Because a number of posters appear to take more pleasure in humoring the OP than in ignoring the OP.
The thread is on-topic, (for its stated OP), so there is no reason to shut it down as having been hijacked and it is only marginally more nonsensical than the vast majority of “is too/is not” battles that rage over deities in GD.
I’m beginning to see the problem. No one is reading what he’s saying. The answer is right here:
And that’s the point. IF – gigantic IF – the starting assertion is true, and the starting assertion is that matter was created by the creator, then everything follows from there that you can make a logical argument for a creator. The problem is that theists start from the assertion that God exists and non-theists start with the assertion that God does not exist.
Is he playing y’all? Well, is it really his fault that no one in that thread is reading what he’s saying?
ETA: Just saw tomndebb’s post. Since I don’t frequent GD too much, I don’t know how much nonsensical stuff gets posted there. From my viewpoint, there was quite a bit of atheist nonsense in that thread as well.
The reason nobody can come up with a decent argument is because CalD is moving the goal-posts, ignoring basically everybody and then accuses people of not answering his questions when they already have been answered or they’re not questions at all. Read a couple of pages more. Since the thread started in IMHO I started out fairly softly, but I haven’t seen any indication of him even TRYING to read/understand any of the serious replies in that thread.
I’m not really sure we should be taking advice on how to read other’s posts from someone who went completely anal over the use of the word proof in a thread title. But, perhaps that’s just me.
I’d never considered a dance version of the national anthem, although it might be a good idea; I’ll have to think about it. Otherwise, I agree with all the above so I guess I must be mostly gay after all. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Or is it possible that I just might be a gay sympathizer? Does it have to be all or nothing?
If it involves the availability of decent pastrami and decent bagels in every city, I wish we’d get on with it already. I’m dying here.
As for the thread in question, it is a bit fun to see someone go down from an initial low level, like going from doubting the Big Bang to doubting evolution. These threads are for playing to the gallery, anyhow, not for convincing the invincibly ignorant.