DO WE HAVE

ENOUGH

DEFINING TERMS“(The term) seems (perhaps independently) to have been introduced by T. H. Huxley at a party in London to found the Metaphysical Society, which flourished for over a decade and to which belonged notable

thinkers and leaders of opinion. Huxley thought that as many of these people liked to describe

themselves as adherents of various ‘isms’ he would invent one for himself. He took it from a description in Acts 17:23 of an altar inscribed ‘to an unknown

God’. Huxley thought that we would never be able to know about the ultimate origin and causes of the

universe.” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/atheism-agnosticism/#3)

REASONS FOR DISBELIEF

THE INCONSISTENCY OF RELIGIOUS PEOPLE

THE ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE

REASONS FOR DISBELIEF

There is not a person in the world that behaves as badly as praying

mantises. But wait, you say, there is no right or wrong in nature; right and wrong is a

human concept! Precisely! We are moral creatures in an amoral

world....(Anne Dillard)

REASONS FOR DISBELIEF

In the absence of God....each...ethical and legal system...will be differentiated by the

answer it chooses to give to one key question: who among us ought to be able

to declare “law” that ought to be obeyed?...Either God exist or He does not,

but if He does not, nothing and no one else can take His place

(Arthur Leff, Unspeakable Ethics, Unnatural Law)

REASONS FOR DISBELIEF

As things are now, everything is up for grabs. Nevertheless: napalming babies is bad. Starving the poor is wicked. Buying and selling each other is depraved...There is such a thing as evil. Al together now:

Sez Who? God help us.(Arthur Leff, Unspeakable Ethics, Unnatural Law)

REASONS FOR DISBELIEF

THE INCONSISTENCY OF RELIGIOUS PEOPLE

THE ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE

LACK OF REVELATION

REASONS FOR DISBELIEF

‘I have been reading poems, romances, vision literature, legends, and myths all

my life. I know what they are like. I know none of them are like this. Of this

(gospel) text there are only two possible views. Either this is reportage...or else, some unknown writer...without known predecessors or successors, suddenly

anticipated the whole technique of modern novelistic, realistic narrative…” (C.S. LewisChristian Reflections, p.155)

THE GOSPEL IS PROPOSITIONAL

THE BIBLE IS NOT WRITTEN IN A MANNER THAT ENCOURAGES INDECISIVENESS

THESE THINGS ARE EITHER TRUE OF FALSE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THEM

DRIVES US TO MAKE A DECISION

WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH THE GOSPEL

WILL YOU SNEER?

WILL YOU HEAR AGAIN CONCERNING THIS?

WILL YOU BELIEVE?