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Args against the existence of God - Coggle Diagram
Args against the existence of God
Existance of evil
Evidential
Staistical
Logical
Omnipotence fallacy (Mackie)
Free will defence
Soul making (hick)
Mental nuerosis - Freud
Possibily if r.e. is mental illness but its noetic & often have a life long postive effect (James)
Faith is a protective factor against mental ill health
Sociological reasons
Marx - form of ideological control
Looks at institutional belief rather than individual faith, communism failed to eradicate religious belief
Durkheim - ‘positive’ function - social control
May explain its function but doesn’t actually disprove existance of divine being as its inspiration
Science has made belief in God redundant
God of the Gaps - Dawkins
Mythological, primitive understanding of the world
Reductionist
Cultural conditioning - Flew
Belief is socialised by community, family, education, etc… how you make sense of the world - Hare ‘Bliks’
Absence of evidence
William Lane Craig - ‘the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence’
Epistemic distance - Hick
But there is evidence - design, r.e. morality
Scripture is unverifiable & meaningless
No books are ‘factual’ they have subjective meaning
The classic args fail
God cannot be defined into existance
Inductive leaps
These args arent dead - modern version e.g. Plantinga, Tennant