‘The Atheist Delusion’: Ray Comfort’s Masterpiece

Townhall.com ^ | June 5, 2016 | Matt Barber

[thirst4truth]

I looked up at the midwives when my first baby was delivered, and asked them, "how can you possibly not believe in God after witnessing the birth of a perfectly formed baby in 40 short weeks?

They still did not believe in our Creator of all that is good.

[Theodore R.]

Like with law and medicine, science has been politicized by the American people.

[Titan Magroyne]

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[betty boop]

“The manifest intentionality and fine-tuning of all creation reveals design of breathtaking complexity,” I wrote. “The Creator is of incalculable intelligence and infinite splendor. As I see it, atheism provides a case study in willful suspension of disbelief – all to escape, as the God-denier imagines it, accountability for massaging the libertine impulse.”

Even state-of-the-art physics has noted the "fine-tuning of all creation [which] reveals design of breathtaking complexity.” It's just that many scientists these days don't accept the "intentionality" part.

"Intentionality" implies the prior existence of a creative will, and this in turn implies a willing personality. But science can't get it's net on such a thing, which is divine in this case; it cannot be measured, or understood according to the ordinary categories of human thought. So the intentionality part gets glossed over and forgotten.

That would be okay with me, as an accommodation to the requirements of the scientific method. But then to suggest that what science does not and cannot measure does not exist is just plain nuts.

I need to acknowledge the existence of an "honest" atheist, Roger Penrose, the great British theoretical physicist, mathematician, and philosopher. He is quoted in the film A Brief History of Time:

"I think I would say that the universe has a purpose, it's not somehow just there by chance ... some people, I think, take the view that the universe is just there and it runs along – it's a bit like it just sort of computes, and we happen somehow by accident to find ourselves in this thing. But I don't think that's a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe, I think that there is something much deeper about it."

I wonder whether he ever went and "looked" for that "something much deeper."

Great post, Kaslin. Thank you.