Essay: 10 problems for atheists

Below are 10 big problem facing the atheist worldview held by most atheists in the Western World:

1. "Why is there something rather than nothing?"/origin of the universe

See:

• Atheism and the origin of the universe

• The universe is finely tuned for life

• Cosmological argument

• The sun is not an average star

• Anthropic principle

2. Uniqueness of earth (See: Privileged Planet)

3. Origin of life

4. Origin of the various types of plants and animals (see: Evolution and Creation science).

5. Origin of consciousness

The atheist worldview cannot explain the existence of consciousness and the theistic worldview can offer a reasonable explanation (see also: Atheism and irrationality).

• The Argument from Consciousness for the Existence of God

• Consciousness: One of Atheism's Irresolvable Problems

6. Existence of logic (see: Atheism and logic and Atheism and presuppositional apologetics).

7. The evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ (see: Historicity of Jesus and Christian apologetics and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and Christian legal apologetics).

8. When you compare the history of atheism vs. history of Christendom, Christianity has had a very beneficial effect on humanity, while atheism has had a negative impact on humanity.

See:

• History of atheism

• Atheism and mass murder

• Atheism statistics

• What if Jesus had never been born?

• Triumph of the Gospel of Love by Themistocles Adamopoulo

• Protestant cultural legacies

• Christianity and science

• Atheism and science

• Atheism and historical revisionism

• Atheism and historical illiteracy

• Christianity statistics

9. Atheism cannot account for morality

See:

• Atheism and morality

• Moral failures of the atheist population

• Objective morality

• Atheism and presuppositional apologetics

• Religion and morality

• Religion and crime reduction

10. Most atheists are evolutionists and secular leftists (see also: Atheism and politics).

Secular leftism/progressivism has the narrative that human society is moving in a positive direction and making progress. According to this narrative, religion will pass away (see: Secularization thesis).

However, since the 1970s, religion and religious conservatism/fundamentalism has seen a surge in prevalence and irreligion/atheism has seen a decline in global market share (see: Desecularization and Global atheism statistics and Growth of evangelical Christianity).

In the 21st century, for a number of reasons, this trend is expected to continue and impact the Western World (see: Growth of global desecularization and Causes of desecularization).

In addition, please see: Atheism vs. Christianity

See also

• Rebuttals to atheist arguments