This post came from a guy called Dennis who seems to take his Science a little too seriously……

I’ve scanned though your site, and I can only hope that I would be correct to assume this is a parody. You seem to be a walking(or typing) collection of cliches, platitudes, and circular reasoning. But I have a feeling that you are genuine.

I do not believe that even if I came to you with incontrovertible evidence of the non-existence of god it would shake your faith. So I’m going to turn this around on you a bit.

First some caveats. Smugly saying that science doesn’t know everything is no revelation to any legitimate scientist. Science does not need to know everything it does not suffer in any way from lack of perfect knowledge, because science is not a religion. It is a method. the good scientist make observations about a phenomenon say electricity, forms a hypothesis (an educated guess and the scientific word for the idea that most people label as a theory) then designs an experiment to test that hypothesis. he takes the data from the experiment and sees if it supports or refutes this data. given enough time. He then takes all his conclusions and sends it to reviewed by people educated in the same field as he.

Scientists being every bit as human as anyone are prone to protect their own work and so will look for the tiniest flaw in his conclusions. if it stands it is published and becomes probationally true. that probation period last forever. If ever new data comes to light that contradicts the conclusion it is thrown out or revised. over time it build to a theory which is Accepted Fact until proven otherwise. This is why i trust in science. Not because it knows everything or is always right but because over time the method produces a picture of the universe that is ever more accurate. The method has proven itself, exemplified by the computer I type on. The digital camera that took the picture of you that I see below. The fact that I did not die of a burst appendix when I was twelve because the doctors knew what was happening and removed it, and a billion other things.

Everything I have ever read or studied science wise, describes a universe where it is absolutely unnecessary to postulate the existence of a deity. And in fact shows the historical and scientific inaccuracies of every holy book ever written.

And so I must accept one of two conclusions. That there is a god, but he created a universe in which he is undetectable and indistinguishable from a purely mechanistic universe, or there is no god and the universe is exactly as it appears to be. The simplest explanation all else being equal as they say. This is why I am an atheist.

So I ask you now, What further hard evidence can you give me to change my mind? Nothing anecdotal, no arguments from authority as I don’t care what Newton or Einstein had faith in, only what they could prove. and please do not quote the asinine drivel that is Dembski and Behe. I have read them and dismissed them.

As a side note I and I think most atheist do not hate Christians. I can speak only for myself but I feel sad for you. I get angry and rabid at those of you who want to encode your hateful bigoted morality into MY government and tax funded schools. Who want a theocracy. who want to deny me the right to vote. to say I am not a citizen. that I am not an American.

If that is not you, if you want to live your life as you see fit and leave me to live mine as i see, so long as neither of us physically harms or steals from the other. Then you are ultimately my ally and I have no reason to interfere.

I don’t have to give you any evidence Dennis. You have to search within yourself to find the truth. God is waiting on you to invite Him into your life. Until you do that he’s absolutely powerless.

I can’t do anything to convince you Dennis. Your head is effectively jammed up your ass. You love science too much, therefore you cannot realize God.

I feel really sorry for you.

Science doesn’t recognize God because it knows that if they were to truly acknowledge God’s existence then the entire system would collapse. That is the power of the Almighty. The truth of the Almighty. This is why Atheists are so hyper-defensive. They know they are fighting an uphill battle.