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Chapter 11. Challenge. Can science exist without

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God? All right, folks, we've reached the final

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boss battle of atheist logic. How do scientists

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even justify doing science without believing

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in the very foundations that make science possible?

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Short answer, they don't. They just hope you

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don't notice. Let's break this down like a bad

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science fiction movie plot. Step one, assume

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science works without justifying it. Evolutionary

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scientists get up in the morning, drink their

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coffee, and trust that logic, uniformity, and

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rationality will still be here today. They don't

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step into a lab worried that gravity might change

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its mind. They don't triple -check if 2 plus

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2 still equals 4. They don't wonder if fire will

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decide to freeze things instead of burn them.

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They just assume reality is stable, predictable,

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and logical. But wait, why? If the Big Bang was

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just an accident, and life is just a meaningless

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fluke, and everything is random, then how do

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they rationally justify trusting in order? Oh,

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right, they don't. They just pretend science

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works because it works. Step 2. Forget that science

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needs transcendental foundations. Science isn't

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just playing with chemicals in a lab. It requires

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things that atheism can't explain. Logic. Why

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should a universe that came from random chaos

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obey any logical principles? Why do the laws

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of physics hold? Where did math come from? Uniformity

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in nature? If everything came from a meaningless

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explosion, why does the universe behave in a

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stable, orderly way instead of descending into

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chaos every five minutes? Consciousness and rationality.

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If your brain is just a bunch of atoms bouncing

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around randomly, how can you trust your thoughts

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to be true instead of just a side effect of evolutionary

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brain chemistry? Information in DNA. Why do mindless

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processes generate complex, structured information?

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Who programmed the genetic code? Oh, and here's

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the kicker. You can't even ask these questions

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without assuming logic, reason, and truth exist.

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Atheist translation. Don't ask, just accept that

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it works. Step 3. The grand act of pretending

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science exists without a creator. Imagine this

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conversation. Atheist scientist. We don't need

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God. Science explains everything. You. Okay,

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where did logic and uniformity in nature come

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from? Atheist scientist. Uh, science? You. No,

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I mean, why do these things exist in the first

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place? Atheist scientist. Stop asking questions

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and trust the science, bro. This is intellectual

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bankruptcy at its finest. They act like science

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can function in a universe with no foundation

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for logic, order, or rationality. But if the

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universe has no cause, no purpose, and no order,

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then why should scientific inquiry even be possible?

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Spoiler alert. It wouldn't be. But don't worry,

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their solution is to make up stuff like... The

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laws of nature just exist, okay? Maybe an infinite

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number of universes exist, and we got lucky.

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Who cares about philosophical nonsense? Just

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do the experiment. Brilliant. Truly scientific.

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Step 4. Atheist scientists keep borrowing from

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theism. Atheists say God isn't real, but science

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is. But then they steal from God's worldview

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every time they... Trust that logic and math

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are real. Assume the laws of physics will be

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the same tomorrow. Believe their own reasoning

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is reliable. Expect their experiments to work

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consistently. They depend on theistic assumptions,

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order, logic, meaning, and truth to do their

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work, while denying the very foundation that

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makes those things possible. This is called stealing

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from God. It's like an atheist saying, cars don't

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exist, while driving to work every morning. Or

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like someone saying, I don't believe in chefs,

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while eating a steak dinner. Final round. The

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Bible had it right all along. Science works because

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the universe was designed to be orderly, rational,

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and logical. The Bible explains why science works

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better than any atheist ever could. Genesis 101.

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In the beginning, God created the heavens and

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the earth. Not in the beginning. A random explosion

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just happened for no reason. Colossians 1 .17

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By him all things hold together. So much for

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things just exist, bro. Hebrews 1 .3 He upholds

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the universe by the word of his power. That's

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why your coffee doesn't randomly fly into space.

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Thoughts, let's sum it up. Science requires logic,

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order, and rationality. Atheism can't justify

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logic, order, or rationality. But scientists

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need these things to do their job. So they steal

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from God's worldview while denying he exists.

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Conclusion. The atheist scientist depends on

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God's existence while denying him. They mock

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believers, but they literally cannot do science

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without standing on the very foundations that

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only God provides. But don't worry. The atheists

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will be back tomorrow, using the uniformity of

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nature to argue that everything is a random accident,

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while cashing in their research grants. So tell

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me again, who's really being irrational?