Reason 22 - A Scientific Mindset
“Atheists with a scientific mindset often prioritize skepticism, evidence, and falsifiability. They apply these principles to religious claims and find them lacking in empirical support. [1] Religious concepts such as miracles, creation stories, or divine intervention often fail to meet the rigorous standards of scientific inquiry, leading to their rejection.”
“Scientific minds respect the truth. They look for facts and evidence to support their views, because that’s the only knowledge they can reliably use to navigate their world and better their lives.” [2]
One will never prove or disprove the existence of God thru scientific equations. Scientific inquiries are not satisfied thru religious claims, thus leading to their rejection of the entirety of religion. Atheists have a need for hard, cold facts to believe in something. That’s good in most phases of life, but when it comes to the supernatural or spiritual world, scientists and atheists turn a blind eye to it. No proof means it apparently cannot be real to them.
Just because I don’t believe something doesn’t negate the reality of it. We are being called to stretch the boundaries we ourselves have set up to investigate otherworldly possibilities. People believe in the existence of Sasquatch without definitive truth except for blurry photos at a distance, but believing in a Supreme Spiritual being who created all that exists is a different animal (pardon the pun). People believe in the existence of aliens from other planets and the fact that they have visited our planet, yet there is only a load of conjecture, hypothesis, and rumors of abductions - no appreciable proof. * I get that is a bit of an apples to oranges comparison, however, it serves as a simple example of what some folks are willing to believe rather than entertain the existence of someone who puts up a standard to live by. Sasquatch isn’t telling anyone how they should live, which makes him no threat to anyone’s sensibilities.
Reducing everything to a scientific equation based on theorem established by men of high intelligence that they achieved thru research is the path I’m expected to take if I want to know what they refer to as “the truth”. That which they researched has been written or spoken by men or women who are flawed like the rest of us. They aren’t perfect, no one is this side of heaven, and that is NOT to say that their research hasn’t been legitimate, for I am certain that it is. But a flawed world filled with flawed people establishing potentially flawed ideas and proposals is not a path I’m willing to go down.
Seeking answers is necessary to understand the world around us; however, I feel that too many adversaries of Christianity simply don’t want to understand anything about it. Their understanding stops at the fact that there is no appreciable data or evidence to give credence to a Loving God being in control of all things that exist. Of course, to me the notion that human existence starts by chance as it climbed out of the slime to eventually, over time, become human beings is hardly a place I’m willing to start. I’m expected to believe that we came from nothingness, and I’m supposed to accept that as true without anything other than theories and conjecture and I’m sorry, but that is preposterous to me.
Science is good for what it is, and a necessary tool when seeking a certain type of information but using it to try and convince me that there is NO GOD based on human logic and scientific theorem is to me weak. Down thru the ages there have been attempts to combine science with theology, however, none of that matters if you don’t deal with the issue of ‘sin’. Head knowledge, while having value, does not help when we seek an answer for dealing with man’s sin. Denying God’s existence doesn’t make evil evaporate into thin air. Evil is real, but I’ve yet to hear an explanation of how it exists outside of the existence of God. Denying the existence of God removes man’s need to eradicate their sin. But is that provable?
I suppose if you remove God from man’s equation nothing of any substance matters. That means everything else falls under the category of whatever I say it is. I determine what is right and wrong, I determine what is true and false. I determine what love and hate is. But the gaping flaw in that is that you really can’t with any success have billions of individual determinations for these things. That would breed utter chaos over time. I find it much more satisfying and peace inducing to believe in a Heavenly Father who loves me, hears me when speak to Him, and acts on my behalf if and when it is necessary. Until next time, walk with the King & be a blessing.
In His Name & for His Glory,
RL Keller
Bread of Life Ministries
[1] Empirical support refers to the evidence or data obtained through scientific research that supports a particular theory, treatment, or phenomenon.
* My opinion on the subject of the existence of aliens is inconsequential. I am openminded about it, but whether they actually exist or not means very little to me.
Resource: An article titled 30 Reasons People Choose Atheism on a blog called Housley - written by Lisa O.; www.gotquestions.org.
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