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Too many questions fallacy?

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My lack of knowledge for some reason leads me to the mysterious and to the awe that points me to some sort of God-thing. I recognize that I don't know a lot, and for some reason, this lack of knowledge inclines me to believe in some higher power.

I really don't think you want to give this impression . . . but, you seem to be saying that you are a christian because of your ignorance. Perhaps you want to rephrase that?

Perhaps at least atheists and theists can agree that the universe is a strange, mysterious and wonderful place with so many unknowns.

That's just it. The things that theists claim we don't know we actually do know. What you want to be a mystery is actually not a mystery.

This is a debate that has been going on for thousands of years. The definition of evidence is subjective. No one is going to present evidence to you today or tomorrow or ever that you will find convincing because your definition of evidence is "biased" towards a certain kind of evidence. That's fine, but you can't say all theists are just faffing about without ever having produced anything that could be considered evidence.

Do you accept the scientific theory that matter is made up of atoms? Do you accept this theory because of the evidence?

How could you be "strongly convinced that there is no evidence"? Don't you mean, they are not convinced by the evidence presented?

No. We mean that no evidence has been presented. All that has been presented are faith based claims, not evidence.
 
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