Atheism... it's not just the theory or "belief" in the absence of a god, but the promulgation of the school of thought that is in actuality anti-god, which is acknowledged by atheists themselves.
If a person is atheist, there ought to be absolutely NO part of their speech which in any way resembles anything spiritual.
For example, the concluding paragraph of the story quoted Marvin Straus, a co-founder of an atheist group in Boulder, CO as saying, "A pastor can say to his flock, 'All rise,' and everyone rises. But try that in an atheist meeting. A third of the people will rise. A third will tell you to go to hell. And a third will start arguing. That's why it's hard to say where we're going as a movement."
Why did an atheist mention "hell?"
From a purely logical perspective, even the acknowledgment of the opposite validates the presence of that which is denied!
It's utterly absurd!
So, atheists ought not ever say "hell," "****," talk about "spirit," "holy," "faith," "God," and an entire host of other words with a basis in spirituality and faith.
However, there is truly more evidence to support Intelligent Design than there is for atheism and evolution from lower life forms.
Consider this: There is ABSOLUTELY NO evidence in the archeological record of the geographic strata anywhere to support transitional life forms.
Furthermore, there is overwhelming evidence to support the presence of a world-wide flood, as is recorded in the Genesis account.
Here is a more recent scientific development about which I wrote that it supported Intelligent Design: Fractals and chaos theory.
Here's an excerpt from my most recent blog: Fractals "are those mathematical and artistic models that when each part is examined it is a reflection of itself. It is a repetition to the nth degree. From the macro to the microscopic, it is like itself into infinity. And, it can be expressed in a mathematical formula. Fractals “are reminiscent of natural objects like mountains, clouds, coastlines, blood vessel networks, and even broccoli, in a way that classical shapes like cones and squares can’t match. They have also turned out to be useful in scientific applications ranging from computer graphics and image compression to the structural mechanics of cracks and the fluid dynamics of viscous fingerprinting.” (Consider reading “Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering” by Steven H. Strogatz, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0-7382-0453-6)
There is structure in what we term chaos. In 1963 MIT meterologist Edward Lorenz demonstrated “that there was structure in the chaos - when plotted in three dimensions.”
So, what do fractals have to do with faith, God, and the message of Christ?
Scientists and researchers discovered that using the mathematical model of fractals, they could predict where blood vessels would branch. (Consider reading ” Nonlinear Oscillations in Biology, Lectures in Applied Math” by Arthur T. Winfree (1979).)
I was amazed, and immediately said,”Wow! It’s a wonderful example of intelligent design!”"
The Law of Entropy, which is also sometimes called the Second Law of Thermodynamics, states that, naturally left to themselves, things move from a state of orderliness to a state of chaos, confusion and disorder. Even the late atheist Isaac Asimov said, "all we have to do is nothing, and everything deteriorates, collapses, breaks down, wears out - all by itself." (ref: Smithsonian Institute Journal, June 1970, p.6)
The Creation account clearly states that God spoke into the chaos and disorderliness and made order. Thus, the absence of order indicates the presence of something other than intelligence, which the mention of something opposite clearly indicates the presence of that which is denied.
Psalm 102:25,26 states that, “Of old hast Thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of Thy hands. They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall be changed.”
Clearly, "they shall perish," refers to that which we already know, that the rotation of the Earth is slowing down, that it's magnetic field is diminishing, and it's mountains, and other features are decaying, eroding, falling apart and breaking down. And even our bodies wear out - as we all well know!
Yet the Psalm was written over 3,000 years ago!
Even the First Law of Thermodynamics clearly supports Intelligent Design. The 1st LoT says in a nutshell that the total quantity of matter and energy remains constant. And remember Einstein's "matter is neither created nor destroyed?"
Energy and matter can be converted into matter and energy, but the total quantity remains the same.
Genesis 2: 1, 2 states that God finished His creation. There is no more. In other words, the total quantity remains the same.
And that's just from science! There are much, much more substantially irrefutable arguments for Intelligent Design from philosophy.