Refuting Atheism

A small percentage of people in the U.S. (about 3% according to this study) believe that there is no God. Many of them consider themselves intellectuals, and arrive at their beliefs through what they consider sound reasoning. Someone may ask the question, is their reasoning really sound?

Let us consider science: the basis for many atheists' refutation of the existence of God. As I indicated here, science does nothing more than guess at the way things are. Science e.g. does not know for certain that Einstein's Theory of Relativity is accurate. It simply proposes that it is. Even Einstein didn't believe his theory was accurate, as he kept looking for a better one called the unified theory. As a result, science offers us no assurance about the way things are, and any scientifically crafted explanation about the truth of our universe is inherently unreliable.

Let us look at the Theory of Evolution. This theory proposes that there exists a law in the universe, which says that something can give rise to another thing substantially greater than itself. As I indicated here, no such law exists, and in fact, there is a law in the universe which says that the proposed law by evolution proponents is untrue. More specifically, there is a law in the universe which states that nothing can give rise to something substantially greater than itself. We see this law all around us. E.g. it is the potter / man who creates pots - not the other way around. It is is men who create viruses in laboratories - not the other way around. It is birds which create nests - not the other way around. The Theory of Evolution therefore completely contradicts the above law, and provides no definitive proof that the law is unsound.

There exists another law in the universe which says that there is intelligence behind all organization, and the greater the organization, the greater the underlying intelligence. We can see that this law is true by noting that whenever we e.g. see a nest in a tree, we conclude that a bird created it. And whenever we see something more sophisticated like a car or a Cathedral, we conclude that men created it. Why do we do this? Because no one has ever seen a well crafted nest being created by dust, or a cathedral being built by plants or entities less intelligent than man. The above is how we are able to deduce that the universe was created by a great intelligence - because the universe shows organization far greater than men are able to produce.

An important way we are able to conclude that God exists, is by comparing texts inspired by Him, with the things we see around us. In as much as people ascribe the greatest credibility to explanations most closely aligned with their observations, texts by God provide the best and most whole explanations about our existence. We are able to see sin and wickedness in the world as described in the scriptures. We see that men and the world are slaves to sin as indicated in John 8:34. We see that a person exhibits good fruit when he has faith correctly - something we do not see anywhere else. We see that there is an invisible intelligence behind everything in this world - which is consistent with scriptural explanations that all things are governed by spirits. (E.g. clouds behave with organization within their bounds, so do rain, rivers, seas, plants, animals, and men. )Further, the more a person has faith, the more he notices the consistency of the explanations of things given in scriptures, with the things he sees around him.

There is therefore no intellectually sound basis for believing that there is no God. And there is a wealth of evidence around us that God is real, and that the texts He provides are true.