Here is a quote by David Berlinski, a secular Jew, and a self confessed agnostic who took Richard Dawkins to task over his book "The God Delusion" It comes from his book: The Devil's Delusion- Atheism and its scientific pretensions.
An acclaimed author who has spent his career writing about mathematics and the sciences, he turns the scientific community’s cherished skepticism back on itself, daring to ask and answer some rather embarrassing questions:
- Has anyone provided a proof of God’s inexistence? Not even close.
- Has quantum cosmology explained the emergence of the universe or why it is here? Not even close.
- Have the sciences explained why our universe seems to be fine-tuned to allow for the existence of life? Not even close.
- Are physicists and biologists willing to believe in anything so long as it is not religious thought? Close enough.
- Has rationalism in moral thought provided us with an understanding of what is good, what is right, and what is moral? Not close enough.
- Has secularism in the terrible twentieth century been a force for good? Not even close to being close.
- Is there a narrow and oppressive orthodoxy of thought and opinion within the sciences? Close enough.
- Does anything in the sciences or in their philosophy justify the claim that religious belief is irrational? Not even ballpark.
- Is scientific atheism a frivolous exercise in intellectual contempt? Dead on.
“The attack on traditional religious thought,” writes David Berlinski in The Devil’s Delusion,“marks the consolidation in our time of science as the single system of belief in which rational men and women might place their faith, and if not their faith, then certainly their devotion.”
That isn't science, that's scientism or more properly scientific materialism.
Alistair McGrath.
"The real question, I think, which divides scientists is whether science describes all that there is or whether it is pointing to a horizon beyond which there is yet more, but which science, itself, cannot access."
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