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 George Carlin: It's Bad For Ya!
- 2.4 Atheism: The Case Against God (The Skeptic's Bookshelf)
- 2.5 The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
- 2.6 God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
- 2.7 For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
- 2.8 Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam
- 2.9 Losing Our Religion
- 2.10 Answering Atheism: How to Make the Case for God with Logic and Charity
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)
George Carlin: It's Bad For Ya!
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- George Carlin (Actor)
- Rocco Urbisci (Director) - George Carlin (Writer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
Atheism: The Case Against God (The Skeptic's Bookshelf)
- Smith, George H. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 336 Pages - 07/12/2016 (Publication Date) - Prometheus (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)
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)
For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
- Hardcover Book
- Sagan, Sasha (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 288 Pages - 10/22/2019 (Publication Date) - G.P. Putnam's Sons (Publisher)
Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Mohammed, Yasmine (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 294 Pages - 09/24/2019 (Publication Date) - Free Hearts Free Minds (Publisher)
Losing Our Religion
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Dan Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Brendan Murphy (Actors)
- Leslea Mair (Director) - Leslea Mair (Writer) - Leif Kaldor (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
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)
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