It made sense in the context.
I knew what he meant, but disagreed. Then I had one of those flashes of intuition, and when I typed it out, it even made more sense:
"Atheism is illogical, silly, emotional. Like screaming "I hate you!" at your parents. Atheists are just spiritual adolescents screaming petulantly at God.Atheists are not "NON-believers", they're "REFUSE TO-believers" pretending to be all logical and scientific.
Honestly, who can take them seriously?"
But most hard scientists actually believe in some sort of intelligent designer. The elegance and complexity and wonder of the things they study lead them to it.
It is the scientifically ignorant (including "social scientists"), the profoundly arrogant, the angry, the unfulfilled, the failures and the monumental sinners who claim it's all just a blind and arbitrary accident.
Some are deluded by poor science and faulty logic; some are angry at God for circumstances in their lives and reject Him; some think they are the epitome and masters of creation and supplant Him; some just want to avoid His justice.
At least it seems that way to me.
The Gunslinger
So much for your non-belief, then? Excellent to hear. :-) I'm glad my little comment made some sense and prompted you (in some small way, I hope) to a flash of intuition.
ReplyDeleteMay He bless and keep you all your days. And may He help you always stand, and be true.
Amen.
I'll happily and gratefully accept the blessing...
ReplyDelete...whoever bestows it!
Thank you.
I would definitely disagree with the comment that most hard scientists believe in some sort of intelligent designer. I am very interested in the intelligent design vs. evolution debate, and very few scientists supported intelligent design. From what I can tell, if you asked most hard scientists if there was a God, they would be more likely to say "I don't know" than "No".
ReplyDeleteCarol, does your definition of atheist also include agnostic? Even though I was raised Jewish, I'm in all practicality an agnostic, since religion plays almost no role in my life. I don't view this as an angry rejection of religion. It's just that religion doesn't seem to do anything for me, so I don't make it a part of my life.
Planet Earth is the result of intelligent design! At least, I believe it is. Please take the time to visit my blog 'The Immaculate Deception' at
ReplyDeletehttp://pyramidworld.blogspot.com/
I believe the Great Pyramid in Egypt, and Silbury Hill in England constitute proof that (a)the ancients had mapped and measured the entire planet at least 5000 years ago, and (b)in doing so they found evidence that Earth is the result of intelligent design!
No, I'm not mad...(-;
Steve,
ReplyDeleteNo, Atheism insists there is no God, Agnoticism is sensibly uncertain, which seems quite reasonable to me
The problem with the current ID debate is that the atheists have painted it as a debate between "Science" and "Creationism".
It is not. But the label sticks...and no scientist can come down on the side of the earth being formed 6,000 ago...in 6 days. It's patently absurd.
But a LOT of them hold the belief that some intelligence was responsible for the complexity, beauty and elegance of the universe as we know it.
None of the discoveries we've made so far in physics, biology, chemistry, etc. preclude an intelligence having designed the "laws of nature" and set the entire thing in motion.
The "Big Bang" theory does not, by definition, deny the existence of God—only the creation story in the Bible. Which even the Catholic Church says should not be taken literally.
BFB,
ReplyDeleteWhoa! That website is so intense—and way over my head.
Hey, I'm just a dumb blonde from California!
I haven't read it all, but even a quick survey of it shows it's some serious research and detailed analysis. Amazing!
Carol, er, I mean Gunslinger :> I agree that nothing in science precludes the possibility of an intelligent designer. If people want to be atheists, that's fine with me, but I don't know how they can disprove God or an Intelligent Designer. Likewise, if people want to believe, it's also fine with me, but I don't know how they can prove that there is a God or Intelligent Designer.
ReplyDeleteWhile I can't claim to be sympathetic to creationism or intelligent design, I do get irritated with scientists who tend to arrogantly portray the evolution vs. intelligent design debate as the educated vs. the rubes, but those advocating in favor of an intelligent designer have a silly tendency to paint a picture of immoral scientists (no doubt brainwashed at left-leaning elite universities) vs. moral common folk who use common sense.
The entire debate has become absurd. Because neither side chooses to be honest.
ReplyDeleteThe greater fault lies, in my opinion with those that insist that proponents of "Intelligent Design" are "Creationists".
It's rubbish, of course.
But there is no question that Fundamentalist ""Creationists" have adopted "Intelligent Design" as an argument for the existence of the Biblical God...which the originating proponents never intended or suggested, and quite vociferously deny.
So debate is debased...and nothing good can come of it.
Shame, really. It could have been a splendid conversation.