3 Reasons People Accept Atheism

The search for what

Any true scientist will tell you the job of a scientist is to answer the question of "what". What makes this happen? What are the properties of this object? What causes the stars to rotate around a black hole?

Science was not purposed to answer the question of Why.

I remember Neil deGrasse Tyson speaking to an audience of the highest educated professors in physics. He showed how throughout history, scientist such as Newton, when they had gotten to a place in their mathematics and calculations and observations where they could not explain any other mysteries of the universe they looked up to heaven and said, "The rest is the glorious work of our Maker which is too spectacular for any to explain!" What followed was Neil explaining that now we know much much more, and thus God is not needed to explain. So why is He still around? The argument is "The God of the gaps". That is, when there is a gap in knowledge, we fill it with God. Then we discover it's natural explanation and can dismiss the idea of God creating it.

But this is crazy, isn't it? This is not an observation spoken from some objective view point. Neil has decided in his mind that the idea of a God (a being of objective intelligence) is out of the question. His data doesn't support his claim, it merely gives ground to a foundation already planted. "God of the gaps" argument cannot answer where the existence of these discoveries come from. At one point, "what holds the planets together?" and the retort, "only God could do such a thing!" Only to discover it is gravity doing this. But does that mean that God doesn't hold the planets together? No, of course not. Why cannot gravity be the instrument, the tool by which God holds everything together? The god of the gaps counter to Christianity only works with a young child's understanding of theology. It is more convenient to make God fairy-tale-like and dismiss him as childish dreaming, than to seek his complex nature. And man will use his mental exhaustion on whatever seems most valuable - forgetting God.

Three reasons people surrender their search for the answer to Why

1.  Arrogance.

 Arrogance that extinguishes any hope of explanations for the truths we feel within us. "I looked up to the sky and around a star and I didn't see God, so I guess he's not even real." This is an immature response. Suppose a child looks for his mother who is at work. He has an idea of mother because he has recollection of such a relationship (he saw her at breakfast). But he looks around the house and doesn't find her. "She was never even real!" He exclaims. "It was a fancied idea I constructed because only a mother would meet the needs of this relationship I lack." It is true Christians are single minded and stubborn in their views, but an Atheist more so. They must be of the highest elite to know the "truth" about our world while the rest of us have yet to mentally evolve.

2. Intellectual Surrender

As stated earlier, there is frailty and childishness in the atheist-through-science thought. I believe part of the reason their following is small is because they resort to simple answers. Over simplistic answers. This would also explain why their attack against faith narrows on the simple six-year-old child version of Christianity -How a friendly atheist gets offended. 

3.Not wanting to be subject to an Objective Being

When we explore things like Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, we see the impossibility of seeing the whole picture at the same time = man is subjective. If it is impossible for us to see both, then we call it uncertainty.

Uncertainty for us. 

That is, man is uncertain. This very principle, however, is the footstool for many atheists' argument. But what sort of attitude says, "If I cannot understand it, then it must be random chance. If I cannot see it, then it is futile." But just the opposite happens in many of us, hasn't it? This principle lifts up how immense and Sovereign God is that He not only sees both momentum and precision, but He guides them both. (Notice: I am not use God in the gap theory. We are using the facts uncovered by science as evidence that if there was a God, it would have to be one like that is in the Bible, namely completely sovereign.) The attitude of "There is no being higher than I that can make sense of it all. If I don't comprehend it, nothing can comprehend it." Is about as foolish as choosing Anarchy because of a disinterest in politics.

Science serves the purpose of answering the what questions, not the why questions. If we had all the knowledge on everything and knew corner to corner how the universe operated, would we cease to answer the question, "why?"
I don't think so.