As an engineer, I work with a lot of smart people who are logically- and scientifically-minded. I share this perspective, so it makes for a comfortable and enjoyable environment for me. However, many at my workplace and in the larger scientific community hold to a naturalistic worldview akin to that espoused by its more vocal proselyte, Richard Dawkins. While I do not intend in this post to present a complete rebuttal to this perspective, I do want to explain how I, a self-considered “reasonable” man, can be both a devout Christian and an honest lover of science. I’ve already presented much of this in a video series that I’m almost done uploading (ran into a snag with Blip.tv and I’m migrating to Vimeo), so feel free to check it out. But I thought it’d be valuable to give a more succinct summary in writing. I considered writing an original post, but then read through an exchange I had with an atheist friend of mine a while back, and thought I’d just post it. I’ve paraphrased his comments so as not to reprint them without permission.
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Response to “Creation & The Big Bang” Video
The same person who left the lengthy and thought-provoking response to my first “How Great Thou Art” video made a comment on the second one, “Creation & The Big Bang.” As before, I decided to post my response here since it should provide worthwhile clarification of some points discussed in the video and hopefully address his differing views.
“ARS” wrote:
“The largest problem with everything you will present is that it is an argument from ignorance (Logical fallacy), nobody knows these things, and none of this is any conclusive evidence for anything other than ignorance. You say that theists call the beginning maker/creator god, but you fail to address the FACT that they have the same amount of evidence to support this as the naturalist, NONE.
“The idea that something un-natural had to create the entire universe is again an appeal to ignorance, nature outside of the universe is not known at present, and therefore cannot be said to lack the mechanism for the universes existence.
