01-May-2012, 9:19 PM
Well, I can't use myself, because I know where I got my sense of right and wrong, but C.S. Lewis -- one of the great modern doctors of the faith -- said that he found himself to be a hypocrite as an atheist, because he couldn't justify the existence of justice without an external definition of justice. That is, if there is no "supernatural" being to define justice, then there is no justice.
Now, that doesn't satisfy everyone, but it was at the heart of HIS conversion, so it worked at least once. Many people are convinced by the "design" argument. That wouldn't work for me if I were an atheist -- it's simple enough to contribute that to evolution. However, then you have a bigger problem -- why is there evolution? Why is there anything? This is basically the "first cause" argument. That might convince me.
Now, that doesn't satisfy everyone, but it was at the heart of HIS conversion, so it worked at least once. Many people are convinced by the "design" argument. That wouldn't work for me if I were an atheist -- it's simple enough to contribute that to evolution. However, then you have a bigger problem -- why is there evolution? Why is there anything? This is basically the "first cause" argument. That might convince me.
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