Prometheus Books (Buffalo, New York), the publisher of Humanist Manifesto I and II and numerous other humanist books, has published a little book by B.C. Johnson entitled Atheist Debater's Handbook designed to "offer a concise set of rejoinders for use by atheists in their formal (and informal) debates with theists" (p. 10). Since the American Humanist Association is so influential, and has in fact successfully established humanism as the only religion legally taught in public schools, it behooves Christians to answer the flawed arguments this book presents.
 

Amazingly, Johnson's book (like other atheist books) does not even attempt to offer proof that there is no God! Instead, in his first chapter, Johnson sets forth a foundational argument that underlies all the following chapters of his book. Once this one argument is disproven, the rest of Johnson's book falls like a house of cards built upon shifting sand. Here is Johnson's argument:

It is incumbent upon the theist to provide reasons for his belief that God is the true explanation of the universe and morality. The atheist, for his part, does not necessarily offer an explanation; he simply does not accept the theist's explanation. Therefore, the atheist need only demonstrate that the theist has failed to justify his position.

Another point to note is that the atheist believes in the existence of the universe and does not believe in anything which is more fundamental. The theist believes in the existence of the universe and---in addition---he believes in the existence of God. The theist, therefore, believes in one more thing than the atheist. If all beliefs should be justified, then surely the more one believes, the more justification one must produce. Clearly, the theist must justify this extra belief to the atheist. (p. 12) [Italics original, boldface added]

It is not true that theists believe in one thing more than atheists. While theists worship the creator God who is separate from His creation, atheists worship an idol (self-made god) called evolution. Atheists replace God with an imaginary dead natural force, which say they, is continuously forming simple things into complex ones. Evolution is how atheists explain the universe and morality. Atheists believe in the universe and---in addition---they believe in the existence of evolution. Therefore, if atheists cannot prove the existence of evolution, they have lost their case, for the only alternative to evolution is special creation, and special creation means that God is. Since it is not true that theists believe one thing more than atheists, it is also not true that atheists are not obligated to demonstrate their position.
 

Building on his false foundational premise, the remaining chapters of Johnson's Atheist Debater's Handbook make no attempt to prove God does not exist. Instead, they use distorted facts, twisted logic, and cleaver double-talk to attempt to disprove what Johnson perceives to be the major arguments for the existence of God. The simple fact is atheism is based on faith not fact; atheists offer no proof against the existence of God because they have no proof to offer! Henry M. Morris, in his book The Long War Against God: the History and Impact of the Creation/Evolution Conflict (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1989), page 114, clearly illustrates this:

That humanism is merely a more genteel term for atheism is confirmed by the current president of the American Humanist Association, Dr. Isaac Asimov, who is also probably the most prolific writer in the whole world of science, having authored approximately three hundred books, covering every scientific field. He says: "[I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time." [[An Interview with Isaac Asimov on Science and the Bible,] Free Inquiry 2 (Spring 1982), page 9] .

One very significant admission appears in this statement of atheistic faith by Asimov. Not only does he acknowledge that humanism is essentially the same as atheism,