Many individuals have thought that atheism provided a severe world view, solely to find that at root, it is a religion system. They uncover that it claims to be science-based, however then makes use of that obvious credibility to take an enormous leap outdoors of science and say there may be both inadequate proof for God or that most likely there is no such thing as a God, as supreme, personal Creator. Is science certified to make such pronouncements? Hardly, except it awards itself omni-competence. However what’s this about ‘Game’s up’? I shall want to elucidate that immersive tour.
· APPEARANCE OF PRESTIGE
One of many fascinating issues I discover coming from the brand new Atheists like Richard Dawkins is that science and purpose are exalted, given excessive kudos and used to boost the status and authority of the explanations used to help atheism. It practically appears to be like like atheism is the top of scientific discovery, till we take a more in-depth have a look at what’s going on.
Take as an illustration the commentary of Dawkins: ‘Science-fiction authors, corresponding to Daniel. F. Galouye in Counterfeit World, have even advised (and I can not suppose the best way to disprove it) that we reside in a pc simulation, arrange by some vastly superior civilization.'[1] What Dawkins has noticed, fairly accurately, I counsel, on his personal assumptions, is that he’s unable to disprove that his notion of reality could also be a fictional one. In different phrases, along with his atheism underpinning his notion of reality he has no means at his disposal, not even scientific ones, of telling the distinction between his being a pc simulated ‘Richard Dawkins’ or a real Richard Dawkins in an objectively vital reality.
· REVERSED DELUSION
Press this just a little additional. What Dawkins is saying, and that is central to his complete argument that the residing God, particularly of biblical Christianity, is a delusion, a lot in order that Dawkins’ atheism, as compared, seems to be urbane and credible, the real remaining deal, although, and that is the crunch, he admits he has no method of understanding, whether or not he’s in an goal reality or an illusory, simulated one!
And what, would possibly you ask, is the explanation for his incapability to make an goal evaluation? It is fairly easy – on his personal presuppositions, he is unsure that his atheism is not additionally part of the doable pc simulated virtual reality wherein he finds himself. In fact, he would not like that concept and prefers to borrow classes of thought that transcend atheism from his true significance as a person made within the picture of God; an objectivity which Dawkins should then distort to argue towards theism. He does this to attempt to present he is dealing responsibly with goal reality and supreme points. And truly, he prefers that ‘borrowed’ vital reality, the place he has true worth and that means, as a result of, in spite of everything, let’s face it: on his atheistic assumptions issues start to look decidedly bleak if one is simply a meaningless cypher in a pc simulation.
· MAKE BELIEVE
Sure, certainly, when you’ve gotten gone so far as Richard Dawkins has into his make-believe world of Darwinian evolution, anti-theistic vitriol and atheistic exaltation, you’ve gotten travelled a good distance into an objectivity-condemning futility and right into a virtual sub-reality. And he has the nerve to name the residing God, a ‘delusion’, the very One who has created this splendidly vital reality, and given us the means to know and settle for this. And all this, regardless of Dawkins’ admission that he’s not even certain if he’s a virtual reality in a pc simulation! Speak about ‘individuals in glasshouses should not throw stones’! Look, in case you are unsure whether or not or not you are a pc simulation, why hassle with making an attempt to purpose everybody into atheism – why hassle if it is solely a game?
Actually, do not you suppose by now the game’s over?
· LEAVE FUTILITY FOR TRUTH
Sure certainly, however that admission is just one step. The subsequent is to personal up that atheism is a futile abandonment of purpose, however that biblical Christianity alone offers a lastly true evaluation, when it says, by nature, all reside, ‘within the futility of their minds. They’re darkened of their understanding, alienated from the lifetime of God due to the ignorance that’s in them, as a result of their hardness of coronary heart’ (Ephesians 4:17-18). When you’ve gotten accepted that as a divinely revealed description of your sinful riot towards God, the next step is ‘repentance towards God and of religion in our Lord Jesus Christ’ (Acts 20:21).
Ask God as we speak for the wholly undeserved items of repentance and religion, and enter into the enjoyment of forgiveness in a restored relationship with God; enter life and reside for him, for whose glory and reward we have been created – however not simulated!
[1] Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (Bantam Press), 2006, p 73.