Copies of the book, ‘The Six Ways of Atheism' by Geoffrey Berg (a graduate of Cambridge University, England) are being sent free to so far as is practicable every public library in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Republic of Ireland and to leading Universities throughout the world. It is an event unique in itself for any book to be sent free to almost every public library in the English speaking world.
On Monday 1 June Geoffrey Berg will be initiating consideration of these new disproofs of God's existence by holding press conferences (where questions will be taken) in both Great Britain and the United States of America. Geoffrey Berg will hold a press conference in London in the morning and in America he will hold a press conference in New York in the evening. Geoffrey Berg will not comment further publicly upon these disproofs of God's existence until the press conferences arranged for 1 June.
The details for the press conferences are:
Monday, 1 June 2009: Press conference in London, United Kingdom. Geoffrey Berg, the author of ‘The Six Ways of Atheism' will formally speak about his book and answer questions from the media about the book and its contents.
Venue: Conway Hall (The Library), 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL, United Kingdom.
Time: 9.15 am (British time)
Monday 1 June 2009: Press conference in New York, USA. American launch by Geoffrey Berg of his book ‘The Six Ways of Atheism'. He will answer questions from the media about the book and its contents.
Venue: American National Standards Institute (Federation A Room)
4th Floor, 25 West 43rd Street, New York 10036, USA.
Time: 7.15 pm (Eastern Standard Time)
All press and television, local and national and international are invited to attend the press conferences.
Copies of the book "The Six Ways of Atheism" by Geoffrey Berg are available either via the website (www.thesixwaysofatheism.com) or by ordering through local bookstores - price US $14.50 or UK £9.50.
SUMMARIES OF THE SIX ARGUMENTS
Argument 1: The Aggregate of Qualities Argument
1. If God exists, God must necessarily possess all of several remarkable qualities (including supreme goodness, omnipotence, immortality, omniscience, ultimate creator, purpose giver).
2. Every one of these qualities may not exist in any one entity and if any such quality does exist it exists in few entities or in some cases (e.g. omnipotence, ultimate creator) in at most one entity.
3. Therefore it is highly unlikely any entity would possess even one of these qualities.
4. There is an infinitesimal chance that any one entity (given the almost infinite number of entities in the Universe) might possess the combination of even some two of these qualities, let alone all of them.
5. In statistical analysis a merely hypothetical infinitesimal chance can in effect be treated as the no chance to which it approximates so very closely.
6. Therefore as there is statistically such an infinitesimal chance of any entity possessing, as God would have to do, all God's essential qualities in combination it can be said for all practical and statistical purposes that God just does not exist.
Argument 2: The Man And God Comprehension Gulf Argument
1. Man is finite (in time, space and power etc).
2. God if he exists is infinite (in time, space and power etc).
3. Therefore mankind cannot possibly recognise God or even know that God exists.
Argument 3: The ‘God Has No Explanatory Value' Argument
1. God if he exists must be the ultimate being and provide the answer to all our ultimate questions - otherwise he is not really God.
2. Yet even supposing as a hypothesis that God exists the questions that God was supposed to finally answer still remain (though in some cases God is substituted in the question for the Universe).
3. Therefore hypothesising God's existence is only unnecessarily adding an extra stage to such problems and has no real explanatory value.
4. Therefore according to Logic (Occam's Razor Law - ‘that entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity') we should not postulate God's existence and there is no adequate reason to suppose that God exists.
5. Therefore we should suppose that God does not exist.
Argument 4: The ‘This Is Not The Best Possible World' Argument
1. God if he exists must be omnipotent, supremely good and our ultimate creator.
2. Therefore an existent God (being supremely good and competent) would have created the best possible world (if he created anything).
3. As the world is inconsistent (between ages and people) it cannot all be the best possible world.
4. Therefore as the world is not the best possible world, God cannot exist.
Argument 5: The Universal Uncertainty Argument
1. An uncertain God is a contradiction in terms.
2. Everything in the Universe must be fundamentally uncertain about its own relationship to the Universe as a whole because there is no way of attaining such certainty.
3. Therefore even an entity with all God's other qualities cannot have the final quality of certain knowledge concerning its own relationship to the Universe as a whole.
4. Therefore God cannot exist because even any potential God cannot know for sure that it is God.
Note: Stated as a logical paradox this argument is ‘God cannot exist because God cannot know for sure that it is God'.
Argument 6: The ‘Some Of God's Defining Qualities Cannot Exist' Argument
1. God must have certain characteristic qualities (such as providing purpose to life), otherwise he would not be God.
2. But it is impossible for any entity to possess some of these qualities (such as providing purpose to life since we can find no real purpose and therefore we in practice have no ultimate purpose to our lives) that are essential to God.
3. Therefore since some of God's essential qualities (such as being the purpose provider to life) cannot possibly exist in any entity, God cannot exist.
For further information please view our special media website www.mediaatheist.com. A synopsis of Geoffrey Berg's favourite disproof of the existence of God, The Universal Uncertainty Argument, is now being posted on that website (under More Information).
Media Contact: Carl Pinel - Telephone: 0044 1298 815575 (International) 01298 815575 (UK)
Mobile - 0044 7812 407604 (International) 07812 407604 (UK)
Email: cpinel@btinternet.com
or if unavailable (during office hours) Jackie Oldham 0044 845 3032750 (International) 0845 303 2750 (UK)
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