What Some Atheists Really Believe....

[OldSchool2]

from TheBlaze:

"A new article published in the peer-reviewed journal 'Cognition' cites recent studies that found something fascinating about believers and nonbelievers, alike: both groups 'showed a default tendency to judge nature as purposefully made by some being.'

"This means that there's likely a deeper tendency, even among atheists, to believe that elements in nature were formulated by something or someone — at least based on these results.

"'Construing nature as created may not solely derive from religious enculturation,' the study abstract reads. 'Understanding nature as created is rooted in everyday cognitive biases....'"

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/06/19/studies-shocking-conclusion-about-what-some-atheists-really-believe-about-a-creator/

The article is titled: "The Divided Mind of a Disbeliever: Intuitive Beliefs About Nature as Purposefully Created Among Different Groups of Non-Religious Adults".

[Ezra]

Any halfway intelligent person can see that the universe did not come into existence on its own, or through time and chance.  Only a fool believes that there is no God.

[FresnoJoe]

from TheBlaze:

 

"A new article published in the peer-reviewed journal 'Cognition' cites recent studies that found something fascinating about believers and nonbelievers, alike: both groups 'showed a default tendency to judge nature as purposefully made by some being.'

"This means that there's likely a deeper tendency, even among atheists, to believe that elements in nature were formulated by something or someone — at least based on these results.

"'Construing nature as created may not solely derive from religious enculturation,' the study abstract reads. 'Understanding nature as created is rooted in everyday cognitive biases....'"

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/06/19/studies-shocking-conclusion-about-what-some-atheists-really-believe-about-a-creator/

 

The article is titled: "The Divided Mind of a Disbeliever: Intuitive Beliefs About Nature as Purposefully Created Among Different Groups of Non-Religious Adults".

 

 

Non-Religious

 

Then the Lord said, "Because this people draw near with their words And honor Me with their lip service, But they remove their hearts far from Me, And their reverence for Me consists of tradition learned by rote, Isaiah 29:13 (NASB)

 

Or Are They

 

'THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME. 'BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.'" Matthew 15:8-9 (NASB)

[rontiger]

Seems to indicate that atheists are struggling  internally to "disbelieve".

This might be one reason that atheists are setting up churches of Atheism in many cities across the USA and other western countries, as reported on CNN in 2014/2015 ; so they can support each other.

 

but they are also passionate evangelizers of their religion of godlessness - always claiming science as their high priest, yet ignoring that 4 of the 5  widely-accepted greatest scientists in history( Michael Faraday, James Maxwell,Euler and Newton) believed Jesus rose bodily from death and ascended to the Father's right-hand in heaven. (Albert Einstein is the other among  the top five but he did not believe Jesus rose from the dead. However Einstein did state Jesus Christ was definitely a historical person.)

 

(Dr. Thomas C. Pfizenmaier has said that Newton believed in the Eastern Orthodox view of the Trinity and I've read Newton say that  in  " no way is Jesus's power limited "- Newton is saying that Jesus is infinitely powerful.)

 

The ultra-genius mathematicians/scientists and true Christians, Leonard Euler, Faraday and James Maxwell are easily the smartest scientific minds created by Jesus .All physicists today use the mathematics/physics discovered by Faraday, Maxwell, Newton,Euler [W.Gautchi,2007,Euler].

 

The atheistic and uninformed media give too much credit to today's physicists.

 

I really hope all atheists will become believers in Jesus as their God.  I hope they don't miss out on eternal life in heaven. And remember human intelligence is extemely limited. Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem proved science is dead and limited.

Edited July 22, 2015 by rontiger

[Kan]

It's quite funny really, every time they think of what they don't believe, they are invariably confirming what they are trying to reject. Having an atheist church can only end up going in the opposite direction - eventually.

A trickster came into a village and showed them how to make gold. They learned the process, and he told them that it won't work if they think about the red faced monkey. Of course no one could produce the gold.

[OakWood]

I think it's to do with them not wishing to be held responsible for their own actions. They don't want any god to give them a moral code, instead they prefer to worship a god made in their own images.

Therefore they reject the presence of a creator. Tell them that their creator wants them to live according to their own desires and will give them salvation regardless, then they'll be quite happy to believe in him!

[Tristen]

Thanks for the article.

I found an online copy of the original research here for those interested;

http://www.bu.edu/cdl/files/2015/04/Creator-online-publication1.pdf

[Bonky]

It's quite funny really, every time they think of what they don't believe, they are invariably confirming what they are trying to reject. Having an atheist church can only end up going in the opposite direction - eventually.

A trickster came into a village and showed them how to make gold. They learned the process, and he told them that it won't work if they think about the red faced monkey. Of course no one could produce the gold.

So if someone doubts that bigfoots are tromping around in our forests, they are actually confirming that they really....deep down, believe that they are?

[OldSchool2]

It's quite funny really, every time they think of what they don't believe, they are invariably confirming what they are trying to reject. Having an atheist church can only end up going in the opposite direction - eventually....

So if someone doubts that bigfoots are tromping around in our forests, they are actually confirming that they really....deep down, believe that they are?

Obviously not, but in keeping with Kan's "atheist church analogy," it would be like the creation of an anti-big foot society along with a mandatory statement of "unbeliefs".

[Bonky]

I think it's to do with them not wishing to be held responsible for their own actions. They don't want any god to give them a moral code, instead they prefer to worship a god made in their own images.

Therefore they reject the presence of a creator. Tell them that their creator wants them to live according to their own desires and will give them salvation regardless, then they'll be quite happy to believe in him!

 My boss is a devout Christian and yet I am occasionally disappointed with how he handles himself.  He's willing to lie in order to cover up what would be issues if people were aware of them.   He has more than once gone back on what he promised and didn't even bother to apologize or even discuss it.  I don't see a correlation with a belief in God and good behavior.  Aside from this, one could admit that there is likely a creator of our Universe and not necessarily feel that this creator cares how we act.