Posted on 06/27/2002 9:54:14 PM PDT by Festa
Atheism is stupid---and has no foundation in science
"The only atheism is the denial of truth." Arthur Lynch
If one were to listen to the media, science and religion cannot go hand in hand. Science inevitably proves God cannot exist. Darwin and his crowd showed how life evolved from a simple organism into a complex series of rational animals which were able to organize themselves and think beyond anything else in the universe. But atheists and their elite allies have it all backwards: Science does not refute God, it proves God. Atheism is the stupid, unthinking and illogical way. God is logical, thinking, and makes sense. Lets prove it.
The foundation of all life is contained in microscopic detailed instructions that thinking individuals can act on logically. DNA and/or RNA are these specific instructions upon which all information for a life form is based upon. In order to think logically a problem must first be presented:
I give you a one celled organism. First, I want you to assemble the ribosomes so that they can properly interpret the DNA. Now make the amino acids (CH2 for the laymen which is a part of the carboxyl group COOH). Seriously, go get the material. Devise a means by which these ribosomes and amino acids only act at a specified time without error to create an organism. (No not a human, just a simple organism). Now make sure that the cells can properly replicate themselves without fail and sustain themselves. Then watch it develop into a human.
Ok so where is the dilemma you ask. Here. I want you to do this, without intelligent thought at any point. You see something go wrong, you cant interfere. Whether that means hiring a monkey to randomly type at the keyboard for billions of years. Do not enter a goal for the computer. Phrases like create life or make a living organism are forbidden. Simply set it up, press start and watch.
Wait! But this experiment will not work. There is no way that these organisms randomly developed on accident. I know. Sorry, find a way around it. Have you solved the problem that has taken mankind centuries to even touch upon? Ok, now subject your experiment to climate and other x factors and see what happens then.
Didnt work? Thanks for helping to prove the existence of god. Oh, it did work? Thanks for helping prove the existence of God. You did help to change the code into a readable form. That required intelligent thought.
You see, atheism is actually stupid when it is thought out logically. The foundational problems inherit in creating any simple organism that it is simply impossible that a random accident caused it. Atheism is an untenable and stupid position because it says precisely that: it was all just a random accident.
Genius scientists such as Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton all believed in the existence of God. (For the laymen out their, Einstein invented the theory of relativity and Sir Isaac Newton invented physics and Calculus (Yes an entire complex form of mathematics barely even touched upon until college: and even then only pathetically.) Atheists like to gloss over this fact. They also like to claim that religions are fanatical because they refuse to accept evolution into their teaching. This is a complete lie. The Catholic Church (along with many others) say that evolution is completely kosher with its teachings. No, atheism is fanatical because it simply refuses to recognize an inherit problem in science and since it cannot prove it, it refuses to use logic to explain it. They have not a single shred of evidence to prove their case.
The idea that scientists in general reject God because they are smart is the most absurd and indefensible argument ever heard. Sure there were some. But they didnt think hard enough. For all the great things Darwin did, he was never a philosopher. He asked the question once (paraphrased) that some people are so dull as to think that everything was not created by a random accident, because to think such a thing is illogical. EXACTLY. Sir. Thomas Aquinas noted this almost centuries before Darwin, and said precisely, it is illogical to think such a thing.
It is.
If the earth was one degree more off its axis, we would have no seasons. If there were no Himalayan mountains, there could be no agriculture. If we were just a bit more close to the sun, life would be untenable. If there was a bit more nitrogen in the air, say bye bye. To believe that all of this was a random accident is an absurd blind leap of faith because it has no basis in fact, thought, or reasoning. It is more than fanatical belief.
What is even scarier is that these are the smart atheists. God help the dumb ones. Atheists try and claim the high ground when they have no basis to do such a thing. They rant about how they are being mistreated when they have to listen to under god during prayer when they havent even begun to think about whether or not He exists.
What are we hear for if not a purpose? Is everything simply a random accident? Fine, then I am stealing your 100 dollars. Why? Because I can and if I am smart enough, I can get away without any punishment. Hitler sure got away with a lot. How fair is it that in the end we both end up in the same way: as dust. Scary isnt it. But this is the belief system of the atheists.
Atheism is an untenable and fanatical position. Many atheists are so blind they are blinded as to what they are blinded about. The next time you come across an atheist do two things, one ask him to use his brain a little more. Two, pray for him. Pray not because he doesnt have a religion, but pray because his has one.
Is there anywhere to recover the ones we've lost?
I'll post more examples later when I can get back to my books.
Can't say that I'm familiar with that one. Perhaps he's thinking of Euclid's postulate that parallel lines never meet (or meet at infinity, same thing). Dispensing with that one led Georg Riemann to devise differential geometry (AKA "Riemannian geometry"), which forms the basis of general relativity and several other useful formalisms.
"You see, there's no question whether Grape Nuts are right for you. It's whether you're right for Grape Nuts." --Wilford Brimley
That should be the first clue that something is wrong with it--none of the rest of the universe is absolutely, perfectly rational and logical.
As such, atheism is a product of the human intellect and specifically avoids the 'Holy'.
It's like the story of the guy looking for his car keys under the street lamp when asked where he lost them, he says: "Somewhere up the street, but the light is over here." God is in the place that cannot be illuminated by human thought.
As such, I am disgusted with seeing all kinds of crappy pseudo-science to somehow justify and prove God and faith through intellect. There is no reason for it, it is a waste of time and creates bad science.
Faith must only exist in spite of all evidence either for it or against it!
Do you really want a God that Billy Bob Bod can intellectually grasp in His entirety?
Do me a favor, will you? Get together with the preachers, the rabbis, the ministers, the Buddhists, the Hindi's and the Muslims, and come to some agreement on what it is I'm supposed to worship.
First start by finding all that isn't worthy of worship, in what remains, you'll have an answer.
Bingo. Reason and faith are orthogonal to each other.
Unlike the faithful, I myself don't know where I lost my keys. Looking under the streetlamps seems the best approch for me.
Actually, I don't believe they have any identifiable relationship to each other at all; Neither in harmony nor opposition; Neither precluding nor enforcing the other; utterly nonlinear.
Unlike the faithful, I myself don't know where I lost my keys. Looking under the streetlamps seems the best approch for me.
If you do happen to find them, keep looking.
Sure, and it makes perfect, rational sense to the human mind. It's probably the only thing that makes perfect, rational sense. That fact alone should arouse suspicion...
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