Proof The Bible Is True

It seems as though a traditional Christmas complete with carol singing, Christmas Eve service and large family gatherings will not be permitted this year in many parts of the UK as governments continue to struggle with how to combat the virus.

 

However, what appears to be the ‘traditional’ is perhaps not as old as we might think. Many of the ‘traditional’ elements are from the Victorian times – Christmas trees, carolling and of course Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’. This is what we mean by a Dickensian Christmas and it ain’t happening this year. Perhaps we are now in a Darwinian Christmas where the strongest survive and the weak are left to struggle?

 

Speaking of Darwin let’s turn to Richard Dawkins’ essay in the Christmas Spectator.

 

I was going to write Richard another open letter but since he didn’t reply to my last one I suspect he is not a regular reader of Christian Today!

 

Dawkins’ essay is a good defence of scientific truth against something he hates even more than Christianity – post-modernism. He is rightly concerned about the hijacking of truth by those who see science as ‘the brainchild of white Victorian males’ and a tool of ‘patriarchal domination’. For me this is a case of chickens coming home to roost – Dawkins has helped create a world in which science can be sidelined because feelings predominate. The God Delusion was an anti-religious diatribe that had little to do with facts, reason and truth. Dawkins has been hoisted by his own petard. His attacks upon Christianity have underminded the foundation of science.

 

Read More: A Dawkinsian Christmas? No thanks!