C S Lewis on atheism

“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”

C. S. Lewis

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LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

ElRengo · 70-79, M

@LordShadowfire
You are right.
Even so the convergence and results of scientific knowledge makes the opinions of the scientific community a far better bet than speculative individual thought

Mathers · 61-69

Why are they not there so many scientists who accept the Christian faith?@ElRengo

ElRengo · 70-79, M

@Mathers
You don´t seem to have a close familiarity with the scientific community.
A lot if not most of scientists have various personal faiths.
There are chistian, muslim, jew, buddhist and others between them. Also atheists and agnostics.
And about the natural world they all trend to view it from a scientific viewpoint.
What they do not is to take the supernatural narrative about the material world as a good description of it.
And neither as a requisite for their personal faiths-

BlueSkyKing · M

@Mathers I have no problem with god belief based in emotion. There are a few people I know that do pray but not necessarily a particular god. If that’s what you have, great.

Mathers · 61-69

I have a problem with God believe based on emotion because my belief is based on reason@BlueSkyKing