Argument Against God

Argument against God

There are many different creationist theories, but the monotheistic God is the most widely believed in. The traits given to this God are omnipotence, omniscience, omnibenevolence and omnipresence. Giving these three traits to their God raises very big and important questions, and these questions appear to be unanswerable with backed up argument by creationists, showing that there is no strong argument for God's existence. If any one of the traits given to him by believers is disproven, this disclaims the existence of the idea of God that we are dealing with.

The first question raised by God's Omni-traits is question of why evil exists in the world. This 'problem of evil', which consists of natural evils in the world and moral evils within humanity should surely be solved by God if he is all-good, all-powerful and all-knowing how can he allow evil in the world? By this reasoning, he is certainly powerful enough to rectify this problem; he cannot allow the evil knowingly because of his goodness and he bears witness and knows about the problem as he is supposedly everywhere and all-knowing. To combat this question, a believer might argue using the Augustinian Theodicy, which argues that evil in the world is a product of free will, and God prefers a world with free will to a world of robots, if you will. There are many flaws in this argument however, such as the question of how this perfectly good being can even allow the existence of evil without fighting it? which questions God's omnibenevolence. Why can God not create a world where free will can exist but evil still cannot? is he not powerful enough to accomplish this feat? this also questions his supposed omnipotence. The Augustinian argument, already problematic, also does not account for natural evil such as earthquakes and hurricanes that destroy homes and lives of innocent people.

Another argument a believer might retort with in desperation is the Iranaean Theodicy. This argues that...