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While science, logic and reason are on the side of the nonreligious, the cold, hard facts are just so cold and hard. Yes, the evidence for evolution is irrefutable. Yes, there is a plethora of Biblical contradictions. Yes, there is mounting evidence from neuroscientists that suggests that God may be a product of the mind. Yes, yes, yes. But when is the choir going to sing? And when is the picnic? And is my child going to get a part in the holiday play?
Where to begin? First, science, as such, has nothing to say about whether there is a supernatural realm. Nothing. Its aim is to explain the natural realm, which, if God exists, God created. Second, the author must be unaware of the classic arguments for the existence of God: the ontological argument (which dates to the 11th century), the cosmological argument (which dates to the ancient world), and the teleological argument (which dates to the ancient world). How can he say that "logic and reason are on the side of the nonreligious"? Has he refuted these arguments? Is he even aware of them? Third, what does evolution have to do with the existence of God? If God exists, then God created the laws of evolution. Fourth, how can neuroscience (a science) determine that there is no god? Neuroscience is about how our brains work, not about what, if anything, is outside the natural realm. If God exists, then God determined that our brains work exactly as they do.
The columnist is a waste of space.
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 