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Former atheist historian Sarah Iriving-Stonebreaker: “How does a Historian, who defined herself as an atheist and for whom questions of reliable evidence are the touchstone of her profession, come to faith in Jesus Christ? My story unsettles a number of popular but misguided assumptions about people who convert from atheism to Christianity, not least because I came to faith at a high point in my life when, far from needing a “crutch”, I had everything I had always wanted. Moreover, far from being led blind into faith, my conversion to Christianity emerged from an explicit engagement with atheist philosophy. “


Coming to Faith Through Dawkins, 12 Essays On The Pathway From New Atheism to Christianity

Book via the publisher: kregel.com/biography/coming-to-faith-through-dawkins


Editors Denis Alexander and Alister McGrath gather other intelligent minds from around the world to share their startling commonality: Richard Dawkins and his fellow New Atheists were instrumental in their conversions to Christianity.

Despite a wide range of backgrounds and cultures, all are united in the fact that they were first enthusiasts for the claims and writings of the New Atheists. But each became disillusioned by the arguments and conclusions of Dawkins, causing them to look deeper and with more objectivity at religious faith. The fallacies of Christianity Dawkins warns of simply don't exist.

Bole quotes Psam 8 and then proceeds to explore its significance for his systemic study of nature: thou has made him a little lower than the Angels, and hast crow’d him with Glory & Honour. Thou mad’st him to have dominion over the works of thine hands, and has put all things under his feet. Boyle was very interested in the question of why mankind out to study the natural world, and it was a topic he discusses in multiple works.
At first, I missed Boyle’s frequent references to the Bible and to figures like Adam and Eve as intellectual window dressing. But it became increasinbly obvious that Boyle’s entire epistemology, that is, his understanding of knowledge, its character, methodologies, and purposes – was shaped by his Christian faith. One of Boyle’s chief interests was how to develop a method of establishing reliable and verifiable knowledge about the natural world. How do we minimize the error that arises from human fallibility. Can we rely upon our sense to gain knowledge of nature, and if we can, to what extent and under what conditions?
The Epistemology and methodology of the experiment, it turned out, were in fact made possible by a Christian view of knowledge. The historian peter Harrison has shown this in great depth. It was actually a distrust of human sensory and cognitive capabilities, rooted in the idea of original sin – that was vital for the foundation of the modern scientific experimental method.

**Human value – Toward the end of my doctoral studies at Cambridge, I was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford. A few months into my fellowship, my friends and I learned that one of the most famous atheist philogophers, Peter Singer, was visiting Oxford to give a series of Lectures.


I reflected upon my own struggle with finding my meaning and satisfaction in my life’s work and how it could never bear the burden of giving my life ultimate meaning. Only Jesus, who is God himself, can bear the weight of giving my life ultimate meaning. This is because Jesus is life itself “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me.
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