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| Against belief in a personal being |
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| Lack of belief in a personal being |
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| The belief that there is no God |
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| Lack of belief in God, sometimes called agnostic |
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| the belief that nature is all there is. no super nature |
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| the belief that everything in the universe can be reduced to matter and energy |
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| everything in the universe can be explained in terms of physical processes and forces |
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| the claim that God exists is wrong criteria for whether or not a proposition was meaningful. |
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| claim is meaningful if it can be either verified in imperially or falsified at least in principle. anything which is in principle, possible |
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| all life began as a result of purely physical, natural process |
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| intelligent design theoris |
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| life could not result from physical processes alone |
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| the claim itself is neither verifiable or falsifiable. claim is meaningless. in order for it to be true it must be false and visa versa |
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| strength of ones belief should be propotional to the evidence supporting that belief. strong the belief, strong the evidence shoudl be |
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| it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone to believe anything upon insuffician evidence |
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| we have an epistemic right to believe something even if there is not enough evidence. |
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| appeals to a real possibility to him who its is proposed |
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| one in witch both hypotheses are live one |
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| A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if these kinds of truth were really there, would be an irrational rule |
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| Best Anti-theistic argument |
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| Darwin and the problem of evil |
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| a good God would not creat insect parasitism |
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| Why is it a bad time to argue the God and evil point when someone is in pain |
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| it is a time to comfort them |
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| by eliminating evil, he eliminates an even greater Good |
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| Probabalistic argument for evil |
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| Hitchens argument essentially. doest the great amount of evil make it less likely that God exists? |
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| it is the case that evil counts as an argument against God's existence |
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