Since I mentioned Yuri Gugarin, I should add that I think he presents
a good paradigm for some contemporary science-based apologetics.
Gugarin reportedly said (can anyone confirm and give me a source) after
returning from the first manned space flight, that he knew there was
not God because he had looked for God and not seen God while in outer
space.
Fortunately, no Christians that I am aware of were threatened by this
remark. It is understood to be an absurd statement. It would have been
comical for Christians to have felt compelled to argue something to
the effect that God was really there and Gugarin's prejudices simply
prevented him from seeing God or that he was not being honest. That
would have been the only way for the Christians to appear more absurd
than Gugarin.
Unfortunately, I sense that the issue is precisely the same with
rpeople such as Dawkins claims that evolution implies atheism.
Unfortunately in this case, many Christians don't recognize the logic
as being absurd but seem committed to the biological equivalent of
arguing that Gugarin really did see God. In this regard, I find it
remarkable that Phil Johnson (who is arguing the biological equivalent
of Gugarin not seeing God) uses Gugarin as a symbol of
evolutionists. (I believe this was in "Darwinism Defeated.")
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