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Ligonier 2012 - Day 2, part 2

Session 7 - The Rock of Ages and the Age of Rocks  Stephen Meyer The New Atheism has declared that science reduces the belief of God as untenable. Life only gives the appearance of design, and to believe in a Designer is delusional. But we believe Ps. 19:1-4 and Rom. 1:20. Science reveals a Creator. Historically scientists like Boyle, Kepler, Newton, and Gallileo believed science was a high calling to think God's thoughts after Him. But how did we get from Newton to Richard Dawkins? Pierre LaPlace, author of Celestial Mechanics, the first attempt to explain natural phenomena without a hypothesis of God. Charles Darwin - not just science but a worldview and philosophy that views the theological and spiritual as superfluous. To attempt a coherent answer to the essential questions of life, the prime reality formerly was metaphysical.  But scientific materialism renders God as an idea in the mind of man. Therefore the prime reality is matter and energy.  By the end ...