I have studied all the Catholic proofs for the existence of God and the Lutheran, Kantian and Existential refutations
hopefully, you also read hume's "dialogues concerning natural religion." for those unfamiliar with the book, it is written in dialogue form (not as good as plato's, but still spectacular)and presents, and then refutes, the main cosmological (based on what we experience or observe- - to misuse a term, a posteriori) and ontological (not based on what we observe or experience- - to misuse another term, a priori)arguments of its day.
the book is still relevant(some 250 years later!)to today's debate between creationism and darwinism. i'm never sure what the proposed argument for creationism is since there rarely seems to be what would be considered an attempt at a philosophical argument. the best type of creationist argument would be an attempted resuscitation of one of the cosmological arguments presented in the dialogues, specifically, some version of the "argument from design."
hume, regarded as the greatest skeptic in the history of philosophy, was an agnostic. it is worth noting this apocryphal story: on his deathbed, hume was asked if he wanted to recant. his reply: "has the evidence changed?"
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