Does Sin Prove God Exists? What Richard Dawkins Accidentally Admitted

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If you've ever asked does objective morality prove God exists, or wondered what does the Bible say about right and wrong, this week's message from our "Oops! I Made a Mistake" series is worth your time.

Here's the contradiction that started it. In 1995, atheist biologist Richard Dawkins wrote that the universe shows "no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference." Eleven years later, in The God Delusion, he called religious faith "evil." Which is it? You can't have a universe with no good or evil and then call something evil. When pressed on the contradiction, Dawkins argued humans can "rebel" against their genetic programming and invent right and wrong for themselves — a position philosophers call moral relativism.

The problem with moral relativism is simple math. With 8.3 billion people on the planet, if morality is just human opinion with no outside standard, that's 8.3 billion competing opinions on right and wrong. Yet even committed relativists agree that things like the Holocaust, slavery, and cruelty to children are objectively wrong — not just "wrong for some people." Objectivity requires universality: true for all people, for all time. The moment even one person disagrees, "objective by human consensus" collapses.

Here's the theological punchline: the existence of objective moral law — what the Bible calls sin — requires an objective lawgiver. Every time someone calls something evil rather than merely "not my preference," they're borrowing a standard that moral relativism can't supply. As the apostle Paul wrote at Romans 1:18-20, God's power and divine nature have been clearly perceived through creation itself, "so they are without excuse."

Paul called this general revelation — truth about God available to everyone simply by observing the created world, no Bible required. He also pointed to something even closer: the conscience. At Romans 2, Paul explained that people who've never heard Scripture still show "the work of the law written on their hearts," their conscience either accusing or excusing them. You don't consult your conscience — your conscience consults you. That instinct that something is wrong, felt in your gut before you can even explain why, is evidence of a moral law none of us invented.

So what's the penalty for breaking a law with a real lawgiver? Paul answered plainly at Romans 6:23: "the wages of sin is death." Not a mistake that might catch up with you — a debt earned and owed. And that's exactly where the gospel begins: someone has to pay that debt. Either you do, or Jesus already did on the cross in your place.

Looking for a Bible-teaching church in the Lyndon or greater Louisville, KY area that takes tough questions seriously? Join us Sunday mornings at Lyndon Christian Church as we continue working through "Oops! I Made a Mistake" — honest conversations about sin, truth, and grace.

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