A comparison of two worldviews. Everyone has a worldview, including Christians and atheists. It may not be complete and it may contain contradictions, but everyone has one. A worldview is how we put everything we interact with into context. It is how we try to make everything make sense. Ravi Zacharias says a worldview defines the four main questions of life: origin, meaning, morality and destiny.¹ The way we view and answer these questions of life will have an impact on how we live our lives in every capacity. Our answers to these questions will dictate how we treat each other, spend money, and even eat a slice of pizza.

“I believe in Christ, like I believe in the sun - not because I can see it, but by it I can see everything else.” -C.S. Lewis

What is Our Worldview?

As Christians we answer these questions very differently and in an incompatible way with evolutionary atheism. We find our origin in God's very breath and will. We are created special by Him, with undeniable rights and liberties. As a result of being made by God, we find everyone of unimaginable value. There is no separation of superiority based on gender, race, intellectual ability, or any other separation we may contrive. We have no ability or right to say one person is better than another. Unlike an evolutionary background, Christianity gives no ground for prejudice or superiority. The natural outcome of following Christ is an unconditional love for others. We believe morality is defined in absolutes. It is always wrong to not love your neighbor. We know that everyone has a destiny. Those who are in Christ will spend eternity with Him, and those who reject Him will be eternally separated from Him in Hell.

Atheism and humanistic doctrines that are taught by our society and educational systems do not offer such hope and boundaries in their worldviews. An atheist's view of origin does not carry the same inherent love and meaning that a Christian’s view does, as it states we exist by happenstance and blind luck. Evolution believes in change and progression through time. Evolution looks back on previous creatures as not good enough, and so we should not see all current editions of a creature as being equal either. Naturalism does not offer equality since not everyone will be as superior or further along. When we look at nations that have been founded on the notion of evolutionary atheism, we see that these nations (Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, and China) did not treat all individuals as equal by a divine right. These injustices are the natural outcome of atheistic evolutionary belief. Atheism leaves truth and meaning for each individual to determine on their own with no absolute authority, which as these previous countries have shown, is disastrous. Likewise, morals do not ultimately rest in absolutes, but rest on the shoulders of the strongest to define. Atheism would reject the notion of any spiritual destiny, leaving the coffin as the grand finale.

We all believe something, but not all these ‘somethings’ can be true. Only one will be right, and the rest will be wrong. In academia we are fed a narrative that says evolutionary atheism is factual and you are welcome to conform your misguided religion around it. I want us to see from this book that following Christ is not abandoning logic and truth, but rather submitting to it and embracing it. First, what do we believe?

“Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior. ” -Martin Luther