CYKIAE Season 15 Part 1. And Christ Rose Yet Again - The Sudden Death of Atheism – Where Did Carl Sagan Go?

Carl Sagan was probably the best known scientist in the West in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1980 his 13 part series, Cosmos, aired and was a spectacular hit. In the very opening of the series he told his audience this:

So according to Carl Sagan, the cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be. To elaborate he meant that the universe was made only from things in our universe -- matter and energy. Explicitly he was saying that there is no God. That was not a statement of the finding of science, made by him as a scientist, it was a statement of Carl Sagan’s personal belief.

But then just a year later Francis Crick, one of the discoverer’s of DNA, the famous double helix, an atheist, said something quite disturbing, well for an atheist that is:

"An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going."

Stephen Meyer’s book, The Return of the God Hypothesis, published in 2021, may have delivered the final death blow to the popularist atheism that Carl Sagan had opened his Cosmos series with. Today all the science seems to be going against any belief that there’s no Creator outside the universe. But more than that, the fall of atheism, if that’s what we’re witnessing, taken to its logical conclusion, spells the end of the West’s self loathing and weird ideologies that are based on the view that the Bible is not the truth and a return to societies based on Judaeo Christian values – which Tom Holland in his book Dominion, said was and is the reason for the success of the West – or more precisely societies that are governed in accordance with God’s laws and ethics as revealed in the Bible. For the West, and the world, I believe, this will come as a great liberation. This series will explore all of those issues and their ramifications.

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