Response To Mccloskey's Essay On Being An Atheist

Since the fall of mankind from the Garden of Eden people have questioned the existence of God, and today that is still relevant and a highly debated topic. There are two types of people in this world; people who believe in God’s existence and people who do not believe there is an almighty God. The people who do not believe in god justify their beliefs by asking if God does exist why is there evil still in the world? Many of these questions will never be answered until we are faced to face with our creator. Even though we we do not have a definitive answer to many of the questions we do have our own justifications for our beliefs. In the article “On being an Atheist,” H. J. McCloskey proposes multiple arguments to his fellow atheists that the God’s existence is not justifiable or sound. The main arguments McCloskey debates in his article are the Cosmological argument, the teleological argument, and the argument of design. He sums up atheistic debate with the problem of evil and how it directly serves against the existence of God. The first thing should be noticed about McCloskey’s arguments is how he claims his arguments are absolute proofs. Many of his arguments throughout this paper also imply that they can establish the case for God and shouldn’t …show more content…
William Lane Craig in his article “The Absurdity of Life without God” presents the opposite stance from McCloskey’s claim that “if life ends at the grave, then makes no difference whether one has lived as a Stalin or a saint. Since one’s destiny is ultimately unrelated to one’s behavior, you may as well live as you please” (Craig, 2008). William Lane Craig makes a huge point that without God there is no morality. There’s no purpose to life or to do anything good or act out of love. According to McCloskey and other atheist Literally life just to die with no purpose or direction except for that which is