Reasons for atheism
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- Created on: 17-03-14 12:58
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- Reasons for rise in atheism
- Science
- Telescope- solar system explained without God
- Darwin's biological revolution- trial and error
- Psychoanalysis- consceince isn't God
- Empiricism
- Knowledge can only be gained through experience
- No knowledge of anything beyond sense experience
- Hume- we have no knowledge of God, therefore no justification to believe
- Verification Principal- unless we know in principal how to verify a statement= meaningless= illogical
- Problem of evil
- Omnipotent
- Omniscient
- All loving
- Why let children/innocent suffer
- Rebellion against moral absolutes
- What is right or wrong varies
- Freedom of thought
- Social change
- If society has MA=needs commander=GOD
- No MA=texts can't be trusted= removes reason for believing in God
- Especially reject God of classical theism
- Awareness of other faiths
- If Xianity is truth, are others wrong?
- HUME- Each rel makes conflicting claims about objective nature of God and world
- Nietzche GOD IS DEAD
- God isn't relevant in society
- God has been replaced by philosophy and science
- Death of rel ethics
- Science
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