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Cosmos, Creator and Human Destiny: Answering Darwin, Dawkins, and the New Atheists

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The skeptic Robert Ingersoll went to a museum and came upon a model of our solar system. As he was pondering the display that prompted his oohs and ahs, as his unceasing reiteration of how marvelous the planetary model appeared rolled out of his panting mouth, the museum curator came up to him. While both men were admiring the display, Ingersoll turned to the keeper and asked him, "Who made this wonderful model of our solar system?" The curator replied, "No one. It just appeared here in all its precision and glory, after billions of years, with time and chance acting upon matter, it just formed itself!" And that's the type of irrational deception Ingersoll and the new atheists adopt as they gaze upon the fine-tuned and marvelous cosmos: skeptics try to claim that it created itself by time and chance acting upon matter. But herein Dave Hunt exposes such atheistic nonsense.

"Cosmos, Creator and Human Destiny: Answering Darwin, Dawkins, and the New Atheists" is a huge (600+ pages) exposé of Darwin and Dawkins is Dave Hunt's magnum opus as he delivers a powerful refutation of Darwinian evolution, relativism, and the atheism of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens.

Hunt offers countless evidential arguments and countless quotes from leading scientists and atheists as he dismantles the atheistic worldview.

Chapters in "Cosmos, Creator and Human Destiny: Answering Darwin, Dawkins, and the New Atheists" by Dave Hunt include:

- The Challenge of the Cosmos

- The New Atheists' Speculative "Science"

- Impassable Chasms, Impossible Cliffs

- In the Beginning: The Question of Origins

- What About the Big Bang?

- From Big Bang to Life?

- Descent Into Collective Madness?

- Selfish Genes, Selfish People

- The Riddle of "Life"

- Consciousness, Conscience, and Morals

- Against All Odds

- The Overlooked, Irrefutible Proof

- and more!

Hunt quotes Erwin Schrödinger (Austrian theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize quantum mechanics): "[Science] knows nothing of . . . good or bad, God and eternity. . . . Whence came I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. . . . Science has no answer to it."

And the author supplies a quote from astrophysicist Sir Arthur S. Eddington: "Thus, in the physical world, what a body does and what a body ought to do are equivalent; but we are well aware of another domain where they are anything but equivalent.... There is a clear distinction between natural law, which must be obeyed, and moral law, which ought to be obeyed. Ought takes us outside of physics and chemistry."

The Back Cover asks the questions:

- Why are we here?

- And where are we going?

- Does science have an answer to these two most fundamental questions of human existence?

- Can mankind determine and direct the future of life on earth purely by scientific means?

Stephen Hawking adds: "Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? . . . It is difficult to discuss the beginning of the universe without mentioning the concept of God."

Hunt shares this citation from Roger Penrose: "There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance. Some people take the view that the universe is simply there . . . and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing. . . . I think that there is something much deeper about . . . its existence, which we have little inkling of at the moment."

The author notes that "Atheism, partnering with Darwinism, is the fastest growing non-political movement in the world today. It is Satan's master weapon in his battle with God. The world's leading atheist, Richard Dawkins, a former Oxford University professor, is atheism's loudest mouthpiece. His books regularly appear on the New York Times bestseller list. Becoming convinced of Darwinism at the age of fifteen turned him from a nominal Anglican into a fervent atheist. He has declared that "`A belief in God is not only stupid but wicked.'"

Additionally Hunt states: "It is ... futile to search the DNA of man and animals for a missing link. Neither the skeletal structure nor the DNA has anything to do with who the person really is. The DNA of a chimpanzee is 96 percent like that of humans. This does not indicate any evolutionary connection between man and chimps as Francis Collins, a professing Christian recently appointed to head the National Institutes of Health, suggests. Even if the complete skeletons and DNA of Albert Einstein, Charles Dickens, and Ludwig van Beethoven could be discovered, would they hold the key to the genius of these men? Of course not! The real person is a nonphysical being living inside the physical body. This fact is indisputable."

He adds: "As for your brain, it does not originate your thoughts. You are the thinker who will live on endlessly after the body lies rotting in the grave. Souls and spirits are not subject to the laws of physics and chemistry that govern our bodies. These facts bear serious consequences for each of us. What happens to the soul and spirit after death? Hebrews 9:27 states, `It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.' You can laugh your way into hell, but you can't laugh your way out."

Moreover he writes: "The purpose of space probes, for example, is to find signs of water that might indicate how life could have had its inception somewhere outside of earth and then evolved. The goal, of course, is to show that man is not a unique creation but that there are similar intelligent beings scattered everywhere throughout the universe--and thus there is no need of a "god" to explain anything. Such speculation flies in the face of the law of biogenesis, which states that life only comes from life. Atheists want to avoid the question of origins. They talk about a sudden burst of energy that one critic named the "Big Bang," but they cannot tell us what energy is, where or why it was hiding, or why it suddenly showed itself in a cosmic explosion. Nor can they explain how life could spring forth from a universe that had experienced temperatures hotter than the interior of the hottest star. They can't tell us what life is or how it could be imparted to lifeless chemicals that the body comprises. Isn't it dishonest to talk about evolution without first of all facing certain foundational questions?"

The leader of Berean Call then says: "Atheists are materialists. For them nothing exists except matter. Allegedly, man is no more than his physical body. The materialist thesis is easily disproved. Thoughts are not physical nor are ideas. Dictionaries and encyclopedias are filled with words for which there are no physical descriptions. What is the color of ethical? What does stupendous smell like? How much does remarkable weigh? Materialism is a stupid as well as a wicked philosophy. What is the texture of stupid, the sound of wicked, or the taste of philosophy, etc.?"

TBC informs the reader: Outside of God's Word, there seems to be increasingly few books that merit small-group study these days--but in a world increasingly hostile to the truth that "sets one free" and which may be "clearly seen," Cosmos is one of those you'll want to read, share, and prayerfully consider using for your home, church, or college/career study group.

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I would adjoin: Madalyn Murray O'Hair, on the night of her consecration to the faith of atheism, shook her fists at the sky and declared to heaven, "I do not believe in you." If God did not exist, who was she shaking her fist at? The famous nineteenth century skeptic Ingersoll delivered a speech that attempted to prove that God did not exist. He rambled on and on with his reasons why he did not believe in God. At the end of the lecture, he challenged God to strike him dead if He exists. Nothing happened and Ingersoll left with great satisfaction. After he left an atheist asked a Christian, "Didn't Ingersoll prove something tonight?" Her reply was memorable. "Yes, he did," she answered, "He proved that God isn't taking orders from an atheist tonight." Of course, a couple years later, God did honor his request, when Ingersoll died like every man.

God does live. Atheists lash out at God and thus become fools. Scoffing has been a tool of the truth suppressing atheists. The Bible announces: "The fool says in his heart there is no God." It is nonsense to say that God doesn't exist. If there is no God, we are all just molecules in motion, and we have no sense and no mind; we are just the random firing of chemicals in the brain. If our minds are composed of only physical matter, then our thoughts cannot be trusted, including the thought of atheism. This is self-impaling and illogical, thus atheism falls under its own weight.

Yes, I personally begin many of apologetic encounters with the form: "p presupposes q" and I do not affirm that one who starts his argument for theism with the premise "p implies q" offers the proper form inasmuch as all men must begin with some a priori assumptions within sound or unsound argument forms. I know that Hunt's Deductive and Inductive arguments are powerful and very persuasive whereas most men in the West have rational pre-commitments to evidential means to discern and defend truth. I enjoy reading them and deploying them to help non-believers discover the truth found in the God of the Bible.

The examination of assumptions and worldviews is an important task in one's maturity of thought. Sam Harris, Dawkins, and Hitchens, in their books, have avoided this process. Anti-theism, with its autonomous starting point, fails to justify any tangibles or non-tangibles. The philosophical exploration of one's belief system, to find out if it can supply the transcendental necessities for rational laws, is a significant means for one's intellectual growth.

Anti-theists are usually intellectually fearful so they avoid logical critical examination. Atheism fails to provide the rational and moral pre-essentials for the meaningfulness of human apprehension of our world.

The starting point for knowledge and the intelligibility of the world must be transcendent and immutable as it furnishes universals. In order to make sense of man's knowledge and experience, there must be "transcendental categories" of understanding that are "inherent in the mind and constitute its structure prior to any sense-experience." An invariant heavenly universal in reach foundation is needed for human rationality. A being who cannot provide the required pre-environment for the laws of logic cannot account for knowledge and human experience. This rules out the anti-theism of the Brights and the New Atheists.

Transcendental scrutiny of anti-theism demonstrates that it is self-destructive inasmuch as it fails to give what it does not possess. Man is devoid of eternal omniscience, aseity, sovereignty, and omnipotence. How can one make sense of one's experience of the world? To seek the transcendental conditions for knowing is to ask what is presupposed by any intelligent experience. Humankind does not need to exist for the intelligibility of the universe. People cannot supply the transcendental conditions that are needed for the laws of logic, love, and morality. The general precedes the particular in our reality. This implies that the anthropology of atheism cannot supply the general and universal realities that must be present, for the necessary and unavoidable transcendental conditions listed above.

Most people, especially anti-theists, take the unseen and lofty incorporeal principals of thought and ethics for granted. But the true God is transcendent, so refuting a non-theistic worldview starts at his rational pre-commitment, the epistemological and metaphysical principles that underlie and control one's method of knowledge.

The simple-minded Brights/New Atheists are all bluster and they lack consistency. A restricted and fixed human cannot be the indispensable foundation for the unity of experience and knowledge. The only alternative to thinking of God as the ultimate source of unity in human experience as it is furnished by laws or universals is to think that the unity rests in a void of irrationality. If one denies God, the world must be encircled by irrationality. If atheism is true, mankind is swimming in an illogical void. A void of irrationality because the finite minds of human beings are claimed by atheism to be the foundation for rational thought. Therefore, atheism is self-contradictory on its own ground. Even its fallacious assertions and false notions presuppose the truth of the triune God.

* Atheism fails to supply universal and transcendental necessities.

* Without universal and transcendental necessities Atheism cannot account for knowledge.

* There must be knowledge.

* Atheism is false.

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Cosmos, Creator & Human Destiny, has really helped understand the limitations of historical (and speculative)science that pretends to be able to explain accurately the past, on the basis of evolutionary hypothesis exclusively. The fact that thoughts do not originate from the brain, that matter cannot help appreciate things like colours, beauty, sense of justice or guilt, could only mean that these abilities must come from somewhere else. Dave Hunt has carefully shown that the matter couldn't just have originated from nowhere! In fact, when considering the big bang hypothesis, one is left with the unanswered question as to where could possibly the initial energy necessary for the big bang have originated from in the first place. Also, it is impossible to imagine that the complexity of life and order in nature could have just came about by chance, as a result of a chaotic explosion! This author deserves a great respect for his courage to address in such a brilliant way one of the biggest issues of our modern time and its ultimate consequences. A Such book was long overdue and it is a must that every serious and honest inquirer should have on his book shelf. Anyone interested in understanding the hot debate on creation/ evolution would find this book very helpful. But it takes a great deal of courage and honesty to recognise the facts; One should avoid saying:"Do not confuse me with the facts, I have made up my mind"!

Dave Hunt is brilliant. I've read several of his books, and they never disappoint. In Cosmos, Hunt completely dismantles evolution and atheism. With clear and compelling logic, he shows how the evidence does not - and cannot - point toward the conclusions the new atheists, like Richard Dawkins, somehow reach. There is some repetition that probably isn't necessary; the points are driven home quite strongly without it - but otherwise its a very solid, very helpful book. I will regularly refer to it when having discussion with my atheist friends.

One of the lesser known lines from "A Christmas Carol" starring Alastair Sim, was his exclamation of "I didn't know that I didn't know". Sadly, until Almighty God opens our eyes to see Him and our need for the Savior Jesus Christ, we all of us "don't know". Mr. Hunt in using their own words, paints a portrait of the new atheists as blind, ignorant fools; while to themselves their own logic is inescapable. The author goes back to the main theme: Only life can beget life, but none of the atheists claims or words can explain the beginning of it all. I learned some new things from reading this book (the law of biogenesis) and can't help but reaffirm that God indeed created the heavens and the earth. Mr. Hunt also brings forth his second theme, that of human pride in refusing to acknowledge the Heavenly Creator. The book is well written and easy for a non-scientific person to understand, and is well sprinkled with appropriate Bible verses. This would be a good book for any true Christian to dig into, but also for any skeptic who just can't seem to make Darwin's pieces fit together.

Once again, Dave Hunt uses his impeccable logic to reach down to the very basic level and ask simple questions that have been deliberately ignored. Searching for sound evidence for widely accepted theories, he finds none and demonstrates that "the emperor has no clothes!" While tearing down the false assumptions masquerading as science, he uncovers the true basis of the belief in evolution - and follows this belief to its logical conclusion and consequences. He also offers sound evidence for creation, proofs that cannot be easily rejected. This is a book that all seekers of truth cannot ignore.

Dave Hunt is now old and has left us with a wonderful magnum opus - and it helps refutes atheism as Hunt loads his work with quotations from many famous (infamous) nonbelievers. If you like a thick and packed apologetic resource, this book will keep you busy for a while as it helps you witness to those falling towards eternal doom.

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Over and over and over ad nauseum this guy bad mouths Richard Dawkins. He seems to have some personal vendetta against the guy and frankly he spoils what could be a pretty good book. All the reader sees is Dawkins this, Dawkins that, Dawkins...Dawkins...Dawkins... For crying out loud, Mr. Dave Hunt, give it a rest. I managed to read through about 1/3 of the book and finally got sick of the constant Dawkins bashing and had to give up trying to read the darned thing. Wish I could get my money back.

The book arrived in perfect condition and quickly. Outstanding author, Dave Hunt, is always a pleasure to read! Anyone looking for advice on Christianity versus Atheism has a top notch read here.

I gave this book to my husband - Tom - for Christmas,and he is loving it! It is so exciting to read about scientists who are coming to terms with the glory of God's creation!