{"id":2335,"date":"2007-05-06T15:01:13","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T19:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/06\/why-atheism-fails-the-four-big-bangs\/"},"modified":"2024-09-07T08:05:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T15:05:26","slug":"why-atheism-fails-the-four-big-bangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/why-atheism-fails-the-four-big-bangs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Atheism Fails: The Four Big Bangs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/column.aspx?UrlTitle=why_atheism_fails__the_four_big_bangs&#038;ns=FrankPastore&#038;dt=05\/06\/2007&#038;page=full&#038;comments=true\">Townhall.com<\/a> |  Frank Pastore | May 6, 2007<\/p>\n<p>Their titles sound so confident: <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam by Michel Onfray. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Letter to a Christian Nation: A Challenge to Faith by Sam Harris. <\/p>\n<p>and of course, \u2022 The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. <\/p>\n<p>Yet, like all atheists before them, they still can\u2019t answer the fundamental questions of origins. <\/p>\n<p>1) What is the origin of the universe? Why is there something rather than nothing? How do you get matter and energy from nothingness? How do you get a rock out of nothing? <\/p>\n<p>2) What is the origin of life? How do you get life from non-life? How do you go from a rock to a tree? <\/p>\n<p>3) What is the origin of mind? How does a living thing become a self-conscious being? How do you go from a tree, to an animal, to a human? <\/p>\n<p>4) What is the origin of good and evil? How does an amoral being become morally aware? <\/p>\n<p>Atheists respond to all these types of questions with essentially the same style answer. \u201cWe know God doesn\u2019t exist. Therefore, since we\u2019re here, though, it had to have happened this way. Thus, like the universe itself, life, mind, and mo-rality all \u2018just popped\u2019 into existence out of nothingness.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/column.aspx?UrlTitle=why_atheism_fails__the_four_big_bangs&#038;ns=FrankPastore&#038;dt=05\/06\/2007&#038;page=full&#038;comments=true\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townhall.com | Frank Pastore | May 6, 2007 Their titles sound so confident: \u2022 The Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam by Michel Onfray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}