Season 5 Podcast 131, A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, “I Robot.”

A New Voice of Freedom

Season 5 Podcast 131, A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, “I Robot.”

America owes much to early European philosophers and scientists for they set the stage for our own Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. The period prior to American Independence was called, “The Age of Enlightenment.” Let me quote from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.

The Enlightenment featured a range of social ideas centered on the value of knowledge learned by way of rationalism and of empiricism and political ideals such as natural law, liberty, and progress, toleration and fraternity, constitutional government and the formal separation of church and state.

The Enlightenment was preceded by and overlaps the Scientific Revolution and the work of Francis Bacon and John Locke, among others.

Today, we have moved away from such high ideals of man. A vocal majority denies natural law, claiming that gender is a choice. They deny the sacredness of life by advocating abortion as an alternative to birth control, defending the murder of an infant emerging from the womb in the name of rights. Theoretical science claims that the universe was created by accident rather than by law. Rather than celebrating the individual, some advocate multiverses.

The existence of multiverses is one of the strangest theories to come out of theoretical science. Multiverse is the idea of multiple universes developing simultaneously with every decision. If you think of decisions as doors, then in a multi-universe you would go through all the doors at the same time. All realities, as with Schrödinger’s Cat, exist simultaneously until they are observed. In other words, what we call great events in history, have more than one ending. In one universe Lincoln was assassinated. In another he wasn’t. Considering the number of possibilities, there are potentially an infinite number of universes reflecting the infinite number of decisions, hence the truncated term—multiverses.

Because of theoretical science replacing religion we are rapidly moving away from the idea of the importance of the individual, the sacredness of life, or the rights of man. Theoretical science denies freewill, oddly enough because of the existence of natural law. Stephen Hawking, in his book, “Grand Design,” said,

“It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion.”

That reduces us to robots. It is a long way from the views of man in the Age of Enlightenment. Today the scientific view of man is based on the analogy of machines. Today’s theoretical science claims that man is merely a robot, or biological machine, or animal. Imagine trying to build a democratic republic from such a philosophy.

Theoretical science ignores fundamental principles. Machines do not have the essential attributes of man: desires, ambitions, aspirations, faith, freewill, charity, love, hate, happiness, misery, personality, intelligence, life, consciousness, agency, hope, reverence, belief in God, etc. Bertrand Russell, English mathematician and philosopher, claimed that “Man is an accidental collocation of atoms.” Not only are we robots. We are accidental robots.

Christians reject many of the theories of science as a false analogy. The apostle Peter defines the Christian view of man.

2 Peter 1:1-8

“Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness: