Atheist claim: fact, assuming that the world is a product of natural, undirected processes has a far better track record of generating useful answers.
P.Z.Meyers is a snake oil salesman. *Unfortunately many young people are buying what he is selling, without using their heads. Meyers claim is false and dishonest.
Assuming that the world is a product of natural undirected processes has never resulted in a single advancement in medicine, nor a single new technology. *
What has generated useful answers...and in fact generated most fields of modern medicine is a belief in the Creator God of the Bible. As one famous evolutionist admitted *"The philosophy of experimental science … began its discoveries and made use of its methods in the faith, not the knowledge, that it was dealing with a rational universe controlled by a creator who did not act upon whim nor interfere with the forces He had set in operation… It is surely one of the curious paradoxes of history that science, which professionally has little to do with faith, owes its origins to an act of faith that the universe can be rationally interpreted, and that science today is sustained by that assumption."*Loren Eiseley, anthropologist.*
Another thing to consider is to compare atheist / communist regimes against nations with a strong Christian influence. *Take a look at North Korea and compare it to South Korea. North Koreans suffer while their neigbors have one of the highest standards of living in the world. Or, we can compare the two main players in the cold war, USA vs the Soviet Union. *We can look at the scientific advancements made by West Germany against East Germany. *Or we can consider the track record of of atheist regimes like Pol Pots killing fiels in Cambodia....or, the havoc caused by the 'cultural revolution' in China.....or Stalin's Russia.
Contrary to P.Z.Meyer...atheism has hindered science and harmed people. Christianity played a major part in education and the founding of many of the Great universities around the world. Christianity played a major role in the founding of modern science. Christianity has played a major role in medicine around the world and founding of many of the Great hospitals. And Christianity has played a role in some of the worlds geeat art and music. And Christianity.... the belief in Jesus as our savior, *provides hope for*the brokenhearted,
*freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners. Is.61:1*