EMPIRICAL DISPROOFS OF GOD
Contents:
1. COSMOLOGICAL DISPROOFS
2. TELEOLOGICAL DISPROOFS
3. EVIDENTIAL EVIL DISPROOFS
4. NONBELIEF DISPROOFS
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1. COSMOLOGICAL DISPROOFS
Disproof from the contingency of the universe
Nicholas Everitt,
"The Argument from Imperfection: A New Proof of the Nonexistence of God,"
Philo 9, no. 2 (2006): 113-30
www.pdcnet.org/collection/show?id=philo_2006_0009_0002_0113_0130&file_type=pdf
Disproof from relativistic cosmology
Quentin Smith,
“Atheism, Theism, and Big Bang Cosmology,”
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 69 (1991): 48-65
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 41-60www.infidels.org/library/modern/quentin_smith/cosmology.html
Quentin Smith,
“A Defense of the Cosmological Argument for God’s Nonexistence,”
in W.L.Craig & Q.Smith (eds.),Theism,Atheism,& Big Bang Cosmology (1993), pp.232-55
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 61-81
Disproofs from quantum cosmology
Quentin Smith,
“Big Bang Cosmology and Atheism,”
Free Inquiry 18, no. 2 (1998): 35-36
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 82-85
www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/smith_18_2.html
Quentin Smith,
“Stephen Hawking’s Cosmology and Theism,”
Analysis 54 (1994): 236-43
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 86-93
www.infidels.org/library/modern/quentin_smith/hawking.html
Quentin Smith,
“Why Stephen Hawking’s Cosmology Precludes a Creator,”
Philo 1, no. 1 (1998): 75-93
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 94-106
www.philoonline.org/library/smith_1_1.htm
Victor J. Stenger,
“A Scenario for a Natural Origin of our Universe,”
a slightly shorter version of Philo 9, no. 2 (2006): 93-102
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0710/0710.3137.pdf
Lawrence M. Krauss,
A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather than Nothing (2012)
Disproofs from the laws of physics
Victor J. Stenger,
"The Laws of the Void,"
in Has Science Found God? (2003), pp. 187-218
Victor J. Stenger,
The Comprehensible Cosmos: Where Do the Laws of Physics Come From? (2006)
Victor J. Stenger,
"Cosmic Evidence,"
in God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007), pp. 113-36
http://files.meetup.com/1819750/%231%20-%20God%20-%20The%20Failed%20Hypothesis.pdf
2. TELEOLOGICAL DISPROOFS
Anthropic disproofs
Nicholas Everitt,
"Arguments from Scale,"
The Nonexistence of God (2004), pp. 213-26
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 111-24
http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Everitt-Arguments-from-Scale.pdf
Victor J. Stenger,
"The Anthropic Coincidences: A Natural Explanation,”
The Skeptical Intelligencer 3, no. 3 (1999): 2-17
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier, The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 125-49
www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/Cosmo/anthro_skintel.html
Michael Ikeda and Bill Jefferys,
“The Anthropic Principle Does Not Support Supernaturalism,”
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier, The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 150-66
http://quasar.as.utexas.edu/anthropic.html
Design disproofs
Wesley C. Salmon,
“Religion and Science: A New Look at Hume's Dialogues,”
Philosophical Studies 33 (1978): 143-76,
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier, The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 167-93
Michael Martin,
“Atheistic Teleological Arguments,”
in Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (1990), pp. 317-33
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier, The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 198-214
www.questia.com/library/7612749/atheism-a-philosophical-justification
Richard Dawkins,
"The Improbability of God,"
Free Inquiry 18, no. 3 (1998): 6-9
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God, pp. 223-29
www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/dawkins_18_3.html
Bruce and Francis Martin,
"Neither Intelligent nor Designed,"
Skeptical Inquirer 27, no. 6 (2003): 45-49
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God, pp. 215-22
www.csicop.org/si/show/neither_intelligent_nor_designed
Raymond D. Bradley,
"God, Design, and Evolution: A Teleological Argument for Atheism" (2003)
www.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/philosophy/docs/bradley/design_by_god.pdf
Abby Hafer,
"Animals that Shouldn't Exist, According to Intelligent Design" (2012)
Disembodied mind disproofs
Steven J. Conifer,
“Mind-Brain Dependence as Twofold Support for Atheism” (2001)www.infidels.org/library/modern/steven_conifer/mbd.html
Jeffrey Jay Lowder,
“The Evidential Argument from Physical Minds” (2012)
www.patheos.com/blogs/secularoutpost/2012/06/the-evidential-argument-from-physical-minds.apm
3. EVIDENTIAL EVIL DISPROOFS
Evidential natural evil disproofs
Eric Russert Kraemer,
“Darwin’s Doubts and the Problems of Animal Pain,”
Between the Species 3 (August 2003)
http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1058&context=bts
Quentin Smith,
"An Atheological Argument from Evil Natural Laws,"
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 29 (1991): 159-74
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 235-49
www.infidels.org/library/modern/quentin_smith/evil_laws.html
William L. Rowe,
“The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism,”
American Philosophical Quarterly 16 (1979): 335-41
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 250-61
William L. Rowe,
“Evil and Theodicy,”
Philosophical Topics 16 (2) (1988):119-32
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 262-74
www.pdcnet.org/collection/show?id=philtopics_1988_0016_0002_0119_0132&file_type=pdf
William L. Rowe,
“The Evidential Argument from Evil: A Second Look,”
in D. Howard-Snyder (ed.), The Evidential Argument from Evil (1996), pp. 262-85
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 275-301
William L. Rowe,
“Reply to Plantinga,”
Noûs 32 (1998): 545-52
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 302-10
Robert Bass,
"Many Inscrutable Evils,"
Ars Disputandi 11 (2011): 118-32
www.arsdisputandi.org/publish/articles/000396/article.pdf
A. M. Weisberger,
“The Non-Concessionary Solutions: Natural Evil” and "The Final Solution,"
in Suffering Belief: Evil and the Anglo-American Defense of Theism (1999), pp. 101-24, 209-32
Nathan Nobis,
"The Real Problem of Infant and Animal Suffering,”
Philo 5, no. 2 (2002): 216-25
www.morehouse.edu/facstaff/nnobis/papers/newchigreply.htm
G. S. Paul,
"Theodicy’s Problem: A Statistical Look at the Holocaust of the Children and the Implications of Natural Evil for the Free Will and Best of All Possible Worlds Hypotheses,"
Philosophy & Theology 19 (2007): 125–49
http://gregspaul.webs.com/Philosophy&Theology.pdf
Paul Draper,
“Evolution and the Problem of Evil,”
in Louis P. Pojman (ed.), Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology (1998), pp. 219-30
Paul Draper,
"Natural Selection and the Problem of Evil" (2007)
www.infidels.org/library/modern/paul_draper/evil.html
Paul Draper,
"On the Plausibility of Naturalism & the Seriousness of the Argument from Evil" (2007)
www.infidels.org/library/modern/paul_draper/serious.html
Paul Draper,
“God and Evil: A Philosophical Inquiry” (2011)
http://philreligion.nd.edu/assets/44795
Evidential moral evil disproofs
A. M. Weisberger,
“Moral Evil and Soulmaking” and “The Free Will Defense,”
in Suffering Belief: Evil and the Anglo-American Defense of Theism (1999), pp. 125-62, 163-207
Joel Thomas Tierno,
“On the Alleged Connection between Moral Evil and Human Freedom,”
Sophia 40 (2001): 1-6
www.springerlink.com/content/q543806847753h25
Joel Thomas Tierno,
“On the Alleged Connection between Moral Evil and Human Freedom: Response to Nagasawa and Trakakis,”
Sophia 43 (2004): 115-26
www.springerlink.com/content/x3n28876w67830h3
Joel Thomas Tierno,
“On the Alleged Connection between Moral Evil and Human Freedom: A Response to Trakakis' Second Critique,”
Sophia 45 (2006): 131-38
www.springerlink.com/content/350868xj87811134
Joel Thomas Tierno,
“On the Alleged Connection between Moral Evil and Human Freedom: A Response to Trakakis' Third Critique,”
Sophia 47, no. 2 (2008): 223-30
www.springerlink.com/content/qu5802310q060q40
Evidential epistemic evil disproofs
Robert J. Howell,
"The Theist's Defeater: The Problem of Epistemic Evil"
www.rjhjr.com/philosophy/files/The%20Theist's%20Defeater1.pdf
Joel Thomas Tierno,
Epistemic Evil: A Third Problem of Evil (2007)
4. NONBELIEF DISPROOFS
Disproofs from widespread nonbelief
Theodore M. Drange,
"The Argument from Nonbelief,"
Religious Studies 29 (1993): 417-32
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 341-56
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=2424140
Theodore M. Drange,
Nonbelief and Evil: Two Arguments for the Nonexistence of God (1998)
Theodore M. Drange,
“McHugh’s Expectations Dashed,”
Philo 5 (2002): 242-48
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 357-61
www.pdcnet.org/collection/show?id=philo_2002_0005_0002_0242_0248&file_type=pdfVictor Cosculluela,
“Bolstering the Argument from Nonbelief,”
Religious Studies 32 (1996): 507-12
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 362-68
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=1581164Stephen Maitzen,
“Divine Hiddenness and the Demographics of Theism,”
Religious Studies 42 (2006): 177-91
http://philosophy.acadiau.ca/tl_files/sites/philosophy/resources/documents/Maitzen_Hiddenness.pdfTheodore M. Drange,
“The Arguments from Confusion and Biblical Defects,”
in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 369-79
www.infidels.org/library/modern/theodore_drange/confusion.html
Disproofs from reasonable nonbelief
J. L. Schellenberg,
Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason (1993)
J. L. Schellenberg,
"Response to Howard-Snyder,"
Canadian Journal of Philosophy 26 (1996): 455-62
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 405-12
www.jstor.org/pss/40231958
Philip Kuchar,
"God, Atheism and Incompatibility: The Argument from Nonbelief" (2001)
www.infidels.org/library/modern/philip_kuchar/anb.html
J. L. Schellenberg,
“Divine Hiddenness Justifies Atheism,”
in M. L. Peterson & R. J. VanArragon (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion (2004), pp. 30-41
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 413-26
J. L.Schellenberg,
"The Hiddennes Argument Revisited (I),"
Religious Studies 41 (2005): 201-25
www.jstor.org/stable/20008586
J. L. Schellenberg,
"The Hiddenness Argument Revisited (II),"
Religious Studies 41 (2005): 287-303
www.jstor.org/stable/20008599
J. L. Schellenberg,
"An Argument for Atheism from the Reasonableness of Nonbelief,"
in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 390-404
J. L. Schellenberg,
"What Divine Hiddenness Reveals, or How Weak Theistic Evidence is Strong Atheistic Proof" (2008)
www.infidels.org/library/modern/john_schellenberg/hidden.html
J. L. Schellenberg,
"The Sounds of Silence Stilled: A Reply to Jordan on Hiddenness" (2008)
www.infidels.org/library/modern/john_schellenberg/silence-stilled.html
J. L. Schellenberg,
"The Hiddenness Problem and the Problem of Evil,"
Faith and Philosophy 27 (2010): 45-60
http://philpapers.org/archive/SCHTHP-5.1.pdf
J. L. Schellenberg,
"Divine Hiddenness,"
in Paul Draper & Charles Talliaferro (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion (2010)
http://philpapers.org/archive/SCHDH.1.pdf
www.infidels.org/library/modern/quentin_smith/cosmology.html
Disproofs from quantum cosmology
Quentin Smith,
“Big Bang Cosmology and Atheism,”Evidential natural evil disproofs
Theodore M. Drange,
"The Argument from Nonbelief,"
Religious Studies 29 (1993): 417-32
Reprinted in M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 341-56
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=2424140
Theodore M. Drange,
Nonbelief and Evil: Two Arguments for the Nonexistence of God (1998)
Victor Cosculluela,
“Bolstering the Argument from Nonbelief,”Theodore M. Drange,
“The Arguments from Confusion and Biblical Defects,”J. L. Schellenberg,
J. L. Schellenberg,
J. L. Schellenberg,