Mccloskey On Atheism

The author H.J. McCloskey exposes in his article "On being an atheist" several arguments to have the reason on the atheism, which uses as a source of justification the decision of presentations made by people who support the existence that everything was created by a Creator (God). Objections begin as a means of arguments called summary evidence and indicate that God exists by providing security. The focus is based on real elements and events. The expressions of human religiosity manifest the conviction that there is a creator God, on whom the world and the existence depend. If it is true that polytheism has accompanied many phases of human history, it is also true that the deepest dimension of human religiosity and philosophical wisdom have
But if it starts to exist, it cannot have appeared from anywhere and from nowhere; nothing, produce nothing. It is necessary to accept first that the universe is contingent then, to the cosmological argument affirming that the universe is necessary for itself, and therefore does not need a creator. It is always interesting to see how they try to renew the arguments that defend the Christian vision of the world, however, it seems that by this time referring to scientific knowledge does not collaborate with that objective, at least not before a more rigorous analysis. "Cosmological argument" would be an argument that deals with issues related to the universe, but in practice, we use it to refer to a specific hypothesis: that the existence of the universe demonstrates the existence of God. "Most theists do not come to believe in God as a basis for religious belief, but as a result of other reasons and factors," (McCloskey, 62). Thus, it has not always been easy to separate cosmology from "apologetics," that is, the doctrine that tries to demonstrate that existence of God. When we speak of "the cosmological argument", we refer generally to one of the apologetic arguments par
The finitude and the constant dynamism of creation allow us to understand some 'ills' of the world. God creates a world in change. A world in which creatures can move actively and freely towards perfection. This implies that numerous beings give way, in one way or another, to the existence of new or similar ones. So that this "evil" is not properly an evil, are stages that the creation experiences by design of God. Evil then began to act in the world when the first human beings were incited to rebel against God. And the evil begins here, begins by displacing God, begins when the human being, taking the place of God, decides what is good and what is bad, decides to be the engine of his life. One of the most important principles of God's work in the process of our education is to give us enough free will, that is, the right to choose one's own path in life. If God does not exist, both man and the universe are inevitably condemned to death. The human being, like all biological organisms, must die. Without the hope of immortality, the life of a man leads only to the grave. His life is not if not a spark in the infinite darkness, a spark that is born, flashes, and dies forever. The absurd thing is that there are people who need a god to make sense of their lives. When one is at the hand of God, it