Why I choose not to be atheist
November 17th 2009 00:00
Some months ago a fellow blogger wrote a piece defending her right to be an atheist. I can completely understand her position, as I was once atheist too. I have no problem with anybody choosing to believe whatever they want to believe in . If you want to worship the same God that I worship, fine. If you wish to pray to the plant in your backyard every morning before smoking its leaves in a belief that it will give you deeper meaning to life, that is up to you. If you choose to believe in no God at all, where evolution reigns, there is no heaven, no hell, no life after death and we do everything in our own strength, then I am all for you to do that.
Why I am now a believer? You see, when you take a good look at it, and even many of the world’s greatest scientists have to admit this - that there has to be a creator behind many of natures many phenomena. This isn’t just a matter of “believing” without any thought behind it. There has to be a rationale behind my belief.
Usually I’m normally a skeptic so excuse me while I don’t put too much credence in ghosts, aliens, psychics, monsters, vampires, santa, the easter bunny, chucacabra, loch ness, or anything like that but I have to admit there is a God.
We have two choices, we either believe that a superior creator designed everything on the earth (including us) and in the universe, or we are all here by accident. Nothing is created without a purpose behind it. Now if we are here by accident, it means that our lives have no meaning. Sure, we have a special talent or a gift that we are born with, but it’s just by luck that we got it, and it’s just all up to us on how we use it, or if we use it all.
If we look at the human body, it is highly complex and intricate. If we are here by accident, then this accident has done pretty well, hasn’t it? Have you ever seen anything create itself? I haven’t, and I am sure that you haven’t either because even an atheist has to admit that life doesn’t happen that way and there is no design without a designer, and no plan without a planner. Rick Warren in his book “A Purpose Driven Life” stated that “There has never been an invention that can tell you what it was created for.” There has always been an instruction book and most importantly behind the design, invention and instruction book is a designer, or a creator.
Scientifically, the world around us speaks of a creator. First, the size, position and angle of the earth is a scientific phenomenon. A few degrees closer to the sun we'd disintegrate, a few degrees further away, we'd freeze. The axis of the earth is titled at a 23-degree angle, which allows equal global distribution to the rays of the sun making it possible for the food chain to exist. Look at the combination of nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere we breathe every day. It just happens to be the exact mix that life needs to prosper, it doesn't happen on any other planet that way. Even the tides, which are controlled by the moon drag impurities from the depths of the sea as it continues to work as a part of a giant recycling chain.
What else is there to say, all of this points to a supreme being, a creator that has made not only me, but also every single person in His own image with a talent and a gift designed to fit my specific purpose here on this planet. Whether you as a reader wish to believe that about you (or about me for that matter) or not is up to you.
Why I am now a believer? You see, when you take a good look at it, and even many of the world’s greatest scientists have to admit this - that there has to be a creator behind many of natures many phenomena. This isn’t just a matter of “believing” without any thought behind it. There has to be a rationale behind my belief.
Usually I’m normally a skeptic so excuse me while I don’t put too much credence in ghosts, aliens, psychics, monsters, vampires, santa, the easter bunny, chucacabra, loch ness, or anything like that but I have to admit there is a God.
We have two choices, we either believe that a superior creator designed everything on the earth (including us) and in the universe, or we are all here by accident. Nothing is created without a purpose behind it. Now if we are here by accident, it means that our lives have no meaning. Sure, we have a special talent or a gift that we are born with, but it’s just by luck that we got it, and it’s just all up to us on how we use it, or if we use it all.
If we look at the human body, it is highly complex and intricate. If we are here by accident, then this accident has done pretty well, hasn’t it? Have you ever seen anything create itself? I haven’t, and I am sure that you haven’t either because even an atheist has to admit that life doesn’t happen that way and there is no design without a designer, and no plan without a planner. Rick Warren in his book “A Purpose Driven Life” stated that “There has never been an invention that can tell you what it was created for.” There has always been an instruction book and most importantly behind the design, invention and instruction book is a designer, or a creator.
Scientifically, the world around us speaks of a creator. First, the size, position and angle of the earth is a scientific phenomenon. A few degrees closer to the sun we'd disintegrate, a few degrees further away, we'd freeze. The axis of the earth is titled at a 23-degree angle, which allows equal global distribution to the rays of the sun making it possible for the food chain to exist. Look at the combination of nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere we breathe every day. It just happens to be the exact mix that life needs to prosper, it doesn't happen on any other planet that way. Even the tides, which are controlled by the moon drag impurities from the depths of the sea as it continues to work as a part of a giant recycling chain.
What else is there to say, all of this points to a supreme being, a creator that has made not only me, but also every single person in His own image with a talent and a gift designed to fit my specific purpose here on this planet. Whether you as a reader wish to believe that about you (or about me for that matter) or not is up to you.
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