1. That there is no Creator & Lord of the universe and us.
(Genesis 1:1 – “In the beginning, God . . .”; Evolution & all fears of extinction are based on this lie, which is actually known by everyone who has ever lived to be a lie. But fears of extinction actually undermine Evolution. For why do believers in Evolution tend to bemoan all extinctions? After all, isn’t the eventual extinction of all lifeforms inevitable if Evolution is true? We say they do this because God made us to be care-takers for life on the earth.)
2. That there is no Higher Authority than us for truth, right & wrong and human rights.
(Romans 1:20; All existence and truth is from God. So, if you reject God you will be wrong on many issues and only right by accident or by selectively accepting divine truth while rejecting its Source. Furthermore, if there is no Higher Authority, then truth, right & wrong and human rights must be either utterly arbitrary or just a matter of human opinion.)
3. That human beings will not be judged by God.
(Hebrews 9:27; Psalm 98:9; Real justice only exists because there is an Ultimate Judge. If this weren’t the case, then justice itself would be arbitrary or merely opinion, like truth, right & wrong and human rights.)
4. That human beings and the human race can save ourselves. So we don’t need a Savior.
(John 3:16-19; Acts 4:12; Not that it is wrong to try to improve society, but all quests for an ideal society in this world inevitably fail and fail horribly because they assume this. Only God could create an ideal society. And God has actually promised to do so and bring it to us.)
5. That we cease to exist when our physical bodies die since we’re merely physical beings.
(Hebrews 9:27; Luke 23:43; This is an assumption based on what appears to be the case from the outside. But this doesn’t prove that nothing happens to us “on the inside” upon death. The God Whom all actually know to exist tells us all otherwise. And God tells us that death, including death by suicide, is a direct pass to divine Judgment. We endure because we’re not just physical beings. We’re non-material souls or minds joined to physical bodies.)
6. That some people are born to be homosexual and can’t change this.
(1 Corinthians 6:9-11; All behavior, including sexual behavior, is changeable. We are not machines that are slaves to a natural necessity built into our bodies. Rather, we are free moral beings, who make real choices. This is why we are rightly subject to God’s judgment.)
7. That one’s sexual identity is merely “assigned at birth”.
(Genesis 1:27; Gender dysphoria is a spiritual problem, a problem in one’s relationship with God. We are all born as either male or female. Our bodies and chromosomes make this clear, except in a very tiny percentage of people where this is ambiguous.)
8. That religious people have no right to have an influence on society based on their beliefs.
(Psalm 14:1, 53:1; Romans 13:1; We are ALL religious in practice because we all have basic beliefs that we can’t prove to be true. To claim that there is no Creator is the clearest example. A universal negative claim like this is logically unprovable. Besides, it’s actually a rejection of what everyone already knows because God made us all to know that He exists! So, to say that only “non-religious” views should influence society is religious discrimination!)
9. That it is always wrong to judge others.
(1 Corinthians 6:2; This statement is itself a judgment. So it is self-contradictory.)
10. That there is no such thing as absolute and universal truth.
(John 8:32, 14:6 & 17:17; Romans 1:18-25; 2 Thessalonians 2:10-13; 1 Timothy 2:4;
2 Timothy 4:4; 2 John 2; This statement is itself a truth claim. So it is also self-contradictory.)
11. That Science has made all religious beliefs obsolete.
(Genesis 1; Psalm 14:1 & 53:1; Proverbs 9:10; We must have a set of basic beliefs to do Science. As pointed out above, Evolution is not Science, it is a belief system upon which Science is done. But Science was done quite effectively on the foundation of the Biblical worldview for centuries, until Evolution wrongly supplanted this view. Indeed, we say that Science works better in the long run when done on the basis that God created everything according to a Design and that Science is the “reverse-engineering” of that Design. The most important scientists in history prior to 1900 understood their work in this way.)
12. That the Bible is filled with errors and outdated, inferior ideas.
(2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:19-21; Titus 1:2; Numbers 23:19; All claims of this are disprovable. In some cases, the claims of errors or inferior ideas are easily seen to be misunderstandings or distortions. For example, claims that the Bible teaches that the sun revolves around the earth wrongly reject that this was just anthropomorphic language of the sort that we still use today. But, even in the most difficult cases, there are always possible resolutions of the supposed errors. But many just don’t want to believe this.)
13. That we can know what happened in the prehistoric past and what will happen in the future based on what we understand about how nature works now.
(John 1:3; Matthew 10:29-30; Revelation 4:11; Isaiah 46:9-10; This is a fallacy on multiple levels. See the piece “10 Widely-believed Fallacies Today” on this site. In short, it is simply not possible for us to know today all of the past conditions, processes and influences on the earth and in the universe. To assume that we can is the type of scientific hubris that the history of Science has repeatedly shown to be obstructive of scientific progress, as Philosopher of Science Thomas Kuhn brilliantly showed in his “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”.)