Using science to prove faith?

[4Horsemen]

Bertrand Russell’s fatal flaw was that he saw only the defects of men who called themselves Christian. Like Dawkins and Hitchens, he turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to anything beautiful in Christianity. But though he declared himself an agnostic about religion, I’ve never found anywhere that he said he was an atheist, and on at least on one occasion (the radio debate with F.C. Copelston) he denied that he was an atheist. This leads me to hope that maybe near the end, like Jean Paul Sartre and Antony Flew, he had second thoughts and in the privacy of his soul came to embrace God in some mysterious way that we can hardly fathom.

Another famous person who was once an atheist is C.S. Lewis, who believed God was “man’s own invention” and was vehement in his protestations of the transcendent. He had lost his mother to cancer at an early age, and, eventually, his father in his 30’s. He declared, “I believe in no religion. There is no proof for any of them.”

After evading God for years, Lewis discovvered that his own logic refuted his logic. “If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it had no meaning.” Finally he “gave in” to Theism and admitted that God was God. The Hound of Heaven caught up with him.