This document contains excerpts from various sources that are critical of religion and argue for atheism and humanism. It includes quotes asserting that gods are not worth believing in, religion is wrong and evil, and civilization will not survive unless belief in God is eradicated. It also contains references to books and authors that argue science shows God does not exist. The document discusses both bad science and bad theology used in apologetics. It provides examples of how science and religion could work together and lists websites arguing that God does not exist.
3. William Provine
“No Gods worth having exist,
no life after death exists,
no ultimate foundation for ethics exists,
no ultimate meaning in life exists.”
5. Sam Harris
“Unless belief in God is eradicated,
civilization is likely to end up in a
murderous sea of religious warfare. At
some point, there’s going to be enough
pressure that it is going to be too
embarrassing to believe in God.”
6. Gary Wolf – Wired Magazine
“Religion is not only wrong,
it is evil.”
7. Richard Dawkins wrote that God is-
“…arguably the most unpleasant
character in all of fiction: jealous and
proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving
control-freak; a vindictive bloodthirsty
ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic,
homophobic, racist, infanticidal,
genocidal, filicidal, pestilential,
megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic,
capriciously malevolent bully.”
8. • Victor Stenger – God: The Failed Hypothesis
– How Science Shows that God Does Not
Exist
• Richard Dawkins – The God Delusion and
the Root of All Evil
• Christopher Hutchens – God is Not Great
• Sam Harris – The Case Against Faith
• Rational Response Squad – The Blasphemy
Challenge to Bring an End to Christianity
9. Hector Avalos
“Hitler was a creationist who used
biblical and theological rationales in
his policies.”
10. Adolph Hitler
Speeches of Adolph Hitler, Oxford Univ. Press, 1942
“My feelings as a Christian point me to my Lord
and Savior as a fighter… How terrific was his
fight for the world against Jewish poison.
Today after two thousand years, with deepest
emotion I recognize more profoundly than
ever before, the fact that it was for this that he
had to shed his blood upon the cross.”
12. The New Science
1. QUANTUM MECHANICS – Does classical physics not
work?
2. CLONING – Does a cloned human have a soul?
3. THE HUMAN GENOME – Knowing what I will die of,
what diseases I and my children will have affects
parenthood, etc. Proof that our past is an animal past.
4. BLACK HOLES, PARALLEL UNIVERSES, VIRTUAL
UNIVERSES – Other sentient beings in other universes?
5. STRING THEORY – The creation of matter.
6. THE CREATION OF LIFE – Elimination of death.
16. Science:
Knowledge. State or fact of knowing,
often as opposed to intuition.
Systematized knowledge derived from
observation, study, and experimentation,
carried on in order to determine the
nature or principles of what is being
studied.
17. Bad Science
• I Timothy 6:20, 21 “O Timothy, keep that
which is committed to thy trust avoiding
profane and vain babblings, and oppositions
of science falsely so called: which some
professing have erred concerning the faith.”
• Can’t be falsified or tested in any way.
• Science used incorrectly- “Religion without
science is lame, but science without religion
is blind.” Albert Einstein
18. Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, p. 133
In a universe of blind physical forces and
genetic replication, some people are going to get
hurt, and other people are going to get lucky;
and you won’t find any rhyme or reason to it, nor
any justice. The universe we observe has
precisely the properties we should expect if
there is at the bottom, no design, no purpose, no
evil and no good. Nothing but blind pitiless
indifference. DNA neither knows nor cares.
DNA just is, and we dance to its music.
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21. THE WORD
• John 1:1-14
• Romans 1:19-22
• Psalms 19
• Colossians 1:16-17
22. Bad Theology
• Restricting the methods that God can use-
“My ways are not your ways.”
• Not taking the Bible literally – Definition:
You have to look at who wrote it, to whom
it was written, why it was written and how
people of that day would have understood
it.
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38. Examples of Bad Theology
in Apologetics
• Equating “kind” and “species” – How many
animals on the ark?
• In which verse is the sun created? – “bara” vs.
“asah”
• How does God produce a soul? – Psalms 139
• Blaming God for the bad things that happen.
2 Peter 3:9 – God’s will is not always done
Job 1 & 2
Ephesians 6:12 & 3:9-11
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51. Examples of Bad Theology
in Apologetics
• Equating “kind” and “species” – How many
animals on the ark?
• In which verse is the sun created? – “bara” vs.
“asah”
• How does God produce a soul? – Psalms 139
• Blaming God for the bad things that happen.
2 Peter 3:9 – God’s will is not always done
Job 1 & 2
Ephesians 6:12 & 3:9-11
