We continue, from part 1 and part 2, considering the Atheist activism upon which some biased pseudo-scientists base their craft.
Francis Crick also stated:
People like myself get along perfectly well with no religious views.*
Well, of course, he does, indeed, have religious views which just happen to be Atheistic and Darwinian religious views. Also, we may also note that thieves get along perfectly well with no police officers. Like a fish who is so used to living in water that it does not discern its existence Francis Crick lives in YHVH’s universe without admitting it.
As for James Watson, it is elementary my dear, he asserts that “religious explanations were ‘myths from the past.’” This is the sort of statement which is actually jam packed with assertions, assumptions and vagaries.
1) What is “religion”? Buddhism, which is Atheistic, has long been considered a religion. Atheists such as Michael Newdow claim that Atheism is a religion. There are grammatical, scholastic, pop-cultural and theological definitions of “religion.” The New Testament states, “Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world” (James 1:27).
2) “religious explanations” is generic enough to be useless. Which religions? Which explanations? To just answer “all of them” is to betray ignorance of the vast differences amongst both religions and their explanations. For example, some religions, such as Hinduism and Buddhism, hold that they life, the universe and everything is an illusion. Conversely, the Judeo-Christian Bible affirms the material realm and it is a time, space, matter continuum wherein cause is followed by effect in a linear manner. This recognition is what made science possible: a rational God created the material realm which could therefore be rationally discerned.
Genesis 1:1 states:
In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth
Let us consider this again:
In the beginning [time] God created the heavens [space] and the Earth [matter]
And once again:
In the beginning God [a preexisting transcendent being] created [volitionally brought into being] the heavens and the Earth
Moreover, John 1:1 states:
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God
The beginning began to begin due to an outworking, an expression of information, the Word, which was personified in Jesus the Messiah.
Moreover, in Genesis 2:1-3 the Bible predicts the First Law of Thermodynamics by stating:
Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Thus, the Bible states that energy/matter were brought into being, placed within the box (the universe) and that no more energy/matter is being created.
3) “myths from the past” may be an ad hominem aka genetic fallacy as referring to religious explanations as myth and presuming to have discredited their source, religions of the past, does not amount to discrediting the explanations themselves.
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* Roger Highfield, “Do our genes reveal the hand of God?,” The Telegraph, 20 Mar 2003 AD