Impossibility Arguments

In Michael Martin (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Atheism. Cambridge University Press. pp. 199--214 (2006)
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Among the most telling atheistic arguments are those to the effect that the existence of any being that meets standard divine specifications is impossible – that there not only is not but could not be any such being.

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