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Dawkins and Krauss Have Me Convinced of the Biblical God!

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Watching a YouTube video1 of world renowned atheists Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins, I could not help but to wonder if they were listening to what they were saying since some of what they said only served to convince me of the God of the Bible.

At 21:30 [21 minutes and 30 seconds] into the video, Dawkins states:

I think it’s something we need to be proud of our species for; because our species, every species, is designed by natural selection to survive in its world. We were never designed by natural selection to understand modern physics; and yet our brains, amazingly through emergent properties, are capable of reaching way, way outside the bounds that our evolution apparently set for us. I think it’s, I’m very proud to be human.

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First, I must point out that natural selection does not design anything. Natural selection can only work on what is already there. But if you listen to what Dawkins is saying, he is saying that we are not just another animal engaged in a battle of survival.

Now where did I hear that before? Oh yes, the Bible.

The first chapter of Genesis says a number of times that God made the plants and animals to reproduce after their kind (which is what we observe). Then verse 27 states: “So God created human beings in His own image.  In the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.” Genesis 1:27 NLT

In the follow-up to what Dawkins said, Krauss states:

The dignity, the remarkable fact that we’re conscious, that we’re able to ask these questions, to me, gives meaning to our lives; and you don’t need imposed meaning from elsewhere.

Krauss unwittingly seems to be pointing out the inconsistency between philosophical materialism (matter and energy are all that exist) and consciousness. If matter and energy are all that exist, then what is going on in our brain is just a bunch of chemical reactions following the laws of chemistry and physics—like chemicals reacting in a beaker. Again, this is totally inconsistent with the concept of consciousness, along with free will, morality, reason and logic.

Then at 40:40 into the video Krauss states:

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We don’t understand the mystery of consciousness. We can talk about it. But we have no idea how it arises, that amazing, that you have electrical impulses in your brain; which clearly by the way are very different than computers; vastly different than computers; because you can argue from a physics perspective, that if you took a, built a digital computer that had the storage capability of the human brain, and the processing power, it would require ten terawatts, ten terawatts, that’s 10X10 to the twelfth watts. The human brain uses about ten watts.  So somehow, we are a million, million; ten million, million times more efficient than digital computers. We don’t understand that. That’s amazing!

Lawrence, in my mind you have just given a great argument for our creator—the God of the Bible!

Speaking of the mystery of consciousness, Job did not understand it either. God asks Job the question: “Who gives intuition to the heart and instinct to the mind?” Job 38:36

At 43:58, Dawkins states something else that I would have to agree with:

We hear stories (don’t we) of children going to Sunday School and being thrown out for having the temerity to ask questions, not to criticize, but just to ask. ‘How dare you ask a question.’ And I think that does argue a certain defensiveness.

Because Darwinism and philosophical materialism are everywhere, I agree absolutely that the church should be a place that children (and adults) should be able to find answers to their questions on biblical authority. That is a point that I have been making since I started doing this nine years ago. Children are astute enough to know that what they are being taught in church and what they read in the Bible conflict with what they are being taught every else. We need to address those issues.

At 44:45 Krauss states:

If you simply treat religion like any other aspect of human activity, which means it should be subject to be questioning, and ridicule, like politicians and politics and physics and sex; and everything else, then if you just ask that religion be put on that same framework, it raises a consciousness that people just somehow don’t think it should be. It should be here (Krauss lifts hand up) and never subject to any of those things.

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O.K. Lawrence, I am onboard with this. Let us question your atheistic, Darwinistic, materialistic, humanistic philosophy—your religion.

Oh, you don’t want that? That’s right. On David Parkman you stated

It’s a slippery slope, because when you tell them [children] don’t believe in evolution, then all of the rest of science and the results of science becomes suspect.2

So you do not want Darwinian evolution challenged—just the Bible. And I thought all of science was about questioning. If it was not for the questioning of the scientific consensus, we would still believe in spontaneous generation,3 vestigial organs,4 and “junk DNA”5—all discarded ideas that were the scientific consensus.

At 01:26:03, while answering a question, Dawkins states:

But my ultimate aim would be to try to understand the world and understand the universe, and there I can’t help finding religion the enemy.

But in the end, in each of these cases where the scientific consensus was proven wrong, what proved to be true is consistent with what the Bible teaches us – that God created life with the kinds of plants, the kinds of animals, and people.

Footnotes

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvISo-fmUw4 Richard Dawkins 2017 – & Lawrence Krauss 2017
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_ZDH5JzgPY&feature=youtu.be
  3. http://webprojects.oit.ncsu.edu/project/bio183de/Black/cellintro/cellintro_reading/Spontaneous_Generation.html
  4. https://answersingenesis.org/human-body/vestigial-organs/vestigial-organs-evidence-for-evolution/
  5. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-junk-dna-and-what/

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Written by Terry Read

Graduate of University of Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology) – B.S. Engineering Management, 1986; Licensed professional engineer in the State of Texas – 1994 to Present; Volunteer data entry person at the San Antonio Pregnancy Care Center – 1992 to 2007;
Member of Kirby Baptist Church – 2006 to Present; Member San Antonio Bible Based Science Association – 2010 to Present; A director of San Antonio Bible Based Science Association – 2015 to Present; Co-host of Believing the Bible – 2016 to Present; Author of the book - Why Should I Believe? Why Should You Believe? - A Wake-Up Call to the Church!; Married to the former Elizabeth Cecilia – 1992 to Present;
Father of Joshua Read

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  1. Thank you Terry for all the work you do to show that it is our God that created and had nothing to do with evolution. Please keep up the good work. I’m just a simple disabled veteran but I appreciate everything that you do. I use much of yours (and others) work to show others the truth. Thank you again, by the way I really enjoy your articles.

    Bob Schindel

    • Bob,

      Thank you for your service to our country. It is “simple” people like you that keep things going. Jesus taught us “But many who are the greatest now will be least important then, and those who seem least important now will be the greatest then.” – Matthew 19:30 NLT. My father was “just a simple disabled veteran” from the Korean War who worked 37 years with the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department. He passed away in 2008. But I can see the impact that he is still having. It is also “simple” people that I ultimately want to reach with the news that people can believe the Bible. Jesus reached out to the “simple” people and they overwhelmingly are the ones that accepted Him. – Matthew 11:25.
      The truth is (and I have shared this with other people) that I get discouraged because I wonder if I am reaching people. I know that I have a small platform compared to some people. You telling me that you appreciate what I do and share it with others really encourages me. Thank you.

      Terry Read

  2. It is obvious that Krauss and Dawkins worship themselves they are self worshippers. Romans chapter 1 beginning at Verse 18. Clearly states that when men refused to worship the god of Heaven they worship themselves and then in descending order animals creeping things etc etc thank you so much for your post it was a blessing to me and an encouragement God bless you.

  3. Yes, the first chapter of Paul’s letter to the Romans sounds as if Paul had Dawkins and Krauss in mind. Like Dawkins and Krauss, Paul was an intellectual. God humbled Paul and then used him in a mighty way. We are reading Paul’s letters and are still affected by his missionary work over 1,900 years later. If God allows the world as we know it to continue for another 1,900 years, I do not think anyone around at that time will know about Dawkins or Krauss. But they will still be reading the letters of Paul.
    Thank you for taking the time to read my articles. And thank you for your encouraging feedback.

  4. Mr. Schindel, I whole-heartedly join with Terry in thanking you for your service! And another “thank you” to you as well, Terry, for your well written articles and stance on creationism. Thanks to forums like The Creation Club, your writings are going out further and further than perhaps you realize! Isaiah 55:11 “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” William

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