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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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What are some common fallacious arguments in favor of atheism, if any?
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Something like this (not a direct quote): "We can explain why people believe in Christianity using evolutionary psychology. Therefore, we can conclude that Christianity is false without considering the arguments in its favor or presenting arguments for atheism."

The problem with this is that if we haven't made a rational case for atheism somehow prior to doing the evolutionary psychology, then the Christian can just integrate our evolutionary story of how his beliefs evolved into Christianity. 

For example, one common story that atheists use was developed by psychologist Justin Barrett. We developed a Hyperactive Agency Detection Device over the course of evolution, because failing to detect an agent (not noticing a hungry lion in the bushes) was much more costly from an evolutionary perspective than incorrectly believing an agent was present (fleeing when there is no lion). The former would get you killed, while the latter would just be an inconvenience. So we evolved an HADD that inclines us to believe in things like ghosts, final causation, and God.

Many atheists see this as a devastating blow to Christianity, but a Christian could come along and grant this whole story, then say that God designed the HADD in such a way that it would eventually produce belief in God. If you haven't already done the work of refuting the case for Christianity or presenting arguments for atheism, then there is no way to respond to that rebuttal.

Oh and, by the way, *Justin Barrett is a Christian, and he interprets his research exactly this way.*