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- A God in the image of man is too human to be credible
- A God who is not omnipotent is not God
- A necessary being can only give rise to a contingent universe
- A universe made from nothing is possible, says Lawrence Krauss
- Absence of proof is not proof of absence
- Abstract objects can be conceptually demonstrated
- An immaterial point is an abstraction, and an abstraction cannot cause anything.
- Animal suffering is not comparable to human suffering
- Animal suffering is unjust
- Animals don't suffer
- Animals only suffer because some of their actions are intentional.
- Animals suffer because of Original Sin
- Arguments for the existence of God are all argumentative biases
- Arguments in favor of miracles are always more improbable than rational explanations.
- Atheists also put forward a thesis
- Awakening experiences show that there is no god
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- Causality is not linked to temporal succession
- Chance alone cannot explain the creation, adaptation and complexity of species
- Claims of divine intervention are based on unreliable evidence
- Comparing God to man is a legitimate analogy in a certain sense.
- Compassion has no meaning for God
- Consciousness cannot be explained by matter
- Contemporary science is shaking the philosophical foundations on which materialism rests.
E
G
- God cannot be less free than human beings
- God created a morality independent of men
- God did not create evil, which exists from all eternity.
- God exists because there cannot be an infinite number of causes
- God exists because there cannot be an infinite past
- God explains the appearance of life
- God explains the creation, adaptation and complexity of species
- God explains the emergence and complexity of human language
- God explains the existence of consciousness
- God explains the highly improbable adjustment of the universe's fundamental constants
- God explains the laws of nature
- God gives an account of the world's master plan
- God gives men their freedom
- God is a contradictory concept
- God is a filler concept
- God is a useless hypothesis
- God is an inexplicable explanation
- God is an invention
- God is but the name of our ignorance
- God is everlasting
- God is not all-powerful
- God is not good
- God is the first cause of the universe
- God is timeless, therefore causeless
- God is too complex a hypothesis
- God permits evil because of freedom
- God would then be unjust, because too many people who have done nothing wrong would be punished.
- God's existence can be experienced with immediate certainty
- God's existence cannot be grasped through evidence
- God's existence is contained in his concept
- God's existence is revealed in sacred texts
- God's perfection does not imply his existence
- God, in evolution, needs conflict to become self-aware
- Good and evil mix
H
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- If God existed, there should be clear evidence of it.
- If God is omniscient, creation and freedom are useless
- If the universe has no cause, then it is not necessary for it to exist.
- It's not chance but natural selection that explains the creation, adaptation and complexity of species.
- It's not the existence of God that's a mystery, but the existence of evil.
- It's up to the person who advances a thesis to prove it.
M
- Man does not have to judge God
- Manifestations of Providence attest to God's intervention
- Many people believe in God, including famous scientists
- Materialism is an irrefutable theory
- Mathematics is a human construct
- Men must earn faith
- Miracles attest to God's direct intervention
- Moral values are human creations
- Moral values are relative to a given society
- Moral values are the result of evolution
- Moral values evolve over time
- Morality no longer makes sense
- Most people haven't experienced God
- Mystical experiences are due to psychic disorders.
- Mystical experiences attest to the presence of God
- Mystical experiences only happen to people with a religious culture
N
- Natural evil allows God to communicate a message to mankind
- Natural evil is not caused by human actions
- Natural evil motivates humans to learn about the universe
- Nature is too well-made not to have been created by God
- Near-death experiences demonstrate that the mind is immaterial
- No evidence of a god
- No experiment proves the existence of God
- No two substances are coterminous
- Not "everything" but "every effect" has a cause
- Nothing makes these people credible: they may be mistaken, or even lie.
- Nothing proves the non-existence of God
- Nothingness is not governed by laws, so nothing prevents it from generating the universe.
O
- Only God can establish logical and mathematical truths
- Only God could have placed the concept of infinity within us.
- Only God could have placed the concept of perfection within us.
- Only God could have placed the concept of unity within us.
- Only God is the guarantor of the reality and veracity of the world.
- Only the God hypothesis explains the coincidence of mathematics and reality
- Only the God hypothesis takes us out of perspectivism
- Only the hypothesis of God takes us out of solipsism
- Our universe is only one of many existing universes
- Our world is the best of all possible worlds
- Out-of-body" experiences
P
S
- Sacred texts are unreliable
- Science cannot explain the existence of physical phenomena and laws
- Science establishes truths without hypothesizing God
- Science explains the order and complexity of the world
- Several so-called paranormal phenomena show the action of the spirit beyond a physical medium
- So-called divine intervention is based on a superstitious conception of the world.
- So-called miracles are illusions of the human brain
- So-called mystical experiences are subjective experiences that do not prove the existence of God.
- Solipsism is a false problem
- Some people say they have experienced God
T
- Telepathy
- That God has succeeded in adjusting the laws of the universe is at least as improbable as its existence.
- The absence of human freedom contradicts the existence of a god
- The argument is circular, because to be perfect, you have to be
- The argument that God does not exist because there is no first instant of time commits the same error as Zeno's paradox.
- The beginning is not the origin
- The burden of proof lies with the party asserting a claim
- The concepts of unity, infinity and perfection are acquired during the individual's cognitive development.
- The connection between the kalam argument and Zeno's paradox doesn't hold water.
- The creation, adaptation and complexity of species can be explained by the theory of natural selection
- The exception to the principle of sufficient reason deserves justification
- The existence of evil contributes to the simplicity of our universe
- The existence of evil helps maintain the universe
- The existence of evil is a mystery
- The existence of evil is the punishment inflicted by God
- The existence of God cannot be demonstrated conceptually
- The existence of God is even more improbable than what God is supposed to have created.
- The existence of the universe is explained by the infinite chain of causes of physical events.
- The fact that we can't explain God doesn't mean he doesn't exist.
- The fallacy of composition is not a fallacy
- The first cause cannot be an abstraction
- The first cause has consciousness
- The first cause is a necessary being
- The first cause is an immaterial point
- The first cause is the Big Bang
- The first cause is unknowable
- The first cause may be of a non-physical nature
- The God hypothesis is simpler than the atheist hypothesis
- The harm suffered in this life will be compensated for in the afterlife.
- The higher your level of education, the less religious you are
- The hypothesis of a God is even more improbable than that of the appearance of life.
- The idea of creation out of nothing is absurd
- The idea of time without beginning is inconceivable because it is contradictory.
- The idea of time without beginning leads us to abandon the notion of time.
- The kalam argument commits the same error as Zeno in his paradox
- The laws of the universe have been built up little by little
- The more scientific you are, the less religious you are
- The need for something to exist presupposes the existence of God
- The notion of order is a projection of the human mind
- The object of an innate need for religion is not necessarily the validity of religion.
- The order and complexity of the world presuppose a Creator God
- The order and complexity of the world presuppose only a supreme Intelligence indifferent to mankind.
- The pain endured in this life will be amply compensated for in the hereafter.
- The physical-teleological argument does not prove the existence of a creator god, but only of an ordering demiurge.
- The presentation of the kalam argument is misleading
- The principle of causality does not apply to the universe
- The reasoning that a necessary being can only give rise to a necessary universe confuses logical implication with causal link.
- The suffering of some enables others to perform good deeds
- The suffering of the innocent contradicts God's goodness
- The theistic hypothesis is simple and elegant
- The unexplained
- The universe began to exist with the Big Bang
- The universe has no beginning
- The universe has no cause or reason for being
- The universe is contingent
- The universe is not self-sufficient
- The universe is too empty, too ancient and too vast to correspond to the God of religions.
- The universe was created from nothing
- The world is not deceptive
- The world is not orderly but chaotic
- There are a very large number of planets suitable for life
- There are an infinite number of Big Bangs and Big Crunches
- There are divine interventions
- There are good reasons to believe that the appearance of life will be explained
- There are moral invariants
- There are no "back worlds" where God would stand
- There is no first instant of time