TOWARDS NICHOLAS EVERITT'S PROOF OF THE NON-EXISTENCE OF GOD

The subject of this article is the "proof for the non-existence of God" by the English thinker and atheist Nicholas Everitt and presented in his essay How Benevolent is God? An Argument from Suffer to an Atheism. Everitt himself calls his proof 'irrefutable'. The starting point of the proof is the well-known definition of God as omniscient, omnipotent and benevolent in comparison to the existence of evil in this world. The main research problem of this article can be summarized in questions about the basis on which the English atheist presents his thesis and to what extent his reasoning is correct. One of possible ways to solve this problem is to formulate clearly Everitt's premises and conclusions in order to find out where do they come from, and this is what the first part of the article concerns. This standardization shows that the key role in the proof and in its alleged indisputability is played by Everitt's specific understanding of the definition of God mentioned here. The second part of the article indicates possible ways of argumentation against the discussed atheistic thesis.