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"[[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>  

"[[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>[http://creation.com/atheism#atheism-neopaganism Atheism as nature worship or neo-paganism]</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]].  

[[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>[http://creation.com/darwins-arguments-against-god Darwin's arguments against God]</ref>  

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>  

Furthermore, prominent atheists/[[agnosticism|agnostics]]/[[Philosophical skepticism|skeptics]] have exhibited great feelings of transcendency when examining nature.<ref>[http://creation.com/atheism#atheism-neopaganism Atheism as nature worship or neo-paganism]</ref> For example, the agnostic and evolutionist [[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>[http://creation.com/atheism#atheism-neopaganism Atheism as nature worship or neo-paganism]</ref> [[Richard Dawkins]]' website quotes the atheist swimmer Diana Nyad declaring: "I can stand at the beach's edge with the most devout Christian, [[Judaism|Jew]], [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] — go on down the line — and weep with the beauty of this [[universe]]...".<ref>[http://richarddawkins.net/2014/02/can-an-atheist-be-in-awe-of-the-universe/ Can an Atheist Be in Awe of the Universe?]</ref>  Even in atheistic [[Japan]], children see the world [[Intelligent design|as designed]].<ref>[http://creation.com/children-see-the-world-as-designed Children see the world as designed]</ref>  

Furthermore, prominent atheists/[[agnosticism|agnostics]]/[[Philosophical skepticism|skeptics]] have exhibited great feelings of transcendency when examining nature.<ref>[https://creation.com/atheism#atheism-neopaganism Atheism as nature worship or neo-paganism]</ref> For example, the agnostic and evolutionist [[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> [[Richard Dawkins]]' website quotes the atheist swimmer Diana Nyad declaring: "I can stand at the beach's edge with the most devout Christian, [[Judaism|Jew]], [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] — go on down the line — and weep with the beauty of this [[universe]]...".<ref>[http://richarddawkins.net/2014/02/can-an-atheist-be-in-awe-of-the-universe/ Can an Atheist Be in Awe of the Universe?]</ref>  Even in atheistic [[Japan]], children see the world [[Intelligent design|as designed]].<ref>[https://creation.com/children-see-the-world-as-designed Children see the world as designed]</ref>  

== God, the creator of beauty ==

== God, the creator of beauty ==