(July 3, 2012 at 2:34 am)Jeffonthenet Wrote: Can anyone give me a good case against the existence of God that can stand up to scrutiny?
A good case against the existence of which God? The deist God? The Christian God? Is the God you're referring to omniscient and omnipotent? Does it have perfectly free will? Is it omnibenevolent? Does it condemn people to hell? There are a lot of Gods, would you be more specific, please? I can tell you that the God of Theodicy doesn't exist: an omniscient being can't do anything it does not foresee and an omnipotent being can do anything. Omniscience also contradicts free will.
An explicit atheist rejects claims and arguments for the existence of God. Despite the advantage of God apparently being whatever one wants it to be for the sake of the current discussion; no theist has ever presented an argument for God that is not fallacious or built on faulty premises. So the atheist doesn't believe what these bad arguments are trying to prove. We admit we can't prove a proposed entity made up on the spot whole-cloth from imagination doesn't exist anywhere in reality unless it has contradictory attributes. I don't see how you can take comfort from the same limitation applying to the God you propose.
