Michael Martin

The Improbability of God

Type:: book
Date:: February 06, 2006
In:: Existentialism, Theism

A growing number of powerful arguments have been formulated by philosophers and logicians in recent years demonstrating that the existence of God is improbable. These ... » Go

The Impossibility of God

Type:: book
Date:: December 01, 2003
In:: Analytic Philosophy, Atheism, Philosophy of Language

Since 1948, a growing number of scholars have been formulating and developing a series of arguments that the concept of God — as understood by ... » Go

Atheism, Morality, and Meaning

Type:: book
Date:: October 01, 2002
In:: Metaethics, Naturalism and Scientism

Despite the pluralism of contemporary American culture, the Judaeo-Christian legacy still has a great deal of influence on the popular imagination. Thus it is not ... » Go

Michael Martin on God, Mystery, and Evil

Type:: quote
Date:: January 01, 1997
In:: Uncategorized

On most interpretations of the theistic God, He desires His creatures to love Him. However, the mystery of evil conflicts with this desire. It is ... » Go

Michael Martin on Defining Atheism

Type:: quote
Date:: January 01, 1990
In:: God

If you look up ‘atheism’ in a dictionary, you will probably find it defined as the belief that there is no God. Certainly many people understand atheism ... » Go

Michael Martin on Religious Experience

Type:: quote
Date:: January 01, 1990
In:: Uncategorized

Religious experiences are like those induced by drugs, alcohol, mental illness, and sleep deprivation: They tell no uniform or coherent story, and there is no plausible theory ... » Go

Michael Martin on the Absence of God

Type:: quote
Date:: January 01, 1990
In:: Uncategorized

Since experiences of God are good grounds for the existence of God, are not experiences of the absence of God good grounds for the nonexistence of God? ... » Go