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    My atheism

    When I look back on my past I realise that I never believed or disbelieved in God. The infant and primary schools that I attended in the UK were both Church of England affiliated, and in the case of the latter I remember a vicar speaking at morning assembly every Wednesday. And of course every...
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    The Kalam argument revisited

    Here is William Lane Craig’s alternative formulation of the Kalam cosmological argument that he proposed in his debate with Alex Rosenberg. ‘Is faith in God reasonable?’ 1. Every contingent thing has an explanation of its existence. 2. If the universe has an explanation of...
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    Disembodied mind and life after death?

    Rene Descartes maintained that brains are corporeal while mind is separate and distinct from the body. And he gave several arguments in the Meditations to show that the mind is easier to know than the body, from which he concluded that the mind is distinct from the body and can therefore exist...
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    The modal ontological argument to God

    The Modal Ontological Argument Alvin Plantinga thought Malcolm’s amendment to the ontological argument could be defended through the notion of possible worlds, where in a possible world there exists a being with maximal greatness, from which it would follow that in every possible world...
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    Changing my mind?

    On another thread a contributor asked on the question of creationism v evolution, what would change your mind? It seems to me that one way I might change my mind and accept creationism as true is if God’s existence is proved to me. Although that wouldn’t necessarily prove that...
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    Craig and Hitchens. A moral God?

    A while back having nothing better to do I watched a debate on Youtube between four Christian apologists, one of whom was William Lane Craig, and the late Christopher Hitchens. At the end of the two-hour debate each speaker was given three minutes to sum his argument. William Lane Craig in his...
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    Life after death

    It is often claimed that a greater number of people on the planet believe in some form of god, together with a near-universal belief in an afterlife, than those who do not. And this supposed statistical fact is sometimes used to endow the arguments with credibility. But I suspect it is more...
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    The Promblem of Evil revisited

    The problem of evil is the only argument, which, if specific premises are accepted, demonstrates that God’s existence is impossible. As I remember there are at least ten very well known apologetical arguments commonly used to defend God against the charge of creating/allowing the existence of...
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    The Debating Hall

    In the Debating Hall today: theism v atheism. The Chairman declares the meeting open: ‘Ladies and gentlemen may I introduce the group on my left, those making the case for theism.’ <audience politely claps> ‘And on my right may I introduce the group that are here to argue for atheism.’...
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    Musings on God

    What is ‘God’? It is said that God is a being that is the cause of all subsequent causes and their effects and is necessarily existent. Now it may be argued that ‘God’ is a proper name and not the equivalent of ‘necessary being’. But classical theism wants to understand God as the Supreme...
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    We all have our gods.

    Some theists seem to reduce their faith to something that they cannot doubt – or believe they cannot doubt – such as an intense feeling or emotion, an appeal to revealed truths or something non-specific that cannot be tested by argument. But that's not to say all theist arguments are opaque...
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    It's time to go.

    It’s been fun but it’s time to move on. To be honest I’m slightly uncomfortable with becoming a regular on the forum, and having expressed my thoughts and explored various ideas I don’t want to bore the pants of everyone by continually making the same points. But it’s been enjoyable and I’ve...
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    But what, exactly?

    In today's Sunday Telegraph a correspondent writes in response to the fact that a number of British schools are not enforcing the law that requires 'a daily act of collective worship' (which must be 'broadly Christian in character', as another correspondent aptly explained it). 'No one denies...
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    Poor sceptical/atheist arguments

    Help me out here. What atheist arguments do you consider to be fallacious, illogical, unjustified or just plain unreasonable?
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    Any downside to religious beliefs?

    A number of studies have reportedly found that religious believers are in some way happier than non-believers. I don't know who carried out these studies, nor do I know the location and number of the samples or whether there were proper control groups in place. However, there is every reason to...
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    True belief

    There have been some very articulate believers/theists who have made interesting contributions to this forum but have now disappeared, just temporarily I hope. I guess it can get a bit wearing for believers, because to be fair the believer has the more difficult job in my view. As a sceptic my...
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    The myriad proofs for the exsitence of God

    Romance, consciousness, and atheism: all proofs for the existence of God, supposedly! All these weak and unconvincing arguments do not amount to a single compelling proof. By setting the bar of proof at such a low level the theist is simply stating the terms under which his argument is proved...
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    Where are the theists/religionists?

    There seems to me to be an imbalance on the boards these days, more sceptics than believers. Is this a sign of times a-changing, or is it that believers are just comfortable with their beliefs and don't need or want to engage in discussion? Personally, I like to see the debates become a bit...
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    Is God Intelligent?

    I hold the view that God (whether or not he exists) is wholly other, and therefore no characteristic found in man applies to God. It appears to make perfect sense when we say a personal God has intelligence. And in terms of an anthropomorphic God it would seem illogical to say he wasn’t...
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    Miracles

    Are miracles just a religious believer's argument? G K Chesterton, (1874-1936), Orthodoxy, writes that belief that miracles have happened in human history is not a mystical belief at all: 'I believe in them upon human evidences as I do in the discovery of America.' In the very first...
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