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The Return of God?

A Critique of Pure Atheism

Andrew Likoudis questions the basis of some popular atheist arguments.

Proving or disproving the existence of God is predominantly a matter for reason, rather than for scientific enquiry. What are needed are deductive arguments that try to explain God, and, through logical inference, his relation to the world.

It would be an error to limit truth-seeking to empiricism (science) alone. Modern atheism, whenever it insists upon using empiricism as an all-purpose tool for knowledge, does so in pursuit of the exact issue that transcends empiricism, since God is outside the universe, not in it. That is to say, God’s intelligence is reflected in his creation, but is not always perceived, or able to be used as verifiable evidence.

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