God more than likely does not exist

Definition God - An omniscient, omnipotent, all loving, morally good, just, supernatural, personal being. God exists vs God does not exist & occams razorOccams Razor is explained as such. .. ""Occam's razor (also written as Ockham's razor from William of Ockham (c. 1287 " 1347), and in Latin lex parsimoniae) is a principle of parsimony, economy, or succinctness used in logic and problem-solving. It states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. " [1]"Take pretty much any instance of suffering. A child tortured, animals eating each other alive, an earthquake causing bricks to fall on people. can be made compatible with the claim that God exists and God allowed these things to happen. Seeing that both hypotheses explain the absence of such a Gods action the existence of such a God and it's divine decision making requires more assumptions that the non existence of such a God as such accompany razor enjoins us to go with the hypothesis God does not exist. Divine Silence Part 1) God neither confirms nor deniesChances are you have already encountered in your life time assertions about what God wants. Whether it be keeping slaves, denying same sex marriage, stoning homosexuals to death, denying contraception, denying woman to drive, forcing woman to cover up nearly all of their body, the torture/killing of heretics/non believers etc etc all of this and more has being justified on the basis of being the will of God and failure to comply puts one at risk of divine punishment, either in this life or the next. This is serious, in some cases this can be a matter of life and death. And yet for all these claims made and justified in the name of God, whether written down a few thousand years ago or made only yesterday your fellow human beings are quite free to pronounce loudly & often what God wants taking comfort in the knowledge that God will not contradict them and as such are free to exploit such a fact of this world. Such divine silence is what we would expect if such a God did not exist. As such I submit this as another reason to support that it is more likely that God does not exist. Divine Silence Part 2) Lack of comfort and understanding in time of need"If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? " - Matthew 7:11 KJVAustin Dacey argues. .. "A loving father who must bring their daughter to the hospital to have a painful medical treatment will explain the reasons why he does what he does. If she can't understand the reasons he will at least make sure she feels his presence and comfort and receive some assurance that there is a reason even though she can't see it right now. So there is every reason to think we especially should be aware of any justification reasons that God has. What we in fact find is that many of those who go under go terrible anguish such as holocaust survivors report feeling totally abandoned by God in their time of need. Of course many victims of disease, starvation, natural disaster die very young, having never ever believed in him" [2]Once again such divine silence is what we would expect if such a God did not exist. As such I submit this as another reason to support the position that it is more likely that God does not exist. Prayer to any God has not being shown to workThere are heaps of people who will testify that they prayed to God, and God responded to that prayer by healing them. From that itchy spot on the back of their neck to stage 4 lung cancer and everything in between. But here is the problem, if you give me say 1 billion people and we pray to the sun, and say pray over many different things over a 10 year period, as a matter of probability we are going to get alot of hits. That is to say outcomes which could be seen as answered prayer. Some people may even think this would be a good reason to believe in the healing power of the sun. .. .. .. .. .it wouldn't, this would just be confirmation bias. The same kind of confirmation bias that some religious preachers/leaders take advantage of in persuading others of their religious claims. No one can show (even with all the incentive in the world to do so, cause they want to justify they have the right religious belief/God) that praying to their God, or to God in a particular way is any more effective than praying to the Sun, or a so called imaginary/false God in this area. This is what we would expect if God did not exist. God & the best possible world (or not)Consider the following argument. .. .1) If God exists then we live in the best possible world2) More likely we don't live in the best possible worldC) Therefore more likely God does not existWikipedia explains Leibniz reasoning as such. .. "Leibniz' solution casts God as a kind of "optimizer" of the collection of all original possibilities: Since He is good and omnipotent, and since He chose this world out of all possibilities, this world must be good"in fact, this world is the best of all possible worlds. " [2]Yes you can assume that God exists and therefore the world we live in must be the best possible world, but that is just begging the question for the existence of God in the first place and not questioning if we live in the best possible world. Once again consider the misery that is being inflicted on some child. If one just one less child was not to suffer, not to suffer being drowned, or eaten alive by a lion, or death by aids or a million other things that children suffer and die from, are we to believe this was necessary in order to achieve the best possible world by such a God ? You can retreat to the mere possibility, but what about plausibility and reasonableness. Is it plausible and or reasonable too believe that we live in the best possible world ? I submit that it is not. As such since it is more likely that we DON'T live in the best possible world ergo it is more likely that God does not exist. Moral ParalysisIf we operate on the assumption that God exists it leads to moral paralysis. Remember if God exists then unnecessary suffering does NOT exist because any and all suffering only happens if and only if God permits it. Also the suffering that God permits only happens if it is logically necessary for an adequate compensating good. Should we release child rapists from prison ? should we cease to prevent by force those who would rape and torture children ? informing then we are sorry, we didn't realize that the suffering they caused was a necessary condition to bring about a greater good. "Many babies each year are born with Down's syndrome. Most of these babies, with normal paediatric care, will grow up healthy. A significant number, however, have intestinal obstructions that will kill them if they do not receive an operation. Without the operation, dehydration and infection will cause these babies to wither and die over a period of hours and days. Today this operation is relatively simple, but not long ago these babies could not be saved . . . This baby (one born in the past with this) suffers for days, then dies. " [4]Should we seek to stop any and all medical treatment to children because their suffering is necessary to bring about a greater good ? Of course we won't. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .well most of us. It is more consistent to combat suffering if you operate on the presupposition that unnecessary suffering does exist. But this can only be the case if God does not exist. I look forward to Cons reply. Sources[1] . http://en.wikipedia.org...[2] [3] . http://en.wikipedia.org...[4] God? Debate between a Christian and an Atheist, William lane Craig and Walter Sinnott Armstrong, 2004, Oxford University Press, p84.