Stump The Professor

Thursday was National Prayer Day and Campus Crusade for Christ at my school had Jon Rittenhouse come for an open discussion about any questions people had about God, religion, the Christian faith, ANYTHING! And he was giving away gift cards.

So I went. Skipped my Chem class for it and sat in a room that's maximum capacity was over 300.

There was about 15 of us. =P But that's 15 lives that God compelled so that's good enough for me.

Anyway, there was a Professor sitting down the row from me and I could tell he was there purely because he was very skeptical and he brought up the question, "What do you mean by Atheism isn't the best intellectual position?"

And Prof. Jon Rittenhouse, who is a Philosophy professor at Biola said this:

"Atheism, when broken down is "A" which means "without" and "Theism" which means "God" therefore, "Atheism" is the belief that there is no God. But the statement that "there is no God" is a universal negative and to back it up you would have to ensure that there is no evidence to refute it. One piece of evidence that points to God would refute the entire thing. Now if we say that God is within the universe, (I believe He is also outside the universe, but for this example let's say he's within.) To ensure the truth of that universal negative you would have to examine 100% of the information of the universe. Albert Einstein, a genius, was reported to know 2% of the world's knowledge. So, is it possible for there to be evidence pointing to God in the 98% of unknown information?

The answer? Yes.

And the only person who is capable of knowing 100% of the Universe information is God, therefore He is the only one capable of stating: "There is no God." Though, I highly doubt he would say that."

Hah. It was a good talk. There were a lot questions that came up and he had an answer for everything backed with incredibly amounts of Biblically Historical information. I was impressed and very glad that I skipped Chem.

There were a few things that I didn't know if I agreed with him. Some of his statements on free will and also a theory on whether or not young children will be raptured, but that just fuels my own desire to research.

One piece of information I did find extremely interesting was this:

85% of people in America believe in God
95% of people in America believe that Jesus is coming back

How the heck does that happen?

Well, I'll talk more about this later. I got kids to babysit. =P
I miss Bible Study already.