Atheists Worship Three Gods

As I see it, atheists worship three gods: Nature, Coincidence, and Time. Let me explain.

When confronted with the astounding variety of life on Earth with all its manifested beauty, an atheist marvels at Nature's handiwork. When exploring the workings of the spinning tail of a bacteria, the atheist exclaims, "Look how resourceful Nature is, even producing sophisticated machines by modifying old genes for new uses." When peering into the intricate coding of DNA with its massive information content, Mr. Atheist expresses praise to clever Nature and her awe-inspiring ability to create something out of nothing. Need more evidence that this view is pervasive among atheists? Read the article titled "A Fin Is a Limb Is a Wing: How Evolution Fashioned Its Masterworks" in the Nov. '06 issue of National Geographic.

Close kin to the goddess Nature is the patient, persistent god called Time. Occasionally, an atheist may come face to face with a biological system that defies evolutionary explanation...one that's far removed from the next less complex system. Probability dictates that there is very little chance that random mutations generated the system with all its interdependent parts and functions. In a moment of great panic and need, Mr. Atheist calls upon Time; he seldom fails. After all, given enough time, Nature and Time can work together to perform the miraculous by gradually taking just the right concerted steps in just the right concerted sequence over, say, several hundred million years. Plus, Time has the ability to confound our finite minds, and so it is easy to persuade his followers that given enough eons, anything is possible.

If you ever have the pleasure, I mean opportunity, to present a truly unexplainable phenomenon to an atheist, he will appeal to another favorite god: Coincidence. He is a crafty deity, able to explain away any difficulty with surpassing ease. For example, suppose you send up a very specific prayer (be sure to write it down) to the Lord of the Universe which gets answered in a mighty way. When you discuss this great work of God with an atheist friend, he will wave his hand nonchalantly and attribute this convergence of events as the work of Coincidence. He then need not trouble himself about it anymore. Coincidence, indeed, seems a very powerful god to our unbelieving friends.