Nicholas Everitt

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Nicholas Everitt (born 21 October 1943) is an English philosopher and atheist writer who studies knowledge and the philosophy of religion. He earned a degree in Moral Science from Cambridge and did postgraduate work at Oxford. He was a Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and taught briefly at Fairfield University and Ngee Ann Polytechnic, and he worked with the Open University. After retirement, he has taught courses at Lancaster University's Department of Continuing Education. Everitt’s best-known book is The Non-Existence of God (Routledge, 2003). In it he argues that the traditional attributes of God—omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, and omnibenevolence—cannot all be true together. He also critiques the main arguments for God's existence (cosmological, ontological, moral, teleological). The book was positively reviewed by scholars.