Naturalism Is Nonsense

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Not only is it destructive to tell people they're nothing more than cosmic accidents--it's complete nonsense. In this episode, R.C. Sproul exposes the insanity behind the naturalistic idea that the universe was randomly produced by space, time, and chance.

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0:30.6	What we have here is this equation,
0:33.0	0 plus 0 plus 0, equal everything.
0:38.0	When they talk like this, they stop being scientists. There's a reason why the biggest philosophical question of the 21st century is anthropology.
0:58.0	The significance of human beings.
1:02.0	Everywhere we turn, we are... of human beings.
1:10.0	Everywhere we return, we are told that we are insignificant cosmic accidents,
1:16.6	that we are the result, not of the purposive creation of an eternal and all wise and holy God, but that we are grown-up germs who have emerged forturously from the slide, and I've heard very learned, more than one,
1:29.0	PhDs, give the formula for the rise of the universe itself.
1:35.0	The formula is this, space plus time plus chance
1:47.0	equals the universe and humanity.
1:52.0	The universe and everyone who's in it is the result of the equation, space plus time plus chance.
1:55.9	Have you ever heard that?
1:58.9	When they talk like this, they stop being scientists. And it's not that they revert to some mythological
2:07.4	foundation for reality for the universe or for human beings, because myths at least have the salutary benefit of from time to time giving
2:19.2	us some kind of moral lesson or some kind of ethical insight.
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