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Originally Posted by natureisawesome:
mfqr, Please refrain from elephant hurling. I have no problem with these challenges but one thing at a time.
mfqr:

Why should I refrain from this so-called "elephant hurling" (I don't know what that is)? That website offers a lot of valid questions about the existence of God. As a Christian, you are obligated to support your God, and thus make sure that you answer those questions, and make justifications to trick yourself into still believing in God.
You should refrain from elephant hurling because it's a form of dishonest propaganda, and even if you think those arguements are valid, it's not fair to post them all like that so that it's almost impossible for anyone to make objections to them all.

Elephant hurling is where the critic throws summary arguments about complex issues to give the impression of weighty evidence, but with an unstated presumption that a large complex of underlying ideas is true, and failing to consider opposing data, usually because they have uncritically accepted the arguments from their own side. But we should challenge elephant-hurlers to offer specifics and challenge the underlying assumptions.