To Atheists
I appreciate why atheists are so upset with the idea that God exists
and a human soul exists. Atheists believe they are modern, rational
and scientific and that makes their beliefs correct and old beliefs
about God and a human soul incorrect. So when Christians (or others
who believe in God) go around trying to convert people, atheists get
mad that they are spouting lies and nonsense. Now atheists believe
spreading lies is immoral, so they figure Christians are immoral. I
understand why you get upset. When I hear all the lies we get from
politicians and government officials and the mainstream media simply
supports them all, I get mad too!
But there is an assumption that goes into atheism that is simply
false. Atheists have an understanding of the world that comes from
the 19th century. The assumption is what philosophers call
presentism. In presentism only the present exists, the past is gone
and the future does not yet exist. Also presentism implies that
what we have in the universe is a bunch of particles that are moving
around automatically according to the laws of physics. You can even
add in the 20th century concept where the particles were created in
the Big Bang, but you've still got presentism.
An old idea resurfaced in the 20th century, an idea philosophers call
eternalism. Thanks to special relativity, physicists have found out
that the past, present and future all exist "at once" as a sort of
solid block of everything that "just is". So physicists refer to
this whole block of everything that "just exists" all "at once"
as the blockworld or the block universe. Atheists: I'm sure you
won't take my word for it, so go to the page
"Science Points to the Blockworld" where the
page starts out with quotes from Einstein and Greene and goes on
from there.
So, now, when God created the heavens and the Earth, God created
everything across all of space AND TIME. So at the same time God
created the Big Bang, He created the Earth as it was in our past,
the Earth as it is now and the Earth as it will be in the future.
He created this whole block universe. It is definitely NOT a case
of particles coming out of the Big Bang and then they move around at
random and then stars form, stars explode, planets form and then
life (on Earth at least) happens by chance combinations of atoms.
This includes all the life forms that did exist on Earth, do now
exist on Earth and will exist on Earth in the future. Think about
this carefully. Atheists always go around saying that if a living
cell simply popped up out of nowhere it would have to be a miracle.
Of course, atheists don't believe in miracles so they assume that
even their first cell slowly evolved from simpler things. But it
wasn't just ONE cell that showed up. ALL the cells in ALL the
different species showed up. AT ONCE! There is no way to turn this
into random chance! There had to be a Creator involved!
So now, atheists, you're going to find this all hard to believe. I
understand. New ideas take time to take hold. You probably know
how it works. First there is denial, then there is anger. A lot of
people will never accept it, they will just die off as the new
paradigm takes over. But look: if you are going to be true to your
belief in being MODERN, RATIONAL and SCIENTIFIC you're going to have
to believe the result from special relativity. There is a nice
little quote from a little book called
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Simple Link Between Relativity and
Quantum Mechanics by Dr. Andrew Thomas, an ebook I picked up from
Amazon for 99 cents. In chapter 5, near location 1089, Thomas says:
... it has to be stressed that accepting the reality of the block
universe is not an option. To disregard the implications of the
block universe is not only to ignore the conclusions of special
relativity, it is to ignore basic logic.
Then, finally, if you're an atheist, and you get upset about people
spreading lies and fairy tales about the world you need to start
attacking atheism as vigorously as you have been attacking theism.
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