For more information, please see: [[Irreligion and superstition]]
For more information, please see: [[Irreligion and superstition]]
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== Formal debates and the lack of confidence of the atheist community ==
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== Atheists commonly use logical fallacies in their arguments ==
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Atheists commonly use [[logical fallacy|logical fallacies]] in their arguments.<ref>
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*[http://pastorbrianchilton.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/33-logical-fallacies-everyone-should-know/ Fallacies everyone should know] - Pastor Chilton explains various logical fallacies and gives some examples of atheists using them
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*[http://atheism-analyzed.blogspot.com/2011/12/ten-fallacies-of-atheism.html Ten fallacies of atheism]
*[http://atheism-analyzed.blogspot.com/2011/12/ten-fallacies-of-atheism.html Ten fallacies of atheism]
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*[http://www.truefreethinker.com/articles/look-both-ways-two-atheistic-logical-fallacies Look Both Ways: Two Atheistic Logical Fallacies]</ref>
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One of the most common [[logical fallacy|logical fallacies]] atheists, [[agnosticism|agnostics]] and [[evolution]]ists employ is the [[fallacy of exclusion]]. For example, the [[evolution]]ist Dr. Scott Todd, an immunologist at [[Kansas State University]], wrote: "Even if all the data point to an [[intelligent design]]er, such an hypothesis is excluded from science because it is not [[naturalism|naturalistic]]".<ref>http://creation.com/a-designer-is-unscientificeven-if-all-the-evidence-supports-one</ref> See: [[Methodological naturalism]] and [[Atheism and naturalistic intelligence]]
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List of logical fallacies that atheists commonly commit: [[Atheism and logical fallacies]]
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== Debates and the lack of confidence of the atheist community ==