Does Atheism Have a Future?

From Bart Ehrman's blog (2013) we read this ...

 

I apparently threw a few people for a loop yesterday when I referred to myself as an atheist. ... When I became an agnostic - 17 or 18 years ago? ... I thought that “agnosticism” and “atheism” were two *degrees* of basically the same thing. ...  According to this idea, an agnostic is someone who says that s/he does not *know* whether God exists, and an atheist is someone who makes a definitive statement that God does *not* exist.  Agnostics don’t know and atheists are sure.

 

This video responding to Ehrman's views is excellent.  I have replied to Ehrman's work here and here.  Some atheists go with the tag "brights," but what does the Real Creator and Author of Truth say?  "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding.  To him belongs eternal praise." (Ps. 111:10).  Does atheism have a future?  I think not:

 

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place

    and gave him the name that is above every name,

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,

    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,

    to the glory of God the Father. (Phil. 2:9-11)

 

I have a few questions for my atheist friends:

 

• Why do we yearn for Utopia?
• If life is hopeless, is suicide an option?
• Did I create History?
• Am I the Author of the Universe?
• Have you read the Bible?
• What if you're wrong?

 

What does the non-Theist have to say?  Here are the chapters from the book Atheist Universe by David Mills:

This book has an endorsement from Richard Dawkins and a foreword from Dorion Sagan.  Should we follow our emotions blindly?  Isaac Asimov said, “Emotionally I am an atheist.  I don’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn’t that I don’t want to waste my time.”  But what about the Big Bang?  Sir Hermann Bondi (d. 2005), mathematician and astronomer, said, “… theories of the origin of the Universe have been disproved by present day empirical evidence as have various theories of the origin of the Solar System.”  One specific problem for the Big Bang is known as the "horizon problem" - the universe is not old enough for the heat to be so evenly distributed in the cosmos based on their assumptions. 

 

Check out our take on Hell here.  Eric Metaxas has written a profound book on miracles.  Metaxas hosts Socrates in the City where Malcolm Gladwell, Dick Cavett, N.T.  Wright and Peter Hitchens have been guests.  Concerning the Fundamentals of the Faith, see here.  To keep up with Intelligent Design, be sure to follow EvolutionNews.org and enjoy the info.  As for America's Christian Heritage, I would point to this book by Gary DeMar.  Also, the work of Wallbuilders is helpful.  I have visited the church that President Washington was a part of.  Consider the truth, turn from atheism and go to Jesus.  Here's a summary of the Good News (Gospel).  Check out this helpful apologetic for Jesus, God and the Bible.

 

The law from your mouth is more precious to me

than thousands of pieces of silver and gold. (Ps. 119:72)

 

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Evo-Zombies

Who are the Evo-Zombies?  They are the walking dead (Rom. 4:17) who have lost the skill of critical thinking and blindly (Mt. 15:14) follow the dictates of Big Science.  They feed on the minds of young children and keep them from denying Darwin.  Evo-Zombies are mindless followers, origins agitators and support the biased media and darwiniac academia.  For Evo-Zombies, morality is relative.  Evo-Zombies are not scientific – they’re darwintific.

Evo-Zombies follow Darwin because of feelings, not fact.  Isaac Asimov said, “Emotionally I am an atheist.  I don’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn’t that I don’t want to waste my time.” [1] Avoid the emotional seizure of origins apostasy and believe Genesis 1-11 (G111).

Evo-Zombies buy the BigBang and anything Stephen Hawking is hawking.  Sir Hermann Bondi (d. 2005), mathematician and astronomer, said, “… theories of the origin of the Universe have been disproved by present day empirical evidence as have various theories of the origin of the Solar System.” [2]

Evo-Zombies don’t believe in the SOUL.  In The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul, Mario Beauregard (Ph.D. Neuroscience) and Denyse O'Leary (ID activist) defend the view that man has a non-material part.  We are more than "computers made of meat." 

Evo-Zombies don’t debate; they attack!  In 1986, The Huxley Memorial Debate tackled the topic 'That the Doctrine of Creation is more valid than the Theory of Evolution' at the Oxford Union.  Arthur E. Wilder-Smith (3 earned doctorates) and Edgar H. Andrews (Ph.D. Theoretical Physics) supported creation and Clinton Richard Dawkins and John Maynard-Smith defended Darwin.  Dawkins attacked Wilder-Smith’s faith, rather than sticking to the science and violated the agreed upon format.  Dawkins urged the voting members not to give one vote for the creationists! [3]  The final score was,

So, in spite of the Evo-Zombies in the crowd, the voting members voted 43% in favor of the creationists!!

Evo-Zombies think life came about by chance!  Astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle (d. 2001) said, “The notion that … that operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.” [4]

What is the cure for Evo-Zombies?  They need gospel-powered transformation.  Also, they should see Ben Stein’s movie EXPELLED (see video here).  In the leader’s guide for EXPELLED we find this:

The suppression of new scientific ideas … presents today’s students with a one sided argument in the court of public opinion. It’s as if they’re a jury being shown evidence for only ONE SIDE of the case. All evidence from the opposing side is being thrown out of court … It’s suppression at its worst … [5]

Hopefully, Ben Stein will focus on Young Earth Science (YES) in his sequel to EXPELLED.

Evo-Zombies deny the Global Flood of Noah’s day.  In contrast, Geology Professor James Zumberge (d. 1992) was the president of several schools:  Grand Valley State University, Southern Methodist University and the University of Southern California and considered Flood Geology a “viable option.” [6]  He was also the Director of Earth Sciences at the University of Arizona.

Catfish soft parts have been found in “ancient” rock.  The Mt. Saint Helens explosion of 1980 has demonstrated catastrophism in action.  Many mainstream geologists endorse “episodic” events.  Radiocarbon increase implies a 30K year old earth.  Radiometric dating of recent lava flows give false dates (way too old).  Uranium in the sea gives a limiting age of 1.3M years.  Some Darwinists claim that 50B humans have existed, but where are the graves? [7]  Russell Humphreys has provided 14 evidences for a young world.  Analytical chemist Frederic Jueneman said prophetically in 1982: 

… radiodecay rates are not as constant as previously thought, nor are they immune to environmental influences.  And this could mean that the atomic clocks are reset during some global disaster, and events which brought the Mesozoic to a close may not be 65 million years ago but, rather, within the age and memory of man. [8]    

And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience (Eph. 2:1, 2).

He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.  But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes (1 Jn. 2:10, 11).

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Notes:

1) quoted in The Biblical Basis for Modern Science by Henry Morris (Master Books, Green Forest, AR, 2002 ed.), p. 91.
2) Ibid., p. 152.
3) The Time Dimension by A. E. Wilder-Smith (The Word for Today, Costa Mesa, CA, 1993), pp. 19-23.
4) Morris, p. 216.
5) Expelled Leaders Guide, p. 2.
6) Morris, p. 283.
7) Ibid., pp. 322-324, 305, 243, 250, 245, 395.
8) Ibid., p. 246.

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