By Rev.Tim Pauls
Happy Holidays. You’re a Baboon. J
ust in time for Christmas, the American Humanist Association (AHA) has begun an ad campaign to the masses around Washington, D.C., with the slogan,“Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness’ sake.”Why just be good for goodness’ sake? Because you’re like a baboon, and you’re going to die. With credentials like that, why would you not be good? Perhaps I should flesh this out a little bit.The AHA presumes that there is no God and no Word of God. Instead, it maintains that we are to rely on reason and science in order to understand how to live in the world. And because we human beings possess a built-in morality, we can determine what is good. So, let’s examine this philosophy a little bit closer.
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No God? On its ad Web site, the AHA gives a number of the same old arguments as to why it’s reasonable not to believe in God. For one, it argues that there are a lot of different ideas about God out there, which makes it hard to know where even to begin the discussion. For a group that prides itself on reason, this is hardly reasonable. It’s like saying,“Since there are so many different classmates around school, there’s no one to take to the dance.” If there are many religions in the world, isn’t it reasonable to admit the possibility that one of them might be true? I say yes.The AHA says no. That’s unreasonable. The AHA also says it’s reasonable not to believe in God because most claims about God can’t be tested scientifically, indicating that He doesn’t exist. But wait a second. Good science only rejects what it can disprove, not what it cannot prove.The scientific method would honestly say,“If we can’t prove or disprove God scientifically, then He may or may not exist.”To say God doesn’t exist isn’t reasonable or scientific.
