The Impossibility of God

By: Michael Martin (Editor), Ricki Monnier (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 December 2003 | Edition Number 1

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Most people, believers and nonbelievers alike, are unfamiliar with the variety and force of arguments for the impossibility of God. Yet over recent years a growing number of scholars have been formulating and developing a series of increasingly powerful arguments that the concept of God, as variously understood by the world's major religions and leading theologians, is contradictory in many ways, and therefore God does not and cannot exist.
This unique anthology brings together for the first time most of the important arguments for the impossibility of God that have been published. The collection includes papers and book selections by J. L. Mackie, Quentin Smith, Theodore Drange, Michael Martin, and many other distinguished scholars. The editors provide a general introduction and brief summaries of the arguments to help the reader grasp the crucial issues involved. Both students and teachers of philosophy and the philosophy of religion will find this anthology to be an indispensable resource.

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Preface	p. 11
Introduction	p. 13
Definitional Disproofs of the Existence of God
Introduction	p. 17
Can God's Existence Be Disproved?	p. 19
God's Non-Existence: A Reply to Mr. Rainer and Mr. Hughes	p. 27
Proving the Non-Existence of God	p. 31
Can an Ancient Argument of Carneades on Cardinal Virtues and Divine Attributes Be Used to Disprove the Existence of God?	p. 35
God and Moral Autonomy	p. 45
Deductive Evil Disproofs of the Existence of God
Introduction	p. 59
Evil and Omnipotence	p. 61
The Problem of Evil	p. 73
Plantinga on the Free Will Defense	p. 97
A Sound Logical Argument from Evil	p. 106
Unjustified Evil and God's Choice	p. 116
Doctrinal Disproofs of the Existence of God
Introduction	p. 125
The Paradox of Eden	p. 127
A Moral Argument for Atheism	p. 129
Miracles as Evidence Against the Existence of God	p. 147
Miracles and God: A Reply to Robert A. H. Larmer	p. 154
The Argument from Unfairness	p. 167
Multiple Attributes Disproofs of the Existence of God
Introduction	p. 181
Incompatible-Properties Arguments: A Survey	p. 185
Omniscience and Immutability	p. 198
Omniscience, Eternity, and Time	p. 210
On the Compossibility of the Divine Attributes	p. 220
A Disproof of the God of the Common Man	p. 232
Conflicts between the Divine Attributes	p. 242
Why God Cannot Think: Kant, Omnipresence, and Consciousness	p. 258
God and the Best Possible World	p. 274
Agency and Omniscience	p. 282
The Incompatibility of Omniscience and Intentional Action: A Reply to David P. Hunt	p. 300
The Paradox of Divine Agency	p. 313
Single Attribute Disproofs of the Existence of God
Introduction	p. 323
The Concept of the Supernatural	p. 326
The Paradox of Omnipotence	p. 330
The Paradox of Omnipotence Revisited	p. 337
Against Omniscience: The Case from Essential Indexicals	p. 349
Is Omniscience Possible?	p. 379
Logic and Limits of Knowledge and Truth	p. 381
The Being That Knew Too Much	p. 408
Of the Confused and Contradictory Ideas of Theology	p. 423
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