Challenging Atheists at the Kentucky State Fair My brother Stephen recently had the opportunity to challenge atheists at their booth at the Kentucky State Fair. Here are a couple paragraphs from the report he sent me: ---------- After asking which word on their sign each of them identified with (atheist, agnostic, humanist, freethinker), I asked them why they did not believe in the biblical God. It was not unexpected to hear each of these people talking about science and the consensus of scientists, and issues that I would simply describe as humanistic rationalism. It never surprises me to hear atheist/agnostic dialogue that starts with the assumption of human autonomy as the authority for reason, and a commitment to uniformitarianism. In much of our discussion, which was very amicable, we were able to really discuss the whole matter of assumptions. It is always very liberating to be able to immediately put forward that my starting assumption is that the Bible is true and that God has revealed Himself to us in His Word. My friends in the booth were initially reluctant to admit that they had starting assumptions about the past, although one of them did freely admit it later in the conversation. We discussed that they had assumptions such as life coming from non-life that could not be proven in the present. They did recognize that there were gaps in what they could know, in respect to observational science compared to what they believed about the past. One of the intriguing parts of our conversation was when we were talking about the use of the historical testimony of the Bible as it relates to science. ---------- I encourage you to read the entire report at goo.gl/zJtvWc.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 14:00:01 +0000
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