He has in detail explained the fundamental differences between science and faith in a past article. When there is a conflict between the two camps in this present era, faith is in a more disadvantageous position, and in the 21st century the weakest era in history.
We are faced with the following question. Shouldn't science and faith coexist without attacking each other's domains? Many Catholics ask this very question, wanting reconciliation between science and faith. It may be helpful to briefly review the theories that explain the relationship between science and religion. He describes the relationship between science and religion into five categories: atheism, pantheism/universalism, deism/naturalism, evolutionary theism, and creation theism.
Now let's take a closer look at scientific atheism. Scientific atheism, simply put, is a theory that asserts that the world came into existence without the existence of a god. The core content of this scientific atheism is the assertion that life was 'accidentally' created by a certain trigger on the planet Earth, which had certain conditions in this huge universe, and that life was differentiated into higher creatures by evolution.
The two central scientific theories to atheistically explain the anthropic principle, are the multiverse theory, and the theory of macroevolution that explains the entire biological evolution from unicellular to human. There is no need for any other concept than this theory to explain present reality. This model is supported by numerous atheist scientists, including Richard Dawkins (1941) and Stephen Hawking (1942–2018).
The atheist bus campaign is an advertising campaign aimed at posting messages about atheism on city buses in the UK from 2008 to 2009. Launched on October 21, 2008, under the auspices of the British Humanists Association and Richard Dawkins. The atheist bus campaign, which began in Britain, then spread to the United States and Canada, as well as to many Western European countries, including Germany, Italy, and Spain. This case, which is not well known in Korea, is a representative case that shows how powerful scientific atheism is.
A brief summary of the arguments of evolutionary scientists, including Dawkins, and Stephen Hawking can be summarized as follows. "At one point, life appeared on Earth 'probably by chance. After that, the descendants of the creature went through a long evolutionary process, and now humans and other creatures on Earth have been formed."
Stephen Hawking in the 1970s, when he was in critical health, gained widespread attention in science through thermodynamics and so-called Hawking radiation, and became a world-famous figure with a popular science book titled A Brief History of Time published in 1988. Then, in his 2010 book The Grand Design, Big Bang is famous for its claim that the universe was born naturally through this process as a result of only the laws of physics, and that the concept of creation is not necessary at all.
"At one point the 'probably accidentally' universe was born by Big Bang. After that, as the universe expands, it goes through the evolution of the universe, where stars, planets, and galaxies form. After that, the proper conditions (temperature, pressure, water, air, etc.) for life to survive "probably accidentally" are formed on Earth, eventually resulting in life and gradually evolving."
As we have seen above, we can see that scientific universalist arguments (either evolutionist or cosmologist) are commonly based on "probability coincidence" as the first starting point for life in the universe and on Earth. The term "probability coincidence" commonly appears here means, as a scientific concept, "a phenomenon occurs with an extremely low probability of approaching zero without any inevitable cause or reason." In other words, the birth of the universe and the birth of life on Earth have no choice but to rely on "very low probability." Scientific atheism, in short, is a theory based on the chance with very low probability instead of the necessity of God.
