by Cameron Foster

Created on: May 22, 2009   Last Updated: May 27, 2009

This essay cannot disprove God. It's not possible to disprove something which defies measurement or observation. However, we can discuss probabilities just as with Russell's teapot riddle. He supposed there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes.

He then says to prove him wrong.

Until such time as a spacecraft wastes a lot of rocket fuel to be sure, we'll have to be content realizing the odds of the teapot existing in this described orbit are exceedingly small.

In a similar sense, it will be shown the god of Hindi, Islam, and the Bible, which counts for a large percentage of all religious believers worldwide, is not real.

The religions of Islam, Judaism and Christianity each claim their Scriptures as absolute truth. Hindi is an amalgamation of earlier faiths but teaches of gods, judgment, and the like as well. It was the Hindi teachings that justified the horrible caste system in India by around 700 A.D. They believed that god or gods fixed their fate and they'd just better accept their station in life.

Christianity in particular has constructed elaborate defenses of the faith through fulfilled prophecies. Believers in Jesus say that the Bible proves their faith system true while Muslims make similar statements about the Quran.

It is not necessary to sort out the hopeless tangle of metaphorical and ambiguous prophetic claims in these documents; a far better approach is to examine what a God would have to be like to be the Supreme.

The Bible claim that God flooded the world causing the slaughter of untold millions is a heinous act of barbarism. A true God cannot and would not do such a thing. The motivation for God to supposedly do this was anger and grief at mankind's sin.

Yet, according to the biblical account God allowed the sin in the personage of Satan. In this regard, we find a Deity claiming to love us enough to send Jesus to die for us, in reality to right a wrong he committed. Since God cannot be wrong, the Bible God is false.

Islam is not any better. There would not be literally millions of terrorists around the world who are predominately Muslim if their faith didn't have something to do with it. The Quran, as with the Bible, can be interpreted many ways.

Any God that took the time to give us a book of his divine instructions would not be foolish and negligent

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