Today if one was to open a biology textbook, the first thing he/she would see is the cell theory which states that "cells can only come from pre-existing cells" which is widely accepted and not a single evidence is there against it. In 1864, Louis Pasteur – the founder of the cell theory said that he proved to the world that spontaneous generation of organisms from mud, ponds etc was a myth. Thousands of experiments were done after that date by materialist scientists to disprove him but they haven't been able to get anywhere near a living organism even with the technology of today. This finding coupled with the Big Bang theory (widely accepted) laid the foundations to the collapse of materialism, which states that "matter had always existed and will exist forever".
The "Theory of Evolution" first published by Charles Darwin in a time when people believed that spontaneous generation was happening and knew nothing about Genetics and the complexity of a single cell let alone an organism. Of course with the discovery of these fields this theory was put to the ground. Atheist scientists were not happy with this of course, but could not come up with other theories which could give scientific backing to their ideologies, so they decided to revise the evolution theory with the addition of mutations. They published everything they could find as evidence to make themselves more acceptable within the public. This can be proved because anything that gives evidence towards the theory is welcomed with open arms; for example "the Piltdown man" which is one of the biggest hoaxes of all time was presented in the British Museum as "the proof that man came from apes" for 40 years (yes forty!). By the way none of the evidences against the theory are published; or are prevented from reaching a wider audience.
Atheist scientists today have given up on the idea that DNA could be formed by chance, they moved on to the "RNA world" idea because it has the ability to self replicate itself, but this is also in vain because RNA is very unstable and it will degrade within a day even in the best of conditions. So with science strongly suggesting that Abiogenesis (life arising from non living material) is impossible, the evolution theory – which has materialistic foundations; has failed in the first step. Moving on to Mutations – which brings about change in the genome of organisms, have been most of the time observed to be harmful and the ones which seem harmless do not bring about much change - if we're to give an example from humans; changes their hair colour. Even a single mutation can cause death of an organism let alone several happening at once, so this can in no way give evidence or explain that everything arose from a single common ancestor. The "irreducibly complex" organs like the eye, ear etc within most organisms refutes the "gradually getting better" thesis of the theory. The soul, intelligence of humans (why isn't there a single organism which is anywhere near as intelligent as us?) etc I am not going to even touch upon. As you can see there isn't much left of the theory which can explain how life originated and all the species in the world arose. But why is it still being widely propagated? Since I am not an Atheist I cannot fully explain it but if I was one, I wouldhaveto believe in it since there is no alternative. Which is the point I want to get at: It is not Science which causes people to become atheists, it is the atheists who make the Science today. Atheism has existed even before the Theory of evolution...
So what causes people to be atheists?
It is philosophy!
People have always been troubled with questions like why do good people suffer. Why can't we see God? Who created God? Why does a child molester go to Heaven because he believes in Jesus? Where is justice? The list can go on forever – and none of these questions are convincingly answered in Christianity, which is why most atheists are former Christians... But again as I said in my first article of "God of Science"; Christianity is not the only religion in the world? Bearing in mind that there thousands of denominations within Christianity too...
Moving on to myself, I believe that true religion should not contradict modern science as well as give convincing answers to the philosophical questions which pop into mind; But what must also be stated is that everyone's beliefs should be respected. Everyone has the right to believe what they want to believe, even atheism! What I want is, warn people about the wrong propaganda that Science has disproved God, prevent people becoming atheists straight after they find scientific mistakes in their religion and hopefully encourage them to look into other religions... People should not give up their belief in God because of the wrong teachings of one religion; not all religions are the same...
Science is an authentic area and an "authentic" religion should not contradict it; which is why I believe it can be used as an outer source when comparing two religions. Science can only give evidence for the true religion and against the wrong ones, because it is God who created Science!
References:
Harun Yahya: Collapse of Evolution
Solomonet al,Biology 6th Ed. 2002
