Having previously reported on The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s Christmas present to Albuquerque; the next American Humanist Association ad with which we will deal is with “On Intelligence”.
Find this whole series here.
This ad reads:
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding.”
PROVERBS 3:5 (NEW LIVING TRANSLATION 2007)
“There’s all the difference in the world between a belief that one is prepared to defend by quoting evidence and logic, and a belief that is supported by nothing more than tradition, authority or revelation.”
RICHARD DAWKINS, AUTHOR AND 1996 HUMANIST OF THE YEAR (HUMANIT JAN/FEB 1997)
This is another ubiquitously promulgated talking point that the essay Dan Barker and Bertrand Russell: The Dynamic Duo of Demonstrably Deleterious Delusion deconstructs.
The fact is that we are all metaphysician and so at the very base, bottom, premise of our worldviews—any and all of them—there are axioms that are not proven or evidenced but assumed or intuited.
Judeo-Christians are told to recognize YHVH as the ultimate premise and atheist Humanist are told to quote evidence, without evidence, and to rely on logic, without justification. In short Richard Dawkins’ statements are “supported by nothing more than tradition” and his “authority.”
The ad at this link may be more telling as it reads:
“‘Come now, let us reason together,’ says the LORD”
ISAIAH 1:18
“Put your trust in the scientific method, put your faith in the scientific method.”
RICHARD DAWKINS, WAKING UP IN THE UNIVERSE
“I suppose that is a sort of matter of faith on my, on my part since the theory is so coherent and so powerful.”
RICHARD DAWKINS, interview with Jonathan Miller
A longer ad could have also included that in the New Testament the Bereans are considered more noble (or more “fair minded”) for double checking everything that Paul told them (Acts 17:11), Thomas asked for the evidence which the others had seen and had merely retold to him (John 20:24-30), Jesus stated, “Love the Lord your God with all your…mind. This is the first and greatest commandment” (Matthew 22:36-38).
We are clearly called to discern, test, and judge, prophets, spirits and all things: “Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge” (1st Corinthians 14:29). One of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is “discerning of spirits” (1st Corinthians 12:10). “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world” (1st John 4:1). “Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies. Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil” (1st Thessalonians 5:19-22). “you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly” (Deuteronomy 13:14).
Etc., etc., etc.
For more dissections of fallacious atheist ads see: Atheist bus ads and billboards
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