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Science and Evidence Led These Atheists Away from Atheism · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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  You might have heard the claim that there is no evidence for
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  God. This is a false statement.
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  Any person who holds to a metaphysical position has some
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  sort of evidence. The evidence might be
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  philosophical, mathematical, or empirical.
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  In this presentation The Intellectual Journeys of Albert
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  Einstein, Jan Paul Sart, Albert Camus, Fred Hoyle, Anthony Flew
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  and Alistair McIntyre pertaining to the evidence of God will be
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  outlined. Albert Einstein's journey will
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  now be outlined. Albert Einstein was world famous
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  theoretical physicist who became known as a genius for his
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  general theory of relativity. Einstein was awarded the Nobel
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  Prize in Physics, especially for discovering the law of the
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  photoelectric effect at the beginning of his career.
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  Einstein was a staunch atheistic materialist.
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  During Einstein's time in the early 20th century, the status
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  quo was that the universe was eternal and that time was
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  infinite, which was referred as the steady state model.
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  When Einstein developed the general theory of relativity,
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  the theory, along with the cosmological findings during the
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  middle of the 20th century pointed towards the fact that
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  the universe had a definite beginning and that time was
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  finite. This made Einstein very
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  uncomfortable since that fact would challenge the status quo
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  at the time. To avoid this conclusion and the
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  metaphysical implications of his cosmological findings, Einstein
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  desperately invented a fudge factor in his calculations.
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  When the Christian astronomer George Lemitri corrected
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  Einstein's calculations, the fudge factor was shown to be
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  bogus. The universe did in fact have a
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  beginning. For real.
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  Einstein would later admit that the fudge factor was the
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  greatest stupidity of his life. Einstein later conceded that the
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  universe had a beginning and that the universe needed a
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  transcendent cause external of time and space.
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  The great Albert Einstein had accepted God.
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  Jan Paul Sart's journey will now be outlined.
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  Jan Paul Sart was a world famous atheist philosopher and was a
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  Marxist. He supported the regimes of
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  Stalin and Castro. Sart acquired the Nobel Prize in
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  literature. The grounding of objective
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  values haunted Sart his entire life, where he, in a stroke of
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  honesty, admitted that quote, if God does not exist, we find no
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  values or commands to turn to which legitimize our conduct.
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  End Quote The problem of evil has a prerequisite.
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  The prerequisite for the problem of evil is that there is an
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  external morality. An external morality is a term
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  that is used to denote the moral judgments can be applied to
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  other human beings. A few examples of such moral
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  judgments include genocide, murder, and rape.
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  The existence of evil must be part of the external world, and
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  some things must be actually wicked in themselves in order
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  for the problem of evil to emerge in the 1st place.
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  Hence the problem of evil gives evidence for moral realism and
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  moral laws, and a moral law implies A moral lawgiver, namely
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  God. Note a moral ontology is
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  referred to here, not moral epistemology.
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  The procedure in which morality was developed does not explain
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  why morality itself exists in the first place.
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  To use an analogy, the process in which a building is
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  constructed does not explain why a building was constructed there
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  in the 1st place. Using the basis, the philosopher
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  Yujin Nagasawa has developed, quote the problem of evil for
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  atheist. End of quote.
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  Additionally, the secular philosopher JL Mackey did
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  concede that the problem of evil is unable to disprove God, since
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  God may in principle have a morally sufficient reason for
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  allowing suffering. JL Mackey said the following
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  quote. We can concede that the problem
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  of evil does not after all show that the central doctrines of
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  theism are logically inconsistent with one another.
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  And quote Sart later admitted that a moral ontology to ground
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  an external morality could only be achieved in a transcendent
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  being. Sart said the following quote.
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  I don't feel I am the product of chance, but someone who was
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  expected, prepared, prefigured, in short, a being that could be
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  here thanks only to a creator. And this idea about a creator is
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  referring to God. End Quote The great Jan Paul
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  Sart had accepted God. Albert Camus's journey will now
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  be outlined. Albert Camus was a world famous
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  atheist philosopher and novelist who acquired the Nobel Prize in
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  Literature. Camus realizes since human
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  beings are a meaning seeking creatures, there must be real
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  meaning out there in the world. Since human beings are
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  storytelling creatures, there must be a grand storyteller and
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  a grand narrative which can only be sufficiently grounded in
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  Christianity. Camus later said the following
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  quote I am ready. I want this.
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  This Christianity is what I want to commit my life to.
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  End of quote. Camus wanted to get baptized.
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  The great Albert Camus had accepted God.
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  Fred Hoyle's journey will now be outlined.
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  Fred Hoyle was a world famous scientist and an atheistic
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  materialist where he staunchly defended the steady state model.
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  The evidence pertaining to the fine tuning argument caused him
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  to accept a designer of the universe.
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  Hoyle said the following quote. A common sense interpretation of
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  the facts suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed with
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  physics as well as with chemistry and biology and that
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  there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature and
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  quote. Hoyle also said the following
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  quote. If one proceeds directly and
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  straightforwardly in this matter without being deflected by a
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  fear, one arrives at the conclusion that biomaterials
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  with their amazing measure of order must be the outcome of
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  Intelligent Design. End of quote.
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  The great Fred Hoyle had accepted God.
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  Anthony Flu's journey will now be outlined.
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  Anthony Flu was a world famous atheist philosopher for 50 years
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  who fiercely debated Christians. As an undergraduate, he
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  criticized the atheist turned Christian philosopher CS Lewis
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  in the Socratic Club where one of his essays ended up becoming
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  the most widely reprinted philosophical publication of the
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  previous fifty years. After being the world's leading
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  atheist philosopher for 50 years, Flu came to the
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  conclusion that there was a designer of the universe.
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  From the empirical findings surrounding 1 the origin of fine
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  tuning 2 The origin of DNA's information.
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  Three the necessity of a transcendent cause to the
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  beginning of the universe. Flu explained that the then
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  recent scientific evidence showed that there was
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  insufficient time for life to come into being from non life.
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  Blue said the following quote. I now believe there is a God.
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  I now think it the evidence does point to a creative intelligence
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  almost entirely because of the DNA investigations and quote.
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  Flu also said that quote. The evidence for the
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  resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other
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  religion. It's outstandingly different in
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  quality and quantity. End of quote.
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  The great Anthony Flu had accepted God.
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  Alastair Mcintyre's journey will now be outlined.
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  Alastair McIntyre was a world famous atheist philosopher and a
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  committed Marxist where he was a member of the Communist Party of
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  Great Britain. In the process of attempting to
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  disprove Thomas Aquana's philosophy comicism, McIntyre
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  became a Christian theist. Where McIntyre realized that a
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  moral ontology could only sufficiently be grounded in
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  theism, McIntyre said that he acquired, quote, an Augustinian
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  promised approach to moral philosophy.
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  End of quote. The great Alastair McIntyre had
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  accepted God. In conclusion, men who accepted
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  the implications of their scientific and philosophical
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  findings came to accept the existence of a living creator of
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  the universe, namely God. If you would like to determine
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  who that God must be, make sure to check out our critical
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  examination of the world's major religions, yes.