Why Today’s Atheism Requires a Leap of Faith
Who commands intellectual authority between believers and secularists? Rather than dismissing faith as irrational, Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies invite readers to consider whether atheism itself withstands logical scrutiny.
Not long ago, belief in God was dismissed as intellectually naïve—a relic of pre-scientific thinking. Disbelief, by contrast, was seen as the natural outcome of reason and evidence. Today, scientific progress is reshaping that landscape. Paradoxically, it is now the materialist worldview that demands a leap of faith.
For much of the 20th century, scientists tended to assume that the universe had always existed, that life could arise spontaneously from inert matter, and that the universe's finely balanced laws were brute facts requiring no further explanation. These assumptions supported a naturalistic view of reality, but more recent scientific breakthroughs challenge this premise.
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