Whenever somebody says "it makes sense", there is always a (usually) unspoken "to me" or "to us" on the end. "Making sense" of things is something our minds do. As you said, just because something (seems to) make sense, doesn't mean it's so.

yeah I know the feeling; and know that without patience -you both go nowhere in changing stances.I decide how much energy is worthwhile to devote to influencing the others belief set; as stated below to be surrounded by bias,is not new.I can be lied to / but I can't lie to myself( successfully);
if the person is not in denial-reason and logic has possibilities. I must be vested in the others wellfare and try to relate to where they are STUCK,not excepting realistic
and pragmatic facts. Work a steady progression of where/why religion is based<and the result ,compared to the
UN; science;and other humanistic groups. We are proving
more & more natural physical constructs; the proof is all around us.
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Then they are devoid of this claimed "sense".

I ask them how does it make sense without quoting the Bible. That usually stumps them.

For thousands of years everyone said the sun went around the earth. Everyday it went around the earth. Day after day. Of course the sun went around the earth. It just made sense. Trouble is, they were wrong. Millions of them. Just plain wrong.

It makes the same amount of sense to say that God did all this as to say that all this sort of popped into existence by accident. Both assertions explain absolutely nothing.

No one understands or has an ultimate answer.

It makes sense to them because they wanted to believe in advance of any evidence to the contrary. This is sort of like what is going on in the Senate right now. Some claim that is religious too, but they are full of crap!

"If that is true, you should be able to prove to me that god exists . . . . I challenge you to PROVE IT!, for millennia, humans have claimed that god exists, but have yet to prove it to anyone, care to try?" This is a head-on challenge to what they are saying. They will ultimately try to side-step the issue, tangentialize to change the subject, but if you hold them to it, do not let them divert away from your demand that they prove it, they will usually wither away and scurry off . . . . .

It sort of does make more sense than the actual universe. However, there's evidence to show that the actual universe really is how it is, with all the completely bizarre stuff and chaos, so I'll stick with that.

Theist: "It just makes sense that god exists."

Me: "And your line of reasoning is?"

(Waits for theist's head to explode.)

Christian's are just dramatically insecure people. Just makes sense!

The only reason it "makes sense" is because we've been indoctrinated since we were old enough to listen, that God is the reason for everything. It took a long time questioning one thing at a time until I realized that it made no sense at all. I can understand why some people think the way they do, because I was raised the same way, But I wish I had been raised secular. It would have meant me understanding the way the world works much better and earlier.

I'm happy enough that the patriarchal idea of God doesn't make sense but I wonder about an entity we can't understand, at least so far. I'm thinking of something like universal consciousness.

In what way does it make sense? They have no real answer.

I've always told believers that god makes NO sense at all.
So far, there hasn't been a single one who has tried to argue that with me.
One lady, who came to my door, even looked scared when I said it.
LOL

"It may makes sense to you, but it is absurd nonsense to me."