T’anks. I was an existentialist in my wasted youth, before the Lord smacked me upside the head and said, “Stop being such a dumb*zz!”
I used to follow the much applauded ‘new atheists’. Now I look back on those days, and people like this fraud, Dennet, and I can’t help but shake my head.
I was reading an article on Daniel Dennet’s thesis for the creation of the universe. He essentially says that the universe created itself, which is so logically incoherent, it deserves to be mocked. He presents no logical argument for how this could be true, but just uses it as a pre-determined precedent for all the other crap he believes, with no justification whatsoever.
And this guy is held up over even Richard Dawkins!
In terms of philosophers, most of the atheists who ever said anything compelling are dead. The new variety are just recycling old theories, using ad hominem attacks to degrade Christianity, and many are simply pretending to be philosophers. Like Sam Harris, who I believe is a neurologist, and Dawkins, who is simply a biologist.
A friend of mine once said something I never forgot.
The man who does not think about faith will have a weak belief in his creator.
The man who does think about faith will have no belief in his creator.
But the man who thinks a lot about faith will arrive at an unshakable knowledge of God.
This rings true for me. I think many are under this delusion that God is some kind of logical inconsistency, that only people who are blind to facts believe in Him, but instead, people who really analyze the facts as they are, analyze the arguments for God’s existence with an open mind, cannot deny God. If you do, you end up having to believe in ridiculous premises such as Dennet’s, that the universe somehow created itself, despite not existing.