Why I am not an Atheist:

1. The Nazi’s were wrong. This may seem like an obvious statement but have you ever considered that the world can agree the Nazi’s were wrong only if there is an objective truth. And the only objective truth is God. Now, you could say, based on logic, that the Nazi’s were wrong because we are supposed to be humane, we are supposed to protect life. Really, why? One of my students showed me 2 sentences in a book that went something like this, “Man descended from monkeys; therefore we should be nice to one another.” Now there is a middle sentence missing from this logic that should state---monkeys are nice to one another. Since I have never sat and watched monkeys for more than half an hour I can not determine whether the third statement is correct. But I do know that the reason I am nice is not because monkeys are nice and the reason the Nazis are wrong is because monkeys shouldn’t hurt each other. It seems the world can agree on the evilness of the Nazis because we know in our souls what evil looks like and what good should look like. If evil is real then good is real.
2. I can look with awe at a painting. Not all paintings are beautiful and you can even convince me that feces on cardboard should be considered art. (But it is not art because it is beautiful, it is art because it is making a statement.) Pure joy from staring at Velasquez in the Prado museum is not an evolutionary experience. It is from another world and only poetry, the language of artists, comes close to explaining the experience.
3. I can disagree with you. Only if there is objective truth can you disagree with me and I disagree with you.
4. If there isn’t a God then where are we going? Shouldn’t we know what the next step is? Who or what is in charge of this evolutionary process? If it is a mind that has a plan for us then this is the same as saying there is a God.
5. I can will myself through emotional turmoil. Where does that will, that strength, come from?
6. If God doesn’t exist there is no point and we could never find out that there is no point.
7. People that wrote 3,000 years ago were smarter than we are. Read a few ancient texts and you will come to the same conclusion.
8. Everything runs down. When did you last tune down your car? Life that is tuning up has to have an up to tune to. What is up? Look up and see. And as dimensional scientist know, "Order will always emerge from chaos". The only thing an atheist offers me and my family is death. It is a choice between nothing and something and last I checked nothing doesn't exist.



Oh, there are more reasons but probably the greatest is in the eyes of a newborn baby. He knows so much and he can’t wait to tell you.