Claim 9 of 9 · Case 09 · Atheism

The case for God is best made as a cumulative one, where several independent lines of evidence each raise the probability and together point the same way.

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No single argument for God is a knockdown proof, and it is a mistake to present one as if it were. The stronger approach is cumulative. The universe had a beginning. Its constants are finely tuned. Objective moral duties seem real. Consciousness resists a purely physical account. And there is a specific historical case for the resurrection of Jesus. Each can be argued on its own, each has replies, but they are independent and they converge. A theory that accounts for all of them at once is preferable to one that must explain each away separately. That convergence, not any one argument, is the weight of the case.

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  1. How cumulative cases work elsewhere

    This corrects the demand for one decisive proof and explains why answering a single argument does not settle the matter. The case is designed to be weighed as a whole.

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