All too often you hear the new militant evangelizing atheists, such as Richard Dawkin's claiming that science has proved that God cannot exist. Let’s have a look at some of these claims and reasons to see if this is really true or whether it is just an atheist hymn, which gives them faith in their belief and worldview.
The most common one is evolution, this is poised as evidence as against Gods existence and even if it were a plausible theory which I do not believe but let’s give the new evangelizing atheists the benefit of the doubt that the theory of evolution were true, it still does not account for life coming from non life, matter coming from non-matter and everything coming from nothing. It perplexes me that the atheist just does not grasp this concept, typically you ask “how did life come from non-life” and the answer is “well I am not sure, but that does not mean that God did it” The very simple response is that science has not proven that God does not exist in fact it has shown that some sort of intelligence had to be involved whether that is God or not is a matter for another argument, but none the less some sort of intelligence higher than our own.
Take for instance Michael Behe’s work in “Darwin’s Black Box” and the work done by the Intelligent Design movement which is suggesting that there is an intelligence behind nature, we see in micro biology many tiny microscopic machines that resemble man made machines that no one in their right mind would state they came into existence totally out of nothing and totally without a designer of some sort, such as the outboard motor and the flagellum motor. Many faith based atheists will object and say “well that is not science” and I would agree with them to a certain point that postulating an intelligence outside of the natural world is not science according to the modern definition of science, however that leaves the question if science is preventing where the evidence is leading, isn’t it time to change the definition of science to gain further coherent understanding of the world around us if the evidence is leading to an intelligence outside of the natural world?
Another of the most common statements coming from these new atheists is that science has nothing to do with faith and they are polar opposites, this view is also held by the leading evangelistic atheists such as Richard Dawkin's, Daniel Dennet and Christopher Hitchen’s. This has to be the most ridiculous philosophical thought ever to come from these atheistic evangelicals and John Lennox shows Richard Dawkin's in one of their popular debates leaving Richard Dawkin's quite red faced when John Lennox asks “do you have faith in your wife” and Richard Dawkin's responds “yes based on evidence” the point is here that there are different types of faith and that is faith based on evidence and faith based on nothing but pure speculation, some examples of faith based on evidence is the faith whilst driving over a bridge the bridge will not collapse, that sort of faith is based on good evidence, blind faith would be something like believing that the universe totally came out of nothing based on no evidence, that is what I would call “blind faith”.
Now to address the idea that science has absolutely nothing to do with faith, (the type we have discussed as faith based on good evidence above) would be the simple picture of the scientist conducting his experiments using his five senses and having faith based on good evidence that the five senses are giving him an accurate portrayal of the actual experiment at hand. The scientist has no way of testing his five senses outside of his five senses and any experimental procedure to determine the accuracy of the five senses would require the scientists to have faith that his five senses are in fact giving his brain reliable information. Another quick example of faith used in science is the presupposition that the world is not an illusion only in ones brain, there is no outside evidence that the universe and everything in it is actually in existence in a physical way outside of the human individual brain, scientists and everyone presuppose the existence of the material world outside of the brain based on some good evidence yet it is still faith.
Christianity has never been a blind faith religion, in fact the bible teaches one to study and to see if certain things are true and to seek out the truth, “blind faith” is not encouraged in the bible. Just one last thing the bible never means to just say believe in Jesus Christ based on nothing but “blind faith” the world “believe” used in the bible has the actual meaning of “trust” so one is to trust in Jesus Christ based on good evidence, just as one trusts in a bridge based on good evidence that it won’t fall down.