In this seventh session of AP 301: Foundations for Apologetics, Dr. Phil Fernandes of Shepherds Bible College in Bremerton, Washington moves from surveying worldviews into directly engaging and dismantling the major atheistic arguments against God's existence — equipping students to respond with confidence and clarity.

Dr. Fernandes examines the philosophical failures of atheism and agnosticism, exposes the self-defeating nature of logical positivism and the falsification principle, and addresses the classic arguments from contradictory attributes — showing that none of them succeed in ruling out the existence of God.

Topics covered in this session:

• Norman Geisler's method of actual undeniability and actual unaffirmability

• Why atheism and hard agnosticism are both self-refuting at their core

• Feuerbach and Freud — is God a product of man's imagination?

• Paul Vitz and the psychology of militant atheism — the fatherless pattern

• A.J. Ayer and logical positivism — and why the verification principle fails its own test

• Antony Flew's falsification principle — the parable of the invisible gardener

• How Christianity's claims are actually falsifiable — unlike the invisible gardener

• The rock God cannot lift — why omnipotence does not mean doing the absurd

• Euthyphro's dilemma — is goodness arbitrary or above God?

• Why the real problem with atheism is moral, not intellectual

Taught at Shepherds Bible College | Bremerton, Washington
Part of the AP 301 Foundations for Apologetics course series