Atheism

Here is a piece of my homework for apologetics. Feel free to comment here or email me if you have a different view, and let me know what you think.

Atheists claim to know that there is no God. However, the statement cannot hold it's place dogmatically. To be able to make that kind of an argument, one would have to know the universe in its entirety and to possess all knowledge. Yet the one with such characteristics could only be God Himself. Therefore, one can only state that he is uncertain whether or not there is a God, which is not atheism but agnosticism.

            The first aspect in which atheism fails intellectually, is the origin of life. Atheists blindly and stubbornly cling to evolution as a proved, scientific fact, although it's nothing but a theory. Believing that everything in this universe came out of nothing, is absurd. The results of studying microevolution are being used to prove macroevolution, which is scientifically unjust.

            Modern evolution is based on natural selection, the survival of the fittest. Profitable gene mutations are necessary. "[John C. Kendrew] calls development through mutations a "random process", and the only basis he gives for using it as a source for evolution is that it has operated for 'more than five hundred million years'. Some would quadruple that to two billion, or even three billion. In this connection, we might note that chance would require forty-six trillion times that long to select just once the phrase: The Theory of Evolution, working at the speed of light, a billion tries per second." (Coppedge, 84)

            Evolution in itself is another topic, but all that to say that it does not disprove the existence of God, but rather reinforces it. If you only carefully observed nature, you would have to come to a conclusion that there is a creator God, a mere chance cannot be behind everything we can see and experience today.

            If the existence of the universe was nothing but a cosmic accident, man would be nothing but an accident himself; a freak of nature. We would all be chunks of matter that somehow, by chance, began to have emotions, feelings, and thoughts. If life ended at death, there would be no ultimate meaning in life, hence there would be no meaning in anything we say or do.

            William Lane Craig pointed out that most atheists subconsciously borrow the concept of immortality, trying to create a meaning for life and moral rules for the society. But if there is no God to tell us objectively the standards for right and wrong, everything is merely relative. Especially when the meaning of life becomes nothing but enjoying yourself, it is impossible to come up with a universal law of morals.

            Hitler saw it as a purpose of his life to destroy the Jews, the gypsies, the disabled etc. He saw it as a right thing to do, and so did his followers. If we don't have God's objective moral law, in what basis can we say that what he did was absolutely wrong? Of course our conscience tells us, but if we believe in our consciousness being nothing but chemicals reacting with other chemicals in our brain, how could we possibly use that to define anything? "Without a higher standard of authority to go to, which is God, all of life is based on the values of the majority or a dictator in power. They have no sure truth to turn to; it is all a matter of opinion." (McDowell and Stewart, 107)

            I agree with William Lane Craig who said that "without God, life is ultimately absurd". No meaning in life, no hope, no peace, and no real joy. All that people have in the world is self-delusive. Furthermore, even if there was no God and Christians were wrong, we, by the time we die, would've lived a meaningful, happy life, and there would be nothing to lose after death. But if we are right, like I firmly believe, those who are on the outside are living a meaningless life, and will suffer for eternity after death in the flames of Hell. It is a win-and-wine or lose-and-lose situation. Why would one ever want to pick the latter one?