Famous Atheist Converts Based on Science

An AP News Story located on MSNBC  (you can read the article at this link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6688917/) announces that a well-known atheist, Dr. Antony Flew, has finally concluded that there is a God.  While a conversion from atheism to Christianity or even just general spirituality is not headline news, what makes Dr. Flew's case exceptional was the fact that it was science that finally convinced him of the presence of a creator.

 

While looking at the intricacies of DNA and the complexity of life, Dr. Flew came to accept the fact that such complex characteristics could not have been derived simply by chance.  As stated in the article, "Yet biologists' investigation of DNA "has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce [life], that intelligence must have been involved," Flew says in the new video, "Has Science Discovered God?""

 

For too long, Christians have been told that our faith is not compatible with science.  That to be a Christian, you must discount science in order to believe.  But, as shown by the conversion of Dr. Flew, that is simply not the case.  Without getting into a discussion of intelligent design (creationism) principles versus Darwinian evolution, it is obvious to most who observe nature and the complexity of life without bias that there is a creator. 

 

The facts of nature fit better with a biblical world view.  Originally, when God created life, it was created perfect (And God saw that it was good).  But, as a result of the fall in the Garden of Eden, imperfection entered into life.  People began to live shorter and shorter lives as sickness and disease and parasites came in and as their original genetic makeup deteriorated.  Animals did the same, changing from perfection in the garden to deteriorating examples, radiating out into other similar species (ex.  wolves to foxes and coyotes and dogs), and shortening their life through diseases and parasites and genetic deterioration.  The presence of endangered species is not an example of evolution and the survival of the fittest.  It is an example of degradation following the fall.

 

But, the bottom line is that an unbiased look at science and at our natural world will always lead one to a Creator, just as it did Dr. Flew.