How Science Stopped Backing Atheists and
Started Pointing Back to God
Newsweek,
by
Stephen C. Meyer
Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.,
7/15/2022 7:24:39 AM
Headlines lately have not been encouraging for the faithful. A Gallup poll shows that the percentage of Americans who believe in God has fallen to 81 percent—a drop of 10 percent over the last decade and an all-time low. This accelerating trend is especially pronounced among young adults. (Snip)
Perhaps surprisingly, our survey discovered that the perceived message of science has played a leading role in the loss of faith. We found that scientific theories about the unguided evolution of life have, in particular, led more people to reject belief in God than worries about suffering, disease, or death.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
petrichor 7/15/2022 7:52:02 AM (No. 1216882)
81% want God to exist. I'm not sure that's a belief.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
M-79 7/15/2022 7:57:35 AM (No. 1216884)
81% have eyes that see and ears that hear.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bpl40 7/15/2022 7:59:19 AM (No. 1216888)
Faith in God and belief in logical scientific inquiry have been posed as two opposing views or pursuits. But it isn't so. Faith picks where intellect ends. Consciousness rules over both.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jimboscott 7/15/2022 8:14:21 AM (No. 1216901)
What I find amazing is that the following two things somehow coexist:
1. SETI has its radio telescope arrays pointed to the heavens, looking for even a handful of clearly ordered radiation. If they were to find even the simplest pattern that cannot be explained by background noise then the headlines would read "Intelligent Life Exists Outside Our Planet".
2. At the same time, the simplest organism that meets the definition for life has to reproduce and reproduction CANNOT take place without intact DNA being present in the very first living thing. The SIMPLEST DNA we know of is that of a bacteria and that is the equivalent of 1.3 megabytes or about 1100 genes. The human genome is about 3 billion base pairs.
How can 'science' ignore the certain presence of highly significant ordered data required for life and chalk it up to chance while at the same time being at the ready to declare the presence of intelligent life if only some data equivalent to the word "H E L L O" were to be discovered in the cosmos?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
sw penn 7/15/2022 8:26:24 AM (No. 1216912)
You can have proof,
or you can have faith.
God does not ask you to have proof...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/15/2022 8:56:06 AM (No. 1216938)
Science has essentially ended G-d as some white guy with a long beard sitting on a throne. G-d is much much much more. Scientific advancements have pretty much demolished the idea that everything just happened by chance. Evolution for example. I can believe in creation and evolution at the same time. If you were creating life, would you A: create something that never changes or B, something that can change, adapt and evolve over time without constant intervention?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 7/15/2022 9:32:00 AM (No. 1216981)
Who do you think created science?
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"O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called." 1 Timothy 6:20
For the rest of the story.... https://www.icr.org
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/15/2022 10:25:01 AM (No. 1217025)
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God."
Psalm 14:1
My challenge to the science atheists is to explain who did the "software programming" of animals? How do they know how to use their appendages and most amazingly, how to fly and navigate long distances along traditional migratory paths? How do bees know how to build a hive, the octagonal cells of the hive being specially lined with their amazing anti-bacterial saliva to protect the larvae. How did they know how to do all that? Evolution? HA!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/15/2022 10:26:38 AM (No. 1217027)
Oops, meant "hexagonal" above.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 7/15/2022 10:44:44 AM (No. 1217051)
All the proof you need is to walk outside and look at the beauty of the world around you. The conclusion I have experienced is this is way too perfect to have happened without a superior being designing all of it. I believe in God.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 7/15/2022 10:47:01 AM (No. 1217056)
I forgot to add something. This was in Newsweek. I hope Stephen keeps his job.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
TLCary 7/15/2022 11:08:14 AM (No. 1217077)
Son, of course there is a God. Because YOU didn't come from a warm soup. And, people created your iPhone, it didn't just drop out of an ancient mud puddle. And son, your iPhone is rock simple and meaningless compared to you. Science. Would you like to run the numbers?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
smokincol 7/15/2022 11:46:26 AM (No. 1217124)
John 1:1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
The Defense Rests, Your Honor.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mossley 7/15/2022 12:13:59 PM (No. 1217161)
I've never understood why people think science and faith can't coexist. They deal with two totally different things. One deals with the physical world, the other deals with the ineffable. If God can create the universe, God is also perfectly capable of creating the physical laws that govern it.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
jimboscott 7/15/2022 12:37:34 PM (No. 1217182)
15...
There was a time when not only did science and faith coexist, it was the faithful who promoted and excelled at the science. It was Darwin who hijacked science (with scant evidence I might add) and posited the seed ideas that eventually led to the theory that life came from nothing and with no cause and, by extension, with no purpose.
Against this backdrop, and now over a half century of having expelled even the IDEA of God from public education, we see more and more people who commit horrendous acts of violence, mutilate themselves and turn what should be a natural moral law into just the opposite of what is should be.
Every time there is a school shooting I silently think to myself "Given how children are raised these days... nobody can really mount a sustainable argument that the shooter did anything wrong". The shooters owe their lives to chance, face no God for moral judgment, and therefore are free and clear to create whatever system of good and evil that suits their needs. Absent God, morality is nothing but and opinion. Some cultures say 'love your neighbor' while others say 'eat your neighbor'. Without God... who is right?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
The Remnants 7/16/2022 8:57:35 AM (No. 1217800)
"Is Atheism Dead?" by Eric Metaxas - Interesting book.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Zigrid 7/16/2022 9:56:26 AM (No. 1217854)
I'm an absolute Christian...and that's my right as an American...I'm reminded of a story that might shed some light on these over educated Washington types...recently a friend ...who happened to be a successful lawyer....passed...many years ago he scoffed at my faith by saying...he was intelligent enough to not need a crutch...when I got the news of his passing I wondered...how is this gonna work out for him...will he negotiate with God as to his position...interesting...NO?...I lite a candle for him and asked God to accept his apology and grant him peace...
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Italiano 7/16/2022 11:13:04 AM (No. 1217936)
So the human eye, to submit just one example, simply “evolved?”
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Geoman 7/16/2022 1:00:37 PM (No. 1218010)
Having been raised in a Christian household, I was fortunate to study for and receive an undergraduate degree from a major Christian university that had no problem requiring that all students take Old and New Testament classes taught by the Religion Department professors. The university also had a first rate pre-med program and its own highly regarded medical school, so scientific inquiry and the scientific method were embraced as well as religion (e.g., empirical evidence and faith coexist). As a geology major, my university had no conflict in accepting geologic time (e.g., students were not taught that the Earth was only six thousand years old, based on adding up the lifetimes of the Old Testament patriarchs) and extrapolating the pseudo-biblical age of the Earth. I’ve never been conflicted regarding the harmonization between religion and science and those who are conflicted tend to embrace a false dichotomy.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
NotaBene 7/16/2022 4:42:18 PM (No. 1218172)
Science today is the NIH and Clot Shots.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
NYbob 7/16/2022 6:47:07 PM (No. 1218293)
Dust to dust, is majestic in it's simplicity and amazingly accurate for those old Bible writers. Now science has proven that we are all stardust, but science is very late to the party. Stupid people have no idea they are stupid and arrogant, lecturing atheists who think THEY understand existence, creation and life in general, are not nearly as smart as they think they are. Besides being cruel, selfish and bullies every chance they get.
I have a LOT of work to do to live up to my gift of life, but the proof for my beliefs are the examples of love in the world and the incredible miracles all around us and in us. The proof of the fallacy of a human centered moral code for society is every daily headline.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
danu 7/16/2022 7:12:13 PM (No. 1218304)
Faith is Trust; Trust is Reality; Reality is God's creation all round us. God's creation is seen and unseen-as it unfolds.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Samsquanch 7/16/2022 7:53:41 PM (No. 1218328)
You have too much to lose listening to other people tell you there is no God.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Amoeba 7/16/2022 9:07:33 PM (No. 1218399)
https://www.creationworldview.org/grady-mcmurtry
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/16/2022 10:15:13 PM (No. 1218446)
For Atheists to believe the entire Universe and all it's complexity and Earth's Life is a random accident.
They might as well think that IF a Tornado hit a Junk Yard it would leave behind a fully assembled and functional Boeing 757.
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