PASS Scripta Varia 21 - Pontifical Academy of Sciences

ANTONINO ZICHICHI
APPENDIX 1
Atheism is an Act of Faith about Nothing
1.1. Reason according to Atheists
For Atheistic Culture, Reason is the outcome of the Biological Evolution
of the Human Species. The Biological Evolution of the Human Species
(BEHS), however, lies below the third level of scientific credibility (see Appendix
2). This can be clearly understood by comparison with the Cosmic Evolution.
BEHS lacks rigorous mathematical formulation and is not based on reproducible
experiments at the first level. If BEHS were Science at the first
level, then a BEHS equation would exist, leading to the outcome of Reason.
And that is not all. There are innumerable forms of living matter. None of
these, however, has been able to discover Science, or rigorous Logic, or Collective
Memory. BEHS is unable to explain how it is that we are the
only form of living matter that has the great privilege of being endowed
with Reason.
1.2. Atheism is self-contradictory
Atheism is a contradictory logical construction. In fact, it denies the existence
of the Transcendent.
Since the greatest conquests of Reason in the Immanent are Language,
Logic and Science, Mathematics (rigorous theoretical Logic) should be able
to demonstrate that God does not exist, and Science (rigorous experimental
Logic) should be able to discover that God does not exist.
Mathematics has not demonstrated the Theorem of the Denial of
God and Science has not discovered the scientific proof of the non-existence
of God.
If everything finds expression within the Immanent alone, how is it possible
that there is no Theorem of the Denial of God, nor the scientific discovery
of the non-existence of God Here is the contradictory nature of the
logical construction of Atheism.
1.3. The Transcendent solves the contradiction of Atheism
In the Logical Structure of the Believer, there exists the Transcendental
Sphere, and Reason is a gift of God.
God has given us this unique privilege that has allowed us to make the
Three Great Conquests. Logical Mathematics is not able to demonstrate the
Theorem of the Existence of God in that, if it could, God would be Mathematics
alone. God instead is everything. The same is true for Science. If Science
were to manage to discover God, then God would have to be just
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