Atheists

Christians: if you’ve tried to argue with a hardcore atheist, you probably know what I’m talking about.

They act like angels of truth, but they fight dirty. They wave their words around like shepherd’s staffs, but they wield them like clubs to break the arms and legs of your arguments.  The vital parts are left intact but who can walk on broken legs and who can work with broken arms?  Everyone except Christians are blind to the clubbing because that’s the law they know.

You know you’re right.  You know that even if you’re not strong in logic, the logic of the Bible you believe in is completely solid.  You know that facts are more than science, and that science is more than the words of scientists.  There is much to be said for integrating philosophy into education (as much as I hated writing about it in seventh grade) because philosophy teaches logic.
You need logic to really understand math and science for what they are and how they work, and that same logic demonstrates that until someone disproves that there could even vaguely be a God or that the creation of the universe from nothing could be random, being Christian does not make you less intelligent than an atheist.

I know that the atheists are working hard to show that it is possible that life came to exist through random events.  It’s incredible how they’ve managed to brew their prebiotic soups, study the unfamiliar systems of the deep sea vents, and conduct their endless experiments on how things may have come to be.  In other words, they’ve constructed a mechanism that makes life as we know it physically possible.  These are really smart and dedicated people working to put together this picture.

Unfortunately, that’s not how logic works.  Logic works one solid step at a time and there are no spaces for guesswork beyond the assumption that all we touch, see, hear, smell, and taste are not illusions.  The steps of logic in the world we know consist of infallible facts in the world we know.  Fact: as unlikely as spontaneous evolution is, it’s not impossible.  Fact: it cannot be confirmed that the world as we know it came to be as biologists and other scientists theorize.  Fact: the nature of Darwinist theories doesn’t allow for the existence of humans for much of the world’s history.  Even if the world came to be that way, there’s nobody to confirm it.  Fact: if Someone created the world, He created it with regular plants and animals as if they’d existed all along.  Couldn’t God have created evolution while creating logic for a physical world?  In this case, true history (the Bible) would be the cause of natural history, in which case, natural history would be secondary to the events that invented it.  Fact: if the Bible is true, then even though Adam didn’t happen early enough to witness creation, God exists, God doesn’t lie, and God told someone to write down history as He witnessed it.  Feel free to find the results inconclusive.  Obviously, what actually happened can’t be proven by the theories of the atheists (just because you can go from A to C via D doesn’t mean you can’t go via B).  Equally obviously, either both the Bible is true and God exists or the Bible is false and God does not exist.

Personally, I think the scientists are pointlessly chasing after an illusion.  My Biology professors swear by evolution, and while I agree it’s a big part of our understanding of how ecology works, I disagree in that I don’t think it’s necessary for much of applied science.  I don’t need to know how two microorganisms could have merged to become eukaryotic in order to understand that all living things follow the same system of genetics (honestly, I don’t see how that proves common ancestry any more than diamonds and animals sharing carbon atoms would prove common ancestry) and that this fact allows people to apply murine research to human medicine.

ANYway.

Everyone who acknowledges that the Bible is true must also acknowledge that God exists and everyone who does not acknowledge the Bible also does not acknowledge God’s existence.  The latter must deal with the infinite alternate possibilities.  There is proof that God exists (but I will not elaborate since there are many clearheaded others who not only are perfectly capable of providing evidence but also have done so already) although some evidence is less tangible than others.  That aside, since Christians acknowledge the Bible and atheists don’t, they can’t argue with each other.  You have to agree on the relevant facts to argue the implications of those facts and come to a resolution so Christian-atheist debates based on “your facts are wrong” can’t resolve.

What do atheists do in this case?

Actually, first: what could atheists do?

They could politely state that they don’t acknowledge the Bible as fact.

What do many atheists actually do?  (Id est what did I mean by “they wield them like clubs to break the arms and legs of your arguments”?)

They use derisive analogies from flying spaghetti monsters to “2+2=5″.  Quote from one guy on Soompi: “I can think of a trillion different gods [. . .] better than yours.”  To get that count, he’d have to include all the gods who require human sacrifices.  How pleasant.  His argument, deconstructed: “I believe that you have to be less intelligent than I to believe in God, therefore I > you, therefore my argument > yours.”  The short version: “ad hominem.”

What can you do?  You can argue until they stop arguing, which could go on for who knows how long depending on whom you’re talking to.  You can walk out feeling huffy.  Or, you can close loopholes in your logic while being polite about it and walk away trusting the rest to God.

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