We have almost certainly never anticipated that we would witness, in our lifetimes, a phenomenon as powerful, disturbing, and world shifting as the plague of Covid 19. This pandemic the is not only claiming the lives of countless loved ones every day across the globe, but it has – in one fell swoop – brought…
Category: Refuting Atheism
The pieces of the puzzle
Life can be crudely compared to a jigsaw puzzle. Everything fits snugly into each other. From the precipitation cycle, to particle physics we find nothing independent of anything or anybody. This much will be accepted by even the hardcore materialist. Yet he or she will invariably argue that science and rationality is all we need…
Quantum Physics and the Death of Atheism
Atheists often claim that as science progresses, belief in God and the ‘supernatural’ retreats. They expect that one day Science will convincingly explain all things which believers erroneously attribute to God, as being the product of purely ‘natural’ causes. As such they believe that scientific progress will inevitably lead to the death of belief in…
More on the ‘You’ Question
In previous posts we have discussed how the entire physical content of a person’s brain is replaced constantly while we live, and that this has no discernible effect on our consciousness. But even if we did not know this, the faith of naturalists in the idea that we are cosmic accidents imbued with an sense…
‘I’ am NOT the atoms in my brain
The scientist Carl Sagan once claimed that he was nothing more than the atoms that formed his physical structure, especially his brain. This statement is not in the least surprising coming from the key spokesman of fundamentalist materialism and dogmatic atheism of his time. Yet there is something almost unbelievable about an eminent scientist being…
No Getting Away From God
Imagine for a moment that the life you have lived up to this moment is but a dream. You have (once more) been deceived into accepting the false testimony of your senses, and believed in the existence of a life that is NOT. All your friends and family are figments of your imagination. Your job,…