Revival Times 2017 May 2017 | Page 27

“…atheism is a worldview that concludes, proof-positive, that God does not exist (even though proofs are generally confined to the domains of mathematics and logic!).” on the same ‘naturalism’ they espoused. This philosophy holds that all being and all explanation must ultimately reside inside physical nature to the exclusion of anything or anyone super-natural. God is simply ruled-out by definition! Whilst many Greeks believed in ‘gods’ plural, these were remote, capricious and unpredictable. Their involvement in nature had to be excluded in order to be able to begin to scientifically study the physical world with its components, laws