Samples' CRI articles

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Tue, 19 Sep 95 10:13 CDT (00811545180, 01HVGE9HVJCM0008SW@MUVMS6.MU.WVNET.EDU)


Samples:


>> The atheist cannot logically prove God's nonexistence. And
>> here's why: to know that a transcendent God does not exist would
>> require a perfect knowledge of all things (omniscience).


> If the concept of God could be shown
> to be internally incoherent, you could logically prove God's
> nonexistence without being omnipresent.

There is a gaping hole in this feeble attempt to prove the existence of "God" philosophically. First, the debater does not even stop to define exactly what he means by the word "God." If this God is an omni-everything God, as all bible-believing christians would readily accept, then God is a logical impossibility, and a human does not need omniscience to know that "God" does not exist.

As most of you already know, there are many other problems with these arguments. I trust that they will also be "ripped to shreds" as we have time to root them out of this heaping pile of theistic excrement.

Chad Docterman