Atheists Believe in Miracles
Most atheists are quick to point out that miracles are impossible. Let’s define “miracle” as anything that violates the known natural laws of science. This would mean that the miracles reported in the Bible such as the virgin birth, healing of a diseases, raising the dead, walking on water, etc. are simply proof that the Bible is bogus. Miracles, so they say, are impossible because they violate natural law recognized by science.
I would point out, on the other hand, that atheists believe in several miracles and they are hesitant to admit this to the honest observer because it reveals the absurdity of their position. So, here are some miracles that atheists believe.
The universe created itself out of nothing.
For many years atheists leaned on the claims of science about the beginning of the universe with all of its stars, galaxies, and other astronomical wonders. Science came to believe what they call the “Big Bang” occurred causing all matter, energy, space and time to be formed causing the universe to exist and continue to expand. Before the Big Bang, to follow this reasoning, nothing existed anywhere. There was no matter of any kind, no energy or even any space or time. There was simply nothing.
So atheists, who reject the existence of God, believe that out of this nothingness, without the aid of anything outside of the realm of accepted science, a massive explosion took place causing the creation of an ever expanding universe full of all of the elements of the periodic table and the billions upon billions of stars, planets, solar systems, moons and galaxies and all of the other amazing components of our universe. When asked “What came before the Big Bang?” scientists just shrug and say the answer to that is outside of the realm of science so science has no answer.
That, my friends, is a miracle beyond all miracles. This massive, ever expanding universe came into existence by a mysterious Big Bang that not even science can explain. Nothing existed. Not even space itself or time. Then incredibly it all just happened without any outside interference that science can identify. That’s a miracle!
The creation of life
To top it all off, atheists believe the same thing about life itself. All living things are built from the basic elements carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, phosphorus, oxygen and sulfur. Of course this brings us back to our original conundrum — how did these elements come to exist out of the nothingness of a spaceless, timeless, purposeless emptiness where there is no God?
But even if the Big Bang did occur, which would be a miracle, all of these elements would have to align perfectly for life to have a start. British mathematician, astronomer, Sir Fred Hoyle concluded that the odds of life arising spontaneously were impossible:
“The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is one to a number with 40,000 naughts after it … It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence.”
So there you have it — another miracle believed by atheists.
The creation of DNA and information
DNA is truly amazing. It is found in every cell of every organism and is shaped like a spiraling staircase. Each rung in the staircase is like a letter in our alphabet and taken together spell out words with meanings. There are about three billion letters in our DNA, containing an immense amount of information about building the heart, lungs, brain and other organs and even how to produce a baby from the fertilized egg.
The sequence of these “letters” is like a language as different combinations of them specify which amino acid is to be placed in which place along the long chain. This information determines every characteristic the body will need to grow and prosper.
How did this information come into being? Information is knowledge that can be transmitted and used to build organic machines. Knowledge must come from some kind of mind. The presence of a mind would be necessary because information is the product of rational thought.
But atheists believe this all happened by some process that science can’t explain over billions of years. For every effect there must be a cause. This cause would have to have be extremely intelligent to be able to create such intelligence for thousands of organic entities. How could mind and morality develop from inorganic material such as matter? In other words atheists clearly believe in another miracle.
The origin of diversity of life
Atheists have a problem explaining the origin of the amazing diversity in all living things. The development of one form of life is miracle enough but each time a new form developed a new miracle is realized. The genomes of modern biological life show amazing diversity that could not possibly have been created by means of mutations in the supposed original microbe that evolutionists claim. The evolutionary development of one such microbe through mutations is miracle enough not to mention the continuation of that process through the millions of different forms of life. Atheists end up believing in an incomprehensible series of such miracles.
Conclusion
The conclusion I reach is that atheists are willing to shrug their shoulders at the question “What was here before the Big Bang?” but can’t seem to imagine that the something that came before the creation of the universe must have been a being powerful and intelligent enough to create such a massive phenomenon. They claim the question is outside the realm of science so they can plead ignorance. Maybe the answer is something (or Someone) outside of their realm of study. God perhaps?
