Author of "What's So Great About Christianity" Says Christianity is in "Great Shape"
"The deeper point to be made here, however, is not merely that leading scientists over the centuries have been Christian, but that science itself, in its assumption that the universe is rational and obeys laws discoverable by the human mind, is based on Christian precepts and cannot in fact be done without Christian presuppositions."
(Internet)—Dr. Paul Kengor, a fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of God and George W. Bush, recently interviewed Dinesh D'Souza, author of What's So Great About Christianity, for FrontPage Magazine. (To watch an interesting debate featuring Dinesh D'Souza, CLICK HERE.)
The interview largely deals with D'Souza's refutations of what he calls "new atheist" attempts at "taking over the minds of the next generation" with their ideology. He asserts they want to do this because religion isn't falling by the wayside as atheists imagined it would when nations became more "modern and educated." It is a highly intelligent interview and one well worth reading.
The following are just a few excerpts from that interview. To read the full interview in-depth, follow the source link provided.
Kengor: ...Your book is positive. You think Christianity is not only "great" but in great shape. Why are you such an optimist?
D'Souza: Theism in general, and Christianity in particular, make so much more sense of the world than the doctrines of unbelief. This is in a way the great secret that my book communicates to Christians. There's no reason to be on the defensive. Ours is a set of beliefs that are completely supported by modern science and modern thought. For example, the Bible says that through the design of the universe we can see the handiwork of God....I'm genuinely excited by modern science because it's proving propositions that were boldly advanced in the Bible thousands of years ago.
Kengor: You...[argue] that the Church from the beginning was not anti-science and anti-reason but pro-science and pro-reason, and credit Christianity with "the invention of invention." Who were these oddball Renaissance Christian scientists who believed in God—surely there weren't many of them, right?
D'Souza: Well, on the Christian side we have Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Brahe, Descartes, Boyle, Newton, Leibniz, Gassendi, Pascal, Mersenne, Cuvier, Harvey, Dalton, Farady, Hershel, Joule, Lyell, Lavoisier, Priestley, Kelvin, Ohm, Ampere, Steno, Pasteur, Maxwell, Planck, Mendel and Lemaitre. Einstein too was a believer in God as a kind of supreme mind or spirit discernible through the complex and beautiful laws of nature...none of these folks saw theism or Christianity as incompatible with science...The deeper point to be made here, however, is not merely that leading scientists over the centuries have been Christian, but that science itself, in its assumption that the universe is rational and obeys laws discoverable by the human mind, is based on Christian precepts and cannot in fact be done without Christian presuppositions.
