Atheists or Christian Theists: Who Is More Reasonable?

I'm extremely fascinated by the evolution/creation debate. Questions about the origins of our universe and humanity specifically effect everything about how we live our lives today. The question of whether there is a God who created everything, or if everything is just an accident, is in my opinion, the most important question in the universe. Yes, more important than what drink you want to order from Starbucks.. 

"Uhh.. I'll have a grande, caramel.. hot... fancy.. delicious..."

Atheists believe there is no God. They use the theory of evolution as a firm pillar in their house of rejection of God or any other authority other than themselves over their lives. They hold rallies like the "Reason Rally" urging people to stop pursuing fables and be reasonable. If there is no God, then they are certainly right and are indeed, the reasonable ones.

Theists, and in this article I'm speaking of Christian Theists, claim there is a God who created everything and that he is in fact the reason behind it. They believe that since he created he has a right to say what should happen with his creation. If there is a God, then they are the ones who are being reasonable. 

However, both of these groups cannot be correct. One of these groups are right, and one of these groups are wrong. Only one can truly be living a life of reason and truth. 

So how do we know? As people, how do we know which life narrative we should live by? Certainly we should live by the true one. Faith in God might make you feel better, but if it's not the truth, then it is poison. Atheism might make you feel free from the chains of moral obligations and free you up to do whatever you want, but if it's wrong, you're living a delusion. 

So who is deluded? Atheists or Christians? 

To answer this question, I think what we have to do, is weigh the evidence of nature, history, and human experience and see which philosophy most aligns itself correctly. What makes the most sense. We can't choose based on feelings, or what someone else says. We should use our reason to make the best choice. 

One of the things I find most fascinating is that Atheists- who don't believe there was any intelligence behind the makings of our universe- use their intelligence and reason to deduce that it all came from nowhere and no one for no real reason. Intelligence and reason are byproducts of nature. From simple beginnings we have somehow survived enough to become as smart as we are. But the problem is that humans aren't just smart. We have a mental awareness of our surroundings. We can think, we can pursue knowledge. The world and our thoughts aren't just empty chaos. Providing you are in decent mental health, you have a calm mental field to construct your own thoughts and opinions. A free will of sorts. And your brain works in a rational way. To me, it's hard to imagine that thinking and imagination could come about by accident. Evolution claims to pass along only the traits that help an organism survive. Following this train of thought, is it rational to believe that one day an animal figured out the truth about nature and existence, and it helped him survive, and then from there he passed complete rationality to his descendants? 

As I said, I'm interested in the creation/evolution debate. I could take up ten posts describing why. My conclusion the more and more I study evolution is that the theory can't carry the weight Atheists try to place on it and that in many ways it is a faith to believe that we are all evolved from slime. Is it more likely that we are a 1 in a 10x40,000 chance? Or is it more likely that things look designed because they are designed? Our brains which work so well tell us that the words "Jessie was here" couldn't be written in the sand by nature. What does your brain tell you when you look at a baby growing in it's mother's womb or at a flower? Could it be that things look designed because they really were designed? 

If you ask the Bible(the Christian Theist's manual) how to know that God exists, it will tell you that you already know or at least you should know because of what God has made(Romans 1:20). Our world is more complex than we can fathom, from the uniqueness of our planet to the order in our bodies and planet's systems. When we see this great design, which even the most popular evolutionist of our time, Richard Dawkins admits is evident (in his book, "The Blind Watchmaker" he says that, “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose”), we can either say things look designed because they were, or things that look designed were an accident. 

Which seems more reasonable? 

Atheists as well as Christians search for the truth, but in a world devoid of God, how could we ever come to know what was true? A God would lay down not only a rational framework for thought, but a framework for truth and morality. Without a point of reference for morality and truth how can you ever know what is true or what is right? To a murderer, it seems right at the time to kill. To Hitler, he saw what he was doing as right. Who are we to tell him he was wrong? By what standard could we judge?

The Bible tells us that God has placed his law within our hearts(Jer. 31:33) and I believe that is the best reason why we know the difference between right and wrong. Our consciences accuse us when we break the invisible, unchanging standard of right and wrong. It will always be wrong to kill a baby in it's mother's arms. Is it reasonable to believe that it could ever be right and good? We all know deep down it cannot. Atheists, using evolution would claim that we evolved things like right and wrong, altruism (doing good for others at no reward for yourself, sometimes putting yourself in harms way), truth and error, as a part of our consciousness to help us survive. So we have to ask ourselves:

Does the fact that things like right and wrong, love, charity, and self sacrifice are deeply ingrained in us seem like an accident or does it seem purposeful? Are these deep seated convictions that make life meaningful given to us on purpose or are they accidental and random? 

Evolution becomes the God of the Atheist. It is given power of creation as well as credit for everything. Why do we breathe? Evolution. Why do we love? Evolution. Why do we pick our noses? Evolution. Why do we love beauty? Evolution. Why am I sad? Evolution.

The whole of human existence points to so much more. Of course you can say like Richard Dawkins that things only look designed but we must keep in mind that they aren't, but that sounds an awful lot like Romans chapter one of the Bible that says we suppress the truth about God(Romans 1:18). 

If nature appears designed, if there really is such a things as right and wrong, if we really do seek to know absolute truth, do those things point towards the empty universe of the Atheist? Or do they point to the Logos filled universe of the Christian Theist? 

That will be our life's greatest question in our search for the truth.