URL: http://christiantheology.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/atheism-is-unthinkable/

Summary:
There are things, we can call them things because we don’t really know what else to call them, like the laws of logic, numbers, consciousness, ethics, relations, things that seem to be eternal and unchangeable, that are inexplicable in terms of eternal material as the singular explanatory fact, or mere empirical observation, as the method for determining or measuring truths. But if you have all of these facts of experience that are either inconceivable or inexplicable within the scope of a proposed worldview, as in naturalistic atheism, you would need to either deny many facets of human experience by reducing them to being the accidental relations of objects in space, and so say that most of what we find ourselves to be is an illusion of some kind, or find an understanding of the world that can be held in concert with the perceived facts and experiences of the self and the world as we actually find them to be.

This is simpler than it seems. With God, I understand who and what I am, and why the world is the way it is, and why things are the way they seem to be, including everything from physics, to sorrow over death, the love of friends and family and the longing for the afterlife. My grief over sin, the desire for salvation, and the need for reconciliation to one greater than myself, that seems to be innate, makes sense in this context but not outside of it. We need to have a worldview that can coherently reconcile that we grow through time into something either wonderful, or base, and that being either wonderful or base is not just a subjective judgment or opinion, but a real condition ascribable to persons and behaviors.

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Tags: Atheism, The New Atheism, Existence of God