1. You can't prove, to the satisfaction of atheists, that God exists. Therefore there is no God.
2. Christians often sin. Therefore there is no God.
See how easy this is!
3. There are many religions, and atheists only believe in one less than you. Therefore there is no God.
Most atheists show themselves to be angry, hateful, intolerant, and unintelligent. Of course there are exceptions, but they profess to be wise while acting otherwise.
Atheist condescension, hatred, and misrepresentations are anti-science and anti-intellectual.
The ultimate argument made by atheists is an infinite regression, which is utterly and demonstrably irrational. Atheists demand, "Who made God?" Well then who made God's maker? Who made the maker's maker, and so on ad infinitum. It's absurd, and they pretend it's clever.
Nature's God, as expressed in America's Declaration of Independence, had no maker. God is simply inexplicable and incomprehensible to us because He is forever beyond the ken of science, which is but one of His creations.
Simply because things are not understood, cannot be understood, does not mean that they are not possible. The fact is that nothing can be completely understood, and in particular, most emphatically, God!
Atheist Fallacy: "You cannot prove that God exists." And "There is no evidence that God exists."
These are mere semantics, verbal games. What serves as evidence or proof for some intelligent and reasonable people cannot be expected to be equally received by everyone, regardless of their intentions or biases. "Nothing is known for certain except in pure mathematics." - Astronomer Carl Sagan
"You only get proof in mathematics." - Mathematics Professor John Lennox
Atheist Fallacy: "There are many religions, and everyone believes theirs is true."
Humans are fallible. We make grievous errors. We sin. We are proud. The Holy Bible predicts many religions, just as there were in Biblical times. But only with the advent of Darwinism did contempt for God become assume the patina of intellectualism, claiming to be supported by science, such as Darwin hypothesized it. And only the Judeo-Christian Bible has been historically, archaeologically, scientifically, and legally validated by experts in each of these respective fields. (For further reading, see The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict, by Josh McDowell.)
Atheist Fallacy: "There is evil, and sickness, and misery in the world. Why does God allow it?"
No man on earth can answer all of the questions that can be posed. Evil can be attributed to mankind's free will. We were not made into obedient ants, who act as if in a trance, devoid of free will and enjoyment. Humans have freedom, but grossly abuse it in every way possible. As to accidents and diseases and birth defects, I can only compare our miseries to the pain we must endure in undergoing surgery to get better. If in fact our souls are eternal, years of misery here on earth are but a heartbeat, comparatively speaking. But who are we to question God in His infinite wisdom? How can we be so presumptuous with our limited knowledge?
Atheist Fallacy: "Who made God?"
The ultimate challenge. Atheists pretend, and claim, that if you "can't tell me who made God, then God doesn't exist." This is an absurd, infinite regression, clearly impossible. Who then made the maker of the maker of the maker..... ad infinitum? Has no atheist bothered to consider how absurd this infinite regression is? Professor John Lennox of Oxford University addressed it simply but elegantly and with common sense and coherence: "If someone made God, then He wouldn't be God, would He?" (Please listen to A Matter of Gravity on YouTube.)
Atheist Fallacy: "Religions have killed millions throughout history."
Sin, and greed, and pride have always and will always motivate humans to do inhuman acts.
Whereas the Crusades are often cited to condemn Christianity, atheists turn a blind eye to the 100,000,000 victims of atheist communists, from the USSR, to Communist China, to Cambodia, to North Korea. "Atheism is the natural and inseperable part of communism." - Vladimir Lenin
Moreover, there is no valid basis of morality in atheism, so that murder and war cannot be condemned as wrong or sinful by atheists, as they can by Christians. Darwinism lends strong credence to fundamental immorality, as seen throughout the animal kingdom. Killing your competitors enhances your own chances of survival, as seen so often when newborns take as much food as possible, often leaving their siblings to starve.
Atheist Fallacy: "Christians are anti-science and stupid. Atheists are rational, thinking, and moral."
The claim that Christianity and science are mutually exclusive denies reality, history, and common sense. People of religious faith have pursued knowledge and science throughout all of recorded human history, as seen in many examples provided in later pages. Moreover, there are many Christian colleges, but no atheist colleges. Ivy League colleges were founded by Christians, as shown in their charters.
One of the greatest scientific discoveries of all history, the Big Bang, was resisted by many scientists because it fits in so perfectly with the Biblical paradigm of Genesis 1:1.
Science fits much more comfortably within theism than within atheism. Every scientist, every human, believes in the rational intelligibility of the universe. This is the very foundation of the Christian faith, which is based on the historic event of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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THESE STATEMENTS ARE REASONABLE, RATIONAL, AND COMMON SENSE:
"A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven." ...
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." - Richard Feinman, quantum physicist
“Many people don’t realize that science basically involves assumptions and faith. Wonderful things in both science and religion come from our efforts based on observations, thoughtful assumptions, faith and logic. (With the findings of modern physics, it) seems extremely unlikely (that the existence of life and humanity are ) just accidental.” – Charles Townes, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley
“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind.” ― Max Planck
For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been waiting there for centuries. - Robert Jastrow
"Being a lover of freedom, when the (Nazi) revolution came, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but no, the universities were immediately silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers, whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they,like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks...Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration for it because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual and moral freedom. I am forced to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly." --Albert Einstein from Kampi und Zeugnis der bekennenden Kirche
"The Christian religion, in its purity, is the the basis and the source of all genuine freedom in government." - Noah Webster in a letter to James Madison (1829)
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THESE STATEMENT ARE UNREASONABLE, IRRATIONAL, AND ABSURD
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing." Physicist Stephen Hawking
"We're nothing but a soap bubble, floating in a bubble bath of soap bubbles." - Michio Kaku, theoretial physicis, speaking of our universe within the "Multiverse"
"So it takes no energy to create a universe. Universes are for free. A universe is a free lunch." - Michio Kaku
"The highest dimension is eleven. We cannot go beyond eleven because universes become unstable beyond eleven." - Michio Kaku
[Physicists become unstable talking about free universes and the Multiverse.]
"An entire universe can come from nothing because its entire energy can be zero." - Physicist Lawrence Krauss
"Our universe is a small, random accident in a Multiverse." - Lawrence Krauss
The same fellow said the foregoing with a straight face, and then said this:
"We don't know that for certain."
"In science we have to be quite skeptical." [He says after claiming the universe to be "small, random accident."]
"Without empirical evidence, it's all just talk." [You're telling US!]
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In the 1790's, the Jacobins rejected God and embraced rationalism. They killed 250,000 of their fellow Frenchmen with absolute certitude and contempt. Their evil cruelty was far exceeded by Stalin in the Soviet Union and Chairman Mao in Communist China. Atheism is an integral part of all communist states.
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