Below is a set of questions to challenge your thinking on theology and the question of god (generally the Abrahamic God).

1. If absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, how do you justify making a positive claim that God does not exist?
2. Can you name one thing in philosophy or science that we consider real that we can’t directly observe, and why do you accept it but not God?
3. Is it possible that our cognitive faculties, which evolved for survival not truth, are simply unequipped to detect or comprehend God?
4. You argue that the universe doesn’t require a creator. But can you explain why something exists rather than nothing, without appealing to metaphysical assumptions?
5. Do you believe in objective morality? If so, what’s its grounding without a transcendent source?
6. You criticize the concept of God for being incoherent or contradictory. But can you articulate the most sophisticated version of God ever proposed?
7. Who was Anselm and what is the ontological argument? Can you accurately summarize it and its strongest rebuttal?
8. Do you know what the Kalam Cosmological Argument is, and can you explain why it fails—without misrepresenting it?
9. Can you name a major philosopher of religion from the last 50 years who was an atheist, and how their view differed from New Atheists like Dawkins or Hitchens?
10. If tomorrow a being appeared with the ability to alter time, read thoughts, and resurrect the dead—would that be God to you? If not, what would be?
11. Would you agree that many scientific theories were once thought absurd but later confirmed? Why not apply the same humility to metaphysical claims about God?
12. If consciousness can arise from material processes, what’s the material explanation for intentionality, qualia, and first-person experience—and how do you know it’s the only possible explanation?