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Essay / Analysis of being an atheist by HJ Mccloskey
In today's culture, the idea that there is a perfect, divine designer who created the earth and all that entails, really repels people. Not only is this idea contradictory in today's culture. This has been particularly trivial in recent decades, as HJ McCloskey attests. McCloskey wrote an article about this called “Being Atheist,” which attempts to defeat the idea that God exists. McCloskey first addresses the reader of the article and says that the arguments he is about to address are merely "evidence" that no theist should trust. He then analyzes the two arguments that he believes can actually be addressed, the cosmological and teleological argument. McCloskey also addresses the problem of evil, free will, and why atheism is more comforting than theism. In the article "On Being an Atheist" by HJ McCloskey, the author first says that these arguments for theism are only "evidence" and cannot be used. be truly proven. However, some things cannot be explained and therefore an individual can use "the best explanatory approach". This approach suggests that since some situations cannot be explained, it can be said that this situation could possibly be caused by God. These things that cannot be explained, such as the emergence of language in civilizations or the idea of an atom that we can neither see nor touch. McCloskey also discusses the cosmological argument and how it can be refuted in his article. In the article “On Being an Atheist,” McCloskey explains why there does not have to be a cause for the universe and how it began. But, according to the book "Philosophy of Religion", by Evans and Manis, both authors suggest the idea of ...... middle of article ...... who are we then, in as humans, morally responsible? In conclusion, McCloskey attempted to defeat the cosmological and teleological argument and attempted to persuade readers to adopt the point of view of atheism. That there is no God and that this life is the only life a person can have. He tried to influence people by asking them why a perfect God created an imperfect world. Or why didn't God make humans automatically choose the right decision, so they could avoid suffering? However, at the end of the day, even though his arguments are strong and he made some very reasonable points. The fact remains that there must be something outside that created the universe and made us complex beings. This same being must be capable of giving man the choice to make his own decision, even if it was the wrong one. There is only one possible being that could do this and that is none other than God.