{"id":24351,"date":"2016-09-01T20:36:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T03:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/?p=24351"},"modified":"2016-10-13T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T03:41:00","slug":"the-problem-with-worldviews-are-you-trapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/the-problem-with-worldviews-are-you-trapped\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with WorldViews&#8230; Is Materialism Dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #003300;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">How Worldviews\u00a0KILL Scientific and Intellectual Progress-<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8230;How\u00a0Materialism Died&#8230; and\u00a0no one knew<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Related- <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/atheism-the-opiate-of-the-uninformed\/\">Is atheism the Opiate of the Uninformed?<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">With certainty on any particular subject comes a tendency to dismiss new views before\u00a0taking even a moment of thought to determine if it has <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">merit. <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;\">Why would anyone waste their\u00a0time thinking about something they\u00a0<strong>KNOW<\/strong> it <strong>can&#8217;t<\/strong> be true?<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> \u00a0If an i<\/span>dea is in contravention to our\u00a0own committed worldview, we often toss it aside without a thought. <em><strong>This is often true even though the evidence supporting\u00a0the new idea is\u00a0overwhelming&#8230;<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>It even happens to those who are unquestionably brilliant!<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How often has your worldview caused you to not even consider the <em>possibility<\/em> of\u00a0something, just\u00a0because you <strong><em>KNEW\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>it wasn&#8217;t\u00a0true? \u00a0<em>Many unwittingly discard truth and hold to incorrect beliefs due to their absolute certainty.<\/em>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Although, worldview bias raises its ugly head in many arenas, as discussed below, <em>nowhere is this tendency more apparent than when it comes to evidence for God.<\/em> \u00a0No matter what our belief system; when faced with new information <em>we should always take a moment to\u00a0loosen our\u00a0worldview to\u00a0objectively consider\u00a0the evidence for, at least, a moment.<\/em> \u00a0<span style=\"color: #000080;\">Otherwise, at some point, we\u00a0will make the <strong>same mistakes that <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 20px; color: #ff0000;\">Einstein<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 20px;\">hundreds<\/span>\u00a0of our\u00a0most\u00a0brilliant\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 20px;\">scientists have made in many divergent\u00a0areas of science.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>..<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: 12pt;\">An open mind is the key to\u00a0an <em>informed\u00a0<\/em>mind&#8230;<\/span> \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>WorldView Impacts\u00a0Scientific\u00a0Conclusions-\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Even brilliant World renowned physicists often come to absolutely incorrect conclusions\u00a0when a particular data set conflicts with their worldview. \u00a0<em><strong>What&#8217;s more, they often hold to them, in spite of mounting data.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><em>Fred Hoyle<\/em><\/strong> never accepted the big bang, simply\u00a0because of its obvious religious worldview implications.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><em>Einstein<\/em> <\/strong>refused to accept quantum physics because &#8220;God didn&#8217;t play dice&#8221;. He simply\u00a0couldn&#8217;t accept the radical ideas that came with quantum mechanics and entanglement. \u00a0It conflicted too deeply with his ingrained world view.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"> History is replete with, not just brilliant people, but entire branches of science being wrong and staying wrong for years&#8230; not because they were incapable of seeing the truth, but because they REFUSED to see the factual evidence. \u00a0They had too much faith in their worldview. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Semmelweis&#8217; germ theory.<\/strong> In the world of medicine even the simple idea of washing your hands before operating could not be accepted. \u00a0This was true even though there was a clear and unmistakable\u00a0connection between puerperal fever and disinfected hands of the hospital staff. \u00a0Semmelweis&#8217; discovery directly contradicted\u00a0the beliefs of science and medicine of\u00a0his time. \u00a0<strong><em>The medical world\u00a0refused to accept his findings because it conflicted with their WorldView!..<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>they could not accept the possibility that they could be responsible for spreading infections<\/em><\/span>. What was his reward for this life and world changing discovery? \u00a0He was\u00a0declined a reappointment in 1849 i.e fired. \u00a0 He was treated as a pariah and the continued criticism finally broke him. He\u00a0was eventually committed to an asylum. He only lasted there for two weeks and died on August 13, 1865 at the age of 47. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/explorable.com\/semmelweis-germ-theory\">https:\/\/explorable.com\/semmelweis-germ-theory<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Isn&#8217;t this precisely what is happening in the debate within\u00a0evolution, origin of the universe, intelligent design today? \u00a0 Many who dared to argue the evidence and chose discuss the clear implications of facts have been ruthlessly abused\u00a0and many even lost their jobs&#8230; only to later have it\u00a0be found they were correct all along. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Nowhere do I see these types of issues more often than when it relates to religion. \u00a0No one can prove that God\u00a0does or\u00a0does not exist. All anyone can ever do, <em><strong>is weigh the evidence and logically, HONESTLY follow it where it leads.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Franky there is an enormous amount of natural data that constitutes evidence of God.\u00a0But when one chooses to believe that God is impossible; that there <strong><em>can be no God,<\/em> <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>evidence often no longer matters!<\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0The\u00a0tendency is to shut down any debate and fail to acknowledge the evidence right before their eyes even exists. \u00a0Their\u00a0worldview gets in the way of their ability to objectively analysis the empirical data. \u00a0see&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/do-science-and-religion-agree-how-science-created-a-christian\">http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/do-science-and-religion-agree-how-science-created-a-christian<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/the-origin-of-life-who-wrote-the-manual\">http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/the-origin-of-life-who-wrote-the-manual<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/the-truth-about-religion\">http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/the-truth-about-religion<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>No matter how brilliant a person may be, it is easy to become intellectually trapped by a worldview. The History of Science is replete with examples of this.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>*Fred Hoyle*-<\/strong> The discoverer of stellar nucleosynthesis a brilliant astronomer and physicist denied the big bang until the day of he died. He preferred to hold to the steady state theory,<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/abyss.uoregon.edu\/~js\/glossary\/steady_state.html\">http:\/\/abyss.uoregon.edu\/~js\/glossary\/steady_state.html<\/a> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"> He and <em>many others<\/em> held to it even though, there was not one shred of <em>empirical evidence that reasonably supported it<\/em>. The Data was clear and overwhelming. \u00a0However, his desire to believe in &#8220;an eternal universe&#8221; that would undermine\u00a0the clear inference of a beginning that conforms to creation, overrode\u00a0his ability to accept\u00a0the actual evidence and\u00a0empirical data. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">WHY would a man of such towering intellect hold to something so evidentially unsupported? <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"> <strong>For one simple reason Wordview&#8230; <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"> The big bang and it&#8217;s implication of a beginning to the universe had too strong a theistic implication! \u00a0<em>Because he absolutely believed there <strong>was no God could be no God, did not want there to be a God,<\/strong> anything that could infer his existence, MUST BE WRONG!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>*Also from Fred Hoyle*-<\/strong> After an in-depth study of chemistry, biology and the origin of life, he also concluded <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>\u201ca common-sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a <strong>super intellect<\/strong> has monkeyed with physics, as well as chemistry and biology, and that <\/em><\/span><strong><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature (1982:)<\/span>\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"> In spite of the fact that his intellect clearly <strong><em>said there must be more<\/em><\/strong>; and that all we see in nature can not be the result of pure, blind chance\u2026 *he still died an atheist!*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Why?<\/strong> Even though intellectually he knew that what he saw in nature could not be \u201cnatural\u201d, he could in no way countenance the possibility of God. <strong>*WORLDVIEW AGAIN, TRUMPS INTELLECT!*<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\"><strong>WorldView Commitments Can Create <em>Real World<\/em>\u00a0Inconsistencies<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> It&#8217;s telling that for centuries scientists were perfectly content with the idea of an eternal universe. They had no problem because it was in direct contradiction to the bible&#8217;s account of a\u00a0beginning of the heavens and earth. <\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0In other words an eternal universe seemed to mean the bible was wrong, there was no God and thus supported their preferred materialistic worldview. \u00a0 <strong>Their commitment to their worldview, ultimately created such a degree of inconsistency of thought that it has in many respects turned to simple\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;\">HYPOCRISY<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0My, how things change when\u00a0their\u00a0worldview is put at risk!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"> As soon as Theists began citing\u00a0the obvious implications of the big bank bang as an inference of the existence of God,<em>\u00a0amazingly, science then decided that nothing was allowed to be eternal.<\/em> Now the atheistic argument became if God created the universe, who created God?! <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">So, it was alright to have an uncreated universe, but inconceivable to have an uncreated God!<\/span> \u00a0<em>It is still used to this day!<\/em> The existence of an eternal <em>something<\/em> was fine as long as the eternal entity was an\u00a0<em>undirected, uncaused universe.<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0However, as soon as the evidenced implied the\u00a0<em>eternal something<\/em> might be <strong>the God<\/strong> that so many had spent their lives denying could possibly exist, <em>their views changed such that an eternal something was no longer possible. \u00a0<strong>That is worldview bias in action!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Do I believe that the fact the universe appears to have a beginning, as stated in Genesis, is\u00a0<em><strong>PROOF<\/strong> <\/em>that God exists? <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Of course not, but <em>it is an important evidentiary piece of a complicated puzzle<\/em> that may\u00a0ultimately paint\u00a0an irrefutable picture of his existence.<\/strong><\/span> Throughout the various articles in this site, many more pieces of that puzzle will be connected. \u00a0No one piece is determinative, but like a puzzle, the more pieces put in place, the clearer the true picture\u00a0of the pieces create becomes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>A\u00a0beginning to\u00a0the Universe was just too much&#8230; and still is!<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"> From the moment the big bang was proposed atheistic scientists have been trying to deny it, then looking for ways to avoid it&#8230; there continues\u00a0<em>a non stop search for <strong>any<\/strong> theory that eliminates a beginning of the universe. The result?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>10 YEARS TRYING TO DISPROVE &#8220;A BEGINNING&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"> For 10 years a group of our most brilliant theoretical physicists, Armand Borde, Allan Guth and Alexander Vilenkin searched for a loophole around the space-time theorem. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"> The Goal? \u00a0They wanted to prove the eternality of the universe; to find some theorem that would avoid\u00a0<em>the necessary causal agent beyond space and time that would have to be responsible for <strong>the beginning<\/strong> of all space, time and matter.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>WHAT THEY FOUND<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"> They published 5 papers on the subject and in spite of their Herculean \u00a0attempts to find to the contrary, they ultimately concluded,<em><strong> that any universe that expands on average, MUST have a beginning in the finite past. \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>In other words our universe i.e. all of Time, Space and Matter had a beginning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">So now atheist scientists continue to posit <em><strong>new<\/strong> <\/em>ways around the implications of God&#8230; a multi verse, a statement that gravity caused the universe, or that it was caused by nothing etc&#8230; *this even though not one of these theories has\u00a0\u00a0one thread of <strong><em>empirical evidence<\/em><\/strong> to support them!*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000080;\"><strong>Intractable\u00a0Adherence\u00a0to <em>preferred<\/em>\u00a0worldviews\u00a0can\u00a0result in ILLOGICAL\u00a0THOUGHT PROCESSES.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"> This is of course a two way street. \u00a0Often theists have\u00a0the same issue, but for now, we&#8217;ll deal with only one side of the equation&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>THINK ABOUT IT<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"> The atheist\u2019s worldview is that there is no God; \u00a0that God is no more real than a magic man in the sky, a fairy tale. <em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Therefore, no matter what they\u00a0see or what the common sense inference of a data set\u00a0may be, the conclusion of God can not be\u00a0allowed as a possibility. \u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>But since when has\u00a0science have to see a thing\u00a0to believe it exists?:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> A\u00a0Theist is gernally willing to go wherever the evidence actually leads, whether we can actually <em>see<\/em> the cause or not. But there is nothing unusual about that. \u00a0<strong><em>That&#8217;s also how science usually works.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Effective intellectual inquiry has never required that we visibly see, touch or hear <em>the\u00a0causal agent of an event.<\/em> \u00a0<strong><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">If the data provides sufficient inferential evidence, it is accepted that the cause exists.<\/span><\/em><\/strong> \u00a0In other words, there is no need to\u00a0physically see the cause,<strong><em> as long as we can see the physical RESULTS\u00a0of that\u00a0cause. \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">That&#8217;s why scientists acknowledge gravity, dark matter, dark energy, and various celestial bodies that we\u00a0have never seen. <strong><em>\u00a0We see the effects so we know they exist. \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">No atheistic scientist has an\u00a0issue in believing in what can not be seen. <strong>But there is one caveat&#8230;<\/strong> they will believe in the best inference to any cause, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;<em>as long as the best inference does not\u00a0imply the cause was God<\/em>&#8220;.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>EXAMPLE<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>The evidence indicates<\/strong> there is such a thing as gravity because we see things fall, we are held to the ground. However, no one has ever <em>seen<\/em> gravity or gravity waves (<em>and when scientists thought they had, it was actually just space dust<\/em>)\u2026 <em>all we have ever seen or experienced is gravity\u2019s effects. <strong>but we know it exists.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>*Evidence infers<\/strong> the universe consists mostly of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Dark Matter.<\/strong><\/span> That\u00a0also has never been seen. \u00a0Since it makes up a huge portion of the universe it is assumed we should be able to find, at least, a particle of it. But that&#8217;s not the case. \u00a0 We devised\u00a0many brilliant experiments to do so&#8230; <strong>all have come up empty-handed.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<strong><em>Do our scientists say it must not exist?<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0No. They continue to accept it<em> because we see\u00a0its effects.<\/em> \u00a0We see spiral arms of distant galaxies whose formation is best explained by some unseen mass \u00a0It is believed to be\u00a0unseen matter that is causing an extra gravitational force sufficient to explain the observed data. \u00a0 <em><strong>Even though it 23 percent of all\u00a0matter in the universe, we can&#8217;t observe it, we can&#8217;t test it, we can&#8217;t touch it, we can&#8217;t see it&#8230; but we accept its existence.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Evidence also infers there is <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Dark <em>Energy<\/em> that makes up about 73% of the mass of the universe<\/span>.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Dark energy\u00a0is causing the universe to continue on an accelerated non stop expansion. \u00a0But again, <em>that too, has never been seen, but we believe\u00a0it&#8217;s there.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">There is virtually no scientist who does not accept all of the above as a part of our universe&#8217;s reality&#8230; \u00a0Even though <em><strong>none<\/strong> <\/em>have ever actually <em><strong>seen<\/strong> <\/em>them. \u00a0<em><strong>All that has ever been observed are the effects. \u00a0But we accept they exist.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>OUR UNIVERSE INFERS THE EXISTENCE OF\u00a0GOD- \u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Evidence of our\u00a0universe and nature powerfully\u00a0infer (although does not prove), a designer, via the big bang, fine tuning of life and the universe, computer code in the cell, etc\u2026<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><em>As with Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Gravity, we have not seen the designer but we see the effect all around us, every moment of our lives.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 In spite of the mountains of inferential evidence,\u00a0the possibility of a designer is given virtually no credence by many in science. Why? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>It conflicts with the atheist\u2019s materialistic WorldView.<\/em><\/strong><\/span> \u00a0<strong><em>They believe there is no God,<\/em><\/strong> so they are unwilling to accept, see or acknowledge the evidence that <em>infers<\/em>\u00a0His existence. \u00a0But isn&#8217;t it possible that God does not exist? \u00a0Technically yes. \u00a0But i fervently believe the evidence of his existence is overwhelming.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Personally I believe God\u00a0exists, but not because of a worldview. \u00a0Rather, for me it is due to the unmistakable evidence that surrounds us all\u00a0and the mountain of discoveries of <em>recent science.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0However, because of an intractable view that asserts a God can not exist, any evidence that infers an intelligent designer or something beyond nature is given little to no credence by those with an anti theistic worldview bias.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>SOME OF THE EVIDENCE THAT LED ME TO BELIEF IN\u00a0GOD<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"> <strong>Following are a few of MANY\u00a0FACTS that make the GOD hypothesis eminently reasonable&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"> For many, their worldview <em>REQUIRES<\/em> there must be a naturalistic cause to the origin of life. \u00a0<strong><em>Logically, it\u00a0either happened as the result of random\u00a0chemical chance events, or there was an intelligence that put the pieces together to create, at least, the first living cell.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0The committed atheist does not\u00a0want to believe in God, so they hold only to what evidence seems to support their position while ignoring everything else.\u00a0 They don&#8217;t just say it&#8217;s wrong&#8230; it&#8217;s impossible. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #000080;\">Unfortunately for their belief system, even <strong><em>the best theory on the origin of life has<\/em><\/strong> problems that appear to be insurmountable.<\/span> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>*It is a FACT*<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0it has been shown that the chances of life arising <em>spontaneously from naturalistic chance processes<\/em>\u00a0is\u00a0so incredibly unlikely that few biologists still even consider it a possibility. Some actually believe so stridently of its impossibility that <em>they prefer to believe that LIFE CAME FROM SPACE rather than God.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 This was posited as a <strong><em>possibility<\/em> <\/strong>by Francis Crick\u00a0(head of the genome project) and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Richard Dawkins (Evolutionary biologist and Oxford Professor),<\/span> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/BoncJBrrdQ8\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/BoncJBrrdQ8<\/a>\u00a0and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fredirich Hoyle, and many others<\/span>. <a href=\"https:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/the-origin-of-life-who-wrote-the-manual\">http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/the-origin-of-life-who-wrote-the-manual<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000;\">The origin of life problem is so stark that &#8220;<strong><em>Eugene Koonin<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; a leading biologist and Origin of life researcher, states:the emergence of a coupled replication-translation system is unlikely <em>to the extent of being, &#8220;EFFECTIVELY IMPOSSIBLE&#8221;<\/em>. \u00a0He then goes on to say for life to have arisen <strong>naturally<\/strong>,\u00a0we must be part of a &#8220;<em>multi verse<\/em>&#8220;. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because with an infinite number of universes anything that can be imagined happens in at least one of them. \u00a0In our case, we would simply be the lucky one, on which life arose naturalistically.<\/span> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biologydirect.com\/content\/2\/1\/15\">http:\/\/www.biologydirect.com\/content\/2\/1\/15<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\"><strong>MORE QUESTIONS RE\u00a0THE MATERIALISTIC WORLDVIEW<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">* \u00a0\u00a0We know that life doesn\u2019t come from dead inanimate objects, but life exists, why?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"> * \u00a0\u00a0We know that something does not come from nothing. \u00a0But all the empirical evidence we have indicates that everything we see, came from the nothingness prior to the big bang. \u00a0How?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"> *\u00a0 \u00a0We know that order does not come from chaos. \u00a0But we see an <em>extraordinarily ordered universe<\/em> that started with the incomprehensible chaos of the big bang. \u00a0How?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>*It is a FACT*<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>there are gaping holes in the fossil record and that the Cambrian explosion has proven to be a huge hurdle for Darwinian orthodoxy.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.com\/cgi-bin\/d2.cgi\/1000\/godis.htm#Fossil_Record-\">http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.com\/cgi-bin\/d2.cgi\/1000\/godis.htm#Fossil_Record-<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>*It is a FACT*<\/strong>\u00a0the scientific community is so motivated to find evidence of transitional fossils that PROVE evolutionary theory that <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>they have pronounced the bone of a pig a missing link.<\/em><\/span><\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.com\/cgi-bin\/d2.cgi\/1000\/godis.htm#Fraud_and_misinterpretation_in_the_Fossil_Records-\">http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.com\/cgi-bin\/d2.cgi\/1000\/godis.htm#Fraud_and_misinterpretation_in_the_Fossil_Records-<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>*Their WorldView*<\/strong> is so deeply ingrained and\u00a0the need to confirm their pre-existing beliefs is so deep that it has created an imperative\u00a0for the discovery of confirming &#8216;evidence&#8221; that is so over powering that many have been susceptible of being fooled as to the authenticity or nature of fossils&#8230; in some instances they even stooped to outright fraud themselves in their attempt to prove their worldview to others.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.com\/cgi-bin\/d2.cgi\/1000\/godis.htm#BIAS_OF_THE_SCIENTIFIC_COMMUNITY\">http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.com\/cgi-bin\/d2.cgi\/1000\/godis.htm#BIAS_OF_THE_SCIENTIFIC_COMMUNITY<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>*It is a FACT*<\/strong>\u00a0all that we see&#8230; time, space and matter was created from nothing! <em>(according to Steven Hawking and Roger Penrose<\/em>) Doesn&#8217;t this sound a bit like Genesis?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>*It is a FACT*<\/strong> that the universe and everything in it, gives the appearance of design. Virtually all scientists agree that from the awesome expanse of the universe to the tiniest incredibly complex cell, design is apparent. <em>They acknowledge the appearance of design, they just insist that there must be a naturalistic cause rather than a designer.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">*It is a FACT* that &#8220;something&#8221; does not come from nothing and we know that inanimate matter does not spontaneously grow into living matter. <strong><em>but this is what &#8220;the consensus&#8221; of mainstream science teaches.<\/em><\/strong> They simply insist\u00a0that somehow, the origin of life was a natural process, in spite of the fact that\u00a0<em><strong>all empirical evidence says otherwise..<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/the-origin-of-life-who-wrote-the-manual\">http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/the-origin-of-life-who-wrote-the-manual<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">*It is a FACT* that a computer program&#8217;s coding requires a designer. DNA is <em>perfectly<\/em> analogous to the most sophisticated computer code. And no, the issues aren&#8217;t\u00a0just about complexity&#8230; it&#8217;s about<em> information and instructions<\/em>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>*It is a FACT*<\/strong> that the machinery of each living cell contains a more sophisticated DNA code than the most advanced computers known to man.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The more our scientists, chemists, astronomers, paleontologists, and biologists discover about the origins and details of life and the universe\u2026 <strong><em>the less that undirected, blind chance seems to be even a remote possibility.<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0There HAS to me more\u2026 but what or\u00a0<em>WHO\u00a0<\/em>might that be?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/science-is-used-to-kill-faith-for-me-it-created-a-christian\">http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/science-is-used-to-kill-faith-for-me-it-created-a-christian<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/the-origin-of-life-who-wrote-the-manual\">http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/the-origin-of-life-who-wrote-the-manual<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>The concept of materialism;<\/strong> the belief\u00a0that\u00a0all we see and <em>all we are<\/em> is nothing more than\u00a0particles of matter\u00a0is all but DEAD! The <em>empirical evidence<\/em> proving\u00a0there is more to reality than molecules in motion is overwhelming and continues to mount\u00a0almost daily. \u00a0 However, for many, even the most powerful compelling evidence is not enough; WHY?&#8230; because\u00a0he who <strong><em>will not see<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0stands\u00a0no better than <em>he who<strong> can not<\/strong> <strong>see<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0\u00a0 Any objective analysis of the issues and facts makes it clear that the problems of strict materialism are legion&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt;\"> * Origin of life research<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt;\"> * The Fossil Record.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt;\"> * The problem of mind.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt;\"> * <em>The newest discoveries *Quantum Theory have destroyed materialism*.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"> The evidence against a\u00a0purely materialistic reality has\u00a0reached a tipping point. \u00a0A point where acceptance of the obvious implications of massive mounts of accumulated data is all but impossible to avoid. \u00a0But many brilliant people do so anyway. \u00a0WHY? \u00a0They are trapped by their commitment to a particular worldview.\u00a0 No matter the empirical evidence, they either pay no attention, pretend it doesn&#8217;t exist or pretend it <em>doesn&#8217;t even qualify as evidence.<\/em>\u00a0 Below will be provided an overview of the problems, the opinions of our leading scientists, their words and cites to their work and how and where you can learn more. \u00a0<em>Virtually nothing contained herein\u00a0is opinion;\u00a0only facts and common sense inference.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">This is an overview of a HUGE body of work that only\u00a0touches on the many facts that are contrary to a materialistic philosophy. \u00a0And yes, many inferentially provide support for God. \u00a0<strong>Will It Prove God Exists? \u00a0No&#8230; Nothing can.<\/strong>\u00a0 However, if one takes\u00a0the time to examine\u00a0the article you will find it provides strong circumstantial\u00a0case for His existence. However, not one word of the article is biblically based. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The method of reasoning used for argumentation of facts to conclusion is <em><strong>precisely the same<\/strong><\/em> as our physicists use to prove the existence of many unseen celestial bodies and untouched aspects of our universe. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\">IF UPON READING THIS, YOU FEEL IT IS LOGICALLY UNSOUND, COULD BE DONE BETTER, IS INCORRECT, IS NOT COMPELLING, PLEASE COMMENT BELOW&#8230; I <em>will<\/em> respond \u00a0IF YOU FIND A MISTAKE, I WILL CORRECT IT.. \u00a0MY GOAL IS NOT TO SUPPORT MY WORLDVIEW, IT IS TO FIND TRUTH AND ASSIST\u00a0OTHERS IN DOING\u00a0THE SAME&#8230; <em>NO MATTER WHAT THE TRUTH MAY BE.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>None of the above\u00a0PROVES that God exists-<\/strong>\u00a0but in spite of what some say, nothing in science has ever come close to proving that God does not exist. Neither belief nor <em>non-belief<\/em> is an <em>irrational<\/em> position, <strong>but only one position can be\u00a0right; the other is wrong.<\/strong> \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">WHY PHYSICISTS NOW BELIEVE THAT MATERIALISM IS DEAD!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>FACT&#8211;<\/strong><em>The last 50 years of scientific investigation has been undercutting atheism and materialism. <\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I, like a rapidly\u00a0growing portion\u00a0of our most brilliant scientists, doctors, biologists, physicists and astronomers have come to the conclusion <strong><em>that the weight of evidence falls on the side of God<\/em>.<\/strong> Many of our top physicists actually\u00a0believe <strong><em>Materialism is Dead! \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">The <strong>newest discoveries<\/strong> of *<span style=\"color: #960303;\"><strong>quantum physics<\/strong><\/span>*, entanglement, superposition and non locality have led to the conclusion that <em>fundamental to reality,<\/em> is not matter, <strong>but consciousness!<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Eugene Wigner Physics Nobel Laureate<\/strong>&#8211; \u201cIt was not possible to formulate the laws (of quantum theory) in a fully consistent way *<em>without reference to consciousness<\/em>*.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cIt will remain remarkable, in whatever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to the *<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>scientific conclusion<\/strong><\/em><\/span>* that the <span style=\"color: #960303;\"><em>content of the consciousness<\/em><\/span> is the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>ultimate universal reality<\/em><\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/epjwoc.epj.org\/articles\/epjconf\/pdf\/2014\/15\/epjconf_wigner2014_01010.pdf\">http:\/\/epjwoc.epj.org\/articles\/epjconf\/pdf\/2014\/15\/epjconf_wigner2014_01010.pdf<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"> It is beginning to appear that fundamental to nature, is not matter, but rather mind.\u00a0 But whose?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"> *\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Hans Halvorsen<\/strong> is a philosopher of quantum physics at Princeton University<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"> \u201c\u2026consciousness is crucial to making reality determinate.\u201d\u00a0(151)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/ndpr.nd.edu\/news\/24611-the-soul-hypothesis-investigations-into-the-existence-of-the-soul\/\">http:\/\/ndpr.nd.edu\/news\/24611-the-soul-hypothesis-investigations-into-the-existence-of-the-soul\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">*\u00a0\u00a0 Experiment confirms quantum theory weirdness &#8211; May 27, 2015<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"> Excerpt: The bizarre nature of reality as laid out by quantum theory has <em>survived another test<\/em>, with scientists performing a famous experiment and proving that <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>*reality does not exist until it is measured*<\/strong><\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-05-quantum-theory-weirdness.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-05-quantum-theory-weirdness.html<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"> *Does all this prove GOD?\u00a0 No\u2026 but it <em>strongly<\/em> infers there is more than simple atheistic materialism. \u00a0The obvious question&#8230; who or what might that be?.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">*\u00a0<strong>FINE TUNING*<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"> If the many cosmological forces such as gravity, the strong and weak atomic forces, etc\u2026 were any different, life could not exist. \u00a0<em>Not just human life\u2026 *<strong>NO LIFE!<\/strong>*<\/em>\u00a0 <em>Are we really just that lucky?<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UpIiIaC4kRA\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/UpIiIaC4kRA<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong> \u00a0*As Fred Hoyle*<\/strong>, one of the most preeminent minds of the 20th century (an atheist no less), stated\u00a0 \u201ca common-sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as chemistry and biology, and that _there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu\/nave-html\/faithpathh\/hoyle.html\">http:\/\/hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu\/nave-html\/faithpathh\/hoyle.html<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0WHY AND HOW\u00a0QUANTUM PHYSICS HAD DESTROYED MATERIALISM<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> <em><strong>If you are not willing to have your worldviews challenged, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">do not watch these videos.<\/span><\/strong><\/em> <\/span>Quantum theory is the most successful and well test theory in physics. It is also one of the most difficult to grasp to the extent that one can see why it is so destructive of\u00a0materialistic views. <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>\u00a0I&#8217;ve placed a few videos below. They are arranged in a specific order.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 12pt;\">This\u00a0is the easiest for grasping a\u00a0simplified\u00a0general concept.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/V9KnrVlpqoM?list=PLCx1xtx19oaxfUcSvlSBV86wWNDNd7xrB\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/V9KnrVlpqoM?list=PLCx1xtx19oaxfUcSvlSBV86wWNDNd7xrB<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">This\u00a0explains why it acts as\u00a0inferential evidence\u00a0for God.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Sfe6q3sFgTc?list=PLCx1xtx19oaxfUcSvlSBV86wWNDNd7xrB\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/Sfe6q3sFgTc?list=PLCx1xtx19oaxfUcSvlSBV86wWNDNd7xrB<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">This\u00a0provides a detailed overview along with explanations of the actual confirming\u00a0experiments that have led to the proof of Quantum Theory&#8217;s accuracy.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4C5pq7W5yRM?list=PLCx1xtx19oaxfUcSvlSBV86wWNDNd7xrB\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/4C5pq7W5yRM?list=PLCx1xtx19oaxfUcSvlSBV86wWNDNd7xrB<\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">See what some of our most brilliant minds,\u00a0free of the constraints of worldview bias have come to believe after reviewing all\u00a0evidence. \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>CHARLES TOWNES,<\/strong> Nobel Laureate in Physics.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"> \u201cI strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.\u201d (Townes 2002a).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>ROBERT MILLIKAN<\/strong>, Nobel Laureate in Physics<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8220;<em>To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>ERWIN SCHR\u00d6DINGER<\/strong>, Nobel Laureate in Physics:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"> \u201c\u2026God and eternity, Science sometimes pretends to answer questions in these domains, but the answers are very often so silly that we are not inclined to take them seriously.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"> \u00a8 In the presentation of a scientific problem, the other player is the good Lord. He has not only set the problem but also has <em>devised the rules of the game<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>MAX PLANCK<\/strong>, Nobel Laureate in Physics<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"> \u201cBoth religion and science <strong>need<\/strong> for their activities, <em><strong>the belief in God\u2026<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0God represents the basis, for the latter &#8211; the crown of any reasoning concerning the world-view.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">The above does not prove the existence of God. \u00a0However, whether one wants to admit it, it has put a stake in the heart of the materialist view of reality. <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em>\u00a0If materialism is dead&#8230; what or who is left?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Of course, there are other worldviews and other religions so the above does not prove that Christianity, Judaism, Islam or anything in particular is true. However, as anyone who cares can see, there are volumes of evidence that point directly to Christianity. \u00a0see&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.com\/cgi-bin\/d2.cgi\/1000\/godis.htm\">http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.com\/cgi-bin\/d2.cgi\/1000\/godis.htm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">See Related articles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/do-science-and-religion-agree-how-science-created-a-christianhttp:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/the-origin-of-life-who-wrote-the-manualhttp:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/the-truth-about-religion\">http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/do-science-and-religion-agree-how-science-created-a-christian<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/do-science-and-religion-agree-how-science-created-a-christianhttp:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/the-origin-of-life-who-wrote-the-manualhttp:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/the-truth-about-religion\"> http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/the-origin-of-life-who-wrote-the-manual<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 12pt;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/do-science-and-religion-agree-how-science-created-a-christianhttp:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/the-origin-of-life-who-wrote-the-manualhttp:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/the-truth-about-religion\"> http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/the-truth-about-religion<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Worldviews\u00a0KILL Scientific and Intellectual Progress- &#8230;How\u00a0Materialism Died&#8230; and\u00a0no one knew Related- Is atheism the Opiate of the Uninformed? 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