My comment, and most of your post, was on the majority of experts. I would say that if the majority of “experts on the cause of the world” believed in a deity, that would be a good argument. But in fact it is not very clear who the experts are in this case. So the argument is merely a general majoritarian argument and not an argument from the experts. Still, as I’ve said in the past, I think such a general majoritarian argument is a good argument—just not a very strong one.
The argument that they believe in contradictory deities is a good argument in the sense that it greatly weakens the majoritarian argument: if the majority all believed in the same deity, and for the same reasons, their position would be much stronger. The argument about contradictory deities however is not good if it is intended to be a positive argument for atheism (except in the general sense that weakening arguments for a a deity is automatically increasing the probability of atheism.)
My comment, and most of your post, was on the majority of experts. I would say that if the majority of “experts on the cause of the world” believed in a deity, that would be a good argument. But in fact it is not very clear who the experts are in this case. So the argument is merely a general majoritarian argument and not an argument from the experts. Still, as I’ve said in the past, I think such a general majoritarian argument is a good argument—just not a very strong one.
The argument that they believe in contradictory deities is a good argument in the sense that it greatly weakens the majoritarian argument: if the majority all believed in the same deity, and for the same reasons, their position would be much stronger. The argument about contradictory deities however is not good if it is intended to be a positive argument for atheism (except in the general sense that weakening arguments for a a deity is automatically increasing the probability of atheism.)