ABSTRACT

This chapter analyzes several major arguments for god and utilizes seven logical rules of rationality, illustrates how to apply this re-organized Rationalist atheology. Rationalist atheology acknowledges the obvious fact that most adults around the world display the capacity for basic common sense inference and simple reasoning. Mystery arguments basically propose that since deep mystery is encountered, it is reasonable to believe in god. An ontological argument for god proposes that one highly specific god must be real—that god which is conceived as having some sort of essential characteristic for necessarily existing. A creation argument for a supernatural god should instead try to infer the existence of a supernatural god from the existence of all possible nature. A design argument for god proposes that a creator god is responsible for our universe's structure as understood by natural knowledge. Supernaturalism proposes that the best explanation for revelations about a god is that a supernatural god is actually real.