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Friday, March 04, 2005

Encouraging News

Unfortunately, American liberals lack ears to hear.

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As I recall, it was radio commentator H. V. Kaltenborn (or possibly Paul Harvey) who used to say in the early days of news radio, “Ah, there’s good news tonight.” In any case, the tide may be turning for the better in many ways.

It has always been obvious that, if liberal-socialists ever were forced to look at the evidence supporting secular socialism and its catechism of social justice, then to compare that pitiful handful to the Niagara of evidence against it, they would be swept out to sea.

Today’s Washington Times carries a United Press International article by Uwe Siemon-Netto titled Science, ‘Frauds” Trigger a Decline in Atheism. Astonishingly the article is datelined Gurat, France, the nation in which the virus of modern secularity arose and spread its plague to sicken the world.

A few sample quotations:

“Godlessness is in trouble, according to a growing consensus among philosophers, intellectuals and scholars.
“Atheism as a theoretical position is in decline worldwide,” Munich theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg said in an interview.... Two developments are plaguing atheism these days. One is that it appears to be losing its scientific underpinnings.
“The other is the historical experience of hundreds of millions of people worldwide that atheists are in no position to claim the moral high ground.
“British philosopher Anthony Flew, once as hard-nosed a humanist as any, has turned his back on atheism, saying it is impossible for evolution to account for the fact that one single cell can carry more data than all the volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
“Mr. Flew still does not accept the God of the Bible.
“But he has embraced the concept of intelligent design—a stunning desertion of a former intellectual ambassador of secular humanism to the belief in some form of intelligence behind the design of the universe.
“A few years ago, European scientists snickered when studies in the United States—for example, at Harvard and Duke universities—showed a correlation between faith, prayer and recovery from illness.
“Now 1,200 studies at research centers around the world have come to similar conclusions, according to “Psychologie Heute,” a German journal, citing, for example, the marked improvement of multiple sclerosis patients in Germany’s Ruhr District because of “spiritual resources.”