Is Atheism Dead? | Isaiah
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2021
- 10/03/2021
#1 New York Times bestselling author, Eric Metaxas, encourages the Church with some of the latest scientific and biblical archaeological evidence for God. From his latest book, Is Atheism Dead, Eric also discusses how two of the best-known atheists of our time eventually came to faith in Christ through an honest observation of undeniable evidence. Eric’s teaching will help to equip Believers in their faith as they engage the culture for Christ.
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Eric, I was recently reading this book and this really crazy God size miracle happened .
I wrote about for my friends and family.
I will share it here if you want to read what God did in my own life just weeks ago 🙏❤️
What is a single dime worth?
Recently I was getting ready to go on a trip. It was a trip I was looking forward to as it involved seeing my grandchildren.
It was grandparents day at our second graders school that weekend.
They live 750 miles from us which necessitates an airplane ride to visit for the weekend.
I was packed and rolling my suitcase towards the family room to have my husband put into our car before leaving for the airport.
As the suitcase rolled across the wood floor into the family room a dime suddenly fell from somewhere onto the floor. I picked it up and looked around me wondering from where it had fallen. There was nothing on the outside of the suitcase that had any signs of a place for it to come from but I picked it up and tossed it onto my desk nearby.
When I picked up the dime from the floor I remembered thinking for some strange reason how small and light it was, why I marveled at the size and weight of the small dime, I was unaware.
Off to the airport I went and eventually onto the airplane.
I had taken a book I wanted to continue reading as it has had so many amazing details about the story of our origin and very existence that I have found to be remarkable, you might even say, miraculous.
So after settling into my seat on the airplane, read a few chapters I did!
I continued to marvel at the revelations I was reading and the many details which were so curiously reflective of a purposeful design and thoughtful designer.
After arriving in Nashville and retrieving my luggage from the baggage claim I continued my journey to my daughter’s house where I was so looking forward to those faces I love as much as you can love anyone’s face.
They are reflections of the kind of love you can remember feeling when seeing your own children‘s little faces at that age and knowing you could never love anyone as much as you love them.
On arrival, there they were, my favorite little boy faces!
After greeting those beautiful faces, my precious 2nd grader offered to help me take my overpacked suitcase into the house.
I rolled it across their wood floors into the room I would be staying.
A little later that day, I decided to retrieve something from my suitcase that I had brought for my daughter.
So I removed the outside cover that protects the suitcase from damage when traveling. It’s a weatherproof material that slides over the suitcase and fits snugly with straps to tighten it.
In other words, the suitcase itself is underneath this protective jacket.
So I pulled it off and proceeded to unzip my suitcase. As I unzipped and flung open the case to reveal the contents a strange occurrence happened.
A dime flew onto the wooden floor of my daughter’s room in which I had parked the suitcase.
I went over and picked up the dime and marveled again at another dime apparently coming out of nowhere and landing beside me on the floor.
I examined the contents of my suitcase and decided it was a strange coincidence that two dimes had now fallen to the floor in different cities beside my suitcase.
There were no other signs of any loose change inside my suitcase and as I picked it off the floor, again, I had the thought of how small and light the dime was and wondering where had it come from, just as earlier that morning a dime appeared out of nowhere 750 miles from where I now was standing.
But as with any seemingly coincidental occurrence I tossed the dime on a desk in my daughters house and went about the rest of the day.
We enjoyed a beautiful and special time that weekend together. Seeing my growing grandsons and having time together was a special treat for me.
Sunday arrived and it was once again time to head back to the airport.
Luggage bag checked at the airport, it was time to settle in for the trip back home.
I got out my book again and began to read….
“In his book, Why the Universe Is the Way It Is, Caltech astrophysicist Hugh Ross gives us the frightening details:
‘ at certain early epochs in cosmic history, (the universe’s) mass density must have been as finely tuned as one part in 10 to the 60th power to allow for the possible existence of physical life at any time or place with the entirety of the universe. This degree of fine-tuning is so great that it’s as if right after the universe beginning someone could have destroyed the possibility of life within it by subtracting a single dimes mass from the whole of the observable universe, or adding a single dime mass to it.”
What did I just read???
What was this scientific fact revealing to my curious mind and heart! I felt a lump in my throat beginning as I remembered the strange appearance of two dimes appearing out of nowhere that weekend and what my thought had been each time I picked them up from the floor, how I had marveled at the small lightweight of those two little, seemingly coincidental, coins that had garnered my attention.
On I began to continue reading….
“ A single dime’s mass. Everyone knows that the mass of a dime is almost nothing. Yet Hugh Ross declares that is the amount of mass that would have caused the universe not to come into being. Are we supposed to take this seriously? That the mass of a dime is what could have made the difference between our existence and non-existence? How can we rationally process something so outrageous? And yet science has progressed to the point where it can tell us this, as a fact. Still, the notion that the entire mass of the universe could not deviate by the mass of a single dime has to be among the most preposterous statements anyone has ever made in the history of language. But again, there is a monumental difficulty, because this is not the harebrained, conjecture of some madman, but the bloodless scientific consensus. It isn’t something that science can explain, of course, and it makes many scientist deeply uncomfortable. But there it is: an incomprehensibly outrageous scientific fact that stymies any thinking person into silence. What is there to say? “
As I continued to read Eric Metaxas’ book, titled, Is Atheism Dead?, the answer to his title question continues to persuade anyone reading it with a certainty of heart and mind…
My heart was moved to a silent awe of what I had previously been unaware, that a little dime could be worth so much! The world was indeed created in such a way to reveal all that was created to have great value, as seen on the faces we love and the gratitude we feel for their place in our lives. This purposefully created universe tells this story everywhere we look of intelligent design created for the purpose of love.
Tears filled my eyes as I sat still on the airplane watching the clouds roll past my window…the universe has a designer who loves us so much more than a single dime ❤️
For God so loved the world that He gave his only Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16
Explain away the problem of evil.
If you were being intellectually honest (to borrow a phrase), you'd also share that there's an estimated 700 quintillion planets in the universe making fine tuning arguments, such as Jupiter's anti-asteroid properties, an expected feature of a subset of planets.
The scientific community hasn't assumed a personal God, because we expect earth to be suitable for life, the same way we don't build cities on active volcanoes. You evolve on the 1 in a quintillion place where life is supported.
This is not a proof or disproof of a Christian (or any other) God.
Each new scientific discovery raises new questions. What Metaxas refers to as scientific evidence for God are those questions which we haven't yet answered. Theists like Metaxas, in an attempt to justify their faith in Iron Age superstitions, shove God into whatever temporary knowledge gap they can find.
You breathe new life into the adage, "Let the blind lead the blind" - however, probably not the way you imagine.
@@brannciforte1373 Which one of us is blind.
i like how star trek science now produced multiverse that nobody can prove test or even put into mathematical equation.. if it was not sad it would be funny :)
I don't see how anyone as smart as Christopher Hitchens could be impressed by the fine-tuning argument.
Yes, I thought the same. Is there a video of that moment?
The "effect" of the Fine-Tuning argument to defend atheism rests on the "infinite multiverse" which allows fine tuning to occur in ours, which is just one out of an infinite number of other Universes. There are several problems with it. Mostly it just puts the problem of the birth of the multiverse just one step back. (An infinity of turtles, if you will).
Somehow the multiverses had to come into existence too, since we have no way to prove that the Universes so created have always been there and are eternal. This is why Sabine Hossenfelder, PhD calls the multiverse a religion.
Look. Don't blame me. That's what Sabine says. And she is (as far as I know) an agnostic.
Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)
@@sanjosemike3137 I don’t see the need for more than one universe. It is bound by physical laws that led to us. Could have been otherwise, just as one’s parents might never have met.
@@wmwestbroek So you "believe" in the Free -Will argument?
Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)