HOW SCIENCE CREATED A CHRISTIAN

How Science Created a Christian
I wasn't always a Christian. I like so many others had my faith destroyed by the science I was taught in the classroom...  Evolution taught that I was just a smart monkey, the primordial soup is how life first started, etc... It was "proven" to me that it was all done without God.  I, like most kids wasn't very adept at critical thinking or analysis. I just consumed the intellectual garbage that my teachers served on a daily basis. Especially the science.  I loved science.  I was convinced it was a paragon of facts and truth!  Was I wrong?

By the time I was out of high school I could have "proven" to anyone willing to listen that God didn't exist; that religion was all a grand fairy tale and that anyone who believed in God was simply ignorant of science... as one atheist commented,  religion was simply "the opiate of the masses".

I knew religion; I knew the bible; I was well educated in the "myth" of Jesus.  I had spent my first and second grade in a Catholic school, started each mouring in church , etc... But my exposure to the bible and faith was just not enough to overcome the barrage of "science".  So my faith was destroyed. 

The years went by.  I was comfortable in my atheism and in myself.  But in the back of my mind, in the deepest recesses of my soul, I knew something didn't add up.  Every now and again, a thought, like a voice in the distance calling out to me would ask...

• *Why would the disciples on one day, deny even knowing Jesus, then the next be willing to die for him?"  What happened?  See  Who was Jesus
• *Why did Paul go from a career of zealously persecuting Christians, then overnight, not only becoming a Christian, but a leader of the church. What happened?
• "Christ's tomb was protected by guards, who would have been put to death for not fulfilling their duties... Even so, Jesus was gone. Who moved the stone?, Who and HOW did anyone get past the guards.  How could they have stolen the body and not been noticed.  Who would have done that?  The disciples?  If so, Why?  So they could tell everyone that Jesus had arisen... and then be persecuted and crucified for it?  Unlikely.
• Where was the body? Many try to insist he never left the tomb... they say went to and mistakenly checked the wrong one. But if it was the wrong tomb, it would have been discovered and advertised as such immediately. If the body of Christ were anywhere to be found, the Jews and Romans would have taken possession and paraded it through the streets to stop the growth of this new religion dead in it's tracks.
• Who would die for a LIE? If Christ had not been resurrected, the disciples would obviously have known. And if they KNEW he had not been resurrected, they certainly would not have died for that lie and spent their lives, spreading the word, while living a life ripe with constant persecution, threats and ridicule all the time knowing they would eventually suffer the same fate as Jesus.

It just didn't make sense.  These and other nagging thoughts and facts eventually led me kicking and screaming to the inescapable conclusion that Christ had been resurrected.  And the resurrection could only have occurred if there was a God.  But how could that be...

Hadn't science already "proven" the NON existence of God?
Didn't science already have all the important answers?  That's what I was taught...  you were probably taught the same...

• * The miller experiment showed how life could start, without God.  But see... Scientific "proofs" refuted  The First Cell
• * Darwin showed us the light with evolution, no need for God to do anything.  But see...  Fossil Record
• * We've found a steady stream of fossils with transitional stages, proving God did not create us.  But see... Fraudulent Drawings 
• * We've seen Heckle's embryos that show all our past evolutionary stages within the growth of embryos, this proved evolution was correct, didn't it?  But see...  Haeckel's Embryos
• * We even have entire fossils with artist renderings of our ancestors!  But see...  Fossil FRAUD

Even before I found the real facts of what I was taught, the proofs of no God made no sense. There can't be NO GOD and a PROVEN resurrection...
The facts surrounding the life and death of Christ made such a compelling, irrefutable case for his deity that after investigating the evidence of the resurrection,  Lord Darling, former Chief Justice of England, stated, ". . . there exists such overwhelming evidence, positive and negative, factual and circumstantial, that no intelligent jury in the world could fail to bring in a verdict that the resurrection story is true.".  

Then I found that much of what I was taught was little more than Propaganda!
see...
http://allsolutionsnetwork.org/blog/what-if-the-facts-are-wrong-facts-that-destroyed-faith
http://allsolutionsnetwork.org/blog/the-truth-about-religion

Science tried to teach me that God doesn't exist, but the facts supporting Jesus as being the resurrected son of God is overwhelmingly compelling.  However, if, there is no God  then Jesus couldn't have been resurrected, but he was!   The fact is that MANY our most brilliant scientists, physicists, biologists, chemists, etc.. are devout Christians.  There is a reason for that... they analyzed the real evidence and came to the more logical conclusion.
For a comprehensive presentation of the "Facts" That Destroyed Religion, Click Here.

IS THERE A PROBLEM WITH THE SCIENCE?  No, but worldviews can warp the interpretation of the facts.
I believe in science, I love science, I study many aspects of it as a hobby. In one of my past avocations I was even a herpetologist breeding boas, pythons and various other reptiles for a living. I believe in the "facts" of science. However, in my longstanding attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable, I have have found many of the "conflicts" between science and religion are not about facts, but rather the analysis and conclusions that mainstream science is promoting.

STOP THE INDOCTRINATION
I don't want anyone to be subjected to any form of indoctrination whether for or against religion.  I just want everyone to have access to the facts; all of them.  Facts that support evolution and by extension atheism and those scientific facts that put those conclusions into question, all should be available.  I am simply tired of the lies, half truths and myopic conclusions that our children and society is being taught.  What is happening to our children all across the nation and world is indoctrination, pure and simple.  Regardless of the secular or religious implications that a fact may have... it is still a fact!  It should be taught, not hidden.  We need to protect our children and our society by making available all of the facts and let them lead where they may.

I was a legally educated, confirmed atheist who analyzed these facts and came to the inescapable conclusion that God is real and Christ is Lord.  Not everyone will come to the same conclusion.  Conclusions can vary, but the facts remain the same for all. Due to a core bias against even the possibility of God or the desire to NOT believe in the possibility of eternal consequences for our actions, many will simply hold to atheism... regardless of the strength or amount of evidence.  It happens, some people still don't think we got to the moon.  But the Facts that led me  to God are Facts, upon which, even the most atheistic scientist will not disagree... but will never utter in a classroom.  Facts regarding the clear implications of the Cambrian Explosion; facts that show it is mathematically impossible for the first living cell to be the result of random chance; the obvious implications of our miraculously finely tuned universe and the intellectual somersaults performed in an attempt to deny the obvious... and much more.

Truth simply needs to be told, in it's entirety.  If with all the facts in hand, the choice is atheism, that's their decision; if it's God, it's their decision... But right now, choices and decisions are being made, not based upon facts, but rather by an ingrained indoctrination that presents only evidence that supports the preferred world view, atheism... and any fact that potentially undercuts that world view is conveniently omitted. This is science?   Please, download and share this free ebook. It provides facts on both sides of this issue and in a way makes it easy to combat the misinformation, with which our children are bombarded. Click Here

The Starting Point Fact and Analysis– Science and Religion agree on most facts.
Many will be surprised to learn that in actuality, atheists and most Christians agree on a great number of facts.  Survival of the fittest, adaptation to environment i.e. microevolution, the fact of a fossil record, big bang, etc...  There really is not that much disagreement on true facts; the real disagreement is on the analysis of those facts and the ultimate conclusions reached through analysis of those facts.

For Example... If I threw a ball across the room and hit Joe with it and cut his head.  That is clearly an absolute unequivocal FACT.  I hit Joe with a ball and cut his head.  End of discussion.  Then the question might be asked "What was the underlying cause?   The agreed upon fact will now be interpreted by the observers.  Their conclusions will be impacted by their preconceptions and preconceived beliefs... Do they know me?  Do they like me?  Do they dislike Joe?

Preconceptions and personal beliefs ALWAYS impact analysis and conclusions... 

• One observer  who is not a fan of mine, concludes that I'm a horrible person and that I wanted to hurt Joe.
• Another, that I'm simply an idiot that wasn't paying attention.
• A third observer is certain that I just have terrible coordination and couldn't hit the ground twice in a row.
• The last observer knows and dislikes Joe, so...  "Joe must have had it coming".