Season 4 Podcast 147, A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 4, “God and the Existence of Absolute Law.”
Season 4 Podcast 147, A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 4, “God and the Existence of Absolute Law.”
As recorded in the last podcast, in “The God Delusion,” Mr. Richard Dawkins makes the following statement.
“However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747.”
Mr. Dawkins is referring to Hoyle’s fallacy. The following description of Hoyle’s fallacy is from Wikipedia Encyclopedia.
“The junkyard tornado, sometimes known as Hoyle's fallacy, is an argument against biogenesis, using a calculation of its probability based on false assumptions, as comparable to "a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein" and to compare the chance of obtaining even a single functioning protein by chance combination of amino acids to a solar system full of blind men solving Rubik's Cubes simultaneously.”
Atheists must account for the existence of life in the same way that theists must account for the existence of God. Statistically it is not possible that life or creation happened by accident. Christians argue for intelligent design. Strangely science argues for accident. Christians do not feel they need to prove the existence of God for faith is extra-metaphysical, that is to say, it is outside of physics or outside of science.
God simply cannot be proven or disproven by the scientific method. To put it another way, no one, theist or atheist, scientist or nonscientist can prove or disprove the existence of God. Christians claim that to perceive God one must have the testimony of the Holy Ghost which appeals to the heart rather than to the mind. It is often referred to as having spiritual eyes. Things of the spirit can only be discerned by the spirit; Let’s turn to the writings of Paul in 1 Corinthians 2:
“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. … But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.”
When Christ was on the earth thousands of people saw him, but only a few saw him as the Messiah because they did not see him with spiritual eyes or with the eyes of faith or by the witness of the Holy Ghost.
The same claim is made for the other senses. For example, Christians use the phrase, “Still Small Voice” to describe the whisperings of the Holy Ghost. In First Kings 19 we read.
“And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.”
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