Charles Finny on Atheism
Difficulty: Another difficulty of
Atheism is that it is fundamentally inconsistent with itself. To the doctrine
that God created the universe out of nothing, Atheists object, "ex
nihilo nihil fit." But in accounting for the existence of the
universe as it is, they ascribe all events to chance. Now chance is either
nothing or something. If nothing, to ascribe the existence of the universe to
it, is to contradict their favourite maxim just quoted. If something adequate
to the production of such effects, then they admit causality, and chance is
only another name for God.
NB Normally a much bigger blog from me each month, little bit behind at the moment, its coming soon.. But I do like this from Finny. Hope you do too.
