Existence of God(s)

To clear things up a little, I'll give you guys the etymology of the words theist and atheist. Theist is a word that comes from the Greek word "Thea". It is translated to mean "god". Atheist again is Greek which means "without god". It has nothing to do with faith and everything to do with god. Thus Theist claim that there is a god, while atheists claim that there is not a god. Both are making claims so both need to provide proof to their claim.
On a related note, agnosticism means "I do not know".

I did my essay question on my philosophy exam on different ways of proving and disproving the existence of god.

There are some very common ways to prove and disprove the existence of god. I'll go through a couple of them here for you. When it comes to the existence of god, we have faith, cosmology, ontology and religious experiences that can be used as an explanation.
Faith:

It is better to believe in god then not to believe in god.

Cosmology: Here's a link that can explain it better than I can. Don't worry, its a quick read.

Ontology: This is really just a play on words.
1 Our understanding of God is a being than which no greater can be conceived.
2 The idea of God exists in the mind.
3 A being which exists both in the mind and in reality is greater than a being that exists only in the mind.
4 If God only exists in the mind, then we can conceive of a greater being?that which exists in reality.
5 We cannot be imagining something that is greater than God.
6 Therefore, God exists.

Religious Experience: There are things in the world which cannot be explained. Some things may seem attributable to a "guardian angle". This is also known as the third man factor. People also have those out of body experiences when they almost die. There are many different examples of this.

Then we have the ways to disprove the existence of god. The ones that I usually hear are the problem of evil and god as a human creation.
The Problem of Evil:
1 If God exists, then God is omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect.
2 If God is omnipotent, then God has the power to eliminate all evil.
3 If God is omniscient, then God knows when evil exists.
4 If God is morally perfect, then God has the desire to eliminate all evil.
5 Evil exists.
6 If evil exists and God exists, then either God doesn't have the power to eliminate all evil, or doesn't know when evil exists, or doesn't have the desire to eliminate all evil.
7 Therefore, God doesn't exist.

God as a Human Creation: We look at all the different ideas of what god is, based on different religions, scriptures, and so on. With so many different ideas of it, it is easy to believe that god was just a creation by humans in order to cope with our inevitable fate of death.

There are pitfalls to all these arguments, but I really didn't get into at all. Although because there doesn't seem to be conclusive evidence, I would have to agree with Aniihya with this one. I'm agnostic and if people wish to believe in one or the other, I'm fine with that because in the end, one side does have to be right. Am I right?
Note: Almost everything here is taken from the internet as I believe it can explain things better than I can.

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