Is God Just a Human Invention? And Seventeen Other Questions Raised by the New Atheists

by Sean McDowell

As philosopher of religion William Lane Craig makes clear, the Christian will insist that we consider, not just the evil in the world, but all the evidence relevant to God’s existence, including the ontological argument for a maximally great being, the cosmological argument for a Creator of the universe, the teleological argument for an intelligent Designer of the cosmos, the noological argument for an ultimate Mind, the axiological argument for an ultimate, personally embodied Good, as well as evidence concerning the person of Christ, the historicity of the resurrection, the existence of miracles, plus existential and religious experience. When we take into account the full scope of evidence, the existence of God becomes quite probable…. Indeed, if he includes the self-authenticating witness of the Holy Spirit as part of his total warrant, then he can rightly assert that he knows that God exists, even if he has no solution to the problem of evil.4