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Sye Ten Bruggencate - Proof of God - Part 1

I call it part 1.  If he corrects this problem, maybe there will be a part 2.

Sye Ten Bruggencate is a presuppositional apologist that claims that he has a proof that God exists on his website:  http://www.proofthatgodexists.org/

At least, that's what I heard on The Thinking Atheist podcast today.  Apparently, not so much a proof, rather a series of questions.  That is not a logical proof.  So, let's go through and try to extract a logical proof.

This is presented on his website as a series of questions:


Now, by far, my favorite one of these, is the one in the bottom right.  It takes you to Disney's website. Comedy gold.

But let's go through this from the agnostic perspective.

I chose, "I Don't Know if Absolute Truth Exists".  This takes you to a second page:


Based on the previous response, there is no acceptable answer here.  This forces you to pick "Absolutely True" based on your previous choice, but you already stated that absolute truth doesn't exist.  I believe that I don't know if absolute truth exists, but I don't absolutely know that.

This is a false dichotomy.  It is many more things as well, but it is at least that.  This is sufficient to render his proof unsound.

There's more, but there's no need to continue.  It is a cumulative argument, and one fallacy defeats it.
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