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EMPIRICAL DISPROOFS OF GOD

1. COSMOLOGICAL DISPROOFS

2. TELEOLOGICAL DISPROOFS

3. EVIDENTIAL EVIL DISPROOFS

4. NONBELIEF DISPROOFS  

  

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1. COSMOLOGICAL DISPROOFS

Disproof from the contingency of the universe 

Nicholas Everitt,

"The Argument from Imperfection: A New Proof of the Nonexistence of God,"
Philo 9, no. 2 (2006): 113-30

https://philarchive.org/archive/EVETAF-3

Disproof from relativistic cosmology

Quentin Smith,
“Atheism, Theism, and Big Bang Cosmology,”
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 69 (1991): 48-65
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbabillity of God (2006), pp. 41-60

www.infidels.org/library/modern/quentin_smith/cosmology.html

Quentin Smith,
“A Defense of the Cosmological Argument for God’s Nonexistence,”
W.L.Craig &Q.Smith(eds.),Theism, Atheism,& BigBang Cosmology (1993), pp.232-55
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 61-81

www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198263838.001.0001/acprof-9780198263838-chapter-9

Disproofs from quantum cosmology

Quentin Smith,
“Stephen Hawking’s Cosmology and Theism,”
Analysis 54 (1994): 236-43
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 86-93

www.infidels.org/library/modern/quentin_smith/hawking.html

Quentin Smith,
“Why Stephen Hawking’s Cosmology Precludes a Creator,”
Philo 1, no. 1 (1998): 75-93
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 94-106

https://philarchive.org/archive/SMIWSH-5

Victor J. Stenger,
“A Scenario for a Natural Origin of our Universe,”
a slightly shorter version of Philo 9, no. 2 (2006): 93-102

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0710/0710.3137.pdf

Lawrence M. Krauss,
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing (2012)

https://ia800403.us.archive.org/19/items/lawrence-m-krauss-a-universe-from-nothing/lawrence-m-krauss-a-universe-from-nothing.pdf

 

Stephen Hawking,

"Is There a God?"

Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions (2018), Ch. 1

https://ia903405.us.archive.org/5/items/brief-answers-to-the-big-questions/Brief%20Answers%20to%20the%20Big%20Questions.pdf 


Disproofs from the laws of physics

Victor J. Stenger,
"The Laws of the Void,"
Has Science Found God? (2003), pp. 187-218

Victor J. Stenger,
The Comprehensible Cosmos: Where Do the Laws of Physics Come From? (2006)

www.scribd.com/doc/90584308

Victor J. Stenger,
"Cosmic Evidence,"
God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007), Ch. 4

https://ia800309.us.archive.org/23/items/others_201401/Stenger%20-%20God%20The%20Failed%20Hypothesis.pdf

 

2. TELEOLOGICAL DISPROOFS

Anthropic disproofs

Nicholas Everitt,

"Arguments from Scale,"
The Non-Existence of God (2004), pp. 213-26
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 111-24

https://ia803006.us.archive.org/33/items/NicholasEverittTheNonExistenceOfGod/Nicholas%20Everitt%20The%20Non%20Existence%20of-God.pdf  

Victor J. Stenger,
"The Anthropic Coincidences: A Natural Explanation,”
The Skeptical Intelligencer 3, no. 3 (1999): 2-17
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 125-49

www.talkreason.org/articles/coincidence.cfm

Michael Ikeda and Bill Jefferys,
“The Anthropic Principle Does Not Support Supernaturalism,”
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 150-66

http://quasar.as.utexas.edu/anthropic.html

Design disproofs

Wesley C. Salmon,
“Religion and Science: A New Look at Hume's Dialogues,”
Philosophical Studies 33 (1978): 143-76,
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 167-93

www.jstor.org/stable/4319203

Michael Martin,

“Atheistic Teleological Arguments,”
Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (1990), pp. 317-33
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp.198-214

https://ia803006.us.archive.org/2/items/Ath3ismAPhilosophic4l/Atheism_%20A%20Philosophical%20Justification%20%28complete%20copy%29%20%28%20PDFDrive.com%20%29.pdf

Richard Dawkins,
"The Improbability of God,"
Free Inquiry 18, no. 3 (1998): 6-9
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God, pp. 223-29

https://richarddawkins.net/2014/06/the-improbability-of-god

Bruce and Francis Martin,
"Neither Intelligent nor Designed,"
Skeptical Inquirer 27, no. 6 (2003): 45-49
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 215-22

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2003/11/neither-intelligent-nor-designed 
  

Raymond D. Bradley,
"God, Design, and Evolution: A Teleological Argument for Atheism" (2003)

www.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/philosophy/docs/bradley/design_by_god.pdf

 

Daniel C. Dennett,

"Atheism and Evolution,"

Michael Martin (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Atheism (2007), Ch. 8

https://dl.tufts.edu/pdfviewer/6m312154r/xp68kt351

 

Victor J. Stenger,

"The Illusion of Design,"
God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007), Ch. 2

https://ia800309.us.archive.org/23/items/others_201401/Stenger%20-%20God%20The%20Failed%20Hypothesis.pdf

 

Jerry A. Coyne,

"Does Evolution Improve Theology?" (2010)
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/does-evolution-improve-theology

Abby Hafer,
The Not-So-Intelligent Designer (2015)

www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1hd1807 

Disembodied mind disproofs

Steven J. Conifer,
“Mind-Brain Dependence as Twofold Support for Atheism” (2001)

www.infidels.org/library/modern/steven_conifer/mbd.html

Jeffrey Jay Lowder,
“The Evidential Argument from Physical Minds” (2012)

www.patheos.com/blogs/secularoutpost/2012/06/the-evidential-argument-from-physical-minds.apm

3. EVIDENTIAL EVIL DISPROOFS

Evidential natural evil disproofs

Eric Russert Kraemer,
“Darwin’s Doubts and the Problems of Animal Pain,”
Between the Species 3 (August 2003)

http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1058&context=bts

Quentin Smith,
"An Atheological Argument from Evil Natural Laws,"
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 29 (1991): 159-74
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 235-49

www.infidels.org/library/modern/quentin_smith/evil_laws.html

Robert Francescotti,
"The Problem of Animal Pain and Suffering,"
J.McBrayer & D.Howard-Snyder (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to the Problem of Evil (2013), pp. 113-27

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118608005.ch8/summary

William L. Rowe,

“The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism,”
American Philosophical Quarterly 16 (1979): 335-41
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 250-61

http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~ekremer/resources/William%20Rowe.pdf

William L. Rowe,

“Evil and Theodicy,”
Philosophical Topics 16, no. 2 (1988):119-32
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 262-74

www.jstor.org/stable/43154030

William L. Rowe,

“The Evidential Argument from Evil: A Second Look,”
D. Howard-Snyder (ed.), The Evidential Argument from Evil (1996), pp. 262-85
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 275-301

William L. Rowe,

“Reply to Plantinga,”
Nous 32 (1998): 545-52
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 302-10

www.jstor.org/stable/2671875

Robert Bass,
"Many Inscrutable Evils,"
Ars Disputandi 11 (2011): 118-32

www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15665399.2011.10820061

Robert Bass,
"Inscrutable Evils: Still Numerous, Still Relevant,"
International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 75 (2014): 379-84

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21692327.2015.1008024#abstract

Andrea M. Weisberger,
"The Pollution Solution: A Critique of Dore's Response to the Argument from Evil,"
Sophia 36 (1997): 53-74

http://infidels.org/library/modern/andrea_weisberger/pollution.html

Andrea M. Weisberger,
"The Non-Concessionary Solutions: Natural Evil” and "The Final Solution,"
Suffering Belief (1999), pp. 101-24, 209-32

Nathan Nobis,
"The Real Problem of Infant and Animal Suffering,”
Philo 5, no. 2 (2002): 216-25

www.academia.edu/823789/The_real_problem_of_infant_and_animal_suffering

G. S. Paul,
"Theodicy’s Problem: A Statistical Look at the Holocaust of the Children and the Implications of Natural Evil for the Free Will and Best of All Possible Worlds Hypotheses,"
Philosophy & Theology 19 (2007): 125–49

http://gregspaul.webs.com/Philosophy&Theology.pdf

Paul Draper,
“God and Evil: A Philosophical Inquiry” (2011)

http://philreligion.nd.edu/assets/44795

David Kyle Johnson,
"Natural Evil and the Simulation Hypothesis,"
Philo 14, no. 2 (2011): 161-75

www.simulation-argument.com/johnson.pdf

Moti Mizrahi,
"The Problem of Natural Inequality: A New Problem of Evil,"
Philosophia 42 (2014): 127-36

http://philpapers.org/archive/MIZTPO

Robert Bass,
"Modal Evil and Divine Necessity" (2015)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Z66YKTauRBQnp4dl80OExMSUk/view?resourcekey=0-gtaC2KSmtz_Oy3KV7vNCzA

 

Jeff Jordan,

"Evil and Divine Sovereignty,"

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 88, no. 3 (2020): 273-86

www.researchgate.net/publication/340560764_Evil_and_divine_sovereignty

 

Luis Oliveira,

"Vagueness and the Problem of Evil: A New Reply to van Inwagen,"

ManuscritoRevista Internacional de Filosofia 44, no. 4 (2021): 49-82

https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=OLIVAT&aid=OLIVATv1


Evidential moral evil disproofs

Andrea M. Weisberger,
"Depravity, Divine Responsibility and Moral Evil: A Critique of a New Free Will Defence,"
Religious Studies 31 (1995): 375-90

http://infidels.org/library/modern/andrea_weisberger/depravity.html

Andrea M. Weisberger,
"Moral Evil and Soulmaking,”
Suffering Belief (1999), pp. 125-62, 163-207

 

Joel Thomas Tierno,

“On the Alleged Connection between Moral Evil and Human Freedom,”
Sophia 40, no. 2 (2001): 1-6

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02782382

Joel Thomas Tierno,

“On the Alleged Connection between Moral Evil and Human Freedom: Response to Nagasawa and Trakakis,”
Sophia 43, no. 1 (2004): 115-26

https://slideheaven.com/on-the-alleged-connection-between-moral-evil-and-human-freedom-response-to-nagas.html

Joel Thomas Tierno,

“On the Alleged Connection between Moral Evil and Human Freedom: A Response to Trakakis' Second Critique,”
Sophia 45, no. 2 (2006): 131-38

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02782488

Joel Thomas Tierno,

“On the Alleged Connection between Moral Evil and Human Freedom: A Response to Trakakis' Third Critique,”
Sophia 47, no. 2 (2008): 223-30

https://slideheaven.com/on-the-alleged-connection-between-moral-evil-and-human-freedom-a-response-to-tra.html

 

Louise Antony,

"Good Minus God,"

The New York Times (Dec. 18, 2011)

https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/AntonyGoodMinusGod2011.pdf

 

Bruce Russell,

"The Problem of Evil and Replies to Important Responses,"

European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 10, no. 3 (2018): 105-31

https://philpapers.org/archive/RUSTPO-86.pdf

 

Stephen Maitzen,

"Normative Objections to Theism,"

G. Oppy (ed.), A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy (2019), pp. 204-15

https://philosophy.acadiau.ca/files/sites/philosophy/resources/documents/Maitzen_NOTT.pdf

 

John Loftus (ed.),

God and Horrendous Suffering (2021)


Evidential epistemic evil disproofs

Joel Thomas Tierno,

Epistemic Evil: A Third Problem of Evil (2007)

4. NONBELIEF DISPROOFS

Disproofs from widespread nonbelief

Theodore M. Drange,
"The Argument from Nonbelief,"
Religious Studies 29 (1993): 417-32
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 341-56

http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Drange-The-Argument-from-Non-Belief.pdf

Theodore M. Drange,
Nonbelief and Evil: Two Arguments for the Nonexistence of God (1998)

Theodore M. Drange,
“McHugh’s Expectations Dashed,”
Philo 5 (2002): 242-48
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 357-61

www.pdcnet.org/collection/show?id=philo_2002_0005_0002_0242_0248&file_type=pdf

Victor Cosculluela,
“Bolstering the Argument from Nonbelief,”
Religious Studies 32 (1996): 507-12
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 362-68

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=1581164

Stephen Maitzen,
“Divine Hiddenness and the Demographics of Theism,”
Religious Studies 42 (2006): 177-91

http://philosophy.acadiau.ca/tl_files/sites/philosophy/resources/documents/Maitzen_Hiddenness.pdf

Theodore M. Drange,
“The Arguments from Confusion and Biblical Defects,”
M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 369-79

www.infidels.org/library/modern/theodore_drange/confusion.html

 

Guy Axtell,

"The New Problem of Religious Luck,"

Ch. 38 in I. Church & R. Hartman (eds.),

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck (2019)
www.academia.edu/37893006/The_New_Problem_of_Religious_Luck


Disproofs from reasonable nonbelief

J. L. Schellenberg,

Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason (1993)

J. L. Schellenberg,
"An Argument for Atheism from the Reasonableness of Nonbelief,"
M. Martin & R. Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp. 390-404

J. L. Schellenberg,

"Response to Howard-Snyder,"
Canadian Journal of Philosophy 26 (1996): 455-62
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp.405-12

www.jstor.org/pss/40231958

J. L. Schellenberg,

“Divine Hiddenness Justifies Atheism,”
M.L.Peterson & R.J.VanArragon (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion (2004), pp. 30-41
Reprinted in M.Martin & R.Monnier (eds.), The Improbability of God (2006), pp.413-26

Philip Kuchar,
"God, Atheism and Incompatibility: The Argument from Nonbelief" (2001)

www.infidels.org/library/modern/philip_kuchar/anb.html

Robert P. Lovering,
“Divine Hiddenness and Inculpable Ignorance,”
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 56 (2004): 89-107

www.academia.edu/8152109/Divine_Hiddenness_and_Inculpable_Ignorance

J. L. Schellenberg,

"The Hiddenness Argument Revisited (I),"
Religious Studies 41 (2005): 201-15

https://ia803001.us.archive.org/14/items/SchellenbergTheHiddennessArgumentRevisitedI/Schellenberg-The-hiddenness-argument-revisited-I.pdf

J. L Schellenberg,
"The Hiddenness Argument Revisited (II),"
Religious Studies 41 (2005): 287-303

www.jstor.org/stable/20008599

J. L. Schellenberg,

"What Divine Hiddenness Reveals, or How Weak Theistic Evidence is Strong Atheistic Proof" (2008)
www.infidels.org/library/modern/john_schellenberg/hidden.html

J. L. Schellenberg,

"The Sounds of Silence Stilled: A Reply to Jordan on Hiddenness" (2008)
www.infidels.org/library/modern/john_schellenberg/silence-stilled.html

J. L. Schellenberg,

"The Hiddenness Problem and the Problem of Evil,"
Faith and Philosophy 27 (2010): 45-60

http://philpapers.org/archive/SCHTHP-5.pdf

J. L. Schellenberg,

"Divine Hiddenness,"
P.Draper &C.Talliaferro (eds.), A Companion toPhilosophy ofReligion(2010), pp.509-18

http://philpapers.org/archive/SCHDH.1.pdf

 

Daniel Linford,

"The Problems of Divine Hiddenness and Divine Inscrutability,"

in G. Oppy & J. W. Koterski (eds.), Theism and Atheism: Opposing Arguments in Philosophy (2019)

https://philpapers.org/archive/LINTPO-49.pdf

 

Aaron Rizzieri,

"How to Make the Problem of Divine Hiddenness Worse,"

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 90 (2021): 3-17

www.researchgate.net/publication/349227196_How_to_make_the_problem_of_divine_hiddenness_worse