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(Continuation of Sermon on Atheism)
And what of love and brotherhood…these
powerful emotions that rule our lives?
Is it really
believable that they could
have risen out of nothingness?
And the little seemingly inconsequential
things of creation…could some mindless mechanical
chemical eruption have
developed chocolate and peppermint…a cockle-doodle-dooing rooster…a
quacking duck…the sublime
and the slaphappy…proving God does have a sense of humor.
Or His adding such beauty to what otherwise would
be common place...his consideration to have leaves in Fall not just drop
unceremoniously from the tress but rather become rainbows of color, red and
gold all scattering their patterns along the ground.
And what about a simple thing such as a smile? That wonderful facial expression which
actually means the
same thing no matter what language you speak.
And this oblate spheroid called earth we
live on that is 93 million miles from the surface of the sun; why doesn’t it burn it to a crisp? It doesn’t because it is tilted at a perfect
23 degree angle. Not 22 degrees. Not 24.
And our protective ozone layer that makes it possible for earth to
sustain life in the first place? All that just happened by chance, rather than
an orderly mind of God? Come-on.
And this equal global distribution of the
rays of the sun that make it possible for the food chain to
exist. And the combination of nitrogen and oxygen in
the atmosphere we breathe every day just happens
to be an exact mix
that life needs to exist.
Really? All this just happened? Mindless nothingness out there throwing
nothingness into the air
and
out of this simple non directed act…came our Universe?
It defies logic. It certainly does not deify a human mind that
argues otherwise.
I think not!
Pure and simple, it is a stretch to say that
nothing created something - but that is the basic premise
of atheism. A firm belief in unbelief.
The world famous Astronomer, Johannes Kepler,
was troubled by one of his friends who continually
denied the existence of God. Time and
time again he heard him say that the universe came into being
purely by mechanical means.
So one day, Johannes set about constructing a
beautiful model of our galaxy with the sun in the
center and all the planets
and their moons revolving around it.
The next time his friend came into the
Observatory and saw the beautiful model, he exclaimed with
delight, “How beautiful it is. Who made
it?”
And Kepler casually answered. “No one, it
made itself.”
His friend persisted, “Come on now, tell me,
who made it?”
To which Kepler finally answered, “Friend,
you insist that this mere toy, a weak imitation of the real
thing, could not make
itself, yet I understand you believe that the great universe did make
itself.”
Did a mindless universe create my own
memory? My own brain? The thought processes that allow
me to share with you at this moment and for
you to understand?
Did the useful arise out of the useless
with no direction but rather by some non-directional
directions?
An American cutlery manufacturer
wrote: “It takes a girl in our factory two days to learn how to put
the 17 parts of a meat chopper together.”
And
then the cutlery manufacturer continued,
“It may be that these millions of worlds, all balanced
so wonderfully in space—it may be they just
happened: it may be, by millions of years of tumbling about,
they finally arranged themselves.
I don't know. I am merely a plain manufacturer of cutlery. But this I
do know - that you can shake
the 17 parts of a meat chopper around in a
washtub for the next 17 millions of years, and you’ll never
make a meat chopper.”
Alister McGrath, a former atheist and now a
Christian, writes, “I believe in Christianity as I believe
the sun has risen… not
simply because I see it… but because by it I see everything else.”
To put a scalpel to the soul and cut away
the presence of God is a sad debilitating thing. It is like
turning ones back on a
feast and then wondering with what to fill the emptiness that now exists.
And in closing, remember these words of truth from Psalm 19:1.
“The Heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his
handiwork.”
Not…”The Heavens declare the glory of
nothingness and the sky above proclaims the handiwork of
nothingness. “
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