Dear Friends,

There's a depressing new Pew Survey out, showing that about a quarter of Americans have no affiliation with any religion, and 49% of those who left their church or religion say they "don't believe" anymore. Many claim it's because science has convinced them there is no such thing as God or miracles.

This is sadly ironic, considering that other surveys show how poorly informed most Americans are about science. Maybe the problem isn't that God is so hard to believe in, but that people are getting an incomplete and warped education in science, one that stresses atheism (a religion in itself) over the miraculous nature of so many things all around us in the universe. This intellectual trap was summed up best by Francis Bacon, who said, "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringest men's minds about to religion."

Albert Einstein is often held up by atheists as an example of scientific genius negating the belief in God, but here is what he wrote in a personal letter:

"You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist. ... I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being."

I wonder how many people who've decided they know too much about science even to entertain the possibility of God's existence would seriously argue that they're smarter than Albert Einstein?



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Think and seek and you shall find.....