Proof There Is No God (Wink, Nudge)

 

Christianity is a fighting religion. - Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis, page 45

 

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.
3.  There are many religions, and atheists only believe in one less than you.   Therefore, there is no God.
See how easy this is!


Many atheists show themselves to be angry, hateful, condescending and intolerant, characteristics which are anti-science and unintelligent.  They repeat the hateful bitterness of Richard Dawkins and other atheists as if this will convince believers to abandon their beliefs and accept atheism.

The ultimate argument made by atheists is an infinite regression, which is utterly and demonstrably irrational.  Atheists demand, "Who made God?" Professor John Lennox of Oxford has given the perfect answer:  "If anyone made God then He wouldn't be God, would He!"  Just so.

Our Creator, as expressed in America's Declaration of Independence, had no maker.  He just is.

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!

A favorite tactic of atheist Brahmin ( Sanskrit: ब्राह्मण  ) is asserting "the argument from incredulity," often with a snarky smile.  However, this is nothing more than employing the put-down from condescending insolence, a logical fallacy created and widely practiced by atheists.   "Just because you don't understand it, you claim "God diddit!"  I have never heard anyone except an atheist say that.

Another of their favorite tactics is to aver "You don't understand evolution (or science)." Once again this is the put-down from condescending insolence.  Science and Christianity are not mutually exclusive.  Quite the opposite is true.

Pascal's Wager is widely misinterpreted by atheists.    What Pascal claimed was that he was perfectly content, right or wrong.  His life could not be improved by abandoning his faith. In contrast, atheists' and agnostics' lives could be improved immeasurably.

Pascal's wager is a philosophical argument advanced by Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), seventeenth-century French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and theologian.^[1] This argument posits that individuals essentially engage in a life-defining gamble regarding the belief in the existence of God.

Pascal contends that a rational person should adopt a lifestyle consistent with the existence of God and actively strive to believe in God. The reasoning behind this stance lies in the potential outcomes: if God does not exist, the individual incurs only finite losses, potentially sacrificing certain pleasures and luxuries. However, if God does indeed exist, they stand to gain immeasurably, as represented for example by an eternity in Heaven in Abrahamic tradition, while simultaneously avoiding boundless losses associated with an eternity in Hell.^[2]

The original articulation of this wager can be found in Pascal's posthumously published work titled Pensées ("Thoughts"), which comprises a compilation of previously unpublished notes.^[3] Notably, Pascal's wager is significant as it marks the initial formal application of decision theory, existentialism, pragmatism, and voluntarism.^[4]

Critics of the wager question the ability to provide definitive proof of God's existence. These critics, however, overlook the fact that "proof" is the function of belief and acceptance of the evidence presented.  The denial of evidence by individual(s) does not make them correct.

The argument from inauthentic belief raises concerns about the genuineness of faith in God if solely motivated by potential benefits and losses.   The overwhelming "motivation by potential benefits and losses" for atheists is that is that they have superior intellect and that they are correct, neither claim of which has been remotely proven.

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Atheist Fallacy:  "You can't 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 interpreted the same way 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

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley

 Atheist Challenge:    "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 Claim:  "Religions have killed millions throughout history."

Sin, 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 135,000,000 victims of atheist communists, from the USSR, to Communist China, to Cambodia, to North Korea.

"Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of communism." - Vladimir Lenin
"Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion and all morality." - Karl Marx

"I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above." -Karl Marx [https://torchlighters.org/the-richard-wurmbrand-story-not-just-for-kids/]

 Atheist Fallacy:  "Christians are anti-science and stupid.  Atheists are 'Brights,' which is to say, scientific, more intelligent, and rational than the faithful."

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 rejected by many scientists because it fits in so elegantly with the Biblical paradigm of Genesis 1:1.

Science fits much more rationally within the Judeo-Christian Bible 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.  Sixty-five percent of Nobel Laureates in the 20th Century were Christians, and twenty percent more were Jewish.  (One Hundred Years of Nobel Prizes, by Baruch A. Shalev)

The universe demonstrates correspondence, consistency and coherence, hardly the characteristics one would expect from a nihilistic and meaningless origin.

* The Irrational Atheist, by Vox Day, is a wonderful expose of atheist irrationality.  Calling himself a "bright," Richard Dawkins doesn't look so bright having married for the third time:  Marian Stamp, Eve Barham, and Lalla Ward.  Only one child, a daughter, Dawkins was far out-Darwined by Osama bin Laden, who fathered twenty-three offspring and was himself one of fifty-four children his father spawned.

 Atheist Fallacy:  "You didn't give me enough evidence. " (Christopher Hitchens, the supposedly brilliant atheist)

The errors in Hitchens' fatuous claim are many and would require many pages to thoroughly expose and refute.  Let's just examine a few of the irrational and unscientific aspects of this atheist fallacy.
One of the more profound scientific proofs of Nature's God is the precision of many physical constants, most particularly the gravitational constant.  In decades past, atheists claimed "the universe is too big for God to have made. He wouldn't waste all that matter and energy just for us."  Now they refute the anthropic principle by claiming an infinite number of universes (the multiverse), and we just happen to live in the "right one."  From one ridiculous argument to the other at the opposite extreme - how atheist of them.  The gravitational constant, among others, utterly precludes any other universe but our own. We live in the ONLY ONE!  
[The gravitational constant is precise to 1 in 10 to the 10 to the 120th power, according to Paul Davies.  Roger Penrose states that the low entropy of the universe at the Singularity had a probability of 1 in 10 to the 10 to the 123rd power.]
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Atheism is a necessary component of our program. - Vladimir Lenin

"One hundred years from my day there will not be a bible in the earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity seeker." - Voltaire, 1694 - 1778

"I have swallowed nothing but smoke. I have intoxicated myself with the incense that turned my head. I am abandoned by God and man.” He said to his physician, Dr. Fochin: “I will give you half of what I am worth if you will give me six months of life." When he was told this was not possible, he said “Then I shall die and go to hell!" His nurse said: “For all the money in Europe I wouldn’t want to see another unbeliever die! All night long he cried for forgiveness.”  - Voltaire on his deathbed

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

“It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious…. I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life.” - Arthur L. Schawlow, Professor of Physics at Stanford University, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, believes that new scientific discoveries provide compelling evidence for a personal God. 

 

“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

"Only a rookie who knows nothing about science would say science takes away from faith. If you really study science, it will bring you closer to God." - James Tour, Professor of Biochemistry, Rice University

There is a kind of religion in science; it is the religion of a person who believes there is order and harmony in the Universe…This religious faith of the scientist is violated by the discovery that the world had a beginning under conditions in which the known laws of physics are not valid, and as a product of forces or circumstances we cannot discover. When that happens, the scientist has lost control. If he really examined the implications, he would be traumatized. - Robert Jastrow

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

“Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth. And they have found that all this happened as a product of forces they cannot hope to discover. That there are what I or anyone would call supernatural forces at work is now, I think, a scientifically proven fact.” ― Robert Jastrow

“There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.” - Nobel Prize winner George Smoot

“To me it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.” - Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist


“Has anyone provided proof of God’s inexistence? Not even close. 
Has quantum cosmology explained the emergence of the universe or why it is here? Not even close. 
Have our sciences explained why our universe seems to be fine-tuned to allow for the existence of life? Not even close. 
Are physicists and biologists willing to believe in anything so long as it is not religious thought? Close enough. 
Has rationalism and moral thought provided us with an understanding of what is good, what is right, and what is moral? Not close enough. 
Has secularism in the terrible 20th century been a force for good? Not even close, to being close. 
Is there a narrow and oppressive orthodoxy in the sciences? Close enough. 
Does anything in the sciences or their philosophy justify the claim that religious belief is irrational? Not even in the ball park. 
Is scientific atheism a frivolous exercise in intellectual contempt? Dead on.” 
― David Berlinski, The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions

Berlinski does not dismiss the achievements of western science. The great physical theories, he observes, are among the treasures of the human race. But they do nothing to answer the questions that religion asks, and they fail to offer a coherent description of the cosmos or the methods by which it might be investigated.

"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


Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man. - Albert Einstein in a letter to Phyllis, a child asking about his religious beliefs

"Clues heaped upon clues can constitute weighty evidence despite doubts about each element in the pile.” - Philosopher John Leslie, 1988


"What I think the DNA material has done is to show that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinarily diverse elements together. The enormous complexity by which the results were achieved look to me like the work of intelligence…. It now seems to me that the finding of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design." - Sir Anthony Flew, former prominent atheist


"I humbly add I have spent more than 42 years as a defense trial lawyer appearing in many parts of the world and am still in active practice. I have been fortunate to secure a number of successes in jury trials [245] and I say unequivocally the evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is so overwhelming that it compels acceptance by proof which leaves absolutely no room for doubt." - Sir Lionel Luckhoo, the most successful trial attorney in history, according to the Guinness Book of World Records  

He lived in Guyana and served mankind as a defense trial lawyer and later as a supreme court judge.  He was an expert on the rules of evidence, proof of claim, dialectics (logical argumentation), advocacy, and prosecution.