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==Criticism==

==Criticism==

===Atheism and Logic===

===Atheism and the universal negative ===

[[Image:Bible_Const2.jpg‎|thumb|225px|right|Dr. [[D. James Kennedy]]]]

[[Image:Bible_Const2.jpg‎|thumb|225px|right|Dr. [[D. James Kennedy]]]]

[[D. James Kennedy|Dr. D. James Kennedy]] wrote the following regarding the illogicality of atheism:

[[D. James Kennedy|Dr. D. James Kennedy]] wrote about the impossibility of proving the key plank of Atheism, the non-existence of God:

{{cquote|Atheism is what is called a "[[universal negative]]." One of the laws of logic is that you can't prove a universal negative....You would have to examine every part of the universe....

{{cquote|Atheism is what is called a "[[universal negative]]." One of the laws of logic is that you can't prove a universal negative....You would have to examine every part of the universe....

By the way, you would have to be very, very fast because, who knows, this God, these angels....may be very, very fast, and just after you get somewhere, they may have left for another part of the universe.  

By the way, you would have to be very, very fast because, who knows, this God, these angels....may be very, very fast, and just after you get somewhere, they may have left for another part of the universe.  

This means that you would have to be [[omnipresent]]. You would also have to know everything about every part of the universe, so you would be [[omniscient]]. Then, just at the point when you proved that there was no God, you would also have proven that you were one.<ref>http://www.kennedycommentary.org/default.asp?pg=topicmessage&id=1419</ref>}}

This means that you would have to be [[omnipresent]]. You would also have to know everything about every part of the universe, so you would be [[omniscient]]. Then, just at the point when you proved that there was no God, you would also have proven that you were one.<ref>Kennedy, James D., [http://www.kennedycommentary.org/default.asp?pg=topicmessage&id=1419 A Universal Negative]</ref>}}

Logician [[Mortimer Adler]] concurs with Dr. Kennedy that the standard definition of atheism which attempts to prove a universal negative in regards to God's existence is a self-defeating proposition and prominent atheists such as [[Gordon Stein]] and [[Carl Sagan]] have candidly stated that God's existence cannot be disproven.<ref>http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/crj0131a.txt</ref>

Logician [[Mortimer Adler]] concurs with Dr. Kennedy that the standard definition of atheism which attempts to prove a universal negative in regards to God's existence is a self-defeating proposition and prominent atheists such as [[Gordon Stein]] and [[Carl Sagan]] have candidly stated that God's existence cannot be disproven.<ref>Samples, Kenneth R., [http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/crj0131a.txt Putting The Atheist on The Defensive] ''Christian Research Journal'', Fall 1991 & Winter 1992, page 7</ref>

===Atheism and Reasonable Argument===

===Atheism and Reasonable Argument===