The belief in a supreme, unfathomable, invisible, or infinite being who is beyond man’s grasp constitutes atheism’s main argument against God’s existence.

Having faith in the unseen and the unknown is what faith is all about. God is an entity absolutely distinct from and sovereign over all of creation, both living and non-living. He is essentially above and beyond nature and its laws of physics. He is the One Who created them from nothing. He is the cause behind their functioning and continuation, and He is the One Who controls and manages them alone, without a partner or a helper. He is above and beyond any comparison that the human mind can make.

• Atheism is grounded in the physical and observable world. Physical reality is the extent of reality. Only that which can be perceived by human senses and explained scientifically is real. Anything short of this is unreal. There can be no levels of reality higher than human thought or greater dimensions beyond the limits of the material world.

• Atheism attributes the creation of humans and the order of the universe to nature and chance rather than to a Creator God. Humans are nature’s peak products and most complex handiwork. As nothing can exist beyond the natural world and its laws, nothing in existence is higher than humans.

• Atheism argues that if God is beyond nature – supernatural – and His attributes are transcendent, He remains forever undetectable and unverifiable by humans.

• What makes the notion of God even more improbable for atheists are God’s attributes. They argue that since everything of which humans are aware has limits, God’s infinite attributes, which express His eternal and infinite essence, would be forever beyond human limits.

• Or they believe that attributes would impose limits and limits would restrict the capacities of a supreme being. Or they see the attributes employed to define God’s Nature as self-contradictory, inconsistent in themselves, or yield inconsistencies when combined with His other qualities.