19. The Common Consent Argument

To completely over-simply and sum-up:
People have believed in God since the beginning and all around the world, so it's more likely than not that God exists. 

Now- to do it more justice!

1. "Belief in God- that Being to whom reverence and worship are properly due- is common to almost all people of every era.
2. Either the vast majority of people have been wrong about this most profound element of their lives or they have not.
3. It is more plausible to believe that they have not.
4. Therefore it is more plausible to believe that God exists" (Handbook of Catholic Apologetics, pg. 89)

It's true that in every culture and throughout human history, religious belief has been widespread.  But does this prove anything?   The vast majority of humans have and do believe that there is something to be worshipped and adored, but if God does not exist than what is the vast majority worshipping and adoring? 

We naturally have the capacity to worship, "and it is hard to believe that this natural capacity can never, in the nature of things, be fulfilled, especially when so many testify that it has been" (Handbook of Catholic Apologetics, pg. 89).  It is not impossible to imagine this, but is it likely?

It seems far more likely that those who refuse to believe are the ones suffering from deprivation and delusion- like the tone-deaf person who denies the existence of music, or the frightened tenant who tells herself she doesn't hear cries of terror and distress coming from the street below and, when her children awaken to the sounds and ask her, "Why is that lady screaming, Mommy?" tells them, "Nobody's screaming; it's just the wind, that's all. Go back to sleep."  (Handbook of Catholic Apologetics, pgs. 89-90)

This is number 19.  That means ONE MORE!!!