Rise of atheism
Sunday 14th October 2012
“Religion has responded successfully to the challenge of atheism “15 marks.
Religion has responded successfully and unsuccessfully to the challenge of atheism as there have a number of ideas that have developed over the years that could potentially overthrow many religious believers. Two of these reasons are due to science and empirism.
Religions response to science has been widely assessed however both religion and science have agreed that nothing from the challenge of science has amounted to proof that God does not exist, even the famous scientist Richard Dawkins has accepted this fact. Many religious people believe that science can be part of god’s work and scientist believes that science and god can be alongside each other too. Science refer to this as god of the gaps, this is when the parts that science cannot explain must be god. However as it appears that science can explain how some aspects of the world could have been created and why these events happened it does not mean that god was not behind these events and making them happen and giving them a purpose which science cannot find the answer too. Here I can see that religion and science both together are successfully accepting one another as they both do not have concrete evidence to say wither one is right or wrong.
Empirism has led to the rise of atheism over the years however religion has become less tolerant to it as they are to the scientific rise to atheism as A. J. Ayer explained that religious language is meaningless can be dismissed as the principle itself cannot be verified. Therefore empirism is meaning by its own definition. Also if we were to demand empirical evidence from god there could numerous different things that could be mistaken for doing of god for example stigmata.
Therefore I believe that religion has successfully responded to the challenge of atheism as it has worked alongside many of
“Religion has responded successfully to the challenge of atheism “15 marks.
Religion has responded successfully and unsuccessfully to the challenge of atheism as there have a number of ideas that have developed over the years that could potentially overthrow many religious believers. Two of these reasons are due to science and empirism.
Religions response to science has been widely assessed however both religion and science have agreed that nothing from the challenge of science has amounted to proof that God does not exist, even the famous scientist Richard Dawkins has accepted this fact. Many religious people believe that science can be part of god’s work and scientist believes that science and god can be alongside each other too. Science refer to this as god of the gaps, this is when the parts that science cannot explain must be god. However as it appears that science can explain how some aspects of the world could have been created and why these events happened it does not mean that god was not behind these events and making them happen and giving them a purpose which science cannot find the answer too. Here I can see that religion and science both together are successfully accepting one another as they both do not have concrete evidence to say wither one is right or wrong.
Empirism has led to the rise of atheism over the years however religion has become less tolerant to it as they are to the scientific rise to atheism as A. J. Ayer explained that religious language is meaningless can be dismissed as the principle itself cannot be verified. Therefore empirism is meaning by its own definition. Also if we were to demand empirical evidence from god there could numerous different things that could be mistaken for doing of god for example stigmata.
Therefore I believe that religion has successfully responded to the challenge of atheism as it has worked alongside many of