Logical was probably not as good a word as “rational” here. If saying “on rational grounds” makes more sense than “on logical grounds”, feel free to replace it.
If you’re really really really interested, send me your email and I’ll try to sketch out some thoughts, but beyond what’s in the two links above I doubt anything I say will be that much more exciting than anything you’ve heard atheists say before.
There is literally no way anyone is going to be able to do this in the limitations of a blog—if you can get through Michael Martin’s “Atheism: A Philosophical Justification” you’ll know the answer. Dawkin’s “The God Belief” is shorter and easier because he uses evidence to shorten the strictly logical disproofs philosophers use.
An older and less complete, but more readable, philosophical disproof is George H Smith’s “Atheism: The Case Against God”. There are others, but of the ones I’ve read these two are the best and the most accessible, respectively.
″ I think theism is wrong. ”
I believe you are likely to be right.
“I think it can be demonstrated to be wrong on logical grounds.”
I’m really intrigued. How?
Uh oh.
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/08/religions-claim.html and http://yudkowsky.net/rational/technical , but a full argument would probably take forever, be inappropriate for this site, and have me answering religious objections until the cows came home.
Logical was probably not as good a word as “rational” here. If saying “on rational grounds” makes more sense than “on logical grounds”, feel free to replace it.
If you’re really really really interested, send me your email and I’ll try to sketch out some thoughts, but beyond what’s in the two links above I doubt anything I say will be that much more exciting than anything you’ve heard atheists say before.
There is literally no way anyone is going to be able to do this in the limitations of a blog—if you can get through Michael Martin’s “Atheism: A Philosophical Justification” you’ll know the answer. Dawkin’s “The God Belief” is shorter and easier because he uses evidence to shorten the strictly logical disproofs philosophers use. An older and less complete, but more readable, philosophical disproof is George H Smith’s “Atheism: The Case Against God”. There are others, but of the ones I’ve read these two are the best and the most accessible, respectively.
“The God Belief”? Is that a freudian slip?