Modern science is on the march making amazing discoveries about the natural world. No one can deny that things are changing rapidly. I'm tempted to say, slow the "f" down! How many paradigm shifts can a body take? Of course, I jest. Kind of.
Computers, artificial intelligence, databases, Internet, optical lenses showing insanely minute objects as well as astronomical ones, billions of people being able to travel and communicate as never before... The list goes on and on as to the advances in information gathering--and disseminating.
We humans--researchers, investigators, scientists, programmers, YouTube'rs, the odd social-media influencer--are all rapidly exposing truth. Truth here, truth there. Truth everywhere!
And don't forget, guys, what they say about the truth; the truth hurts.
Sometimes, our deepest held beliefs just have to go by the wayside as new realizations make themselves known.
Personally, I've been transformed by moments in my life: After reading a book, listening to a lecture, just thinking on my own.
You can sit quietly and wonder: when is the next transformative moment going to come my way?
Well, I think I just experienced one.
I sent an email to a friend about it. It kind of sums up the gist of my little epiphany.
Subject line read:
Antidote for the nihilism of randomness
(An antidote in this case is like a potion that would reverse the effects of a poisoning.)
I gave him a link to a YouTube video:
https://youtu.be/GgbwySSd0PM
And then another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w31-opCnvOg
In the first video, we are shown a very compelling comparison between the flagellum of a one-celled organism and an outboard motor. We learn, there is no way that that little flagellum--with 40 separate mechanisms--have come into existence on its own by chance without intelligence or a designer. It could never in trillions of years within trillions of multiverses have come into being, let alone have evolved, in a Darwinian way, and then work as exquisitely as it does on such an insanely tiny nano scale.
In the second video, the laws & constants of physics are discussed at about 26 minutes in. But the entire video is amazing and jaw-dropping.
I told my friend that once he sees the videos he'll understand when I write:
Only when we shed Darwin's paradigm of chance can we escape liberal tyranny....
[End of email]
Now I equate atheism (or Darwinism) with liberalism. And the liberalism we see today is no less than a tyranny.
A little background here: My father believed in that Darwinian paradigm of chance, and, no coincidence, he was a dyed-in-the-wool liberal. He no-less rigorously raised me as his little atheist. In fact, my father, who messed with my head in this way, was not indifferent on the matter. He was not agnostic, as they say, about the existence of God. He was sure. He'd tell me: Scientists don't believe in God. And I took him at his word.
My father believed in chance. He believed that rocks and gas, combined with lightning and lots of time, made life, all on its own. Ever since the primordial-ooze lab experiments in the 1950s—experiments that were by definition not aided by supernatural phenomenon—a lot of people believe the secular view that life could have emerged spontaneously, as theorized, from a perfect mix of chemicals and gas in underwater volcanic hydrothermal vents.
But times have changed.
Yes, times have changed, because today scientists (drum roll, please) do believe in God. They even believe in the supernatural. Their research, in fact, proves the premise. The Big-Bang Theory, for example, proffers an essentially divine beginning--kind of Biblical, I'd say.
Scientists now expound that mere rocks and gas, combined with energy and lots of time, could not alone have made life. There was a cause, they say. There had to be. There was a creator, they say. There was a designer. That life could have emerged on its own by chance, scientists are realizing, could never have happened. The mathematical, yes, mathematical odds are simply too great. Again, there had to be a cause, a creator, a designer.
Science, yes, science, has proven the existence of God.
Side note: The effects of inflicting atheism on me or anyone, I have come to believe, is a brand of child abuse, because what tags along with atheism tends to be the liberal worship of Man not God. And what tags along with the worship of Man not God is nihilism and despair. And nihilism and despair?: That begets crime and the breakdown of society.
I have been veering away from the indoctrinating forces of atheism for at least a decade now. But until today, yes, today, I only rejected the atheism. Today, I learned, there is a God.
What does this mean for me (or YOU)--just specks of dust in the universe?
