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[quote=Anonymous]Let’s see if we can knock out a couple more:

#4 Argument from perfection: We judge things to be more or less beautiful, just, kind, etc. This judgement presupposes an absolute standard of perfection with which the less perfect are compared. The absolute standard of perfection is God.

This just doesn’t follow.  Even if it’s true that people judge things against an absolute standard of perfection, that doesn’t mean that such a thing exists.  Example:  The perfect day for me is one in which I wake up after a fresh snowfall, play with my son in it for an hour, come in and have hot chocolate, go back out and enjoy the beautiful spring day.  Spend the hot summer afternoon at the pool, toast marshmallows around a campfire in the crisp autumn air in the evening, and win the lottery.  That doesn’t mean such a day has ever happened or could happen.

#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. It cannot be blind chance. Therefore this intelligible universe and the finite minds so well suited to grasp it are the products of intelligence.

“It cannot be blind chance” is more a hope than an argument.

#8 The argument from truth (Platonic forms).  Our limited minds can discover eternal truths about being. Truth resides in a mind. The human mind is not eternal. Therefore there must exist an eternal mind in which these truths reside.

Again, the premises are not demonstrably true, and are almost comically facile.

#9 The argument from conscience

Even the subjectivist thinks he should follow his conscience. Where does the conscience get such absolute authority? From something less than me (natural instinct), from myself (who is not an absolute being), from others equal to me (society is not an absolute being), or from something above me (God)? The only source of absolute moral obligation must be a superior being. This is God.

This is equivalent to saying “there is a god because I feel there must be a god.”  It’s not argument.
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