Répondre à un athée relève parfois de la folie

Apologétique / Par Clay Jones

Notre thèse est simple : prendre au sérieux certains arguments athées honore la folie, encourage la flatterie auto-satisfaite et diminue la puissance de la proclamation de l'Evangile. L'article que Joseph E. Gorra, directeur de la rédaction de Philosophia Christi, et moi-même avons co-écrit pour le Christian Research Journal est le suivant :

Les apologistes chrétiens sont régulièrement confrontés à ce que nous appelons le défi de la distraction: la tentation de prendre au sérieux des objections insubstantielles contre l'existence de Dieu. Une objection insubstantielle implique un raisonnement qui va au-delà ou en dépit des raisons ou des preuves intellectuelles ; elle peut inclure des facteurs non intellectuels ou même anti-intellectuels. Nous ne disons pas qu'il est impossible de répondre à ces objections insubstantielles ou qu'il est mauvais d'y répondre ; nous disons simplement qu'il serait plus sage et plus prudent que nos arguments et nos réponses soient attentifs aux « raisons du cœur » et pas seulement à celles de la tête.

Bien que les athées emploient d'autres types d'arguments insubstantiels, nous nous contenterons, dans le cadre de cet article, de considérer comme insubstantiels leurs arguments fondés sur la « chance ». Tous les athées n'utilisent certainement pas les arguments insubstantiels que nous décrivons. Mais notre préoccupation est la suivante : en accordant du crédit à des arguments insubstantiels, l'apologiste chrétien risque d'honorer la folie, d'encourager la flatterie auto-satisfaisante et, en fin de compte, de diminuer la puissance de la proclamation de l'Evangile.

L'ATTITUDE ATHÉE DISTRAYANTE

Il n'est pas rare que les athées défendent les affirmations suivantes :

L'univers est tout ce qu'il y a et il a heureusement surgi du néant, sans cause. Le réglage précis de l'univers, ou sa capacité à accueillir la vie, est le résultat de la chance et la chance explique l'origine de la première vie. Les mutations positives chanceuses, favorisées par la sélection naturelle, expliquent la complexité des formes de vie. Il est plus crédible que l'univers soit le fruit de la chance que l'existence de Dieu, car les preuves de son existence sont moins évidentes et plus inaccessibles.

Ces affirmations révèlent pour le moins l'attitude générale de l'athée ou sa position épistémique (c'est-à-dire la manière dont il aborde ce qui est connaissable), non seulement en ce qui concerne l'existence de Dieu, mais aussi le rôle des preuves et des souhaits dans la formation de ses croyances.

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target=”_blank”>1pt;”>Dawkins2F%2Fcrossexamined-my.sharepoint.com%2Fpersonal%2Fjairo_izquierdo_crossexamined-associate_org%2F_vti_bin%2Fwopi.ashx%2Ffiles%2F6bc7e31e902a4e3ba076dcb34addd67f&wdprevioussession=6a009a07%2D4364%2D0687%2D42cb%2D7e44fd96df60&wdnewandopenct=1744091507145&wdo=4&wdorigin=wacFileNew&wdpreviouscorrelation=e015d29c%2D0004%2D49f5%2D95fb%2Db6fbb952d547&wdnd=1&wdtpl=blankNew&wdenableroaming=1&mscc=1&wdodb=1&hid=146292A1-A08E-6000-55F4-8EA2F7D0AB89.0&uih=sharepointcom&wdlcid=en-US&jsapi=1&jsapiver=v2&corrid=8199f4f5-4c72-a6ea-1eb8-359c88848348&usid=8199f4f5-4c72-a6ea-1eb8-359c88848348&newsession=1&sftc=1&uihit=docaspx&muv=1&cac=1&sams=1&mtf=1&sfp=1&sdp=1&hch=1&hwfh=1&dchat=1&sc=%7B%22pmo%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fcrossexamined-my.sharepoint.com%22%2C%22pmshare%22%3Atrue%7D&ctp=LeastProtected&rct=Normal&afdflight=27&csc=1&instantedit=1&wopicomplete=1&wdredirectionreason=Unified_SingleFlush” target=”_blank”>12F%2Fcrossexamined-my.sharepoint.com%2Fpersonal%2Fjairo_izquierdo_crossexamined-associate_org%2F_vti_bin%2Fwopi.ashx%2Ffiles%2F6bc7e31e902a4e3ba076dcb34addd67f&wdprevioussession=6a009a07%2D4364%2D0687%2D42cb%2D7e44fd96df60&wdnewandopenct=1744091507145&wdo=4&wdorigin=wacFileNew&wdpreviouscorrelation=e015d29c%2D0004%2D49f5%2D95fb%2Db6fbb952d547&wdnd=1&wdtpl=blankNew&wdenableroaming=1&mscc=1&wdodb=1&hid=146292A1-A08E-6000-55F4-8EA2F7D0AB89.0&uih=sharepointcom&wdlcid=en-US&jsapi=1&jsapiver=v2&corrid=8199f4f5-4c72-a6ea-1eb8-359c88848348&usid=8199f4f5-4c72-a6ea-1eb8-359c88848348&newsession=1&sftc=1&uihit=docaspx&muv=1&cac=1&sams=1&mtf=1&sfp=1&sdp=1&hch=1&hwfh=1&dchat=1&sc=%7B%22pmo%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fcrossexamined-my.sharepoint.com%22%2C%22pmshare%22%3Atrue%7D&ctp=LeastProtected&rct=Normal&afdflight=27&csc=1&instantedit=1&wopicomplete=1&wdredirectionreason=Unified_SingleFlush” target=”_blank”>1pt;”> poursuit en disant que « l'évolution graduelle par petites étapes, chaque 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Dawkins n'est pas le seul à avoir fait ces déclarations. D'autres scientifiques ont avancé des explications similaires. Par exemple, le prix Nobel Jacques Monod a écrit que « le hasard seul est à la source de toute innovation, de toute création dans la biosphère. » Le hasard pur, absolument libre mais aveugle, à la racine même du stupéfiant ouvrage de l'évolution. 3 De même, dans une tentative d'explication de l'origine de l'univers lui-même, le professeur de physique Edward P. Tyron considère que « en réponse à la question de savoir pourquoi cela s'est produit, j'offre la modeste proposition que notre univers est simplement l'une de ces choses qui se produisent de temps en temps »4.

Devons-nous accepter ces arguments sans broncher ?

Lire la suite de l'article du Christian Research Journal.

1. Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design (New York: W. W. Norton, 1996), 139, 145–46. [↩]

2. Ibid. [↩]

3. Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology, trans. Austryn Wainhouse (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971), 112. [↩]

4. James Trefil, “The Accidental Universe” Science Digest 92 (June 1984): 54. [↩]