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Good Reason To Disprove The Existence Of God

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Over the centuries, there have been many attempts by philosophers to prove and disprove the existence of God, and a lot of classic arguments has been developed. However do we have good reason to believe that God exist? In my opinion, we don't NEED proof of God's existence, we WANT it to let the opposing non-believing team know that there is proof God exist, now you to can believe. God existence or non-existence is not based on evidence, but rather based on an appeal to self-interest.
People that are interested in not believing in God uses the evidence from science to disproves the existence of God. However, science is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Science is a secular religion like a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, …show more content…

However there are some atheists who wants God not to exist. Thomas Nagel writes, "I hope there is no God! I don’t want there to be a God; I don’t want the universe to be like that."
It almost sounds like the "rebelling-against-god" mind set, rather than the thought-out, unbiased, "no evidence, no god" claim which is much more valid. It is possible that Nagel is frightened by the thought that, somehow, there could be a God. Nagel's statement seems to lack backbone, His hope would seem baffling, even meaningless, to many, including many atheists. He doesn’t want the universe to be like "that". I'm going to attempt to deduce that Nagel has in mind something like the following.

-A universe in which God exists is a Universe where we are the subordinates of a omnibenevolent being, a superior that deserves our obedience and worship, and where we have been created to play a part in some divine plan.
-It is a Universe where a omniscient being knows everything about us
-A Universe where even our innermost thoughts and feelings are not entirely …show more content…

Thus a world in which God exists is a world where we would not be the moral equals of all other rational beings—equal members of a kingdom of ends that has no ruler. Such a world seems incompatible with complete independence, or with complete privacy and genuine solitude. And it might also be a world where it would be pointless for us to strive for a complete and unqualified understanding of the universe.

The problem of evil is the problem of accommodating the existence of the evil in the world with the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent and a omni benevolent God. The argument from evil is the atheist's argument that the existence of such evil can not comply with the existence of God, and so disproves, the existence of such a God.

Swinburne's argument for the existence of God and evil states that there are two kinds of evil in the world, moral and natural. Both appear to exist a great deal.
- Moral evils are those evils that are freely inflicted upon humankind by humankind for example deceit, murder, theft, rape,etc. They result from the choices of the individual.
- Natural evils are those evils that occur as the result of natural processes for examples earthquakes, forest fires, tsunamis, hurricanes

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