Is it possible to prove or disprove God’s existence?Arguments for the existence of God have taken many different forms over
the centuries: the ontological, cosmological and teleological arguments;
arguments which invoke miracles, religious experience and morality; and
prudential arguments such as Pascal’s Wager. On the other hand are the
arguments against theistic belief: the traditional problem of evil; the logical
tensions between divine attributes such as omnipotence, omniscience and
eternity; and arguments from the scale of the universe.
In The Non-existence of God, Nicholas Everitt introduces and critically
assesses these arguments and examines the role that reason and knowledge
play in the debate over God’s existence. He draws on recent scientific
disputes over neo-Darwinism, the implications of ‘big bang’ cosmology, and
