RICHARD DAWKINS – THE DELUSION OF GOD

Evolution is a “crane” that allows us to imagine the origin and evolution of life without God. A mechanism that explains how everything around us could have come into being: “Even before Darwin, philosophers like Hume understood that the improbability of life did not mean that it had to be designed, but they could not imagine an alternative. After Darwin, we should all feel suspicion in the tip of our bones at the hint of a design idea. …

Daniel Dennett, a common-minded philosopher, found that development contradicts one of the oldest ideas we have: “Contradicts the idea that a big, clever thing is needed to do a smaller thing. I call it the drop theory of creation from top to bottom. You will never see a spear as a spear maker does. You will never see a horseshoe making a blacksmith. You will never see a pot make a potter. ” Darwin’s discovery of a feasible process that makes this antisense idea acceptable was a revolutionary contribution to human thinking, charged with the power to raise awareness. …

Natural selection works because it is a cumulative one-way path for the better. He needs a certain amount of luck to start, and this is guaranteed by the anthropic principle of “billions of planets.” There may be a few other gaps in developmental history that require coincidence with anthropic reasoning. Who do not have consciousness awakened in the sense I suggest, but who gladly accept natural selection as the “divine way of creation.” They recognize that evolving by natural selection is a straightforward and clever way to create a world full of life. At the same time, God does not have to do absolutely anything! Peter Atkins leads to a rather ungodly conclusion in this book when he suggests the existence of a supposedly lazy God who tries to do as little as possible in creating a life-containing universe. ” Natural selection is NOT a coincidence – and therefore living creatures they did not arise by chance, but by a selection mechanism that can make their existence imaginable even without God.

We don’t have such a concept in physics yet – but it is to be hoped that one day it will be… (it could be the Theory of Everything)
Religion is a matter of subjective experience and emotions: “The most important of these other paths of knowledge was the personal, subjective experience of God. Several Cambridge discussants claimed that God had spoken to them, in their heads, just as vividly and personally as any other person was saying to them. Many people believe in God because they believe that they saw him with their own eyes or had an equally misleading idea of ​​something unreal, the vision of an angel or a virgin in blue. Or God spoke to them in their minds. This argument from personal experience is one of the most convincing for those who claim to have experienced it. But he is the least convincing for everyone else and for those who know psychology. Are you saying that you have directly experienced God? Well, some people say they met a pink elephant, but that probably won’t impress you. Peter Sutcliffe, a Yorkshire ripper, clearly heard the voice of Christ, showing him to kill women and was given a life sentence. ”

OUR CONCLUSION: Theories, theories, theories – which might have some value1 if they were not opposed by tangible FACTS (to which Dawkins does not respond at all because he has essentially no) and the equally tangible, widespread, and largely universal experience of humanity with God. So – the surprise does not happen…
SAM HARRIS – LETTER TO THE CHRISTIAN NATION
Evangelicals adopted Jesus’ biography to the prophecies. He gives two examples where he said it happened2: Mary conceived as a virgin… 30 silver to Judas…
OUR CONCLUSION: Speaking of Prophecies… There are a total of 456 messianic prophecies in the Old Testament that were fulfilled in Jesus Christ! Not everything is a prophecy in the strict sense of the word. Rather an analogy. (This includes the “virgin” and “30 silver” of Sam Harris). But some are full-fledged prophecies and truly predict things from Jesus’ life.