(April 22, 2015 at 5:17 pm)Alex K Wrote:(April 15, 2015 at 3:09 pm)Drew_2013 Wrote: Perhaps the greatest scientist of all time is Isaac Newton he believed the universe was knowable and could be explained mathematically precisely because he believed an intelligent agent created the universe. Below is the law of gravitation. Newton didn't invent this law, he discovered it. Mindless forces according to atheists some how produced this law that allows us to predict the orbit of planets and other celestial bodies. And they produced a host of other laws that are the basis for today's technology and for our existence. This is just one of many laws and formula's we have uncovered through observation and experimentation. But we didn't invent them or cause them to exist. They were there waiting to be discovered. This would be akin to going to a network closet that was put together by children who had no idea how to design a network and discover they put one together that not only worked, but there was logic and reason to how it was put together.
This in part is why its ludicrous for atheists to claim there is no evidence in support of theism.
You are aware that Newton's law is not correct, right? It's only an approximation.
Yes I am. Einstein and others noticed a slight discrepancy and subsequently he formulated his theory of general relativity. The point is we observe ourselves in a universe that according to atheists came into existence without the benefit of a designer or engineer and yet the universe operates unswervingly by laws of physics that are discoverable, are amenable to scientific inquiry and explicable in mathematical formulas, are uniform throughout the universe and make prediction and deduction possible. Is this what anyone would expect or predict if our universe was the result of mindless mechanistic that didn't intend any specific thing to happen? Would it be surprising if a universe came into existence without the benefit of intelligence design or planning that it would be chaotic without any discernible laws of nature and hostile to scientific inquiry? I dare say it wouldn't be surprising but it would be what you'd expect from the source...