Bible vs Science: Richard Dawkins says Science can show there is probably no God.
Here’s a link to a new article on Meditations-On-Life.com about the supposed conflicts between the Bible and Science.
For more on this subject, also check out these other articles from Meditations-On-Life.com:
See also,
Atheism vs Christianity
Atheism vs Christianity: atheist faith vs Christian Faith
From meditations-on-life.com, here’s an article comparing atheism vs Christianity, and showing that atheists have the same kind of blind faith they accuse Christians of having. It also points out other myths in the atheist/Christian debate that help perpetuate the notion that atheists rely solely on logic and evidence, while Christians rely solely on wishful thinking.
Here’s the link to the atheism vs Christianity article:
http://www.meditations-on-life.com/atheism-vs-christianity-atheist-faith-vs-christian-faith/
This article is aimed at a particular kind of atheist: the scientific materialist kind, such as Richard Dawkins. Many of these atheists are deluded about what Christian faith means, what science can prove, and whether atheists even have a belief about God in the first place.
For some reason, many atheists will argue to their last breath that they have no belief about God. They claim theists have a belief, atheists merely have the absence of a belief. But this is absurd! A “belief in” is not the same as a “belief about.” Unless they have never heard about God or thought anything about the subject, they have a belief about the proposition “God exists.” Given the religious zeal of many of these atheists, it’s hard to imagine that they are so passionate about a non-belief. But they will argue till their blue in the face to say they don’t have a belief to which faith can attach.
And that’s another myth: that atheists rely solely on reason. There are gaps in what human reason is able to prove about the universe, and there are limits to what science can study. Science has no tools with which to analyze the metaphysical dimension of the human experience. And as many Christian apologists have noted, materialism actually casts serious doubt on the validity of human reason, which is a problem for materialists, since it is by human reason that we even have a materialist account of the universe.
Another myth concerns what is meant by “Christian Faith.” Atheists define faith as “blind faith” (i.e., belief without any evidentiary or logical support), and then conflate that blind faith with Christian “Faith.” The two are very distinct, but when you hear atheists ranting and raving about “faith,” they are pretty much always using it to mean “blind faith.” They then say that since Christians have “Faith,” they must have this kind of blind faith.
The truth is, atheists rely on blind faith for some of the assumptions they must make in order to assert a materialist account of the universe, while Christians have Faith that is grounded in a direct, personal relationship with Jesus, and this kind of faith is just as reasonable as having faith that one’s spouse or best friend is trustworthy.
See also, Bible vs Science,
http://www.meditations-on-life.com/why-i-am-not-an-atheist-christianity-atheism-faith-reason/
Why I Am Not an Atheist: Christianity, Atheism, Faith & Reason
From meditations-on-life.com comes a good essay on why you should not be an atheist. Here’s the intro on why the writer is not an atheist:
“I am not an Atheist because Atheism requires far too much Faith! Contrary to the claims of many prominent atheists, atheism is not merely the absence of belief, nor does Atheism free you from being committed to unprovable assumptions. On the contrary, if you claim that human life was not the result of intelligent design (i.e., that humans have no teleological cause), then you are necessarily committing yourself to the position that human life is the result of non-rational, random forces (and that we have no teleological cause).”
The writer then examines some of the problems that arise if atheism is accepted as true. These are assumptions that many atheists make (and must make) without even realizing they are doing it! While Christians acknowledge their faith, atheists tend to be deluded about theirs. Reason shmeason.
This essay ends with the writer’s own experience of God as a Christian. I never get tired of hearing believers share their testimonies about God’s goodness!
http://www.meditations-on-life.com/why-i-am-not-an-atheist-christianity-atheism-faith-reason/
See also, Atheism vs Christianity & Bible vs Science & G K Chesterton: Christian Apologetics & Woody Allen Interviews Billy Graham
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