Atheism is a lack of belief or a denial of the existence of any god. It is a growing movement that is becoming more aggressive, more demanding, and less tolerant of anything other than itself. Is atheism a sound philosophical system as a worldview or is it ultimately self-defeating? Learn how to deal with the arguments raised against the existence of God that seek to replace Him with naturalism, materialism, and moral relativism.
Introduction
- What is atheism?
- Are there different kinds of atheists?
- What is agnosticism?
- What is secularism?
- Terms and definitions
- Can atheists be ethical?
- Can atheists know right from wrong?
- Christian terms atheists should be aware of
- Questions for Atheists
- Questions for Atheists, part 2
- Questions for atheists based on the morality of reducing harm
Against Atheism
- An examination of atheism’s truth claims Is atheism viable?
- The failure of atheism to account for existence – video
- The failure of atheism to account for morality – video
- The failure of atheism to account for rationality – video
- What militant atheism and Islam have in common
- Atheists err when asking for material evidence to prove God’s existence
- Different objects (God and apples) require different kinds of evidence for their detection
- What kind of evidence should we expect from a transcendent God?
- Materialistic atheism is self-refuting
- Naturalism is self-refuting
Issues and Answers
- What is the New Atheism?
- Things atheists should consider when debating Christians
- Do the laws of logic contradict miracles? – video
- Atheists, you won’t find God that way – video
- A question for atheists regarding free will and rationality – video
- Mistakes Christians make when dialoguing with atheists
- Mistakes atheists make when dialoguing with Christians
- Is atheism the default position?
- Is atheism a worldview?
- Response to criticism of “Is atheism viable?”
- Another response to criticism of “Is atheism viable?”
- Second response to criticism of “Is atheism viable?”
- “I lack belief in a god”
- Response to criticism of “I lack belief in God”
- Another response to criticism of “I lack belief in God”
- Additional response to criticism of “Lack of belief” and “Is atheism viable?”
- “Lack of belief” analysis outline
- Does atheism just mean lacking belief in God?
- Answers to positions held by atheists
- Response to “Answers to positions held by atheists”
- Response to “Response to answers to positions held by atheists”
- Response to answers from an atheist about God
- Logical fallacies or fallacies in argumentation
- Looking at Whitney Houston’s death through atheist eyes
- A big problem with atheism and morality
- Do atheists hate God?
- Do atheists hate the God they don’t believe in?
- Is reason the basis of faith or faith the basis of reason?
- Why is it necessary to appeal to God for objective morals?
- Addressing Epicurus’ quote about God willing to prevent evil
- Are babies born atheists?
- What is the Athyphro Dilemma?
- Is empathy the proper basis for morality?
- What is a freethinker?
- Why are atheists hated?
- Suffering entered the world when Adam and Eve acted like atheists
- How do you know the Christian God isn’t deceiving you?
- God exists because…
Arguments Against God’s Existence
- The argument against God’s existence from the impossibility of atemporal mind(s)
- The argument against God’s existence from unnecessary suffering
- The argument against God’s existence from the impossibility of omniscience and free will
- The argument from the impossibility of perfect knowledge of the future and free will
- The argument against God’s existence from the existence of an inefficient universe
- The argument against God’s existence from the impossibility of an immutable creator
- The argument against God’s existence from God’s love and reasonable non-belief
- The argument against God’s existence using location outside of the universe
- The argument against God’s existence by asking God a question
- The argument against God’s existence using evil and God’s purpose for evil
- The argument against God’s existence using a morally perfect being
- The argument against God’s existence using conceivability and metaphysics
- The argument against God’s existence using a logical problem of evil
Arguments Against Christianity
- Argument against Christianity based on faith judgment
- Are Christians against science?
- If God is omnibenevolent, why is there suffering in the world?
Answering Atheist’s Objections
- Atheism and the multiverse
- A perfect god would not need to create anything
- Concerning atheist attacks on theism
- I don’t see any convincing evidence for the existence of God
- I have not seen convincing evidence for God’s existence
- Can God make a rock so big that He can’t pick it up?
- God cannot exist because His attributes would require limits
- There is no proof that God exists
- If God is unchanging, why does the world change if it reveals God?
- If God can’t lie, then he isn’t omnipotent
- Only atheism offers a predictable universe
- All of reality and God’s existence
- If God exists, then…
- If God is infinitely good, then…
- Any entity that is not the source of all power within reality is not God
- If everything needs a creator, then who or what created God?
- Who made God? Crashing Richard Dawkins’s Boeing 747
- Lawrence Krauss and the atheist definition of nothing
- How can something that cannot be described be said to exist?
- Why do you believe in Jesus but not Santa Claus?
- Why believe in Christianity over all other religions?
- Debunking the idea of a just deity
- Religion precludes ethics
- Answering the transcendental argument for the nonexistence of God
- Atheists say that prayer does not work
- Questions for Christians from an atheist
- How do you know the God of the Bible is real and not fiction?
- How does Christianity define God’s essence?
- Atheism, Adam and Eve, and Suffering
- An atheist says that Jesus committed suicide
Responses to GodisImaginary.com
- Reason #1: Try Praying, Does prayer prove God is imaginary
- Reason #2: Statistically Analyze Prayer
- Reason #3: Look at all historical gods, Do other gods prove that there is no true God?
Morality
- Christian morality is based on might makes right
- Questions for atheists on having a standard of morality – video
- Questions for atheists on morality being based on reducing harm – video
- Are there such things as moral absolutes (moral nihilism) or is nothing by nature good or bad?
- Is it always wrong for anyone to torture babies to death merely for their personal pleasure?
- The atheists’ moral complaints about God are not valid
- The problem with reducing harm and increasing well being as a basis for morality
Other
- The 33rd annual atheist convention
- The Religion of Atheism
- The Rational Response Squad: method over substance
- aarm Atheist Apologetics and Research Ministry
- Atheist Ten Commandments
- JT Eberhard speaks on relating to the religious in a positive way, Boise State Campus
- Why is atheism and nonbelief on the rise?
- Matt Slick at the 2016 Reason Rally, Washington, DC
Arguments for the Existence of God
- Entropy and causality used as a proof for God’s existence
- Atheism, the Universe, and Purpose
- The Christian Worldview, the Atheist Worldview, and Logic
- The transcendental argument for the existence of God
- An answer to a refutation of the Transcendental Argument
- An answer to another response to the Transcendental Argument
- A response to a third and fourth attempt to refute the Transcendental Argument
Dialogues with Atheists
- An atheist says that there is no evidence for God
- An atheist who says that he knows there is no God
- Sickness as an argument against God’s existence
- Evidence of evil as support for atheism
- Discussion on logical absolutes as a proof for God’s existence
Videos
- Response to TheoreticalBS’s video Part 1, Part 2
- A question for atheists regarding free will and rationality – video
Debates with atheists
- Questions for atheists, debate requirement
- Kagin, Edwin, Pensacola, FL, April 17, 2008
- Barker, Dan
- Does God Exist, Madison Wisconsin, April 12, 2014
- Is there reason to be good without God?, Newberg, Oregon, Sept. 26, 2009,
- The debate that almost was: Matt Slick and Dan Barker canceled at Boise State U.
- Dillahunty, Matt
- Is Secular Humanism superior to Christianity? 10/2/2016
- Video of the debate: “Is Secular Humanism superior to Christianity?
- Written Opening Statement, “Is Secular Humanism superior to Christianity?
- Is Secular Humanism superior to Christianity? 10/2/2016
- Tabash, Eddit
- Written Debates
- Is atheism true?
- Atheism and morality First Debate
- First Round – Atheist’s 1st post, Matt’s response
- Atheism and Morality Second Debate
- First Round Atheist’s 1st post, Matt’s 1st response
- Second Round Atheist’s post, Matt’s response
- Third Round Atheist’s post, Matt’s response
- Fourth Round Atheist’s post, Matt’s response
- Fifth Round Atheist’s post, Matt’s response, part A & part B
- Sixth Round Atheist’s post, Matt’s response
- Seventh Round Atheist’s post, Matt’s response
- Eighth Round Atheist’s post, Matt’s response
- Challenge to Idaho humanists from Matt Slick
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