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Atheism
The statement, "There is no God", is an impossible statement for a finite being to dogmatically affirm, because it is an absolute negative, requiring infinite knowledge. The only way one could prove that there is absolutely no God, would be if one could look everywhere at once. But this ability would be reserved for a deity thus negating the original statment.
You may correctly point out that the statement "There is a God" has the same problem. The difference though, is that we theists at least admit that science can't unequivocally prove that there is a God. We admit that we have faith. Atheists usually don't admit, or perhaps don't understand, that atheism requires faith as well. Even though I do not believe that science can ultimately confirm that there is a God, I do believe that our modern scientific understanding makes theism much more credible than atheism.
For instance, the world is so complex and ordered that it would have been impossible for it to be a product of chance and random processes. Atheism is about as logical as stating, as executive director of Answers in Genesis, Ken Ham puts it, "a building came about as a result of an explosion in a brick factory." There is as certain kind of order which ALWAYS comes from intelligence. No exceptions!
When amino acids and proteins (the building blocks of DNA) are left to themselves, they have never been observed to form DNA. An outside "intelligence" is needed. Now an atheist could suggest that the reason we haven't observed amino acids and proteins forming DNA is because today's natural laws are different than the initial laws at the time of the big bang. Even if I conceded such a proposition, this only proves my first point that it is impossible for science, using it's limited methods of empirical observation (by calling science's empiricism limited, I do not conclude it is invalid) to prove atheism.
One thing that both atheists and theists can agree upon is the fact that only one of us is right. Both of us can't be wrong at the same time. This axiom, coupled with the point (mentioned above) that both atheism and theism are scientifically unverifiable, leads us to the conclusion that science is limited. Truth exists outside of science's ability to confirm or deny.
This is an important point because many atheists automatically deny the supernatural, because supernatural beings, or events, by definition, are non-repeatable or non-measureable and are therefore outside of science. But just because something is scientifically unverifiable doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. It only means that one can not be dogmatic about such things without also recognizing that such dogma is derived from faith and not empirical means. The theist does this. I'd like to see the atheist do the same.
Please understand that I do not advocate a blind faith, i.e. a faith that believes in something for absolutely no reason. I believe that a valid faith is to believe something in which can't be absolutely unequivocally confirmed, only equivocally postulated as a reasonable possibility. (See my article on logic for more detail)
Well if there's a God, why does He allow all of the suffering/evil in the world to continue?
This is a reasonable question. According to the Bible, evil is the result of the curse of sin. Genesis 3:15-19; Galatians 3:13. Therefore, evil is not the result of God, but man's actions.
Most people who are quick to ask the question of why God allows evil in the world, fail to ask why they allow themselves to perform their evil (sin) deeds.
II Peter 3:9 says, "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."
The following is a list of a few web sites that address this and other issues facing the atheist: