I realize that atheists aren't that much different than me...as documented in my very first book, Divine Evolution, I described how I very nearly became an atheist myself. In a chapter titled "Personal Experience",  I talked about the time when I questioned whether the biblical Jesus was any more real than Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. Therefore, I can understand how many people become atheists -- especially after struggling with serious issues such as the problem of suffering and death. As my friend Frank Boccia wrote in his essay on rationalism in regard to his experiences during the Vietnam War, sometimes good people were killed and bad people survived. Hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis also claim hundreds or even thousands of innocent lives per year. Bad things happen to everybody, sooner or later. The harder truth to accept is that everyone's days are numbered. We might see the sun rise in the morning, but we also might not. Tomorrow is not guaranteed. We're all going to die, eventually. And I'm obviously not just saying this in an effort to cheer you up... Probably the biggest difference between the average atheist and me (aside from belief in God, of course) is that I will freely admit that I believe supernatural miracles have actually occurred, even though it logically seems to be a point beyond dispute. For example, the creation of this universe from nothing -- meaning the Big Bang anomaly -- was a supernatural miracle. So was the animation of lifeless matter. Yet some people infatuated with science think there are "natural" … [Read more...]