The Age of Atheism

In the present atheistic age, this explanation has come to be offered in the name of academic or scientific research. In this new age, many thinkers have been born in the western world who have attempted to explain life and the universe by eliminating God. As a result of following this line of thought, a new age has come into being. Significantly, it was in this age that the printing press came into existence. Earlier books had been written by hand in very limited numbers, but from the advent of the printing press onwards, they spread everywhere once they were printed in large quantities. In this way, modern atheism was produced, transmitted and disseminated in the form of books, became a dominating intellectual world force. The thinkers of the modern atheistic age introduced a non-religious way of thinking. Many intellectual scholars contributed to this. However, symbolically, there were four scholars who gave human history a new direction–that of atheism. They were, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx: 1. Isaac Newton led the way from divine interpretation to mechanical interpretation. 2. Charles Darwin favoured natural selection over special creation. 3. Sigmund Freud advocated following desires rather than placing constraints on desires. 4. Karl Marx wrote of the need for society to be rightsconscious rather than duty-conscious. The British scientist Isaac Newton (d. 1727) was basically a scientist. His subject was to explain motion in the physical world. He discovered that the system of motion was governed by mechanical laws. For instance, he formulated the laws of the motion of the planets in the solar system. The discovery made by Newton had nothing to do with religious belief, but atheistic thinkers used this discovery in favour of atheism.