Some atheists believe that there’s no evidence for God’s existence. That’s the topic of this live discussion. Is it true that there’s literally no evidence for God? Is it possible to defend such a thing?
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Dr. Josh Rasmussen
Joshua Rasmussen, Ph.D., is an associate professor of philosophy at Azusa Pacific University. His area of expertise is analytic metaphysics, with a focus on the foundations of existence and the philosophy of mind. He is author of Defending the Correspondence Theory of Truth, Necessary Existence (with Pruss), The Bridge of Reason, and How Reason Leads to God (forthcoming). Rasmussen values collaboration across disciplines and perspectives.
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Tom Jump
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Hello, I’m an atheist. I would argue that since ‘god’, as used in traditional religious parlance, constitutes an incoherent concept, there can never be any more “evidence” for god than there could be for other propositions that are also incoherent. I guess the biggest problem I have is not with liberal theists who live and let live, but with the fundamentalist Christians who overstate their case, and insult our intelligence by pretending that we secretly accept god’s existence, but are too sinful to admit it out in the open…all because of what Romans 1:20 says. There are two responses mature… Read more »
What created the fabric of space time and all the matter and energy reverberating around within it?
Creation of time logically necessitates the conclusion that there was a time before time, a logical fallacy. Thus time wasn’t created. And all biblical descriptions of heaven present God going about his business in the same type of temporal progression of events that characterizes us on earth. So you run into serious problems if you wish to push the created nature of “time”, you’d be saying God created himself. As as far space being created, I deny the big bang, as do some anti-evolution creationist organizations like Answers in Genesis and ICR. I believe the universe is an infinite field,… Read more »
Just a small point, there’s no need to deny the Big Bang to make your point valid. For one thing, all we know for certain about it is that it was an expansion of our local observable spacetime at some finite point in the past. We don’t know it was the ‘beginning’ of the entire Universe, not by a long shot.
Nobody knows what preceded this expansion phase, and we know our current mathematical models are incomplete (quantum gravity, anyone?) So anyone speaking with certainty about this apparent boundary a finite time ago is jumping to unwarranted conclusions.