1]Stuff exists. For stuff to exist now, it must have always existed, or it sprang from nothingness.
- It cant have always existed, or it would have long ago degenerated into energy (matter is not eternal).
- Something cant come from nothing.
Or c) we don't know.
2]Life exists. After somehow getting over the fact that stuff exists, its remarkable that life exists. According to some Big Bang proponents, what resulted from the BB was a bunch of low-numbered elements. Through natural processes (where did they come from?), these elements combined to form high-numbered elements, and eventually molecules combined to form things like rocks and other non-living things. Non-life cannot suddenly produce life, yet an atheist would have you believe that we evidently evolved from rocks.
No, atheism is a theistic position, a disbelief in gods. If you were looking for a scientific opinion on the state of the science of abiogenesis, along with some good university entry-level courses, just ask.
3]Life is complex. Consider the lowly caterpillar. When the time is right, it forms a cocoon and soon develops into a butterfly. An atheist would have you believe that some caterpillars had mutated genes that allowed them to form cocoons (never mind how they knew they were better off forming cocoons). These caterpillars out-survived non-cocoon caterpillars so through purely naturalistic means we have the caterpillar becoming a butterfly (after millions of years of evolution, of course).
What other means do we have as a scientific explanation, other than naturalistic? It is the only horse in the race.
4]The universe is fine-tuned for our existence. There are so many things that could be mentioned (and many more that I dont even know about), but consider the many natural laws, the distance the earth is from the sun, the size of the sun, the composition of earths atmosphere, the abundance of life-supporting material, etc. All these things and many more had to be just right in order for life to exist. The odds of all this happening by chance are so small as to be laughable.
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Show your math. (no one ever does)
Even while atheists acknowledge not knowing certain things, they deride Christians for holding to a God of the gaps philosophy.
Is that not what you have just presented, above?
But thats not quite true. The Bible says that, In the beginning, God created.
What take anything the bible says at face value?
There are gaps that atheists shrug off, but there are no gaps where Christianity is concerned.
Atheism is a theistic position, a disbelief in gods, so there are no gaps for the atheist.
Now, for the
biologist that wants to stuff the gaps with gods, they are free to do so. What that gains them in explanatory power appears to be zero. Worse, it kills curiosity.
It takes much more blind faith to be an atheist than to be a Christian, and I personally dont have that much blind faith.
Atheism is a theistic position, a disbelief in gods, it is not a truth statement.
Perhaps if you knew what an atheist was, you might reconsider. After all, why be a Christian?