Only a person with no scientific knowledge whatsoever could think this argument has any validity at all. Not only is the comparison flawed, but so are the basic premises.
Air is physical. It is a substance, a mixture of chemicals. We feel it every time the wind blows. The fact that it has mass and weight can be demonstrated by means of simple experiments. Come to that, just watch a wind turbine - only something with mass could move those monsters. We hear air all the time when the wind is strong. Try sticking your hand out of the window of a moving car and telling me we can't feel air! We can also see it under certain conditions - what do you think heat haze is, if not moving currents of air caused by convection? You can even smell and taste the air sometimes, depending what's in it.
More than that, air is essential for certain chemical reactions. How do we put out most fires? We deprive them of air.
So the premises are flawed. Air is in fact eminently detectable and provable. It is physical, it has mass, it clearly and demonstrably exists.
Now let's look at God.
It's true that we can't see, smell, feel, taste, weigh, touch or hear God. He is non-physical. He is completely undetectable. All the properties we'd expect, in fact, of something that does not actually exist.
In other words, there is absolutely no evidence at all for the existence of God. The comparison with air is ridiculous.
You know what else we can't hear, see, taste, touch, weigh or hear? Unicorns and fairies. Do you believe they exist? What about Zeus, Thor and the Flying Spaghetti Monster? If you don't believe in any of these, why believe in the God of the Bible since the evidence for the existence for all of them is exactly the same?
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How to prove air:
1) blow up a balloon
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Seriously, did all these idiots miss that day in school when they told us about solids, liquids and gases?
Ha! Great illustration! Sadly, some people put more value on biblical knowledge than real knowledge.
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