ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at some of the counter-arguments that a humanist can make. It focuses on whether an ethics that invokes God is really in a better position than one that does not. The chapter demonstrates that it may be difficult to find a proof of God. The theist's central claim must be either that there could be no moral truths without God, or that human beings are not capable of discovering these truths without the help of God. The chapter explains the claim that there could be no moral order at all if God did not exist. The problem is this. Those who claim that there would be no moral order without God must think that the basic materials of morality, such as laws and commands, are there because they are set down by God. Thus one of the popular philosophical accounts of morality from a Christian perspective is called the divine command theory.
