Believing in God is no different than believing in the tooth fairy

"You most certainly used the ad populum fallacy. " ""If belief in a deity was no different than belief in a tooth fairy, Then there would be far fewer people who believe in deities. "" "This is your quote in which you quite literally made the claim that god is different from the tooth fairy simply because more people believe in him. The ad populum fallacy is when someone claims something to be validated because of how many people share that belief. So yeah, You did use ad populum. " I dunno mate, To me it looks clear enough that I say a that belief in a deity is different than a belief in the tooth fairy. I did not say that a deity must be real because so many people believe in him. It would not matter if the deity was false or not. My aforementioned statement was not about the existence of the deity being true based on number of people who believe it. Based on the logic that you are using. There is no difference between the speeds a child's electric car goes and a Nascar racer. Yes they are both speeds, But one difference is in the amount of speed. I would think one could tell by the vast amount of difference in speed that there is something different about a child's car and a racecar. But no, I get a couple of people kneejerking their hate of religion and crying fallacy fallacy. But in any case all I said in that statement basically is there is a difference of speeds between a child's electric car and a Nascar racecar. I said "There were individuals who wrote different parts of the bible, Were there not? Were parts of the bible not historical writings? Perhaps you consider the bible poor evidence/testimony. But it kind of looks like evidence/testimony none the less. " My opponent said "Right" He then went on to describe why he found it to be poor evidence/testimony, Because he thought every single person who wrote believing that god spoke to us through this worlds existence were crazy. "Every person that believed that god was speaking to them while they were writing the bible was crazy. They were completely nuts. That's it. " Well, I'm glad he agrees with me in any case that there is evidence for god. And since there is more evidence for god than the Easter bunny, This would cause a difference in the belief of those who believe. Clearly it is more reasonable to believe in god than the Easter bunny? I'll give reason if you like during the last round, But the logic of it just seems so obvious to me. "I don't recall meeting any adults who believe in the Tooth Fairy, Santa, Dragons, Goblins, Ghosts, Trolls or whatever you want. " Right but you know plenty of adults who believe in the magical fairy man who lives in the clouds and grants you wishes or whatever it is you people believe. His name is God and adults all over the world believe in him, And he is basically a glorified tooth fairy. Ah! Again my opponent gracefully agrees with me. Though it seems to me he makes a bit of a mistake when he says what religious people believe in. I don't think Christians believe god to be a fairy, Nor suffer some sort of fear they shall fly a plane into him while flying though a cloud, Yes there are believers deities across the globe, I don't about the glorified tooth fairy thing though mate. The two seem rather different to me. "Do vast numbers of people not believe in deities because they can find evidence for them still? Far more evidence than they find for Dragons, Goblins, Ghosts, Trolls or whatever you want? " Well, No. That's actually the whole point of this debate. I'm not here to argue about whether or not god exists, I'm just saying that god has no evidence, Much like the tooth fairy. With all the theories of God's creation, You could just as easily say "a wizard did it" and it would make just as much sense. Ah, Now we come to a part where my opponent disagrees with me. Indeed, We are not supposed to be in this debate to argue about the existence of god. But rather that peoples belief in god is different than peoples belief in the tooth fairy. I don't really see how saying a wizard did it would make any sense. I suppose a wizard 'could do it. Doesn't really explain the why though. Or the evidence that you don't like but did say "Right" it is evidence.