Massive Upheaval!

It is difficult to imagine a discovery in recent science that has greater world-view implications than does the Big Bang.  With the new recognition that our universe is expanding, the previous belief that it always existed has now been overthrown and replaced by the realization that our universe had a beginning out of nothing.  Back when the intellectual culture had believed the universe was eternal, the prevailing reasoning led to the conclusion that it was also self-existent.  And that notion led to the presumption that appeals to God for our existence are neither necessary nor rational.  Renowned (former) atheist, Antony Flew had championed that very thinking with his widely acclaimed 20^th-century essay, “The Presumption of Atheism.”  He there argued that rationality is on the side of naturalism so that the burden of proof for creation must belong on the shoulder of the theist (believer in God).  But with the growing realization that the Big Bang is actually true Dr. Flew changed sides and came to believe in God.  In his recently published auto-biography, “There is a God,” he explicitly reversed the burden of proof onto the shoulder of the atheist to account for the beginning of the cosmos out of nothing without appeal to a creator.  Stay tuned for my up-coming entry titled, “No Scientific Escape.”