Infamous Atheist spokesman Richard Dawkins has done it again. He has once again demonstrated to the world why the religion Atheism - that presents itself as rational - makes no sense. During a debate at Oxford University with Dr. Rowan Williams, Anglican archbishop of Canterbury, Dawkins states that he is not sure if God doesn't exist.
This goes to show that Atheism is nothing more than a contrarian presupposition which posits that there is no God without empirical evidence to support that claim. It is a placebo for the one who is indignant at God and/or religion.
Science has recently shown that the human being is "wired" to believe in God. Some say this is a survival mechanism; however, that argument is not strong. Suppose God is not real and is imaginary. How can this figure of the imagination help humanity survive? How can evolving man survive being hunted by larger animals, survive diseases without immunity and so on with the notion of an imaginary being called God? It makes no sense. It is like believing in a genie in a lamp.
A more rational hypothesis is that we are "wired" to believe in God because there is a God and that is how He programmed our physical minds and bodies to seek Him. Think about it. When we are hungry and smell food, just the smell of food gets the digestive system going. We salivate, our gastric pumps get busy.
Biologically speaking, our sense of smell is working alongside with the digestive system. It tips off the stomach by letting it know food is around. Now would it not be the same with this "wired" belief in God? Since it is there, then it is there to serve a purpose of contact or awareness just like the sense of smell with food and the stomach.
Philosophy reminds us that we have the rational capacity to question everything, even whether or not we are real. It reminds us that we can think beyond the perceivable and try to find objective truth that eludes the senses which are subject to perception and malfunction. Ratio and intellectus exist for a reason.
Dawkins deep down knows there is a God, but he in his arrogance refuses to accept it. He is an Agnostic. Most Atheists are really Agnostics. They do not comprehend the difference between the two.
See my other blog http://sacerdotvs.blogspot.com/2011/11/clowns-with-frown.html
