Science is Atheistic?

There is a certain atheist I have interacted with some… I’ll refer to him as JJ. He is found commonly commenting on the OU Daily website. He could have had a column in the Daily, but rejected it due to his disdain for some of the other columnists and the editor. He commonly uses profanity and ad hominem. Recently he has also taken to telling people to use Google rather than actually arguing his case. And, after I made a comment in a thread on Facebook, suggesting that he hadn’t actually made a case, he changed his settings to block me from seeing him or anything he does. I wouldn’t typically recommend this approach to discussion.

Just a few hours ago (before I was blocked), he made the assertion that science is atheistic. I asked him about it and he responded with quite a bit of profanity and name calling. I have quite a hard time believing that the atheist can know anything by any method consistent with his atheism, let alone that atheism is required for science! Of course, I believe that Christian theism is thenecessarypresupposition for science.

For example, by Christianity I know that God created the world, that creation exists, that I exist, etc. I also know that the world is sovereignly governed by God and that nature obeys his laws. I thus expect to find consistency in them, throughout space and time. I can know that my thoughts can (if acting in obedience to God) correctly interpret reality - that nature is intelligible.

By what means does the atheist assume such things? His supposed reality is governed both by randomness and law; by the irrational and rational.

How in the world does someone reconcile rationalism and irrationalism? If the world is inherently irrational, how does one then arrive at reason and rationality? If one asserts that chance is actually the product of rational processes that have yet to be explained, how does one know? And, if ‘chance’ is produced by fixed laws, does it not cease to be ‘chance’?

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