The Evil God Challenge

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Some nice shorts from Isaac Asimov, Phillip K Dick, and Stanislaw Lem:

It appears to be written by people.
Just like every other book, including the Quran and the Bible.

Believing a book was written by something other than people doesn't make it so. I can claim some book was written by an invisible pink unicorn but very few people would consider that claim to be based in reality. I can even point to where that book claims to have been written by an invisible pink unicorn and claim that as "proof" that the book was indeed written by an invisible pink unicorn, but that's just circular reasoning.

I don't believe any book that you can provide was written by anything other than humans and claims of divine authorship presuppose the existence of whatever divine entity is being claimed as the author. Treating such claims critically is a reasonable position, taking such claims at face value demonstrates a failure of critical thinking.

That's a tell me you didn't even look at it without telling me you didn't look at it situation . The book isn't written by god.

What book are you referring to? Perhaps this one, which you inconspicuously linked to way back here?

Then how does it support your claim that not all books were written by people?

It's still a silly claim even if you're trying to let someone else do the heavy lifting of making such an argument.

My take on that particular aspect is that a book actually written by God would be far better written than the Bible. If you can create the Universe, with all the planets, plants, animals and people including Shakespeare, you would surely be able to write better than any of the authors you have created.

If you want to live in a small bubble, you will win all the arguments that exist inside the bubble.