The Emperor's New Clothes

I have been struggling with whether or not to write on the following subject for about two weeks.

After a lot of reading and thinking I have decided though it may not be the most elegant statement of my views on the subject, I need to just get it off my chest and if need be, refine my views at a later date.

The subject is "Has Science finally disproved the Existence of God ?" 

There have been a spate of recent news articles lately citing various scientific authorities that this is indeed the case.

The arguments (greatly condensed) go something like this.

There was no "prime cause" that started the universe. 

Against the argument called "Prime Mover or First Cause argument for the existence of God" they state" 

The universe just happened because the laws of physics dictate that things like the Big Bang "just happen". 

To the argument by design for the existence of God, they respond:

As far as the "exactness" of the design of our universe which we call "the fine tuning of the universe" by which had certain elements and laws of physics not been just perfect would have made life as we know it impossible, quantum physics and string theorists posit that our universe is just one of an infinite number of universe's some with conditions right for life, some not. 

They refute the "ethical argument for the existence of God by stating: 

To the question of "what is the purpose of all of this" the answer is that is not a legitimate question. There is no purpose, it just is. 

And finally in response to the small but disturbing little concern that while science claims it can explain everything that happened a millisecond after the Big Bang (or so current claims state), science still admits is has no explanation for that murky moment just before the Big Bang and that millisecond after the Big Bang the current response is:  

This is true now, but in time science will answer this as well, without the need to posit "God did it". 

The arguments go on but basically this is the gist of it.

My thoughts are as follows:

Aside from the inherent cruelty in such a world view that is a consequence of this type of reasoning, I mean what is all of this just a cosmic joke, we are born, hope, suffer, grieve, love, agonize, and die because that is a consequence of how the laws of physics just are? 

Aside from the incredible amount of hubris and self-delusion to think that they, as a small segment of a race of ants on a speck of dirt in the outer reaches of a vast creation somehow have "discovered how it all works and why it all happened." 

(Not to mention the overweening degree of patronizing that must occur for them to say (as a consequence of their "no God view") to those of us who still have faith in God that we are ignorant bronze age cretins simply afraid to die, and face the fact that our existence meant nothing, and oh, if you are by chance a Christian "Jesus was a liar." 

Aside from their ludicrous attempt to explain the creation of a single universe without referencing God, they have to postulate an "infinite number of universes" coming from the laws of physics to support their position. 

Aside from the fact, scientists have been claiming "they have it all figured out" in virtually every field from biology to astronomy to medicine since "oh I don't know, since Descartes perhaps" and they have had to abandon mountains of their previous assertions of fact.

Aside from these glaring and rational and obvious fatal flaws to their claims the most obvious chink in their armor is their own statement "the laws of physics just dictate this is the way things happen. "

Really, and who or what created those laws of physics, why do the laws of physics operate this way? 

They have just shifted the part of the question they cannot answer to another even larger question they cannot answer.

I am reminded of the short story by Hans Christian Andersen, " The Emperor's New Clothes." We all know the story. Two unscrupulous weavers convince a vain emperor, that they can make clothes so fine that only those rare individuals of refinement and taste and culture can even see them. 

The vain emperor then struts about undressed before the public with everyone marveling at the exquisiteness and beauty of the Emperor's finery until a small child shouts out "But he isn't wearing anything at all." 

Maybe a lot of folks are in awe of science's latest arguments to do away with God. 

Me, like that small child, "I'm not buying it!"