The Best Arguments for Things I Don't Believe

Have you ever heard someone arguing in favor of a position with which you disagree, but their arguments are so bad that you can't help but think "Man, I could do a better job arguing for their side than they are, and I don't even agree with them!" I thought it might be interesting to do exactly that -- consider some interesting issues, and come up with my own versions of what the people who I think are wrong should be saying. The rules would be: (1) The claims would be somewhat judgmental, rather than straightforwardly empirical. I'm not going to waste my time arguing that the universe is not expanding, or anything like that. (2) I have to stick to making individual statements that I really do believe, even if I don't think they are sufficient to support the ultimate conclusion. I reserve the right to come up with ...