Answers for Atheists and Agnostics
Introduction
- General Introduction for Non-Believers: Part 1, Are Your Beliefs Consistent with Your Worldview?
- Is God Real? Does Science Answer "Is There a God?"
- Is Christianity True? Evidence for the Truth of the Christian Religion Can religious belief be tested?
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Missing the Obvious - Have you checked your tent lately?
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- Was Jesus God? The evidence for the deity of Jesus of Nazareth
- Ultimate Atheist Challenge: I Can Design a Better Universe Than God Did! Are you an atheist who thinks the Christian God is a bad designer and that this site is lame? We want to publish your best design ideas that show how stupid we are. We double dare you! No, we triple dog dare you!
- Why Does This Site Quote So Many Bible Verses? I Don't Believe the Bible Anyway If you are an atheist intent on destroying Christianity, you must argue against the God of the Bible, not some generic god.
- What Is Christianity? - Or what it should be.
Common Criticisms
God's Character
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If God Created Everything, Who Created God?
If God can be eternal, why not the universe?
- What will happen to the people who have never heard of Jesus Christ? - Will they all burn in hell?
- What about atrocities that have been done in the name of religion? - Yes, so-called "Christians" have done evil things in the name of God. However, atheists have killed many times more people than these "Christians." Does that mean that atheism is false?
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A Loving God Would Not Send Billions of
People to Hell, Would He? - Would a loving God force people to spend eternity
with Him?- Why Would God Create a Person Who Would be Destined for Hell? - A loaded question surrounded by invalid assumptions
- Did God Commit Atrocities by Ordering the Killing of Entire Cities of People? What about all the "innocent" people God has killed?
- The Mercy of God as Found in the Old Testament - A crazy idea that the God of the Old Testament is merciful?
- Why Wouldn't God Want Adam and Eve to Have Knowledge of Good and Evil? Did God setup Adam and Eve to fail? What's wrong with knowledge?
- It Isn't Fair That God Judges People Who are Born Into Buddhist, Hindu or Other Non-Christian Homes - Then God wasn't "fair" to the author of this site!
- Why Does God Hate Amputees? Or, Why Does God Love Marshall Brain?
- Thou Shall Not Kill- Does God Violate His Own Commandment? Since God ordered the destruction of entire cities, wasn't He being a hypocrite?
- Does the Bible Say God Repents From Doing Evil? Skeptics claim that since God knows everything He should never have to repent from anything. However, the King James version clearly says that God repented. Did God really change His mind?
- If God is Jealous Doesn't That Make Him the Divine Hypocrite? - If jealousy is a sin and God is jealous, doesn't that make Him a sinner?
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God's Chosen People, the Jews: Isn't
God Unfair in Showing Such Preference? If giving preferential treatment
to a group of people is a sin, why isn't God a sinner since He chose the
Jews?
- If God is Omnipotent (All Powerful) Why Did He Need to Rest on the Seventh Day? - Would a real God really need to take a break after creating the universe?
- Did God have a wife? Asherah Worship in Israel - Yes, there really is evidence for polytheism in Israel, since the Bible says it was practiced by the Israelites.
- Prince of Peace - What Peace? - Did Jesus fail to fulfill His role as the Prince of Peace?
- God and War: What the Bible Says About the Just War Theory - Does God condone war? If so, under what circumstances?
Evil and Suffering
- There is Too Much Evil and Suffering For God to Exist? - Why moral evil fulfills the purposes of God
- Where is God When Bad Things Happen? Why Natural Evil Must Exist - Contrary to skeptical claims, nearly all "natural evil" is required for life to exist at all.
- Is it Possible for God to Provide 'Partial Free Will' and Eliminate All Evil? - A practical examination of the possibility of eliminating evil, while still allowing free will.
- Haiti Earthquake Kills Over 200,000: Where was God? Was God missing in action or was the death toll caused by human sin?
- Where was God During the World Trade Center Attack? - Wouldn't a loving God have prevented such evil?
- Southeast Asia Earthquake and Tsunami- Where was God? - Are atheistic alternatives to the earth's design reasonable?
- The Professor Teaches About Evil and Christianity - A lesson why evil is not created by God, even though God created all things.
- Did God Create Evil - Does the Bible Say So? The good old King James Version Bible says so, so it must be true!
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Original Sin - Are We Condemned by the Sin of Adam and Eve?
It obviously would not be fair if we are all condemned because of what
our ancient ancestors did.
- If God Existed, Prayer Would Have Brought World Peace? Surely a benevolent God would have granted world peace by now?
Religion is stupid
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Why
are Christians So Stupid? - Does the Bible Teach Blind Faith?
- Doesn't the Bible tell people to believe despite the evidence to the contrary?
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Religion vs. IQ - Are Religious People
Stupid? - Or is it really a question of GDP per capita vs. IQ?
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Why Didn't Albert Einstein Believe in a Personal
God? Don't get caught up in his simple logical error.
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Why are Most Scientists
Atheists If There is Evidence for Belief in God? Is their unbelief due
to their intelligence, knowledge and academic studies or other factors? - Does Analytic Thinking Threaten Belief in God?
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People of Faith - Famous Scientists
- Scientists don't really believe in God, do they?
- Scientists of the Christian Faith: A Presentation of the Pioneers, Practitioners and Supporters of Modern Science Compiled by W. R. Miller (off site)
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People of Faith - Astronauts
- Christianity Aiding the Development of Science (by Ben Clausen, off site)
- Science and Faith Associations - Yes, there are scientists today who believe in God
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Reason And Faith by Van Fisher
- God and Logic (by Craig S. Hawkins, off site)
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- God has Not Revealed Himself to Me, So He Must Not Exist
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100% Convinced vs. 100% Committed
- I cannot believe until I am 100% convinced! Do you use this standard for
everything else you believe?
Bad Christians
- Why Do Christians Lie So Much? Truth and Christianity Does Christianity teach that it is okay to lie to support one's faith?
- Why Are So Many Christians Hypocrites? If they are hypocrites, are they really Christians?
- Self-righteous Christians: Is This the Norm? The Bible says that nobody can be righteous through their own self - especially Christians.
- Why are Christians So Judgmental? Doesn't the Bible Say, "Do Not Judge" Didn't Jesus tell His disciples not to judge others?
- The Threat of Radical Christianity: Christians are Involved Too Much in Politics? Do most Christians want to establish the United States as a Christian theocracy?
- Is Christianity and the Bible Too Old-Fashioned to be Relevant in Today's Society? - donkeys, fishing nets, grinding flour with stones, dirt roads - what relevance is the Bible in today's world?
- Why are Christians So Intolerant? Wasn't Jesus All Accepting? - Are Christians really intolerant or are the people who are unwilling to grant equal freedom of expression to Christian beliefs intolerant? - the real definition of "intolerance."
Bible and Science
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False Teachings in the Bible? - Rabbits
chew the cud? Insects have four legs? The Earth is flat and square? etc... - The Bible Teaches That the Heavens Were a Solid Dome, Embedded with Stars?
- Science contradicts the biblical creation account? - Doesn't Genesis contradict modern science?
- Is the Genesis Flood Impossible?
(The Genesis Flood- Why the Bible Says It Must be Local)
- Doesn't the Bible say the flood covered the whole earth?
- Genesis 6-9 - The Flood - What the Hebrew really says
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Is the Biblical Flood Account a Modified Copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh?
- Let's compare what each account says
- People could not live 900+ years: Long Life Spans- "Adam Lived 930 Years and Then He Died"
- Out of Africa or Out of Eden: Does Science Contradict the Bible? New data suggests an explanation for the apparent contradiction.
- Origin of First Plants on Land: Bible Said It First - Land plants appeared before sea animals, as the Bible claimed.
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No Proof for the Exodus? - The potential
role of Thera and 14C dating of the destruction of Jericho
- Religion and Intelligent Design Impede Science and Close Off Inquiry? - Is the intention of intelligent design proponents to say "God did it" and stop all further scientific research?
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The Human Difference: How Humans are Unique Compared to All Other Animals
- Aren't we just advanced apes? - Mind-Body Dualism - Is the Mind Purely a Function of the Brain? - Has science has disproved the existence of the soul?
- Dinosaurs and the Bible: Why Aren't They Mentioned? - Wouldn't such awesome creatures would have been put into a creation account written by a real god?
- More science
Bible Contradictions
- Answers to Biblical "Contradictions" - What about all those passages in the Bible that contradict one another?
- Eye for an Eye or Love Thy Neighbor? Are the Messages of the Old and New Testaments Different? Doesn't the Old Testament condone retribution whereas the New Testament emphasizes love?
- Doesn't Genesis One Contradict Genesis Two? - The order of creation is different. Isn't this a contradiction?
- Where Did Cain Get His Wife?: What About Inbreeding? - How did Cain find a wife when he had just killed his only sibling. If he married a sister isn't that genetically bad and against the Bible's laws against incest?
- The Mysterious Case of the Missing Q - The existence of the hypothetical "Q" document is full of misstatements, misinterpretations, faulty logic, and factual errors. (off site)
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Was Jesus Christ just a
Copycat Savior Myth? An examination of the
claims regarding Adonis, Baal (and Hadad), Marduk, Osiris, Tammuz/Dumuzi,
Melquart, Eshmun, Mithras, Dionysos, Isis/Osirus, Buddha, Krishna, Indra,
Thor, Horus, etc. by
Glenn Miller,
Christian
ThinkTank (Introduction,
Part 2) - Walk Like an Egyptian: Comparing Osiris, Horus, and Jesus by James Patrick Holding, Tekton Apologetics Ministries.
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Mithras by Mark McFall. Examines the assertion that Christianity
borrowed the resurrection myth from Mithra.
- Accept No Imitations: Did the Stories of Apollonius of Tyana Influence the Gospels? by J. P. Holding. More copycat myths.
- God
Invented in the Image of Man?
- Mankind does invent gods, but they are permissive and non-judgmental,
not like the God of Christianity.
- No Evidence of a Spiritual Realm? - The presence of pervasive evil as an argument for the existence of the supernatural.
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Nothing Unique About the Teachings of Jesus Christ?
- The radical teachings of Jesus Christ
- Atheism Test - Is strong atheism based solely on logic and knowledge?
Objections to Christianity
- God of the Gaps - Do All Christian Apologetics Fall Into This Kind of Argument? - A survey of arguments reported to support the existence of God and whether they are just due to a lack of scientific knowledge.
- Invisible Pink Unicorns, Santa Claus and God - Since we cannot detect God's existence, can't we automatically assume no god exists?
- Isn't the Size of the Universe Too Large to Have Been Created by God for Humanity? Why didn't God create just one star and one planet?
- Is Christianity anti-Environmental? - "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it." It is only on loan from God...
- Global Warming: Will Human-Induced Climate Change Destroy the World? Why are all the wacky Christians denying global warming? Maybe they just don't know? Global Warming Myths
- Questions on Salvation - Is Jesus necessary? What is this gospel stuff?
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All Religions Lead to God? Can One Discern
the True Religion? - Can religious truth be discerned or are we
relegated to being unable to choose?
- Does God command wives to obey their husbands? by Glenn Miller (Christian ThinkTank)
- Racism in the Bible? - Doesn't the Bible condone racism and segregation?
- Does God Approve of Slavery According to the Bible? Contrary to the claims of skeptics, selling a person into slavery was punishable by death in the Old Testament
- Sexism in the Bible? Doesn't the Bible demean women and treat them as second class humans?
- Is God Male? What Does the Bible Say? - Isn't God a little old man who has male sexual organs?
- Anti-Semitism in Mel Gibson's Movie The Passion- Is the Bible Anti-Semitic? Who is really to blame for the death of Jesus?
- Harmonization of the Gospel Resurrection Texts by Anne A. Kim
- What Happened Resurrection Morning? - reconciling the four gospel accounts in a narrative style.
- Evidences for the Resurrection from Biblical Studies Foundation
- Parallel Gospels in Harmony with study guide by David A. Reed - Can the gospel accounts be read as one comprehensive account?
- Robert H. Stein, "Was the Tomb Really Empty?" Themelios 5.1 (1979): 8-12.
- Taking the "Jesus Puzzle" Apart Piece-By-Piece - A chapter by chapter rebuttal of Earl Doherty's book.
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The "Gospel of Judas": National Geographic
Attacks Christianity With Biased "Research" - the National
Geographic's unscholarly attempt to promote the "Gospel of Judas"
manuscript as an authentic early Christian document
- Gnosticism and the Gnostic Jesus - What about all those other "Christian" writings from the 4th century? Why were they rejected by the church? (off site) (Part 2)
- Jesus as Θεος: Scriptural Fact or Scribal Fantasy? By Brian Wright - The original Bible didn't say Jesus was God, did it?
Common atheist's myths
- There is No Fine Tuning of the Universe - Victor Stenger's attempt to explain away fine tuning requires an even finer tuning of inflation.
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The Universe Just Created Itself
Out of Nothing - Why Stephen Hawking is wrong
about God not creating the universe.
- Atheists have Proven God Does Not Exist. Right? - Only if that god is not the God of the Bible
- Religion is the Cause of All (Most) of the World's Problems - Religion is not even close to being the leading cause suffering in the world. In fact, atheists have been responsible for most of it within the last 100 years.
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Are Most Wars the Result of
Religious Belief? - Religion is implicated in less than 7% of all
wars over the entire written history of mankind.
- Is Christianity a Made-up Myth Written by the Disciples? - Now really - would the disciples write about all their shortcomings, make the Christian church into a female, design heaven with no sex in it, and say that they were going to be married to Jesus in heaven? I don't know about you guys, but this is not what I would have written if I had made up the Bible!
- Paul Invented Christianity? Is the Founder of the Christian Religion Paul of Tarsus or Jesus of Nazareth? All Paul's core teachings were also taught by Jesus and the disciples, and are even found in the Old Testament.
- Did Jesus exist? By Bart D. Ehrman. Even agnostic anti-theist Bart Ehrman says that Jesus really lived in the first century. The "Christ myth" belief is really an atheistic myth.
- Misquoting Jesus: Does Bart Ehrman Prove the New Testament is Corrupt? - Contrary to Ehrman's claims, the New Testament canon was established in the early second century, and scribal errors/changes did not affect any significant Christian doctrine.
- The Christian Church Was Never Really Persecuted - Were all the reported persecutions of Christians were made up by the Christian church?
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The Bible Has Been Changed Over the
Centuries From the Original?
- Sorry, the manuscript evidence doesn't support this idea at all.
- Jesus Christ as God and the Trinity Was Not Invented Until the Fourth Century? Contrary to the claims of The Da Vinci Code, even secular sources indicate that Christians worshipped Jesus Christ as God no later than 113 A.D.
- Are the Old Testament Laws a Copy of the Code of Hammurabi? - Not even close!
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Is the Biblical Flood Account a Modified Copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh?
- Let's compare what each account says
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This Joyful Eastertide: A Critical Review of The Empty Tomb (2006) -
Has the resurrection been proven false? (2.7 MB
) - The Universe Just Happened Without Any Need For a Designer - For all those who expect to win at lotto!
- There is No Evidence For the Fine Tuning of the Universe - The cosmological constant (dark energy) shows this belief to be false
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"The Lost Tomb of Jesus": Have the
Bones of Jesus Christ Been Found? Only if Jesus had his ossuary
inscribed when He was 2 years old!
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Omnipotence
is Logically Impossible?
Atheists attempt to define God out of existence through illogical
arguments
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The Universe is Eternal
- Contrary to atheist's claims, the majority of scientists state as
fact that the universe had a beginning.
- Only Stupid People Believe in God - A large number of famous scientists believed in God, many being devout Christians
- The Roman Catholic Church's Condom Policy is Responsible For the Spread of HIV and the AIDS Crisis in Africa - Actually, HIV infection rates are lower in Catholic-dominated countries!
- The Myth of the Flat Earth by Jeffrey Burton Russell - The "history" that Christians taught a flat earth was not invented until the 19th century. (off site)
- The Bible Says Hell is a Place Located Under the Earth - Skeptics don't cite the verses that clearly show that those "hell" verses really refer to the grave. Yes, the grave is under the earth!
- People are Basically Good - Proof to the Contrary
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Jesus didn't really die on the Cross?
- The old swoon theory doesn't hold up to historical/medical reality.
- Hitler was a Christian? - This seems like a no brainer, but there are free-thinkers who think he was. (off site)
- Jesus and Adolf Hitler - The new (and improved?) German Jesus (off site)
- Are Atheists and Theists Morally Equivalent? Aren't atheists morally superior to theists?
- Atheism Doesn't Lead to Immoral Behavior - Or Does It? In theory it doesn't, but in practice...
- Does Atheism (Determinism) Negatively Impact Morality? - Scientists manipulate belief in determinism, which negatively influences moral behavior
- Atheism and Humanism Provide Hope for the Future - The ultimate "hope" of atheism is eternal entropy as the universe loses all ability to perform work, and all life, consciousness, and knowledge is eternally destroyed.
- The Gospels Are So Contradictory They Make No Sense - Every gospel verse arranged as one comprehensive account of the ministry of Jesus.
- The Bible Teaches a Flat Earth Covered by a Solid Dome
- Did God have a wife named Asherah? - Yes, Asherah was worshipped in Israel, but she wasn't God's wife - we are.
- Book Review: The Evolution of God by Robert Wright - Is Wright right about God being a minor deity who rose to power later?
- Teaching Religion to Children is a Form of Child Abuse? Dawkins's hypothesis is falsified.
- Debunking Dawkins: The God
Delusion
- Debunking Dawkins: The God Delusion Chapter 1: A deeply religious non believer - Deception, lies, and misrepresentations.
- Debunking Dawkins: The God Delusion Chapter 2: The God Hypothesis - Failure to support debunked assertions, quoting out-of-context, and a desire to escape moral accountability.
- Debunking Dawkins: The God Delusion Chapter 4: Why There Almost Certainly Is No God - Richard Dawkins' Ultimate Boeing 747 argument is shown to be formally fallacious.
No Evidence of the Supernatural?
- The Power of Atheism to Change Lives - Crazy title, isn't it?
- Scientific Evidence for Answered Prayer - Double blind, scientific studies validate the efficacy of Christian intercessory prayer.
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Prayer and Faith vs. Doctors and
Medicine
- Why Won't God Heal Amputees? Did Jesus perform miracles or were they just made-up myths?
- Prayer for Healing: What Does Science Say? Before and after measurements of the effect of prayer on visual and auditory healing.
- Scientific Studies that Show a Positive Effect of Religion on Health - Public and private religious activities significantly improve health and extend longevity in dozens of scientific studies.
- No Evidence of a Spiritual Realm?
- The presence of evil as an argument for the existence of the
supernatural.
- A Case of Demonic Possession By Richard E. Gallagher, M.D.
- Testimony of Darrell Scott before the House Judiciary Committee - The testimony of the father of Rachel Scott, one of the victims of the Columbine High School shooting.
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Why Do You Fear Death? If we
are just animals and there is no afterlife, why should you fear
death?... unless Christianity is true and judgment awaits.
- Near death, explained—New science is shedding light on what really happens during out-of-body experience—with shocking results - I have been a skeptic for quite a while. However, it seems pretty clear that NDE's are more than just a brain deprived of oxygen. (offsite)
- Authenticity of the Bible
- Archeology and the Bible
More Resources
- Recommended Resources-Books- Apologetics - Sources of more information.
- More Questions: Science and the Bible Forum - A quarterly open forum where you can bring your best questions to stump us dumb Christians!
- Apologetics Links - Yes there are other rational Christian sites all over the Web.
- Bogus and Refuted 'Christian' Apologetics - Don't believe everything you see on "Christian" sites.
- New Age Spirituality - An Examination of Beliefs
- Book Review: The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief - Does Francis Collins present compelling evidence for belief in a personal God?
- Book Review: Why We Believe What We
Believe: Uncovering Our Biological Need for Meaning, Spirituality, and Truth
by Andrew Newburg
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