A few years ago some especially noisy atheists were cranking out books and YouTube videos at the same rate the Keebler Elves produce graham crackers. You couldn’t swing Schrodinger’s cat (the dead version) without smacking an enlightened non-believer crowing about the abundance of scientific evidence for a godless universe. These elite thinkers produced mountains of material dedicated to explaining to we plebeians that God doesn’t exist and they themselves hold no beliefs regarding the existence of God.

These were fun times to be an atheist! Their articulated reasons for non-belief were as fresh and novel as the day they were first uttered five hundred years before the birth of Christ. Their logic and reason thoroughly dismantled many superstitious beliefs that nobody holds. Their faith in future science to fill in all knowledge gaps was awe-inspiring. But then it all fell apart when some smart people responded to atheist propaganda.

Turns out, wisdom dissolves every atheist premise like toilet paper in a thunderstorm.

However, atheism is still a viable worldview for people who can’t think. Some of the heavy-hitter heathen remain from those historic days before they were exposed as frauds. You can still find videos and books produced by the super-stars of godless philosophy. And, if your brain is damaged by pride and arrogance, you’ll find the arguments to be profound. This is atheist Lawrence Krauss:

It would be presumptuous of me to say there is no purpose to the universe because I cannot prove it.  I can’t prove there is no God.  I can’t say definitively there is no God. What I can say definitively, however, is that I wouldn’t want to live in a universe with one. …if science tells us there is no objective meaning to the universe, no purpose or meaning, does that make our lives purposeless and meaningless?  Absolutely not. Quite the contrary. It means the purpose and meaning in our lives is what WE make…

So the scientist just said that science is wrong when it tells us life is purposeless. Krauss is telling us not to trust science. He disagrees with the hard, empirical evidence of scientific inquiry. Why would he do that? Because he “wouldn’t want to live in a universe with [God]”.

He wants to live in a universe where he calls the shots. He wants to make the rules. He wants to decide purpose, meaning, and values. He doesn’t want to live in a universe with God because he doesn’t want the competition. That’s understandable. The God that created Lawrence Krauss is going to attract more worshipers than Lawrence Krauss.

Atheists are quite fond of telling theists that, “wishing something doesn’t make it so.” If they didn’t have their fingers in their ears, I would happily confess that I agree with them.

The heavens proclaim his righteousness,

and all the peoples see his glory.

All who worship images are put to shame,

those who boast in idols—

worship him, all you gods!

Psalm 97:1