Atheism Vs Christianity

In this round, I wish to continue with my opening statements. I will begin defending my opening statements in the next round. Moreover, I request that my opponent give evidence for Christianity.I wrote an article for the Secular Web entitled "Evidence for Atheism" which can be viewed at http://www.infidels.org... would like to use some of these same arguments now to give evidence for atheism. A challenge often presented to Atheists by fundamentalist Christians and various Theists is that Atheists have no proof there is no God, therefore Atheism is just another faith.[1] Although Atheists do not have the Burden of Proof, we can still put forth different types of reasoning to give a philosophical justification for an Atheological worldview. There are two main categories of evidence that can be used. I will divide my arguments into different sections for these categories. The first is called evidential arguments. These are arguments that some facts about the world are cited as evidence against God's existence; for example, the large amount of suffering in the world, or the argument from Biblical defects. These arguments carry the probabilistic conclusion that God does not exist; in other words, on balance of probability it is more likely than not that God does not exist. Therefore, these arguments do not carry conclusive evidence that there is absolutely no God. The second is called logical evidence against God's existence. These are philosophical evidence which cites that either a) The proposition that God exists is logically incoherent in some way, or, b) the concept of God is incoherent in some way. This type of evidence purports to conclusively demonstrate the fact of Atheism based on logical incompatibility with the cited contingent facts about the world and the proposition that God exists.What is God? Before one can make a rational conclusion on whether or not God exists, we must first create a coherent definition of God (this is called “ignosticism”). Consider the following dialogue: Person 1: “A Blorb Exists.” Person 2: “Prove it.” Person 1: “The universe must have had a cause and that cause was the blorb.” We can plug and chug any type of evidence for the existence of the blorb. However, we still cannot make a rational basis on the existence of the blorb until person 1 defines it. As W. T. Blackstone argues: “Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for one would not know what one has accepted. The request for the meaning of a religious belief is logically prior to the question of accepting that belief on faith or the question of whether that belief constitutes knowledge.”[1] Until Theists are able to agree upon the definition of “God” whether it be monotheism, monolatraism, polytheism, or pantheism, we are justified in rejecting that belief. Not only does the definition of God needs to be coherent, it must be able to be falsified and cannot be ambiguous. Thus, we come to this formulation in formal logic: If God were to exist, then an agreement upon the definition of God would be able to be reached; However, there is no unified agreement on the definition of God. Even religions have disagreements within itself about what or whom God is; Therefore, God probably does not exist. The standard definition of “God” is largely incoherent. According to the National Catholic Almanac, there are 22 attributes of “God”: “[A]lmighty, eternal, holy, immortal, immense, immutable, incomprehensible, ineffable, infinite, invisible, just, loving, merciful, most high, most wise, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, patient, perfect, provident, supreme, true. At least two of the above attributes (incomprehensible and ineffable) contradict the others. How can the other attributes of God be known if he can be neither understood nor described? If God has free-will, as some Christians believe that he does, then how can he know everything? These are some of the attributes of God that are logically incompatible; thus making the Theist God impossible. So “[t]hus the characteristics of God as supplied by Christian theologians (and other theologians) are nothing more than meaningless and contradictory concepts wrapped in theological garb.” Over to Anti-Atheist