More Dawkins Mythology

Richard Dawkins, author of The Blind Watchmaker, famed as a patron of scientific truth, is actually a patron of mythology. His fables include these: the elaborate, interlocking universe arose from a “big bang”; life sprang from non-life; and mindbogglingly complex life forms arose through blind forces. His mythical gospel is that man came from nothing, has no ultimate purpose, is accountable to no one, and is going nowhere. The latest Dawkins’ myth is that America’s love for “religion” is hindering her scientific advancement, and he proposes even more humanistic education as the solution. He says, “Beyond any doubt America is the world’s leading scientific power. Throughout history there has never been anything like modern America as a leader of science ... What’s remarkable is that America is the leading scientific nation despite being held back by this incubus, this burden of ignorance and superstition [the belief in God and divine creation]” (“Religion is holding America back,” Business Insider, Oct. 30, 2015). The truth of Dawkins’ proposition that belief in God, particularly the God of the Bible, hinders scientific advancement is easily tested by the laboratory of history. First, if such belief hinders science and if atheism advances it, modern science would have sprung from something other than a Christian civilization, but that didn’t happen. Most of the fathers of modern science held a biblical worldview. (See the free eBook Scientists Who Believe the Bible, available from www.wayoflife.org.) And if belief in the Bible as God’s Word hinders science and if atheism advances it, America would be light years behind Communist Russia and China in scientific advancement. This, of course, is not true. The “godless Communists” have had to steal America’s technology just to stay in the game. In fact, there is a direct correlation between America’s technological greatness and her respect for the Bible. From her inception, America was a nation powerfully influenced by Christianity, and the Bible was her most esteemed Book, exalted in her churches, quoted by her presidents and judges, kept in her homes, and taught in her schools. As America has lost a reverence for Scripture and as atheism has spread, she has actually lost her technological edge as well as a great deal of her power, respect, and wealth. Richard Dawkins has gained fame and fortune by marketing his hatred of Jehovah God in an age of blasphemy and the worship of Self. His book The God Delusion has sold more than three million copies, but Jesus Christ asked, “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Matthew 16:26). According to Jesus, man has a soul; it can be lost; and the saving of it is worth more than the whole world. I, for one, will stake my life and eternal destiny on the words of Jesus.

​(Friday Church News Notes, November 6, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143)

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