While atheists and “progressives” may mock religious believers as some kind of irrational fools, it is actually the “progressive” Left that is becoming increasingly irrational and detached from reality.
Atheists are forced to conjecture how this Universe came into existence, and how the physical properties and constants of this Universe and planet Earth were fine-tuned to an enormous precision, thus allowing for complex life on Earth.
Atheists are forced to claim that undirected, natural causes somehow resulted in the existence of the Universe and in the existence of complex life on Earth. Atheists may tend to zealously wield the term “creationism” against religious believers in a God who created the Universe. However, in truth the atheists themselves are teaching their own, different form of “creationism”, even if they refuse to honestly admit that.
There are three statements below.
One statement is unscientific and incompatible with science.
One statement is compatible with science.
One statement does not contradict science and is the best explanation for various scientific observations.
1. Atheist Creationism = Our Universe had a beginning. BEFORE our Universe existed, either
a) an infinite series of unobservable Universes created themselves, or
b) our Universe created itself!
2. Big Bang Cosmology = The Universe had a beginning. The cause of the creation event cannot be proven by science.
3. Biblical Creationism = The Universe had a beginning. God, an immaterial, intelligent Being created the Universe ex-nihilo through a process beyond the ability of science to comprehend.
No. 3 above, Biblical creationism (at any time in the finite past), is actually the statement most consistent with the scientific evidence. Statement No. 2 is compatible with modern science. Statement No. 1 is incompatible with modern science.