RE: A simple challenge for atheists
January 13, 2015 at 10:55 am
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2015 at 10:55 am by Davka.)
(January 13, 2015 at 2:34 am)bob96 Wrote:(January 12, 2015 at 6:55 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Argument from Authority.
Fail.
Yes, but they are *your* authorities! The most brilliant minds in science believe in God. For many, it was science that changed their minds.
This is a misreading of all those cherry-picked quotes. For example, Einstein was (for all intents and purposes) an atheist, or at best an agnostic. When he spoke of "God," it was for the consumption of the masses, not because he was a theist.
There are shit-tons of websites out there which have carefully snipped quotes from their context in order to make it appear that various famous scientists believe(d) in god. But when you read the quote in its original context, you discover that they were deliberately misrepresented.
I began to seriously study the Bible, Judaism and Christianity when I got saved in 1987. At first, I swallowed all the stuff you have written here. But when I began to do the research for myself (instead of swallowing the pre-digested pablum), I discovered how many lies had been told to me by happy deluded Christians who never bothered to check their sources.
Whatever you do, if you want to remain a Christian, do NOT study to show thyself approved. Stay in preschool, on a milk-only diet, like a good sheep.