A.N. Wilson rejects Atheism and finds faith!

From the New Statesman

Do people like Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins simply not get life?

I think on the whole that's right, that clever as the professional atheists are, they are missing out on some very basic experiences of life.

What's the worst thing about being faithless?

The worst thing about being faithless? When I thought I was an atheist I would listen to the music of Bach and realize that his perception of life was deeper, wiser, more rounded than my own. Ditto when I read the lives of great men and women who were religious.

Reading Northrop Frye and Blake made me realize that their world-view (above all their ability to see the world in mythological terms) is so much more INTERESTING than some of the alternative ways of looking at life.

Can you love god and agree with Darwin?

I think you can love God and agree with the author of The Voyage of the Beagle, the Earth Worm, and most of the Origin of Species.

The Descent of Man, with its talk of savages, its belief that black people are more primitive than white people, and much nonsense besides, is an offence to the intelligence - and is obviously incompatible with Christianity.

I think the jury is out about whether the theory of Natural selection, as defined by neo-Darwinians is true, and whether serious scientific doubts, as expressed in a new book Why Us by James Lefanu, deserve to be taken seriously. For example, does the discovery of the complex structure of DNA and the growth in knowledge in genetics require a rethink of Darwinian "gradualism". But these are scientific rather than religious questions.

ht Jason Clark http://deepchurch.org.uk/

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Comments

[Steven Carr]

AN Wilson wrote :-

'Of course, only hard evidence will satisfy the secularists, but over time and after repeated readings of the story, I've been convinced without it.'

Faith - belief without evidence.

You will search in vain for any evidence by Wilson that the creator of the universe was incarnated as a human being, and spent his time , partly, if I remember right, telling his friends where to get free money by looking in the mouth of a fish.

[Mark]

I think actually faith=belief without "proof" - there is a huge difference between evidence and proof... But hey keep setting up your straw-men if it makes you feel better

[Steven Carr]

Straw-men means quoting what Wilson said. He didn't have any hard evidence, but believed the story anyway.

Who knows? Perhaps he also found some money in the fish of a mouth and so knew that Jesus would have told his friends where there was free money

[Steven Carr]

To be honest, I was pretty sceptical of the idea of a talking donkey, as in 2 Peter, until I read Wilson's article.

His writing shakes the faith of sceptics that a talking donkey is impossible.

[Mark]

LOL haven't you seen "Mr Ed"? Perhaps Balaam's Ass was good friends with Schroedinger's Cat?

[Dan Wilt]

Trying to listen well in a raging universe, and our ongoing discovery, is a challenge by any standard. I appreciate the listening I hear A.N. doing, and the deep breath that enables us to turn a corner in our most firm postures of belief.

This is the gift of God - not that we must change, but that we can.

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