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=== Atheist ethics and atheists borrowing from a Christian worldview===

=== Atheist ethics and atheists borrowing from a Christian worldview===

''See also:'' [[[[Atheists adopting theistic morality]] and [[Atheism and presuppositional apologetics]]

''See also:'' [[Atheists adopting theistic morality]] and [[Atheism and presuppositional apologetics]]

While atheists and evolutionists can act in moral ways, they ultimately have no rational basis for [[ethics]].<ref name="PurdomLisle2009">Purdom, Georgia; Lisle, Jason (May 13, 2009). [https://answersingenesis.org/morality/morality-and-the-irrationality-of-an-evolutionary-worldview/ Morality and the Irrationality of an Evolutionary Worldview]. ''Answers in Genesis''. Retrieved March 19, 2017.</ref> Christians hold to the ethical and moral values that they do because they have received those values through the infallible and inerrant [[Bible|Word of God]].<ref name="PurdomLisle2009"/> Atheists and evolutionists, on the other hand, believe that there is no God or absolute being ruling over them and that life came to be through random, naturalistic processes. Thus, they have no rational basis for morality.<ref name="PurdomLisle2009"/> However, they arbitrarily hold to many moral and ethical values, creating an inconsistent worldview.<ref name="PurdomLisle2009"/> Atheists and evolutionists borrow from a Christian worldview, and ultimately they know of the existence of God: {{Bible quote|For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.|book=Romans|chap=1|verses=18-23|version=ESV}}

While atheists and evolutionists can act in moral ways, they ultimately have no rational basis for [[ethics]].<ref name="PurdomLisle2009">Purdom, Georgia; Lisle, Jason (May 13, 2009). [https://answersingenesis.org/morality/morality-and-the-irrationality-of-an-evolutionary-worldview/ Morality and the Irrationality of an Evolutionary Worldview]. ''Answers in Genesis''. Retrieved March 19, 2017.</ref> Christians hold to the ethical and moral values that they do because they have received those values through the infallible and inerrant [[Bible|Word of God]].<ref name="PurdomLisle2009"/> Atheists and evolutionists, on the other hand, believe that there is no God or absolute being ruling over them and that life came to be through random, naturalistic processes. Thus, they have no rational basis for morality.<ref name="PurdomLisle2009"/> However, they arbitrarily hold to many moral and ethical values, creating an inconsistent worldview.<ref name="PurdomLisle2009"/> Atheists and evolutionists borrow from a Christian worldview, and ultimately they know of the existence of God: {{Bible quote|For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.|book=Romans|chap=1|verses=18-23|version=ESV}}