ATHEISTS: Which argument against the existence of God do you find the most convincing?

Question

You may want to reference a similar question that I posed to believers earlier.

Then again, I don't think they will give you much help. (It's really sad.)

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtpSTyRJBy2YkPIwzJi_GYzsy6IX?qid=20070718134700AA8C0q7

Answer 1

I like the argument from locality.

Answer 2

We must be careful when we offer philosophical arguments. Some arguments given by other answerers here do not refute the existence of God, only of the logic and/or credibility of those who claim to be His followers.

I don't believe that there is an indisputable argument against the existence of God any more than there is such an argument for the existence of God (which makes me an agnostic rather than an atheist). I do believe, however, that there are many logical, evidencial, scientific and moral arguments against the existence of the Judeo/Christian God described in the Bible and, even more, as taught by many modern Christian evangelical leaders.

Among the most compelling is the argument from evil (if God exists and is good, moral, omnipotent and omniscient, then evil would not exist because such a God would not allow evil to befall humanity or the rest of His beloved creation). Also, of course, the advancement of science has consistently and continuously diminished the necessity of appealing to the existence of God to explain the previously unexplainable. This is true despite the fact that many followers of Christianity always have, and still do, prefer to believe ancient, inconsistent and often primative writings rather than clear physical evidence and their own personal experiences.

Answer 3

I've seen no convincing, or even close to convincing argument, that they're is a god. I have seen a lot of evil men try to control large amounts of people and their money in the name of god.

Even the "near death experience", has been de- bunked and explained, as it's an oxygen starved brain trying to make sense of a situation while losing consciousness

Answer 4

No evidence for a 'Soul' that can survive the body. Who you are as a person is the sum of our memories and your thoughts and feelings about those memories. They are stored in your brain in the form of neuronal matrices which we call the 'mind'. If who you are as a person is contained in the mind then there is no external mechanism in which to contain who you are as a person. If the mind dies at the point of brain death then who you are no longer exists and there is no afterlife, no afterlife means religions are a sham.

It could still be argued that a god still exists despite that but if one does it's not the god of any human theistic religion.

Answer 5

Well, here's one "argument": 11 million innocent people died in Hitler's death camps. Virtually all these people were either Jews, Christians or Moslems who believed in the existence of "God" and who prayed to "him" be saved from the gas ovens. None were.

So where was "God"? On an extended vacation? Distracted by busy work? In need of a hearing aid? After all, the old fellow is getting on in years, being 13 billion years old.

Maybe it's possible He doesn't even exist so praying to "Him" for anything is silly. Think that's possible?

Answer 6

Assumptions "God is good", "God is Omniscient", "God is Omnipotent"

test 1:
Starting with adam & eve: Being all-knowing, god would have known they would fall from grace. In fact, due to his all-powerful nature, he must have created them that way and he must have known he would then curse them with mortality and suffering. meaning: God is either evil or he is not both all-knowing and all-powerful (god != god)

test 2: Can omnipotence exist?
God cannot create a weight which he can't lift. If he can't create one, he isn't omnipotent. If he can't lift it once he does, again, he is not omnipotent. at this point, again "god != god"

Answer 7

1. social and psychological basis of religion

2. No evidence for deities

P.S. Don P would make an awesome god. Great answer!

Answer 8

I saw the other question and I would be willing to refute anything of what they had listed.

I personally think the question of ineffective parayer is a very powerful arguement against god-belief because it can easily be demonstrated that prayer predictably fails according to probability laws - controlled test results are becoming more and more available on this subject.

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Answer 9

No argument needed to convince me. Just my common sense telling me a god is not probable.

Answer 10

I'm not an atheist, but I believe it is the lack of evidence in the existance of god that they find most convincing.