Melissa
English 100
October 21, 2013
Argument Essay
Who are we to say there is no God?
Werner Heisenberg once said "The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you." Even a man whose life focus was science and explaining how things worked believed in a Power greater than himself. Heisenberg was a genius and his theories couldn't explain away God. Although some say that the wonders of mother nature can be explained by scientific facts I believe the presence of God is all around us. Atheists argue that suffering and war come from religion but God is loving and all-inclusive; it is people in the religions that cause the suffering not God. Even though Austin Cline believes there are too many religions and different God's to go with them all (page 71) ; I believe the other gods are pleasing to mans desire. A true God would be contrary to flesh and be on a much holier level thus proving man made to please themselves. These man made gods are made of wood stone and iron made by mans hands. God has never had a graven image or a name like they do. "There Is No God" by Sam Harris gives the example of hurricane Katrina as proof there is no God (page 72). Harris uses the point that if there is a God "what was he doing while a hurricane wasted their city?" For one thing, such events shake our confidence in this life and force us to think about eternity. Churches are usually filled after disasters as people realize how precious their lives really are and how life can be snuffed out in an instant. Further more, what we do know is this: God is good! Many amazing miracles occurred during the course of natural disasters that prevented even greater loss of life. Natural disasters cause millions of people to reevaluate their priorities in life. Hundreds of millions of dollars in aid is sent to help the people who are suffering. Ministries have the opportunity to help, minister, counsel, pray, and lead people to a saving faith. God can, and does, bring great good out of terrible tragedies (Romans 8:28). First of all the universe had to start from something and Marilyn Adamson addresses this thought on the website everystudent.com. She talks about the big bang theory and how no one can really explain this phenomenon (page 70).The big bang scenario speculates that the marvelously and meticulous ordered universe randomly resulted from a gigantic explosion. Even though never in the history of human experience has a chaotic explosion been observed producing an intricate order that operates so purposefully. An explosion in a print shop does not produce an encyclopedia. A tornado sweeping through a junkyard does not assemble a Boeing 747. No building contractor dumps his materials on a vacant lot, attached dynamite, and then waits for a completed structure from the resulting bang. The idea is absurd. Evolutionist Donald Page was correct when he wrote "There is no mechanism known as yet that would allow the Universe to begin in an arbitrary state and then evolve to its present highly ordered state." The most powerful evidence there is a God is the fundamental presence of God in every man, woman, and child; that is how our moral compass is created. Since the beginning of man right and wrong were as part of us as our heartbeat; absolute and universal moral law exists (page 70). If God doesn't exist then humans are just animals and since the human brain evolved from lower animals why would we trust it. In addition, we are left with this problem: if human beings are simply the product of naturalistic evolution, then we have no foundation for moral obligation and human dignity. The sexual predator and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer acknowledged the seriousness of the matter: "If it all happens naturalistically, what's the need for a God? Can't I set my own rules? Who owns me? I own myself." This statement is rather unsettling. Morality is also ultimately authoritative, its authority is greater than any human institution; this means that it was not prescribed by any human institution, but must have come from a Higher Power. Atheists read wordy books and indulge in windy arguments, thinking they believe this universe needs no God to explain it. Were their arguments true, it would mean that life originated out of nothing, means nothing, and now proceeds nowhere. Even Heisenberg gave credit where credit was due, to God. Agnostics and atheists chose to believe that our human intelligence is the last word, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. Rather vain of them, isn't it?