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Atheism is a religion.

The Atheist Bible of Quotations
by Gary DeMar
6/18/2007

Atheism is a religion. It is a worldview driven by faith in a system of
thought supposedly generated by a brain that evolved from a pre-biotic
soup of chemicals that randomly emits electrical impulses through its gray
matter. But how can the evolved mind be trusted to know anything
authoritatively or claim that certain behaviors are morally right or
wrong? C.S. Lewis puts it this way: "If the solar system was brought about
by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this
planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an
accident too. If so, then all our thought processes are mere accidents-the
accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the
materialists' and astronomers' as well as for anyone else's [thought
processes]. But if their thoughts-i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy-are
merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I
see no reason for believing that one accident would be able to give
correct account of all the other accidents."
1

The following quotations are from a number of well known writers who are
leading the way in pushing the religion of atheistic materialism. Those
who believe that there is some middle ground in this debate do not
understand the evangelistic zeal of the new religionists. Dewayne Wickham,
who writes a column for USA Today, believes that the middle-ground
approach that "divine creation and evolution can coexist." I suggest that
Mr. Wickham tell that to the atheists and see where it gets him.
2

He might want to consider why the creation-evolution debate does matter
when he reads the following. If the evolutionists get their way, then can
anything be right or wrong? Positions on evolution really do matter:

The Berenstain Bears: "Nature is all that IS or WAS or EVER WILL BE."
3

Carl Sagan: "The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be."
4

Larry Finkelstein (Dharma and Greg): "We're all molecules. We're no
different from the plants and the rocks."
"They're just a bunch of cells."
5

Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the double-helix structure of DNA, sets
forth the logical implications of materialism: "The Astonishing Hypothesis
is that you-your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions,
your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than
the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated
molecules. . . ."
6

Michael Ruse asserts that morality developed in the same way as hands,
feet, and teeth-the "ephemeral product of the evolutionary process."
7

According to Ruse, "Morality," like gills in fish and lungs in homo
sapiens, "is just an aid to survival and reproduction, and has no being
beyond this."
8

Richard Dawkins: "In the 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."
9

Jonathan Glover: "God died in the nineteenth century and Nietzsche danced
on his grave. The foundation of the external moral law was destroyed and,
in its place, was a vacuum, soon gleefully filled by the narcotics of
Nazism and Communism. It may not be possible to say that the death of God
led directly to the death ovens; but equally, nobody can ignore the fact
that the cruelest era in history was also the first to deny the existence
of an external moral force." If this is true, "can we stop the long
nightmare of the twentieth century from spilling over into the
twenty-first?"
10

Julian Huxley: "We are as much a product of blind forces as is the falling
of a stone to Earth or the ebb and flow of the tides. We have just
happened, and man was made flesh by a long series of singularly beneficial
accidents."
"In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing
had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology
[purpose] in the world at all."
11

Arthur C. Clarke, best known for 2001: A Space Odyssey, a loose film
adaptation of his novel The Sentinel, describes "creationism" as one of
his "pet hates," "perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual
perversions now afflicting the American public. Though I am the last
person to advocate laws against blasphemy, surely nothing could be more
antireligious than to deny the evidence so clearly written in the rocks
for all who have eyes to see!"
12

"We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of
its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant
promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific
community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior
commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and
institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation
of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a
priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of
investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no
matter how counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated.
Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot
in the door."
13

"If we are all biological accidents, why shouldn't the white accidents own
and sell the black accidents?"
14

"Evolutionary biology . . . tells us . . . that nature has no detectable
purposive forces of any kind. . . . Modern science directly implies that
the world is organized strictly in accordance with deterministic
principles or chance. . . . There are no purposeful principles whatsoever
in nature. There are no gods and no designing forces that are rationally
detectable. . . . Second, modern science directly implies that there are
no inherent moral or ethical laws. . . . Third, human beings are
marvelously complex machines. The individual human becomes an ethical
person by means of only two mechanisms: deterministic heredity interacting
with deterministic environmental influences. That is all there is. Fourth,
we must conclude that when we die, we die and that is the end of us. . . .
There is no hope of everlasting life. . . . Free will, as traditionally
conceived, the freedom to make uncoerced and unpredictable choices among
alternative possible courses of action, simply does not exist. . . . The
evolutionary process cannot produce a being that is truly free to make
choices. . . . The universe cares nothing for us. . . . There is no
ultimate meaning for humans."
15

"The story is told of a visit of the behaviourist psychologist Professor
Burrhus Skinner to lecture at Keele University. After Skinner had given
his formal lecture, in which he emphasized an objective, mechanistic
description as a total explanation of man's behaviour, he was invited to
have an informal chat with the professor who had chaired the meeting.
Skinner was asked whether in fact he was at all interested in who he, the
chairman, and others were. Implacable, Skinner replied: 'I am interested
in the noises coming from your mouth.'"
16



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1 C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1970), 52-53.

2 Dewayne Wickham, "Do Positions on evolution really matter in 2008?, USA
Today (June 12, 2007), 13A.

3Stan and Jan Berenstain, The Berenstain Bears in The Bears's Nature
Guide: A Nature Walk Through Bear Country (New York: Random House, 1975),
[6-7].

4Carl Sagan, Cosmos (New York: Random House, 1980), 4.

5 Leslie Stahl in an interview with Robert P. George, McCormick Professor
of Jurisprudence, Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals
and Institutions at Princeton University and author of The Clash of
Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis, on stem cell research
("60 Minutes," February 11, 2006).

6Francis Crick, The Astonishing Hypothesis. See Daniel Voll, "Soul
Searching with Francis Crick," Omni (February 1994), 46.

7Michael Ruse, The Darwinian Paradigm (London: Routledge, 1989), 268.
Quoted in Paul Copan, "True for You, Not True For Me": Deflating the
Slogans that Leave Christians Speechless (Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House
Publishers, 1998), 46.

8Ruse, The Darwinian Paradigm, 268.

9Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (New York: Oxford University Press,
1976), 133.

10Bryan Appleyard, review of Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of
the Twentieth Century in The Sunday Times (December 1999). Quoted in
Vaughan Roberts, God's Big Design: Life as he Intends it to Be (Downers
Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006), 27.

11Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained (1991).

12Arthur C. Clarke, "Foreword," in James Randi, An Encyclopedia of Claims,
Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1995), xii-xiii.

13Richard Lewontin, "Billions and billions of demons," The New York Review
(January 9, 1997), 31.

14 James Scott Bell, The Darwin Conspiracy (Gresham, OR: Vision house,
1995), 64.

15 William Provine, "Progress in Evolution and Meaning in Life,"
Evolutinary Progress, ed. Matthew H. Nitecki (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1988), 47-74. Quoted in John Byl, John Byl, The Divine
Challenge on Matter, Mind, Math and Meaning (Carlisle, PA: The Banner of
Truth Trust, 2004), 39-40.

16 Denis Alexander, Beyond Science (Philadelphia: A.J. Holman Co., 1972),
45.




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