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Atheistic Faith

A thousand years before the birth of Christ, David wrote, “The fool has said in his heart, there is no God” (Psalm 14:1). The Hebrew word rendered “fool” means literally “a senseless person.” The Septuagint version of the Old Testament (Greek translation of the Hebrew) uses a word that means literally “mindless” and represents “a lack of common sense.”  Why is the atheist a fool? To begin with, to deny the existence of God is to defy one of the most elementary principles of logic: that something came from nothing; that zero plus zero equals something greater than zero. Consider this. The universe is estimated to be 20 billion light years across. How big is that? That’s the distance that light could travel in 20 billion years at the speed of 186,000 miles per second. And yet atheists believe that the universe accidentally developed from a submicroscopic particle of matter that is “many billions of times smaller than a single proton, one of the atom’s basic particles.” On top of this, atheists believe that billons of years ago life was spontaneously generated by accident from inorganic materials. They believe that from this tiny speck of inorganic matter of self-generated life, human consciousness and moral sensitivity evolved. How logical is this? Far more faith is needed to be an atheist than to believe in God.

                                                                                                               -- Clark Dugger

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