The contention that there is no God and that religious faith in such an entity is a consequence of man’s imagination or gullibility.
It has been argued that virtually everyone is an atheist as few people profess to believe in all the gods or other divine personalities devised by man. More conventionally, the atheist denies the existence of God as perceived by Christians and adherents of other major world religions, pointing out the lack of material evidence for such a being and the dilemma posed by the idea of a loving God permitting suffering and other evils to continue in the world.
Atheists frequently point to the apparently ever-widening gulf between modern science and religious faith, and sometimes claim that God has become ‘the god of the spaces in between’ known scientific facts.
As science advances, so many atheists argue that God’s natural territory is decreasing and that ‘blind’ faith is increasingly untenable and even immoral when the acceptance of such ideas depends increasingly upon the denial of reason.
Also see: agnosticism, HUMANISM, theism
Source:
J Monod, Chance and Necessity (Oxford, 1982)
Table of Contents
- 1 Videos
- 2 Related Products
- 2.1 Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide
- 2.2 The God Delusion
- 2.3 Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God
- 2.4 The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
- 2.5 Answering Atheism: How to Make the Case for God with Logic and Charity
- 2.6 Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
- 2.7 Losing God
- 2.8 Seven Types of Atheism
- 2.9 God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
- 2.10 The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions
Videos
Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide
- Hardcover Book
- Dawkins, Richard (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 304 Pages - 10/08/2019 (Publication Date) - Random House (Publisher)
The God Delusion
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Dawkins, Richard (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 465 Pages - 01/16/2008 (Publication Date) - Mariner Books (Publisher)
Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God
- Navabi, Armin (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 128 Pages - 10/06/2014 (Publication Date) - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (Publisher)
The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Seidel, Andrew L (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 354 Pages - 05/14/2019 (Publication Date) - Sterling (Publisher)
Answering Atheism: How to Make the Case for God with Logic and Charity
- Trent Horn (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 335 Pages - 09/28/2013 (Publication Date) - Catholic Answers Press (Publisher)
Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Onfray, Michel (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 266 Pages - 04/01/2011 (Publication Date) - Skyhorse (Publisher)
Losing God
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Josh Preville (Director) - Josh Preville (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
Seven Types of Atheism
- Gray, John (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 176 Pages - 12/10/2019 (Publication Date) - Picador (Publisher)
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Hitchens, Christopher (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 548 Pages - 05/01/2007 (Publication Date) - Twelve (Publisher)
The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions
- Bestselling author David Berlinski's wise and witty assault on the pretensions of the scientific atheists
- Berlinski, David (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 256 Pages - 09/22/2009 (Publication Date) - Basic Books (Publisher)
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