An alleged philosphy professor, Peter Atterton, wrote an article for The New York Times this week entitled, “A God Problem: Perfect. All-powerful. All-knowing. The idea of the deity most Westerners accept is actually not coherent.”
Atterton has written quite a check with that headline — one that he is not able to cash. He sets the expectation that he will essentially disprove God by demonstrating that the very idea of God is logically impossible. This is, indeed, the best available tactic for atheists. Science can only show us the workings of the natural world. It can tell us nothing about what may or may not lie beyond it. God does not have to obey the laws of science as we know them, but He does have to be logically coherent. If God is like a married bachelor or a square circle, then He literally cannot exist. Atterton wants us to lump God into that category, but fails to make his case.
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