The Atheism Argument

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gold, water, plants, basically anything and everything on earth that has been created was made by God. These objects did not just fall out of the sky and just become being, an intelligent being had to make it.
After this large break down of the three main arguments on the existence of God, the next mission was the rebuttals to oppose the existence of God, which brings in the Atheism argument. This argument breaks down the problem of evil from the atheism point of view. The problem of evil is the problem of reconciling the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent and benevolent God with the existence of a world full of evil and suffering (Holt). Omniscient is described as the knowing of everything. Atheism argues that if God knows everything

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