Why do atheists(not all) still use the "invisible pink unicorn" argument, when it has been refuted already?

Question

I mean, aren't you guys tired of embarrassing yourselves?
It is funny, every-time you guys try to make an analogy to the Christian God, it always fails. Even your, oh so loved, FSM has been refuted. But we are talking about the invisible pink unicorns. Like seriously, you guys always stick up for science and then you make a major physics error in saying INVISIBLE PINK unicorns...
I am just being a friendly Christian, and trying to help you stop embarrassing yourself. So please stop using the invisible pink unicorn argument because it is just fallacious from the outset.

Are you still going to use invisible pink unicorn argument after this, or are you going to drop the pink part, so it makes a little more sense?

Answer 1

The FSM was a write in vote for the US Senate race in Minnesota. Now, the recount officials through that ballot out saying there is nothing to show that the Flying Spag Monster is not a real thing.



So, the FSM may actually turn the tide in an election.

Answer 2

It is funny, every-time you guys try to make an analogy to the Christian God, it always fails. Even your, oh so loved, FSM has been refuted. But we are talking about the invisible pink unicorns. Like seriously, you guys always stick up for science and then you make a major physics error in saying INVISIBLE PINK unicorns...



You do realize that we do those things to MOCK you, not because we actually believe it ... right? I think that your post actually disproves your point. You say that our 'arguments' are stupid but you have no more proof than we do about your own religion.



May you be blessed by his noodly appendage. RAmen.

Answer 3

How are they refuted? Did you not eat? If you eat, you are eating on the FSM grace. How did you proof FSM is not real? Your bible said the FSM is real.



"In the beginning there was the word".



In the FSM alphabet soup, it was written :



"Before the beginning, the FSM said the word "Sh!t""

"A piece of sh!t was born"

"FSM named the piece of sh!t Yaweh".



The FSM is spiritual, you cannot use physics to describe it.



By the way, your god is just as fallacious.



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By the way, you are telling me Ultra Violet and Infra Red did not have colour too?



It seems like you failed your physics, light does not mean it is visible. Infra Pink is between Infra Red and Infra Orange, prove that Infra Red and Infra Orange does not exist.



Obviously you had not known the Invisible pink unicorn is a spiritual creature too. It is pink, but then when anyone try to detect it, it make itself invisible. You must have faith.



It totally kick your god's butt as well. Do you know why you had two as$ cheeks? Because the IPU slices your god's as$ in half with it's horn, therefore you have 2 as$ cheeks, since you are created in your god's image.

Answer 4

Well lets look at Chrsitmas, Easter and halloween shall we? All adopted by christians who vigorously ignore any dates the bible might suggest!!!



The Venerable Bede, an early Christian writer pointed out that the Christian church absorbed Pagan practices when it found the population unwilling to give up the festivals. Thus a lot of what Christians now see as Christians practices are in fact pagan!!!



Christmas is the time of year christians strive to prove just how pagan they have become!!!



So pink unicorns pales into insignificance!!!

Answer 5

Well that's hardly a particular good refutation of the old IPU.



I mean, what if it's just that the IPU is able to do anything it likes, kind of like it's, I don't know, what's the word? Omnipotent? and could therefore bend the rules of physics to its will and be invisibly pink?



Or better, perhaps its invisible unless you happen to belief in its existence and are prepared to dedicate yourself to it, in which case it appears to you in a non-invisible form which is always pink?



Again, with your nonsense about why it would be visible - er, the IPU is kind of, you know, god like maybe, so it can be invisible. Much like, you know, your god. Who said it had to be carbon-based life?



In any case, you're completely missing the point. The point of the IPU, FSM and anything else is that if you take just about any argument for the existence of a deity, and subsitute the word god for the FSM or IPU, you have just as a valid an argument for the existence of those things. The actual specifics of the word used as a replacement for god are irrelevant - it could as easily be ahita;dlga as anything else.

Answer 6

Oy vey....



Don't try to help out by showing your "smarts" and proving you're "better than" because of your "knowledge".



The Invisible Pink Unicorn and FSM are FICTIONAL characters used as a sarcastic method by Atheists to prove that these characters make as much sense as the Christian God does.



I myself have my own beliefs in God, but I always get a laugh out of the Flying Spaghetti Monster/Invisible Pink Unicorn questions/arguments and such.



It's a joke dude...seriously.

Answer 7

Is this a joke or are you really unable to see the point behind the invisible pink unicorn and the FSM?



There is the same amount of proof for and against either the FSM, the invisible pink unicorn and biblegod. AND the gospel of the FSM makes by far more sense than the bible!

Answer 8

As an atheist, I'd tell the Christian to Google burden of proof. It would probably help them to get a grip on reality. Things of faith cannot be proved, or forced. That's why it's faith, not fact. Just because it's real to you, doesn't mean it is to everyone else. Continue feeling special, since your invisible friend loves you so much, etc.

Answer 9

Oh dear, "pink electromagnetic radiation" LOL. Perhaps you should not have skipped those physics classes in high school.....



The Flying Spaghetti Monster is real. After I worship Him, by cooking and eating pasta, I know that He is real because I can feel Him in may stomach (Ramen !)



The invisible Pink Unicorn will stalk you one day if you keep denying that it's real....



Ramen !

Answer 10

Your right it doesn't make sense, but it is an analogy to your invisible male God who has a penis and doesn't have a body. Is that not a MAJOR physics error? Now that you helped me prove your God is illogical are you going to drop him?



Edit: after reading all these answers (including the Christians) it looks like you are the one embarrassing yourself. Nice try nut job, a little advice would be to try to think first, before you spew your ignorance.

Answer 11

"I mean, aren't you guys tired of embarrassing yourselves?"



No Atheist could ever be embarrassed by a christian's argument. Trust me on that.



The invisible pink unicorns don't exist, and your sky daddy doesn't exist. That's the point.

Answer 12

Did you just seriously write why the Invisible Pink Unicorn can not be real?



Get a grip pal. I'm embarrassed for the both of us. Really quite embarrassed.

Answer 13

There is just as much evidence that unicorns (pink. purple, invisible, or once walked the earth) exist as there is that a God exists.



And that evidence is none. Zip. Zero. It's all magically delicious thinking.



But, then again your avatar does have a mullet.

Answer 14

I actually find it hilarious that even we,Muslims are laughing at this :D



Want me to show my picture with the Invisible Pink Unicorn? It got a really bad dye job last week which is why it's invisible at the moment.

Answer 15

Thank you for demonstrating the central premise of "The God Delusion". Although numerous, intentionally ludicrous entities have been proposed, none have or can be refuted. The Invisible Pink Unicorn's principle premise was the paradox to common experience. The utilization of paradox to proclaim a basis for the divine is central to a number of arguments including the First Cause argument.



Thank you for embarrassing yourself in support of atheism.

Answer 16

Never saw or experienced a pink unicorn or used one as an excuse to prove or disprove the existence of a god.



I think there is no god.



I do not care about unicorns or your so called argument.

Answer 17

We know its pink cause we belive and that makes it real enough for me, i need nothing more i feel its pinkness all over the place, the wind exist yet you dont see m why must you question the invisible pink unicorn!! you offend me with your heretical ways

Answer 18

the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Invisible Pink Unicorn make just as much sense as you God. the first two have been refuted just as much as the latter has

Answer 19

the Invisible Pink Unicorn has the same probability of existing as your god

Answer 20

Sooo...you are against the fact that a color and invisibility can't exist at the same time? I guess you're right.



However, that makes it all the better. Your god doesn't make sense by any natural law we know. Why should our unicorn have to conform?

Answer 21

Sorry for the confusion the Unicorn is pink when it chooses to reveal itself to the faithful

Answer 22

Hi, this really isn't so much a reply as a note...



The way you approached making this question made people look down upon Christians, Christianity, and God.



This can be easily seen from the responses.



I don't believe this is setting a good example for others, and I just thought I'd mention it.

Answer 23

You just discovered the base of the IPU argument. How do you know it's pink if it's invisible? It's meant to be ridiculous. I believe it's supposed to be targeting the fact that people believe in God even though there's no solid evidence to base the fact on.



Not advocating anything, I'm just clarifying the concept for you. Hope it cleared things up.

Answer 24

While I agree that the invisible pink unicorn and similar comparisons to God are unconvincing, and are not used by any serious non-Christian philosopher or philosophy-minded people, you need to be able to explain why it's wrong.

Answer 25

Of course unicorns are real, they're in the Bible. Along with the satyrs and cockatrices.



Edit - If you have faith, the Invisible Pink Unicorn will appear pink. If you are of little faith it will remain invisible.

Answer 26

I'm not atheist and I've never heard of this but I'll tell you that people can be really ignorant. They will believe what they want to believe. I hate ignorant people. This made me laugh, how do you know it's pink if it's invisible!! haha. But I'm not one to argue, I'm not a very religious person and I've never heard of this before.

By the way, this made me think of Dane Cook and his atheist joke in his Vicious Circle show. If you haven't seen it go on you tube and watch it. I think you'll find it funny.

Answer 27

Lol we should believe in the Invisible Pink Unicorn, or FSM when he sends a book giving light and guidance, to a human messenger telling us of their existence, and the book has illuminating powers.

Answer 28

The Invisible Pink Unicorn is not about proving she exists, but about saying that she is at least as reasonable to believe in as your god.



We know she's a fiction; so is yours. But ours is prettier.

Answer 29

oh, I was hoping you'd do this.



one knows that She is pink when Her horn touches one's heart. how She manages to be both pink and invisible is an ineffable mystery that demonstrates Her incredible power.



also, She doesn't really exist. I'd like to see you prove that, though! I told you man, She is pink in a spiritual sense, I know this because her horn touched me, why won't you belieeeeeve me?



:)

Answer 30

Why do christians put false faith in pink unicorns and purple dragons.













Would it not be chemistry other then physics?

Answer 31

You Obviously still don't get it. You drop your silly religion and I will stop talking about her holy pinkness.

Answer 32

Of course we use the whole unicorn thing. It makes as much sense as a god.

Answer 33

It was never about logic and reason, it's about anger and hatred against the God they can't stand and His representatives in this world.

Answer 34

So I should believe in the God of Love who loves us more than we can fathom and created Hell for people who didn't believe? Gotcha

Answer 35

I'm not an atheists but I can say that your making yourself look like a tard.



Do yourself a favor and try to be a little more constructive jackass.

Answer 36

good points defending the truth. Very good I've got to say.



Keep on Defending The Truth.



:)

Answer 37

Any refutation of either the IPU or the FSM also applies to YHWH and Jesus.

Answer 38

dont think the bible tells it to be pink but as far as dinosaurs go well i guess it could be pink . but you probably think there were no dinosaurs then .

Answer 39

here's your unicorn for you:

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/06/unicorns-are-re.html

Answer 40

who said it was an organism?



What do you prefer we use? Zeus? Thor? Tooth Fairy? Santa? Easter Bunny? honest politicians?

Answer 41

I stand alone on scripture(apparently) Because it seems my so called christian brethren say they believe in evolution as well as creation.Sorry you believe one or the other! In six days GOD created the Universe and every thing in it.You either believe it or not! As it is written: "My people perish from lack of knowledge"

Answer 42

SWEET PINK UNICORN!

Answer 43

I've yet to hear it refuted. You certainly haven't accomplished that.



Oh well, yeah, I'm convinced now.



*rolls eyes*



This idiot proves yet again that Christians have no sense of humor or irony.

Answer 44

The FSM has no more been refuted than your God.

Answer 45

Pink Unicorn is in the bathroom right now, but when he's done, I'm totally telling him of your blasphemy. He's gonna smite you. Totally smite you.

Answer 46

sure, maybe you can disprove my IPU, but you can never disprove my ceelang kat.



look, i have literature that proves it, just like you do with the bible.



http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Proof_of_Ceiling_Cat

Answer 47

Why do Christians pray to mythical gods with no proof of their existence.

Answer 48

Yes they are embarrassing themselves, but what do they care? They don't even care about their own Creator, so why would they care about how stupid they sound believing in a pink unicorn.

Answer 49

Duh, he isn't a 'living organism'...it is a magical being, just like your 'god'. He doesn't have to reveal himself to you.



Insert any magical being you want...makes no difference. There is no evidence of ANY of them, including YOUR magical deity.

Answer 50

I don't know what Atheists you have talked to but I have never heard of that silly phrase.



Flying Speghetti Monster I have heard of and it reminds me of doctor Suess...kind of like I see Darwinism.

Answer 51

the oxymoron just makes it that much more incredulous, just how we look at your god: extremely incredulous

Answer 52

lol. I wish all you guys on R&S would just shut the **** up. Atheists and Christians alike. Just shut the **** up. :)