Frank Turek hosts the radio show ‘CrossExamined,’ and the television show, ‘I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist.’ He wrote in the Foreword to this 2014 book, “we believe without evidence, say the new atheists. God is just a figment of our imaginations… Since atheists use arguments from science, reason, morality, and evil to support atheism, God must be dead. Right? No. There’s a fatal problem with all of those atheist arguments against God---they are stolen from God Himself… What I mean is, atheists are using aspects of reality to argue against God that wouldn’t exist if atheism were true… they are stealing from a theistic worldview to make their case. In effect, they are stealing from God in order to argue against Him.” (Pg. xvii-xviii)
He points out, “It’s been fashionable lately for atheists to claim that they merely ‘lack a belief in God.’ … atheists will say something like, ‘Oh, we really don’t have a worldview. We just lack a belief in God… We just find the arguments for God to be lacking.’ What’s lacking are good reasons to believe this new definition. First, if atheism is merely a lack of belief in God, then atheism is just a claim about the atheist’s state of mind, not a claim about God’s existence… if atheists merely ‘lacked a belief in God,’ they wouldn’t be constantly trying to explain the world by offering supposed alternatives to God…. they believe in certain theories to explain reality without God.” (Pg. xxii-xxiii)
He asserts, “So when atheists ask, ‘Who made God?’ they misunderstand the law of causality and the nature of God… But they have it wrong. If God exists, He IS the self-existent, uncaused first cause. Since God created time, He is timeless or eternal. If you’re timeless, do you have a beginning? Of course not. Therefore, one reason God had no cause is because He had no beginning.” (Pg. 22) Later, he adds, “no scientific conclusion could ever be drawn if the scientist always had to have a cause of the cause in order to proceed. You can’t go on an infinite regress of causes. And even if you could, you certainly can know the immediate cause of something even if you don’t know the entire series of causes behind it.” (Pg. 25-26)
He explains, “what if you explain all this and someone dismisses your points by dropping a postmodern bomb like, ‘There is no truth!’? … politely ask him, ‘Is THAT true?’ … If they say, ‘All truth changes,’ ask them, ‘Does THAT truth change?’ If they say, ‘All truth depends on your perspective,’ ask them, ‘Does THAT truth depend on your perspective?’” (Pg. 34) Later he adds, “Let’s quickly address some of the more common self-defeating statements we hear in our relativistic culture… ‘There are no absolute truths!’ Are you absolutely sure? Isn’t THAT an absolute truth? ‘All truth is relative!’ Is THAT a relative truth? ‘It’s true for you but not for me!’ Is THAT true for everybody?” (Pg. 179)
He states, “There’s not only no evidence for a multiverse, it’s a ‘dodge’… No scientist would be imagining undetectable universes if this one didn’t appear to be so incomprehensibly fine-tuned. The multiverse hypothesis is a bald attempt to dodge the designer by multiplying the possibility that this seemingly fine-tuned universe exists by accident… The real problem with the theory is that there’s no evidence for it… [Richard] Dawkins and his cohorts are always demanding evidence and asserting that there is no evidence for God… But then they ask us to believe in multiple universes that we can’t touch, see, hear, smell, or taste either. Apparently we just have to have faith in ‘luck.’ Talk about superstitious!” (Pg. 50)
He observes, “Of course, even if the Nazis had won World War II and brainwashed everyone to believe that murdering Jews was right, that would not make it right. Morality is not determined by majority vote. In fact, morality is not determined at all. People don’t determine the right thing to do; they discover it.” (Pg. 98) Later, he adds, “Theists are not seeking to legislate THEIR morality. Theists didn’t make up the fact that murder is wrong… that only men and women can procreate and provide mothering and fathering in raising children. They didn’t invent those facts. Theists are merely recognizing them. It’s the atheists that want to impose THEIR morality---they are the ones without a foundation who have an invented morality. They’ve stolen the concept of rights from God and applied it to their own desires to create their own moral absolutes that they want everyone to obey.” (Pg. 107-108)
He states, “Some atheists seem to think that anything unexplained defeats belief in God, as if an infinite God can’t exist if finite creatures don’t understand everything. But there is a big difference between a mystery and a contradiction. Christianity has partial mysteries. Atheism has complete contradictions. Christianity predicts that evil will occur and explains why God allows it in general, but not in every particular case… But good reason provides all the information we need to see that the very existence of evil is a contradiction for atheism. If evil is real, then atheism is false.” (Pg. 142)
He notes, “It is actually atheistic materialism that can retard technological progress, while openness to intelligent causes can enhance it. You need to look no further than ‘junk DNA’ for one dramatic example of this. For years evolutionists… have maintained that the regions of DNA that did not code for proteins… had little function. They asserted that evolution had rendered that part of the genome largely useless junk… Despite resistance from many evolutionists, scientists have discovered that the noncoding regions have innumerable functions critical to life.. So junk DNA is not only false, but the atheist’s canard that ID makes no predictions is also false.” (Pg. 168-169)
He says, “If there is an afterlife, there are only two logical possibilities: Either you’re going to be with God, or you’re not. Heaven is with God; hell is separation from God… Some people can’t stand the thought of God… If they don’t want Jesus now, why would God force them into His presence for all eternity? He doesn’t. God separates Himself from them for all eternity… Now imagine a place there none of God’s goodness exists---no love, no relationships, no pleasures, no progress, no future; just stone-cold, narcissistic self-absorption. That’s hell. It’s no wonder it is a place of anguish, regret, mental torment, and weeping and gnashing of teeth. The New Testament says hell is like… a perpetually burning dump; an abyss. We know some of these are metaphors because literal darkness would not exist with literal fire…” (Pg. 224)
This book will be of great interest to those studying apologetics.
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“As a journalist at the Chicago Tribune, I covered some horrific crimes that helped cement me in my atheism. I didn't realize that I was committing a series of intellectual crimes by stealing from God in order to argue against Him. Frank Turek brilliantly exposes these C.R.I.M.E.S. of atheism in a way that you'll never forget.”
Lee Strobel, Bestselling author of The Case for Christ and professor at Houston Baptist University
“One of the reasons I love Frank Turek and his work is that he unapologetically takes his case for Christian apologetics directly and aggressively to the New Atheists. Stealing from God dismantles the fragile premises of atheists’ ‘articles of faith,’ and, in the process, establishes an unassailable case for the truth of Christianity. This book comes at precisely the right time, when the New Atheists are trying their best to undermine the Christian worldview and purge it from our culture.”
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“I can’t think of a better book to give to an open-minded atheist or to a Christian struggling with the atheistic assault on the faith. Frank Turek has done the research and the heavy lifting and presented an engaging, enjoyable, and thoroughly compelling book.”
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“Frank Turek takes 1 Peter 3:15 to heart by presenting a sound case for Christianity and equipping believers so they can have a solid defense. As he points out, every person on this planet adheres to a worldview with beliefs. What is yours? My prayer is that everyone who reads these pages will choose to embrace God as their heavenly Father through faith in Jesus Christ and share His love effectively with those they come in contact with.”
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