I have to admit, as an astronomer/atheist, I am more than a little curious about this:
Why Christianity explains what modern science tells us about the universe and our origins—that matter was created out of nothing, that light preceded the sun—better than atheism does
How Christianity created the framework for modern science, so that Christianity and science are not irreconcilable, but science and atheism might be
Why the alleged sins of Christianity—the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Galileo affair (“an atheist's fable”)—are vastly overblown
*Why atheist regimes are responsible for the greatest mass murders of history
*Why evolution does not threaten Christian belief, but actually supports the “argument from design”
Why atheists fear the Big Bang theory and the “anthropic principle” of the universe, which are keystones of modern astronomy and physics
How Christianity explains consciousness and free will, which atheists have to deny
Why ultimately you can't have Western civilization—and all we value from it—without the Christianity that gave it birth.Provocative, enlightening
This seems like the usual rhetorical ass-hattery from Dinesh D'Souza, a fellow who beleives that how you talk about science seems to him to be more important than science itself.
In this case, the least of his sins seem to be confusing the existance of god with the correctness of Christianity.
If science can't bat down a fool like this, we deserve to lose the public debate.
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There are arguments that would scientifically destroy the lame hype of creationists of all flavors, but dogmatic fanaticism rules the minds of both sides of this culture war, so truth and reality has little bearing on anything that you'll hear from any of them, and this includes the willful ignorance of theorists who let theory drive them to ignore the obvious implications of direct observation.
Very tidy dismissal of the Crusades. The very first mass genocide merely a spot of bother? Argument from credulity at it's absolute ugliest.
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