The Root of the Problem
In this month's issue of Biblical Worldview Magazine, Gary Demar cites an interesting quote by Nobel Prize winning atheist named George Wald. The following words are shocking, but truly demonstrate how illogical atheism is:
I agree with Ray Comfort when he says that all a person needs to have in order to know God exists is "eyes that can see and a brain that works." The evidence for the existence of God is literally everywhere! Creation is proof there is a Creator! Nobody looks at a mansion on a hill and blindly believes that the house built itself out of nothing and for no reason! All such a notions should be an insult to our intelligence! Even young children will not believe such nonsense!
Wald's words demonstrate the root problem with atheists. These are not the words of an objective person seeking to understand the origins of life. Wald is not interested in the truth. This demonstrates how atheists will say anything and come up with all sorts of cockamamie "theories" to deny the existence of God.
Isn't that an amazing statement? At the very least one might think Wald would have wits enough to be a Deist, but obviously he did not. I believe it was Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes who said "once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." This educated man willingly embraced what he readily acknowledged as an impossibility simply because he didn't want to believe in God!!! This man's logic was not even as sharp as a fictional private detective! How foolish indeed!"There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose. Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God... There is no other possibility. Spontaneous generation was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur and others, but that just leaves us with only one other possibility... that life came as a supernatural act of creation by God, but I can't accept that philosophy because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution"
I agree with Ray Comfort when he says that all a person needs to have in order to know God exists is "eyes that can see and a brain that works." The evidence for the existence of God is literally everywhere! Creation is proof there is a Creator! Nobody looks at a mansion on a hill and blindly believes that the house built itself out of nothing and for no reason! All such a notions should be an insult to our intelligence! Even young children will not believe such nonsense!
Wald's words demonstrate the root problem with atheists. These are not the words of an objective person seeking to understand the origins of life. Wald is not interested in the truth. This demonstrates how atheists will say anything and come up with all sorts of cockamamie "theories" to deny the existence of God.
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." --Psalm 14:1(a)
(Update: In the comment section, someone has stated that the quote attributed to Wald was quote-mined and is therefore not true.)
5 comments:
Very interesting quote! Thanks for sharing.
A good point, however Sherlock Holmes was a PRIVATE detective, not a police detective. Indeed one of the things he often does in the stories is show up the lack of imagination of Scotland Yard detectives such as Lestrade.
Given it's some years sine I last read any Holmes, I am now more hopeful about my own memory.
Highlands Host,
Thanks for keeping me straight! I've edited the article. That was a bad assumption on my part.
RK
This guy is a pretty blatant example of what Paul was talking about when he said that men, "suppress [or, hold down]the truth in unrighteousness." Romans 1:18.
I am reminded of a story RC Sproul tells, of being invited to speak to a gathering of college atheists on the topic of "evidences for God." One of the first things he told them was (paraphrased here), "The problem is not with the evidence. It's not about what you know or don't know. The problem is that you HATE what you already know."
The George Wald "quote" is actually a quotemine, which is to say , it is a lie. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/quotes/mine/part1-4.html#quote57
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