7/6/2023 0 Comments Antony flew there is no godAnd if nothing is forthcoming or if it is not sufficiently strong evidence to their mind, then they typically think themselves properly justified in their rejection of God. All the while, atheists may be sitting back and assessing whatever the theist can come up with. Such critics assume that Christians and other theists have a special burden of proof to bear to show that God exists. Richard Dawkins, for example, writes “Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Since the 9/11 attacks, this “enlightened” modern criterion for knowing has been reinforced by the “New Atheists”-Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and (the late) Christopher Hitchens. We have come to expect such challenges in an age of scientism-the belief that science, and thus “scientific proof”-can alone yield knowledge. Usually, when skeptics ask us Christians for “proof,” they are usually calling for “ scientific proof” for God’s existence, objective moral values, the soul, or life after death. The student paused and eventually responded, “I guess I haven’t even thought about that.” The conversation, which turned out to be cordial enough, died out shortly thereafter. I asked him, “What would you take as an acceptable level of proof?” Office of Institutional Research & EffectivenessĪfter speaking to the Philomathean Society-a debate club-at Union College in Schenectady, New York, a student approached me and demanded: “Prove to me that God exists.”.College of Education & Behavioral Sciences.
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