Evidence of a Creator - 3/5

Wednesday
Atheism—It Just Isn’t Logical!
But What About Agnosticism?

Well, let’s put a close to the concept of atheism, the belief that there is no god. We’ve talked about morality as a clue to something else in our universe and some of the fallacy of evolution. So let’s look at one last concept.

Unless you’ve been everywhere in the Universe you can’t say that there isn’t a god out there somewhere. What if he is in that one place you haven’t looked yet? Since no one has been everywhere and we are even limited in what we can view in our massive or micro universe, we must admit that there may be a god out there somewhere.

Let’s look at an example. Let’s say we were standing in a room together. Could either of us know for sure that there wasn’t a quarter in the room somewhere? Perhaps there is one in my pocket or maybe you keep one in your shoe for an emergency phone call. Have we looked under the couch cushions or in a junk drawer, under a chair or carpet? We can’t know for certain whether there is or isn’t a quarter in the room unless we’ve looked in every crack and crevice. You also can not conclude that there is no god because you’ve never encountered him since you have never been where he might be.

Well, what about agnosticism then, the belief that you can’t know for sure if there is a god. Perhaps you have followed my reasoning up to this point, but have concluded that we can simply not know that there is a god. The main tenant of agnosticism states that the truth of reality is unknowable. This however is not a line of thinking, but rather circular thinking.

Norman Geisler explains it like this: “Complete agnosticism is self defeating; it reduces to the self-destructing assertion that ‘one knows enough about reality in order to affirm that nothing can be known about reality.’ This statement provides within itself all that is necessary to falsify itself. For if one knows something about reality, then he surely can not affirm in the same breath that all of reality is unknowable. And of course if one knows nothing whatsoever about reality, then he has no basis whatsoever for making a statement about reality.”

I would like to conclude today’s topic with what Scripture has to say about how one can know that God does exist. Later we will discuss, since God exists, what kind of god is he.

“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.” Romans 1:20

“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” Psalm 19:1

Norman Geisler is a renowned philosopher, debater and apologist. He holds degrees in philosophy and theology from various quality colleges and university. Dr. Geisler served as chairman of the philosophy and religion department at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, was professor of systematic theology at Dallas Theological Seminary, and dean of the Liberty Center for Research at Liberty University. He currently serves as the dean of Southern Evangelical Seminary, of which he was a co-founder.

Josh McDowell was a college student faced with the challenge of the claims of Christianity. It was his intent to prove Christianity was a sham. He traveled the US and Europe for answers but in the end all his searching and evidence proved that Christianity was everything it claimed to be. He became a Christ-follower and has published many books helping to show others this same evidence.