While
all atheists are spirituality dull of mind and slow of thought, not
all atheists lack intelligence. It only seems that way. However -
When
an intelligent person wilfully abandons reason and begins to posit
finite infinities, causeless beginnings and beginningless beginnings,
I know that I’m dealing with someone involved in a desperate
attempt to avoid a philosophically unacceptable conclusion:
Creator
God exists.
When an intelligent person wilfully abandons classical historical scholarship and begins to deny known and knowable facts of history, but only as they apply to the person of Jesus, I know that I’m dealing with someone who is confronted with a philosophically unacceptable conclusion:
When an intelligent person wilfully abandons classical historical scholarship and begins to deny known and knowable facts of history, but only as they apply to the person of Jesus, I know that I’m dealing with someone who is confronted with a philosophically unacceptable conclusion:
Creator
God exists.
When an intelligent person claims to follow whatever ethical standard is currently in vogue and calls that a reasonable way to live, I know that I’m dealing with someone involved in a desperate, fearful attempt to avoid a philosophically unacceptable conclusion:
When an intelligent person claims to follow whatever ethical standard is currently in vogue and calls that a reasonable way to live, I know that I’m dealing with someone involved in a desperate, fearful attempt to avoid a philosophically unacceptable conclusion:
Creator
God exists.
When someone ignores Occam’s Razor and goes in search of ever more complicated solutions, (eg. Atheist Origin of the Universe Mythologies) abandoning one after another, after another, after another, not because of new evidence but because of a need to avoid the conclusion indicated by current evidence, and when that person never returns to a simple solution that coincides with current knowledge and common sense, I know that I’ve encountered an individual who has been confronted with a philosophically unacceptable conclusion:
When someone ignores Occam’s Razor and goes in search of ever more complicated solutions, (eg. Atheist Origin of the Universe Mythologies) abandoning one after another, after another, after another, not because of new evidence but because of a need to avoid the conclusion indicated by current evidence, and when that person never returns to a simple solution that coincides with current knowledge and common sense, I know that I’ve encountered an individual who has been confronted with a philosophically unacceptable conclusion:
Creator
God exists.
Richard Lewontin, “Our [atheist scientists] willingness to accept
scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an
understanding of the real struggle between science and the
supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent
absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to
fulfil many of its extravagant promises, in spite of the tolerance of
the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because
we have a prior commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods
and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material
explanation of the phenomenal word but, on the contrary, that we are
forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an
apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce
material explanations, no matter how counter intuitive, no matter how
mystifying. Moreover that materialism is absolute for we cannot allow
a divine foot in the door.”- “Billions and Billion of Demons,”
The New York Review of Books, Jan. 9, 1997, 31.
