IS THERE A GOD?

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 22, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 17

The great boldness which Atheism is assuming in these days is painfully revealed in the following item which we clip from a late exchange. The proposition that there is no God, deliberately argued, betrays a degree of darkness and perversity in the human mind which is unexplainable. Men who will give utterance to sentiments such as the following, truly come under the language of Paul, in Romans 1:20: “They are without excuse.”

IS THERE A GOD?

“The proposition that ‘The teachings of science and nature do not prove the existence of a God,’ was discussed at Wadman Hall last evening by the Shawmut Liberal League, in the presence of an audience of considerable size. Mr. Addison Davis opened the debate, assuming that as yet there was no evidence of God. He illustrated his view of the question by citing the natural history of plant growth. Having the seed, earth, light, heat, and moisture given, plant life was the result. God, or God’s will, was not an element, nor was there the slightest evidence that there was any need of any God to create anything. All living things are the outgrowth of natural laws.”

Yes; but who established these natural laws? and who supplies all these conditions of seed, earth, light, heat, and moisture?