Like small children sometimes claim to be super-heroes. Then it's time for tea and bed.
Consider some of the claims of misotheism:
- Everything came out of nothing, unaided by anything (because there was nothing to aid it). (Not out of a vacuum; out of nothing).
- Complex order came, by itself, out of disorder, guided by         nothing and with no external input; though science has never yet         observed such a thing happening.
 
- Complex codes, e.g. in the genome, produce themselves without         intelligent input; which science has never observed.
 
- Self-consciousness (the "I" which is the essential fact of our existence as personal individuals) is basically an illusion (in which case we ask, exactly who is the being experiencing that illusion?)
- Life can spontaneously generate itself out of non-life, guided         by nothing - despite the fact that millions of man-hours of         intelligent human research have not yet been able to produce         such an outcome, and science has never observed it.
 
- Natural selection, filtering the species based upon survival         possibilities, produced every face of human life - including         those which have no plausible known value for survival (like         genuine talent in art, music, chess, higher mathematics, etc.).         All the evidence is that humankind of vastly over-endowed for         mere survival - the offered explanation does not meet the facts.
 
- Many of the universe's physical attributes exist within a very small band which is fine-tuned for existence and life, despite no known material explanation why that should be. (Note that the misotheist's observation "but if it weren't so, we wouldn't be here to observe it" no more explains this fact than the survivor of the firing squad's observation "of course I survived, otherwise we wouldn't be able to have this chat" explains why the crack shooters all missed).
In the face of this vast "reality gap" between observed       scientific facts and misotheistic explanations, the best that the       Internet misotheists have been able to come up with is empty       rhetoric - not science but childish attempts at philosophy.       "Science is still working on that", "You're just preaching       God-of-the-gaps", "Physics hasn't yet had its Darwin", etc.
     
Little Johnny says, "and after tea, I'm going to fly to the       moon!" Of course you are, little chap - but don't forget it'll       soon be bed-time!
     
 
 

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