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== Argument from beauty ==
''See also:'' [[Argument from beauty]]
[[File:Autumn.jpg|291px|right|thumbnail|[[Autumn]] foliage]]
The '''argument from beauty''' argues the existence of [[beauty]] in the natural world testifies to the existence of [[God]] who both [[intelligent design|designed]] natural beauty and who possesses a divine beauty. Objective beauty exists and beauty is not merely subjective in nature.<ref>[http://mereorthodoxy.com/is-beauty-objective/ Is Beauty Objective?] by Keith E. Buhler, posted October 24, 2007
*[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/badcatholic/2011/10/beauty-is-objective.html Beauty Is Objective]
*[http://www.everyjoe.com/2014/07/03/politics/robbed-of-beauty-by-the-left/ How We’ve Been Robbed of Beauty by the Left]</ref>
The psalmist [[King David|David]] wrote: "One thing I have asked from the LORD, that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD And to meditate in His temple."(Psalm 27:4). The [[fall of man]] caused death, disease and suffering to enter into the world. The Bible also declares that [[Sarah]], [[Abraham]]'s wife, had both inner and outer beauty.<ref>[https://bible.org/seriespage/yes-my-lord%E2%80%94-ithe-story-abraham-and-sarahi Yes, My Lord— The Story of Abraham and Sarah]</ref>
Author [[John C. Wright (author)|John C. Wright]] wrote in his 2014 essay ''How We’ve Been Robbed of Beauty by the [[Leftist|Left]]'':
{{cquote|The strongest argument against the [[atheism]] so beloved of the Left is not an argument that can be put in words, for it is the argument of beauty. If you see a sunset clothed in scarlet like a king descending to his empurpled pyre, or wonder at the gleaming thunder of a waterfall, if you find yourself fascinated by the soft intricacy of a crimson rose or behold the cold virgin majesty of the morning star, much less see and enter a cathedral or a walled garden...or Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, if indeed you see real beauty and for a moment you forget yourself, then you are drawn out of yourself into something larger.
In that timeless moment of sublime rapture, the heart knows even if the head cannot put it into words that the dull and quotidian world of betrayal, pain, disappointment and sorrow is not the only world there is. Beauty points to a world beyond this world, a higher realm, a country of joy where there is no death. Beauty points to the divine.
The Left hates this argument, because – since it is not put into words – it cannot be refuted in words.<ref>[http://www.everyjoe.com/2014/07/03/politics/robbed-of-beauty-by-the-left/ How We’ve Been Robbed of Beauty by the Left]</ref>}}
"[[Natural selection]] has no reason to produce beauty," Ann Gauger says in ''Metamorphosis'' about a principle that applies to flowers as well as butterflies. "Beauty is a sign of the transcendent. It's purely gratuitous. We all recognize it. We just have to acknowledge what it points to."<ref>[http://www.evolutionnews.org/2016/03/baroque_botany102711.html Baroque Botany: Elaborate but Functional]</ref>
[[File:Carl Sagan.JPG|thumbnail|200px|right|[[Carl Sagan]] declared: “I find that a chilling, spine-tingling, exciting, perspective-raising, consciousness-raising experience. It’s said that [[astronomy]] is a humbling and character-building experience.”<ref>[https://creation.com/atheism#atheism-neopaganism Atheism as nature worship or neo-paganism]</ref>]]
[[Christianity|Christendom]] has created a vast collection of beautiful [[Christian paintings]], yet the atheist community, which has been in the world for thousands of years (since at least the time of [[ancient Greece]]), has yet to create one beautiful painting depicting their ideology nor have they created a large body of [[atheist art]].
Atheists/evolutionists often [[Atheist hypocrisy|engage in hypocrisy]] on the issue of beauty in God's universe and engage in self-refuting arguments which argue that beauty is merely subjective, yet non-beauty/ugliness is an objective reality (non-beauty arose after the [[fall of man]]).<ref>[http://www.everyjoe.com/2014/07/03/politics/robbed-of-beauty-by-the-left/ How We’ve Been Robbed of Beauty by the Left]</ref><ref>[http://www.quodlibet.net/articles/williams-aesthetic.shtml Aesthetic arguments for the existence of God] by Peter Williams</ref><ref>[https://creation.com/darwins-arguments-against-god Darwin's arguments against God]</ref>
== Beauty and the religious/irreligious ==
== Beauty and the religious/irreligious ==