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It is impossible to prove God exists, so it follows that there’s no reason to believe God is real. If God is good and omnipotent, why does evil exist? God either must not be all-powerful or purely good.
Some of the biggest debates in philosophy have centered on religion. Here are five arguments over whether God exists.
Instead, people are swept away by the sheer number of reasons that make God's existence seem plausible — holding out an explanation as to why the universe went to the bother of existing, and why it is this particular universe, with its sublime improbabilities, including us humans; and, even more particularly, explaining the existence of each ...
Thus God has the power to do all logically possible things—that is, he has the power to do all meaningful things. That is why he cannot create a four-sided triangle (which is really nothing at all). Nor can God create a rock that is too heavy for his all-powerful self to lift.
Not only do we need no God to explain the universe and life. God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs. We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
In "God: The Failed Hypothesis—How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist," Victor J. Stenger offers this scientific argument against the existence of God: Hypothesize a God who plays an important role in the universe.
In it, I will lay out the most popular arguments for and against God’s existence, show why attempts to prove God exists fail, but argue that there is good evidence that God does not...