations, Christians in the two nations are worrying about the damage ...

From Russia with paint
Herald Times Reporter, WI - Sep 6, 2008
Bibles can be found at bookstores in the country that was officially atheist under Communism. Parkhomenko said about 15 different publishing houses in ...

Church Happenings
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Sep 6, 2008
"Hypocrites, Lunatics and Charlatans" as part of the "Conversations With an Atheist on the Existence of God" series. www.middletownchristian.org. ...

Conflict Tests Ties Between the Georgian and Russian Orthodox Churches
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - Sep 6, 2008
MOSCOW — While the leaders of Russia and Georgia exchange recriminations, Christians in the two nations are worrying about the damage that the bitter ...

Conflict Tests Ties Between the Georgian and Russian Orthodox Churches
BlueRidgeNow.com, NC - Sep 6, 2008
MOSCOW — While the leaders of Russia and Georgia exchange recriminations, Christians in the two nations are worrying about the damage that the bitter ...

Conflict Tests Ties Between the Georgian and Russian Orthodox Churches
The Ledger, FL - Sep 6, 2008
MOSCOW — While the leaders of Russia and Georgia exchange recriminations, Christians in the two nations are worrying about the damage that the bitter ...

Conflict Tests Ties Between the Georgian and Russian Orthodox Churches
Times Daily (subscription), AL - Sep 6, 2008
MOSCOW — While the leaders of Russia and Georgia exchange recriminations, Christians in the two nations are worrying about the damage that the bitter ...

Conflict Tests Ties Between the Georgian and Russian Orthodox Churches
Tuscaloosa News (subscription), AL - Sep 6, 2008
MOSCOW — While the leaders of Russia and Georgia exchange recriminations, Christians in the two nations are worrying about the damage that the bitter ...

Conflict Tests Ties Between the Georgian and Russian Orthodox Churches
StarNewsOnline.com, NC - Sep 6, 2008
MOSCOW — While the leaders of Russia and Georgia exchange recriminations, Christians in the two nations are worrying about the damage that the bitter ...

'Hippest man on earth'
Vancouver Sun,  Canada - Sep 6, 2008
His unconventional spirituality came out as we discussed his surprising views about religion, God, atheism, academia, love and, with the recent death of his ...

Author: New Atheists bolder as secularism gains foothold
Arkansas Online (subscription), AR - Sep 6, 2008
Time.com has called him the “reigning intellectual of the evangelical movement in the US” His latest book, Atheism Remix: A Christian Confronts the New ...

To market, to market
BBC News, UK - Sep 6, 2008
I'm not keen, for example, on Richard Dawkins' atheist assertions, much as I admire him; he doesn't know, any more than anyone else does. ...

• IN THEORY: Keeping faith-based schools • IN THEORY:
Burbank Leader,  United States - Sep 6, 2008
Ministers are being urged to stop faith schools in England selecting pupils and staff on the basis of their religion. Accord, a new coalition of secular and ...

Why the EU strengthens Turkish secularism
Turkish Daily News (subscription), Turkey - Sep 6, 2008
... procedures and rules but about the promotion of an atheist belief-system and the creation of the societal conditions for the spread of such beliefs? ...

Ron Reagan to return to local airwaves
Seattle Times, United States - Sep 6, 2008
Ron Reagan returns to Seattle's airwaves, hosting a radio show that will be nationally syndicated on Air America Radio. By Seattle Times staff Ron Reagan's ...

End of life ministry brings out best in volunteers
Daily News - Galveston County, TX - Sep 5, 2008
British dramatist Edward Young observed, “By night an atheist half believes in a God.” So although hospice is officially neutral on the matter of divinity ...

Real Life Stories, China From the Bottom Up
New York Times, United States - Sep 5, 2008
Its continuum of orthodoxy slides between animism, Taoism, Maoist atheism and the quasi capitalism of its favorite son, Deng Xiaoping. ...

AM 1090 adds The Ron Reagan Show to lineup
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog, WA - Sep 5, 2008
One of our locals is back on the air (no, it's not Goldy but hopefully he's next), and a great addition to progressive talk radio. ...

The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed
musicOMH.com, UK - Sep 5, 2008
And if all that sounds simplistic and patronising, it isn't - Skinner doesn't preach an anarchic form of atheism to his listener here (although the slightly ...

Conflict Tests Ties Between the Georgian and Russian Orthodox Churches
New York Times, United States - Sep 5, 2008
By SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY MOSCOW — While the leaders of Russia and Georgia exchange recriminations, Christians in the two nations are worrying about the damage ...

Book reviews: 'The Corpse Walker' and 'Fine Just The Way It Is'
International Herald Tribune, France - Sep 5, 2008
Its continuum of orthodoxy slides between animism, Taoism, Maoist atheism and the quasi capitalism of its favorite son, Deng Xiaoping. ...

Prestige time: the fall movie preview
Austin 360 (subscription), TX - Sep 5, 2008
Paralleling the recent rise of atheism, the results are hot to the touch. Directed by Larry Charles ("Borat"). 'The Duchess'(Oct. 3) — The British costume ...

India: where Christians are a target for the religious murder mobs
Times Online, UK - Sep 5, 2008
Other movements are also recruiting among Orissa's poor — notably, the Naxalites, a fierce cadre of atheist Maoist militants whose influence now extends ...

The Guide to the Conservative Palinguage Vol.2 -- the People's Edition
Huffington Post, NY - Sep 5, 2008
... multi-ethnic, or GLBT, if you're a Jew, Gentile, Muslim, agnostic or atheist -- "Yes, we can!" If you're a pitbull with lipstick from Alaska, "Yup, yup! ...

No One Sees God
American Enterprise Institute, DC - Sep 5, 2008
By Michael Novak The division between atheist and believer appears stark if one surveys the contemporary religious landscape. Nonetheless, philosopher and ...

Hardeep Singh Kohli goes in search of identity
Times Online, UK - Sep 5, 2008
My younger brother is a complete atheist,” he says, adding: “A lot of the way I look is quite Sikh, but I don't go to temple every week and I don't grow my ...

A Class Act
Times Online, UK - Sep 5, 2008
A recent poll suggested that almost any label would be better for a political candidate than being considered an atheist. Sarah Palin, beauty queen, ...

Directed by Larry Charles
Exclaim!, Canada - Sep 5, 2008
... by way of plumping for militant atheism — the only product Maher is peddling here is doubt —agnosticism, essentially, though the word is never uttered. ...

New Catholic chaplain promotes interfaith work
Wesleyan Argus, CT - Sep 5, 2008
... the survey identified as atheist and agnostic, according to Rabbi David Leipziger Teva, the University Jewish Chaplain and Director of Spiritual Life. ...

Havelock Island | Righting the wrong turns
Livemint, India - Sep 5, 2008
“I don’t believe in God, but I’m willing to take help from anywhere right now,” proclaimed my atheist friend, the nervousness in her voice belying her ...

Communism’s last priest-martyr has bequeathed a legacy of ...
Times Online, UK - Sep 5, 2008
Almost certainly, this was the last act of revenge by a fanatic from a dying, atheist-dominated Communist Party. After all, the victim was undoing more than ...

Catholics invited to visit Blessings
B.C. Catholic Newspaper, Canada - Sep 5, 2008
"An atheist just left here after buying some awesome Catholic books from an evangelical bookstore!" Shortly after McKinnon came on staff, Blessings launched ...

War splits Orthodox churches in Russia and Georgia
International Herald Tribune, France - Sep 5, 2008
By Sophia Kishkovsky MOSCOW: While leaders and generals quarrel over the strategic map of Georgia and Russia's future relations with both its neighbors and ...

Author Kristy Kiernan is living the dream with her second novel
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL - Sep 5, 2008
"I'm not an agnostic, and I'm certainly not an atheist. I don't know, and I'm OK with not knowing. None of us can know about the afterlife until we get ...

Geneticist David Ng Splices Science Literacy with Creativity
University of British Columbia, Canada - Sep 5, 2008
The teachers also developed a UBC Vancouver speaker series which this year included scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins and conservationist Sheila ...

No surprise Kristol thought McCain won
BlueRidgeNow.com, NC - Sep 5, 2008
That CNN did not have a mainline Protestant, Catholic, Jew, Muslim or atheist and perhaps a Buddhist and maybe a female Unitarian to conduct the interview ...

Goshen College president opens school year with a call to live out ...
Goshen College News - Sep 5, 2008
"Whether you are a Christian, an atheist, a person of another religious faith, a would-be doctor, teacher, artist, you are the tale that you tell. ...

Sarah Palin Wants Us To Pray
Gather.com, MA - Sep 5, 2008
However, this can lead to great anxiety: "Should I be a Mormom, a Jew, a Catholic, a Muslim, or an atheist?" We are free to create and shape our world-view ...

Stamford Theatre Works To Present La Bute's 'Mercy Seat' Starting 9/17
Broadway World, NY - Sep 5, 2008
A young man brings home his Jewish atheist fiancé to meet his very Catholic parents on Christmas Eve. With the inevitable family explosion comes an ...

Teaching Evolution
America Magazine (subscription), NY - Sep 5, 2008
... out to their Christian brothers and sisters, as Bishop Wenski did, that the teaching of evolution need not go hand in hand with a materialistic atheism. ...

USA Christians to help victims of Georgian aggression in S.Ossetia
Interfax-Religion, Russia - Sep 5, 2008
Moscow, September 5, Interfax - American Christians expressed their sympathy to victims of Georgian attack against South Ossetia and decided to extend them ...

Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity
National Secular Society, UK - Sep 5, 2008
In this honest appraisal of his journey from believer to atheist, Loftus carefully explains the experiences and the reasoning process that led him to reject ...

Schooled to be neighbours
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Sep 5, 2008
Everyday exchanges – a young atheist getting help with her coursework from her Muslim classmate, parents from very different backgrounds helping to ...

Jonathan Edwards – atheist, agnostic or something else?
National Secular Society, UK - Sep 5, 2008
The athletics gold-medallist and one-time Christian pin-up boy, Jonathan Edwards, became a high-profile apostate a few years ago. ...

Council uncovers Darwin display – and says it was never about ...
National Secular Society, UK - Sep 5, 2008
Councillor Woods, who described himself as an atheist, is a Chartered Engineer and regards himself as scientifically minded. He wrote: “Those who follow ...

Francis Bacon
This is London, UK - Sep 5, 2008
As an atheist and as an artist for whom money was at least as important as the message of his work, far too often letting loose the second rate (as well as ...

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