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[quote=Anonymous]OK, going for quality over quantity:

[quote]#1 Argument from motion (physics)

What is in motion must be put into motion by another. This cannot go on to infinity. Therefore, at the beginning of the series of movers must be a being that is itself unmoved and the source of all movement. This prime mover is God. [/quote]

Sure, but this gets you no further to the goal.  You've simply defined some phenomenon you know nothing about, and called it "god".  Even the theoretical physicists who've posited that our universe was spawned by a black hole in another universe have gotten us closer to "truth".  It's one thing to claim "The Big Bang is God".  It's another thing to show that this God has agency.  You're just substituting one blank spot on the map with another, and pretending it's revealing something.

[quote]#7 The argument from consciousness (derivation of design)

We experience the universe as intelligible. So the universe is graspable by intelligence. Either the intelligible universe and the finite minds so well suited to grasp it are the products of intelligence, or both intelligibility and intelligence are the products of blind chance. [b]It cannot be blind chance.[/b] Therefore this intelligible universe and the finite minds so well suited to grasp it are the products of intelligence. [/quote]

This is just a variant of Creationism (Intelligent Design).  No one has argued it's blind chance.  But the current model of evolutionary theory explains how an arbitrary level of complexity can derive from simplicity.  There's literally no significant (or trivial) argument that's been made against the modern theory of evolution that has been compelling in any way.

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