There are significant turning points in the history of mankind. We are now living in one of them. Some call it globalization and some say that this is the genesis of "information age. "These are real, but there is still a concept more important to them. Even if some are not aware of it, great progress has been made in of science and philosophy over the past 20-25 years. Atheism, which held influence over the world of science and philosophy since the 19th century is now collapsing in a as inevitable.
Of course, atheism, which rejects the idea of the existence of God has always existed since ancient times. But the increase this idea actually began in the 18th century in Europe, with the spread and effect of the political philosophy of some anti-religious thinkers. Materialists such as Diderot Baron d'Holbach, and proposes that the universe is an agglomeration of matter that has always existed and that there was another issue as well. In the 19th century, atheism spread even further. Thinkers like Marx, Engels, Nietzsche, Durkheim or atheistic thought Freud applied to various fields of science and philosophy.
The increased support for atheism came from Charles Darwin, who has rejected the idea of creation and proposed the theory of evolution to counter it. Darwinism has supposedly scientific answer to the question that had perplexed atheists for centuries: "How did human beings and living things came to be?" This theory convinced many people of your question that there was a mechanism in nature that animated the life and the product of millions of different species living on it.
Towards the end of the 19th century, atheists formulated a vision of the world that they thought explained everything, they have denied that the universe was created saying that he had not begun, but always there. They argued that the universe had no effect, but that its order and balance were the result of chance, it is considered that the issue of how human beings and other living things came into force has been answered by Darwinism. They believed that Marx or Durkheim had explained history and sociology, and Freud had explained psychology on the basis of atheist assumptions.
However, these views were later invalidated in the 20th century from scientific, political and social. Many and varied discoveries in the field of astronomy, biology, psychology and social sciences have canceled the bases of all atheist suppositions.
In his book, God: The Evidence, reconciliation between faith and reason in a world Postsecular, American scholar Patrick Glynn of the George Washington University wrote:
The last two decades of research have overturned nearly all key assumptions and predictions of an earlier generation of modern secular and atheist thinkers relating to the question of God. "Modern thinkers assumed that science would showed the universe to be ever more random and mechanical; instead has discovered unexpected new layers of intricate order to bespeak that almost incredibly great master of design. Modern psychologists predicted that religion would be exposed as a neurosis, too, on the other hand, religious commitment has been empirically proven to be a vital component of based mental health ...
Few people seem to realize this, but should now be clear: in the course of a century in the great debate between science and faith, the tables are completely transformed. In the wake of Darwin, atheists and agnostics like Huxley and Russell could point to what seemed to be a solid body of testable theory that purports to show life is accidental and the universe radically contingent. Many scientists and intellectuals to continue to Cleave to this world. But they are increasingly pressed to almost absurd lengths to defend it. Today, the strength data in the direction of God hypothesis.1
Science, which was presented as the pillar of atheist / materialist philosophy, is be the opposite. As you put another writer, "The strict materialism that excludes any purpose, choice and the spirituality of the world can not account for data from laboratories and observers pay. "2
In this article, we briefly analyze the conclusions reached by the different branches of science on this issue and examine what the next "post-atheist" to complete humanity.
Cosmology: the collapse of the Concept A Universe of eternal and the discovery of Creation
The first blow to atheism from science in the 20th century was in the field of cosmology. The idea that the universe had existed it was always assumed and it was discovered that had a beginning, in other words, it's been scientifically proven that was created from nothing.
This idea of an eternal universe came for the Western world with the materialist philosophy. This philosophy, developed in Greece, said that there is nothing further and that the universe comes from eternity and goes to eternity. In the Middle Ages when the Church dominated Western thought, materialism was forgotten. However, in the modern period, scientists and philosophers Western became consumed by a curiosity about these ancient Greek origins and revived an interest in materialism.
Immanuel Kant: Proposed the idea of a universe without a beginning or an end. It was terribly wrong.
The first person in the modern age to propose a materialist understanding of 'universe is a famous German philosopher Immanuel Kant, although he has not a materialist in the philosophical sense of the word. Kant proposed that the universe is eternal and that every possibility could only be achieved within this eternity. With the advent of the 19th century, became widely accepted that the universe had no beginning, and that there is time of creation. So, this idea, adopted by the passion dialectical materialists, as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, who came in the 20th century.
This idea has always been compatible with atheism. This is because to accept that the universe had a beginning would mean that God has created, and the only way to counter this idea was to argue that the universe is eternal, even if this statement had no scientific basis. A tenacious advocate of this claim was Georges Politzer who became known as a supporter of materialism and Marxism in the first half of the 20th century through his book Fondamentaux Principes de Philosophie (The Fundamental Principles of Philosophy). Assuming the validity of the model of an eternal universe, Politzer opposed the idea of a creation:
The universe is not an object, if were the case, then it should have been created instantaneously by God and brought into existence from nothing. To permit the creation, you must admit, first, the existence a time when the universe did not exist, and that something came out of nothing. This is something that science can not accede.3
Supporting the idea of an eternal universe against that of creation, Politzer thought that science was on its side. However, very soon, the fact that Politzer alluded by his words, "if so, we must accept the existence of a creator ", namely that the universe had a beginning, has been proven.
This test is came as a result of the "Big Bang" theory, perhaps the most important concept of 20th century astronomy.
The Big Bang, the theory was formulated after a series discoveries. In 1929, the American astronomer, Edwin Hubble, noticed that the galaxies of the universe were continually moving from another and that the universe is expanding. If the flow of time in an expanding universe were reversed, then, it was found that the entire universe must come from a single point. Astronomers consider the validity the discovery of Hubble have been addressed with the fact that this was a single point "metaphysical" state of reality in which there was an infinite gravitational attraction without mass. Matter and time came into force the explosion of this mass point less. In other words, the universe was created from nothing.
John Maddox: His prophecy about Big Bang totally failed.
On the one hand, those astronomers who are determined to cling to materialist philosophy with its basic idea of an eternal universe, have tried to hold against the Big Bang theory and maintain the idea of an eternal universe. The reason for this effort can be seen in the words of Arthur Eddington, a known physical materialist, who said, "Philosophically, the notion of an abrupt beginning to the present order of Nature is repugnant to me" .4 However, despite the fact that the Big Bang theory is repugnant to materialists, this theory has continued to be corroborated by concrete scientific discoveries. In their observations made in 1960, two scientists, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson detected the radioactive remains of the explosion (cosmic background radiation). These observations were verified in 1990's by COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) satellite.
In the face of all these facts, atheists have been squeezed into a corner. Anthony Flew, an atheist professor of philosophy at the University of Reading and author of atheistic humanism, makes this interesting confession:
Known, the confession is good for the soul. Let me therefore begin by confessing that the atheist Stratonician should be embarrassed by the contemporary cosmological consensus. For it seems that Cosmologists have a scientific proof of this that St. Thomas could not be demonstrated philosophically argued, namely, that the universe had a beginning. Until the universe can be conveniently thought of how not only without end but also without beginning, it remains easy to urge that its brute existence, and whatever you find to be the most fundamental characteristics, must be accepted as justification ultimates. Although I believe that it remains still correct, certainly is neither easy nor comfortable to maintain this position in front of the Big Bang story 5
An example of reaction to the atheistic theory of Big Bang can be seen in an article written in 1989 by John Maddox, editor of Nature, one of the most known materialist-scientific journals.
This article, entitled "down with the Big Bang," Maddox wrote that the Big Bang is "philosophically unacceptable "because" creationists and those of similar persuasions ... are ample justification in the doctrine of the Big Bang. "He also predicted that the Big Bang "is unlikely materialists have a relatively logical view of the matter. For example, the English materialist physicist, HP Lipson, unwillingly accepts the scientific fact of creation. He writes:
I believe that ... ... it must be admitted that the only explanation is creation. I know this is anathema to physicists, as is for me, but we should not reject what we do Creator independent of each. The eternal power that created the universe in which we live is God who is the possessor of infinite power, knowledge and wisdom.
Physics and Astronomy: the collapse of the idea of a random universe and
The discovery of the Anthropic principle
A second atheist dogma rendered invalid in the 20th century discoveries in astronomy is the idea of a random universe. The view that the matter in the universe, celestial bodies and the laws determining the relationship between them has no purpose but is the result of chance, it was significantly discounted.
For the first time since 1970, scientists have begun to recognize the fact that the whole balance of the physical 'universe is delicately adjusted in favor of human life. With the advancement of research, it was discovered that the processes physical, chemical and biological laws of the universe, basic forces such as gravity and electro-magnetism, the structure of atoms and all the elements are arranged exactly as they should be for human life. Western scientists have called this extraordinary design the "anthropic principle". This means that every aspect of the world has been designed with the goal for human life.
We can summarize the basic principles of the anthropic principle as follows:
The speed of the first expansion cosmos (the strength of the Big Bang explosion) was exactly the speed you should be. The scientists' calculations, if the rate of expansion was different from its real value of more than one part in a billion billion, then the universe has recollapsed before they ever reached its present size or else have splattered in any direction in a way never to unite again. To put it another way, even the first moment of its existence, the universe there was a fine calculation of accuracy of a billion billionth.
The four physical forces in the universe (gravitational force, weak nuclear force, strong nuclear force and electromagnetic force) are all necessary levels of an ordered universe to emerge and for life to exist. Even the smallest changes in these forces (for example, one in 1039, one in 1028 or, which is crudely --Calculated in a billion billion billion billion), the universe would be composed only of radiation or any other element besides hydrogen.
There are many other delicate adjustments that make the land ideal for human life: the size of the sun, its distance from the earth, the only physical and chemical properties water, the wavelength of sunlight, the way the earth's atmosphere contains the gases necessary for respiration, or the magnetic field of Earth is the ideal solution for human life. (For more information about this topic, see Harun Yahya, the creation of 'Universe, Al-Attique Publishers, 2001)
This delicate balance is one of the most surprising discoveries of modern astrophysics. The famous astronomer, Paul Davies, writes the last paragraph of his book The Cosmic Blueprint, "The impression of design is overwhelming." 8
In an article in the journal Nature, the astrophysicist W. Press writes, "there is a major project in the Universe that favors the development of intelligent life. "9
The interesting thing is that most scientists who have made these findings were materialistic point of view and came to this conclusion unwillingly. They do not undertake their scientific investigations in the hope of finding evidence for the existence of God but most of them, if not all of them, despite their unwillingness, arrived at this conclusion, as the only explanation for the extraordinary design of the cosmos.
In his book, the symbiosis Universe American astronomer, George Greenstein, recognizes this fact:
How this could possibly come to pass [that the laws of physics conform to life]? ... As you survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises or some supernatural agency, rather Agency be involved. It 'possible that suddenly, without intending to, we have stumbled upon scientific proof of the existence of a Supreme Being? God has been strengthened in and so providentially created the cosmos for our benefit? 10
By beginning his question with "It's possible," Greenstein, an atheist, tries to ignore clear that in the face that made him. But many scientists who have addressed the issue without prejudice to recognize that the universe was created especially for a human life. Materialism is now regarded as an erroneous belief outside the realm of science. The American geneticist, Robert Griffiths, recognizes this Indeed, when he says: "If we need an atheist for a debate, I go to the philosophy department. The Department of Physics is not much use." 11
In his book "Nature's Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe, which examines how physical, chemical and biological laws are amazingly calculated on a "ideal" with a view of the needs of human life, the well-known molecular biologist, Michael Denton writes:
The new image that has emerged in the twentieth century, Astronomy presents a dramatic challenge to the presumption that has been distributed to scientists, while most of the last four centuries: that life is a peripheral and purely contingent phenomenon cosmic scheme.12
In short, the idea of a random universe, perhaps the most basic pillar of atheism, it was shown valid. Scientists now openly speak of the collapse of materialism.13 The false assumption that God reveals in the Qur'an, "We do not create the heavens and the earth and with each other throughout useless. This is the opinion of those who do not believe ... "(Qur'an, 38: 27) has shown no valid science in 1970.
Quantum physics and the discovery of Divine Wisdom
When scientists have gone deeper into the atom, which were incredibly "empty."
One of the areas of science that shatters the materialist myth and gives positive evidence for teismo is quantum physics.
Terms of quantum physics the smallest particles of matter, what is called the sub-atomic realm. In school everyone learns that matter is composed of atoms. Atoms consist of a nucleus and electrons more spinning around it. A strange thing is that all these particles take only some 0.0001 percent of the atoms. In other words, an atom is something that is 99.9999 percent empty. "
An even more interesting is that when the nuclei and the electrons are further examined, it was realized that these are made up of particles smaller much smaller called "quarks", and that these quarks are not particles in the physical sense, but simply energy. This discovery broke the classic distinction between matter and energy. It now appears that the material universe, only energy exists. What we call matter is "frozen energy."
There is a fact even more intriguing: The quark, packets of energy, act in such a way that it described as "conscious." Physicist Freeman Dyson, for his acceptance Templeton Prize, said:
Atoms are strange things, behave as active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between possible alternatives according to the laws of quantum mechanics. It seems that the mind, as manifested by the ability to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom.14
This means that there is behind this information. Information that precedes the material realm. Gerald Schroeder, an MIT scientist-training who has worked both in physics and biology and author of the famous book The Science of God, made a number of important observations on this subject. In his most recent book, The Hidden Face of God: science reveals the truth last (2001), Schroeder explains that quantum physics-along with other branches of science is the tool for discovering a universal wisdom that lies behind the material world. As he says:
It took humanity millennia before an Einstein discovered that, as strange as it may seem, the basis of matter is energy, that the matter is actually condensed energy. It may take a little 'more for us to discover that there is something that not even more critical that the energy that forms the basis of energy, which in turn forms the basis of matter.15
John Archibald, professor of physics at Princeton University and the recipient of the Einstein Award, explained the same fact when he said that the "bit" (binary digits) of information gives rise to a "yes", the substance of this matter.16 According Schroeder has a "deeper meaning":
The matter / energy relations, the quantum wave functions, have profound significance. Science may be approaching the realization that the entire universe is the expression of information, wisdom, the idea, just as atoms are tangible expressions of something as ethereal as energy.17
This is an omniscient wisdom that covers the entire universe:
A single consciousness, a universal wisdom, pervades the universe. The discoveries of science, finding that the quantum nature of subatomic matter, have moved to the brink of an astonishing realization: all existence is the expression of this wisdom. In the laboratories we experience it as information that first physically articulated as energy and then condensed in the form of matter. Every particle, every being, from atom to human health, seems to represent a level of information, wisdom.18
This means that the universe material is not an end, and chaotic heap of atoms, as the atheist / materialist dogma assumes, but is instead a manifestation of a wisdom that existed before and that the universe has absolute sovereignty over all that exists. Schroeder in words, is "as if a metaphysics was impressed upon the physical substrate. 19
This discovery shatters the whole materialist myth and reveals that the material universe we see is only a shadow of a transcendent Absolute Being. Thus, as Schroeder explains, quantum physics has become the point at which science and theology meet:
The old theological view of the universe is that all existence is the manifestation of a transcendent wisdom, with a universal consciousness is the manifestation. If you replace the word information for wisdom, theology begins to sound like quantum physics. There may be the scientific evidence of the confluence with the physical spiritual. 20
Quantum is really the point at which science and theology meet. The fact that the entire universe is pervaded by a wisdom is a secret that was revealed in the Qur'an 14 centuries ago. One verse reads:
Your God is God alone, there is no God but him. He encompasses all things in His knowledge. (Qur'an, 20:98)
The Natural Sciences: the collapse of Darwinism and
The Triumph of Intelligent Design
Darwin: Darwin's theory of evolution. With his assertion that the origin of humans and all other living beings lay in unconscious natural mechanisms, Darwinism atheists have the opportunity they had been searching for centuries. Therefore, the theory of Darwin was adopted by the majority of atheists lover of the time, and atheist thinkers such as Marx and Engels explained this theory as the basis of their philosophy. Since that time, the relationship between Darwinism and atheism continued.
But at the same time, more support for that atheism is the dogma that has received the biggest blow of scientific discoveries in the 20th century. The findings of various branches of science such as paleontology, biochemistry, anatomy and genetics have shattered the theory of evolution from various aspects. (See Harun Yahya, Evolution deception, 2000). We addressed this in much more detail in several other books and publications, but can be summarized here as follows:
Paleontology: the theory of that the evidence for this will be discovered in the fossil record, the petrified remains of living things. Fossils, but research conducted during the 20th century, presented a framework totally different. The fossils of even a single doubt that intermediate species in support of belief in the gradual evolution of species was not found. In addition, each taxon appears suddenly in the fossil record and there was no trace of any previous ancestors. The phenomenon known as the Cambrian Explosion is particularly interesting. In this first geological period, almost all the phyla (major groups with significantly different levels of the body) of the animal kingdom has appeared suddenly. This sudden appearance of several categories of living beings with totally different body structures and complex organs and systems, including molluscs, arthropods, echinoderms and (as recently discovered), even vertebrates, is a major blow to Darwinism. For, as evolutionists also agree, the sudden appearance of a taxon implies supernatural design and this means creation.
Biological Observations: In elaborating his theory, Darwin relied on examples of how animal breeders produced a variety of dogs or horses. He extrapolated the limited changes observed in these cases to the whole natural world, and proposed that every living being could have come to be this way from a common ancestor. But Darwin made this claim in the 19th century, when the level of scientific sophistication was low. In the 20th century things have changed considerably. Decades observation and experimentation on various species of animals have shown that the variation in living things has never gone beyond certain genetic boundary. Darwin's statements, as "I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more aquatic in their habits, with the mouth larger and larger, up to a monstrous creature, as has been produced as a whale. "21 actually demonstrates his great ignorance. On the other hand, the observations and experiments have shown that mutations defined by Neo-Darwinism as an evolutionary mechanism add no new genetic information to living creatures.
The origin of life: Darwin spoke of a common ancestor, but has never mentioned this as a common ancestor before they came. His only argument is that the first cell could have formed as a result random chemical reactions "in some small warm little pond", 22 But evolutionary biochemists who is committed to close this hole in Darwinism met with the frustration. All observations and experiments have shown that it was, in short, impossible for people living in cells from inanimate matter random chemical reactions. Even the Nobel Prize English atheist Fred Hoyle expressed that such a scenario "is comparable with the possibility that a tornado through radical a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials in it. "23
Intelligent Design: Scientists who study cells, the molecules that make up cells, their major organization within the body and the delicate piano and organ in the face of evidence that evolutionists strongly wish to reject: The world of living things is permeated by designs too complex to be found in any technological equipment. Intricate design examples, including our eyes that are too stored in DNA, have vitiated the theory of evolution that regards living things as the product of blind chance.
All these facts have squeezed Darwinism into a angle, by the end of the 20th century. Today, the United States and other Western countries, the theory of intelligent design everincreasing is gaining acceptance among scientists. Those who defend the idea of intelligent design say that Darwinism was a big mistake, and history of science that has come to be the result of materialist philosophy was given the scientific paradigm. Scientific findings show that there is a picture of living things that shows creation. In short, science proves once again that God has created all living things.
Psychology: the collapse of Freudianism and the acceptance of faith
The representative of the 19th century atheist dogma in the field psychology was the Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud. Freud proposed a psychological theory, which rejected the existence of soul and tried to explain the whole spiritual world of human beings in terms of sex and similar hedonistic motivations. But Freud was the largest attack against religion.
Later studies have shown that Freud's ideas, especially those on religion were totally wrong.
In his book, "The future of an illusion published in 1927, suggested that faith religion was a sort of mental illness (neurosis) and that, as human beings progressed, the religious faith of disappearing completely. Due to the primitive scientific conditions time, the theory was proposed without the necessary research and investigation, not with the academic literature or the possibility of confrontation and, thus, his claims are been extremely poor. In fact, if Freud had the opportunity to evaluate its proposals today, he himself to be surprised by the deficit of its logical conclusions, and it would be the first to criticize such foolish assumptions.
After Freud, psychology developed on an atheistic foundation. Not only Freud, but the founders of other schools of psychology, 20 Century were passionate atheists. Two of these were BF Skinner, the founder of the behaviorist school, and Albert Ellis, founder of rational emotive therapy. The world of psychology ultimately become the forum for atheism. A 1972 survey among members of the American Psychology Association revealed that only 1.1 percent of psychologists in the country had religious beliefs.24
But most psychologists who have fallen in this great deception were undone by their own psychological investigations. It 'became known that the basic assumptions of Freudianism has almost no scientific support and, furthermore, that religion is not a mental illness as Freud and some other psychological theorists declared, but a fundamental element of mental health. Patrick Glynn summarizes these important developments:
Yet the last quarter of the twentieth century was not the type psychoanalytic vision. More significant was the exhibition of Freud's views of religion as entirely fallacious. Ironically enough, scientific research in psychology over the past quarter century has shown that, far from being a neurosis or source of neuroses as Freud and his disciples claimed, religious faith is one of the most consistent correlates comprehensive mental health and happiness. Study after study has shown a strong relationship between religious faith and practice, on the one hand, and healthy behaviors in relation to such issues as suicide, abuse alcohol and drugs, divorce, depression, even, perhaps surprisingly, levels of sexual satisfaction in marriage, other. In short, the empirical data run exactly contrary to what is supposed to be "scientific" consensus profession.25 psychotherapeutic
Finally, as Glynn says, "modern psychology at the end of the twentieth century seems to be reacquainting himself with religion" and 26 "purely secular view of mental human life has been shown to fail not only in theory but in practice level.27
In other words, atheism is assigned on field of psychology.
Medicine: The discovery of "How Hearts Find Peace"
Another branch of science that has been hit by the collapse of atheist suppositions was medicine.
According to results compiled by David B. Larson and his team at the National Institute of Health Research, the comparison among Americans with regard to attendance at church has given very interesting results. Arteriosclerotic heart disease risk for men who attended the church was often only 60 percent of men who were infrequent church attenders. Among women, the suicide was twice as high among infrequent church as frequent among attenders; smokers who ranked religion as very important in their lives were over seven times less likely to have diastolic blood pressure values that are normal been those who have not.28
Secular psychologists generally explain such phenomena have a psychological cause. In this sense, the faith of a person raises the morale and contributes to his welfare. There may be some truth in this explanation, but if you look closer you see something much more dramatic. Belief in God is much more powerful than any other influence on the morale. In research on the relationship between religious beliefs and physical health, Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School has reached some interesting results. Although he has no religious faith, Benson has reached the result that faith in God and religion had a much more positive effect on human health that can be observed in the rest. Benson claims that he "found that faith quiets the mind like no other form of belief." 29
Why is there such a special relationship between faith and human spirit and body? The result reached by Benson, who is a secular researcher, was, as he put, the human mind and body are "wired for God. "30
This fact, that the medical world is slowly beginning to notice, is a secret revealed in the Qur'an with the verse: "Only the remembrance of God, the heart can find peace. "(Qur'an, 13:28) The reason why those who believe in God, pray to Him and trust in him are physically and mentally more healthy for others is that they act in harmony with their nature. Philosophical systems contrary to human nature always pain, pain, anxiety and depression on people.
The source of peace religion lived by a person acting in order to obtain the approval of God In other words, this peace is the natural result of a person who is listening the voice of his conscience. A person who does not live the morality of religion simply "to be more at peace" or "be healthy", a person who acting with the intention, can not find peace in its true sense. God knows that what a person stores in his heart or what he reveals. A person experiences Peace of mind only to be sincere and try to obtain the approval of God God commands:
Then set your face firmly towards the [true] religion, as a pure believer, God's natural pattern on which man has done. There is no change in God's creation. This is the true religion, but most people do not knows. (Qur'an, 30:30)
In the light of the discoveries that we briefly mentioned above, modern medicine is beginning to become aware of this truth. As Patrick Glynn says, "contemporary medicine is clearly moving in the direction of recognizing the dimensions of healing beyond the purely material", 31
Company: The fall of Communism, Fascism and the Hippie Dream
The collapse of atheism in the 20th century does not occur only in the fields of astrophysics, biology, psychology and medicine, but it is also the case in social policy and morality.
Communism may be considered the most important political result of the 19th century atheism. The founders of this ideology, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky or Mao, has taken all the atheism as a fundamental principle. A primary objective of All communist regimes was to get society to adopt atheism and destroying the religious faith. Stalin's Russia, Red China, Cambodia, Albania block Eastern Europe and some countries applied immense pressure on religious people to the point of committing mass murder.
Yet, surprisingly, at the end of 1980 this bloody atheistic system collapsed. When you examine the reasons for this collapse, we see that what collapsed was actually atheism. Patrick Glynn writes:
To be sure, secular historians would say that the greatest mistake of Communism was groped to defy the laws of economics. But other laws, too, came into the game ... Moreover, as historians penetrate the circumstances of the Communist collapse, it is clear that the Soviet elite was itself in the middle of an atheistic "crisis of faith. "Having lived under an atheistic ideology-one that consisted of lies, and that was based on a" Big Lie "- the Soviet system has undergone a radical demoralization, in every sense of the term. People, including the ruling elite, lost all sense of morality and sense of hope.32
An interesting indication of the Soviet system of the great "crisis of faith" was President Mihail Gorbachev attempted to reform. Since the time that he assumed the presidency, Gorbachev was interested in moral problems as well as economic reforms. For example, one of the first things I did was to launch a campaign against alcoholism. In order to raise the morale of the company for a long time has used the Marxist-Leninist terminology, but saw that this was of no use.
Gorbachev: his futile attempt could not remedy the "crisis of faith" in Soviet society.
Then, in the last years of the regime, he began to speak of God in some of his speeches, although he himself was an atheist. Of course, these insincere words of faith are of no use and the crisis of faith in Soviet society has continued to deteriorate. The result was the collapse of the gigantic Soviet empire. The 20th century documented not only the fall of communism, but also that of another fruit of the 19th century philosophy, anti-fascism. Fascism is the result of a philosophy that can be called a mixture of atheism and paganism, which is strongly hostile to theistic religions. Friedrich Nietzsche, who may be called the father of fascism, extolled the morality of barbarous idolatrous societies, attacked Christianity and other monotheistic religions and even called himself the "Antichrist." disciple of Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, was a passionate supporter of the Nazis and the ideas of these two atheist thinkers have given impetus to the terrifying barbarism of Nazi Germany. (The Holocaust, one of the greatest act of evil in human history, was the result of Anti-Semitism Nazi ideology that hated the Jews and the monotheistic faith that has been the cornerstone of Judaism and Islam.) The Second World War, which caused the death of 55 million people, is another example of a disaster that atheist ideologies as fascism and communism have brought humanity.
At this point, we should remember another atheist ideology and social Darwinism, which was among the causes for the epidemic of both the first and second world war. In his book entitled Europe Since 1870, Harvard history professor James Jolla says that behind each of the two world wars lay the philosophical views of Darwin social leaders who believed in the myth that the war was a biological necessity and that the developed nations through conflict.33
In contrast to the peaceful and teiste American Revolution, the French Revolution was atheist, neo-pagan and extremely violent.
Another social consequence of atheism in the 20th century appeared in Western democracies. In nowadays there is a tendency to regard the West as the "Christian world". However, since the 19th century, a rapidly growing atheist culture held sway with Christian culture, and today there is a conflict between these two cultures, in what we call Western civilization. Atheist and this was the real cause of Western imperialism, the moral degeneration, despotism and other adverse events.
In his book God: the evidence, the American writer Patrick Glynn draws attention to this theme and, in order to compare the God-fearing and atheist elements in the West, take the examples of French and American revolutions. The American Revolution was carried out by believers; American Declaration of Independence states that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. " Since the French Revolution was the work of atheists, the French Declaration of Human Rights has been very different, without any reference to God and full of atheists and neo-pagan notions.
Actual results of two laps were very different: in the American model, a peaceful, tolerant environment that was created respect for religion and religious beliefs, France the fierce hostility to religion in the country drowned in blood and unleashed a barbaric, as had never been seen before. Glynn, as he says, "there is an interesting correlation between atheism town, on the one hand, and the moral and political catastrophe, on the other hand. "34
Glynn notes that attempts to transform America an atheist country have been damaging to society. The fact that the sexual revolution (for example) that develops in the 60 e'70 has caused enormous social damage is been accepted even by secular historians.35
John Lennon: The world imagined without a religion-has no happy end, neither he nor his followers.
The movement hippie was a demonstration of this social damage. The hippies thought they might find spiritual emancipation through secular humanist philosophy and things like unlimited drugs and sex. These young people who have poured out on the road, with romantic songs-like John Lennon's Imagine where he spoke of a world without countries, and not religion too "-were actually undergoing a mass deception.
In reality, a world without religion actually brought them to an unhappy end. The leader of hippy in 1960 and killed or died from drug-induced coma in the early 1970s. Many other young hippies shared a similar fate.
These young people of the same generation that has transformed the violence, have not been able to receive the end of violence. The 1968 generation, which has turned their backs on God and religion and imagined they might find salvation in concepts as revolution or selfish Epicureanism, ruined both themselves and their society.
The dawn of the post-World Atheist
The facts that we briefly summarized here clearly show that atheism is being an inevitable collapse. In other words, humanity is - and you - turning to God. " The truth of this statement is not limited only to the areas of science and policy that we have written here. From prominent statesmen to movie stars and pop artists, those who influence opinion in the West are much more religious who used to be. There are many people who have seen the truth and come to believe in God after having lived for years as an atheist. (Patrick Glynn from which book we have quoted is one of these ex-atheists).
The fact that developments that have contributed to this result began in the same period, ie from the second half of 1970, it is very interesting. The anthropic principle appeared for the first time in 1970. Scientific criticism of Darwinism started to be expressed aloud at that time. The turning point against the atheist dogma of Freud was a book entitled The road less traveled published in 1978 by Scott Peck. For this reason, Glynn, in the 1997 edition of his book he writes that "over the last twenty years, a significant body of evidence has emerged, shattering the foundations of the long-dominant secular modern the world. "36
Surely, the fact that the atheist world view was shaken means that another world view prevails, it is faith this does not happen in a day and most people can not see it, because it was developing a long period of time. However, those who assess developing a 'more attention that the world is at a turning point in the realm of ideas.
Secular historians try to explain the process on the basis of their principles, but as they are in deep error with regard to the existence of God, so they are very wrong about the course of history. In fact, as illustrated by the following verse, the story moves like God, as determined: "... You will not find any change in the pattern of God." You will not find any change in the structure of God. "(Koran, 35: 43) It follows, then, that history has a purpose and will develop as God has commanded. And the command of God is the perfection of His light:
They desire to extinguish God's light with their mouths. But God refuses to do other than perfect His Light, even though the unbelievers hate that. (Qur'an, 9, 32)
This verse means God has sent down His light to humanity through the religion that has revealed. Those who do not believe they want to extinguish this light of their "mouth" - intimations, propaganda and philosophies, but God finally perfect His light to religious values and dominion over the earth.
This may be the "turning point in history," said at the beginning of this article, as also indicated by the evidence we have provided here, as well as the implications of the various declarations and hadiths scholars. Certainly, God knows better.
Conclusion
We live in an important moment. Atheism, which people have tried for hundreds of years to portray as "the way of reason and science, "is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance. materialist philosophy which has sought to use science for its own purposes, in turn, was defeated by science. A world rescuing itself from atheism turn to God and religion. This process began long ago.
It 'clear that the believers have important tasks in this period. They must be aware of this great change in the way of thinking, interpret, make good use of opportunities that Globalization offers and effectively represent the truth about this. They must know that the basic conflict of ideas in the world is between atheism and faith. It is not a struggle between East and West, in both East and West, there are those who believe in God and those who do not. For this reason, the faithful Christians, as Jews are faithful allies of the Muslims. The main difference is not between Muslims and the "people of the book" (Jews and Christians), but also between Muslims and people of the Scripture on the one hand, and atheists and pagans on the other. Of course, we must not show hostility to these people, but them as people who need to be saved from their mistakes.
The time is fast approaching when many people living in ignorance, without knowledge of their Creator will grace through faith in the impending post-atheist world.
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(1) Patrick Glynn, God: the evidence, the reconciliation of faith and reason in a world Postsecular, Prima Publishing, California, 1997, pp.19-20, 53
(2) Bryce Christensen, in a review Gerald Shroeder of the book The hidden face of God, 15 March 2001 booklist
(3) George Politzer, Principes Fondamentaux de Philosophie, Editions Sociales, Paris, 1954, p. 84
(4) S. Jaki, Cosmos and Creator, Regnery Gateway, Chicago, 1980, p.54
(5) Henry Margenau, Roy Abraham Vargesse, Cosmos, Bios, Theos, La Salle, IL: Open Court Publishing, 1992, p.241
(6) John Maddox, "Down with Big Bang", Nature, vol. 340, 1989, p. 378
(7) HP Lipson, "A Physicist looks Evolution ", Bulletin Physics, Vol. 138, 1980, p. 138
(8) Paul Davies, The Cosmic Blueprint, London: Penguin Books, 1987, p. 203
(9) W. Press, "a place of teleology? "Nature, vol. 320, 1986, s. 315
(10) George Greenstein, the symbiosis Universe, p. 27
(11) Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos, p. 123
(12) Denton, Michael Denton, Nature's Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose of the Universe, The New York: The Free Press, 1998, p. 14
(13) Paul Davies and John Gribbin, the question Mito, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1992, p. 10
(14) As quoted in Gerald Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God, rock, New York, 2001, p. 7
(15) Gerald Schroeder, The hidden face of God, rock, New York, 2001, p. 8
(16) Ibid. p. 8
(17) of the first edition, Harvard University Press, 1964, p. 184
(22) Charles Darwin, Life and Letter of Charles Darwin, vol. II, by Charles Darwin to J. Do Hooker, March 29, 1863
(23) "Hoyle on Evolution ", Nature, vol. 294, 12 November 1981, p. 105
(24) Edwin R. Wallace IV, "Psychiatry and Religion: A Dialogue", in Joseph H. And Susan Smith A. Handelman, eds., AndReligion Psychoanalysis, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1990, p. 1005
(25) Patrick Glynn, God: The Evidence, the Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a world Postsecular, Prima Publishing, California, 1997, pp.60-61
(26) Patrick Glynn, God: The Evidence, reconciliation between faith and reason in a world Postsecular, Prima Publishing, California, 1997, p.69
(27) Patrick Glynn, God: the evidence, the reconciliation of faith and reason in a world Postsecular, Prima Publishing, California, 1997 p. 78
(28) Patrick Glynn, God: the evidence, the reconciliation of faith and reason in a Postsecular World, Prima Publishing, California, 1997, pp.80-81
(29) Herbert Benson, Mark Stark, Timeless Healing, Simon & Schuste, New York, 1996, p. 203
(30) Herbert Benson, Mark Stark, Timeless Healing, Simon & Schuste, New York, 1996, p. 193
(31) Patrick Glynn, God: the evidence, the 'Reconciliation of Faith and reason in a world Postsecular, Prima Publishing, California, 1997, p.94
(32) Patrick Glynn, God: the evidence, the reconciliation of faith and reason in a world Postsecular, Prima Publishing, California, 1997, pp.161-162
(33) James Jolla, Europe Since 1870: An International History, Penguin Books, Middlesex, 1990, pp. 102-103
(34) Patrick Glynn, God: The Evidence, the Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a world Postsecular, Prima Publishing, California, 1997, p.161
(35) Patrick Glynn, God: the evidence, the reconciliation of faith and reason in a world Postsecular, Prima Publishing, California, 1997, p.163
(36) Patrick Glynn, God: The Evidence, reconciliation between faith and reason in a world Postsecular, Prima Publishing, California, 1997, p. 2
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