As you know, humble Owen Anderson is currently ASU’s most famous professor. In terms of name recognition in our culture, it isn’t even close. One reason for this is that ASU professors think of “hitting it big” as going on NPR 🤣. Few of them even do that, but needless to say, no potential ASU students are listening to NPR (nor is anyone else).
I have high name recognition due to my PragerU video, my Michael Knowles video, my appearances with Robert Kiyosaki on the Rich Dad Poor Dad show (guess which Dad I am 😜), the Dennis Prager Show, the Seth Leibsohn Show, Fox and Friends, Newsmax, etc. If my College at ASU cared more about enrollment than they do about their philosophical agenda, they’d have me all over their web page.
Who was the last professor at ASU to have this kind of name recognition? It was physicist Lawrence Krauss. He only had one major media appearance on The Colbert Report over 12 years ago. Nevertheless, ASU was very proud of this and posted about it on its news page.
Why was he on with Colbert? Because Krauss had a new book out titled “The Universe From Nothing.” in which he argued that the universe created itself from nothing. Colbert made Krauss look like a fool by pointing out that if Krauss says God does not exist (is nothing) and that the universe was created from nothing, then Krauss is really saying God created the universe. That was the zinger that ended Kruass’s clip with Colbert.
I’ve surveyed 5-year-olds, and they unanimously agree that if something doesn’t yet exist, it cannot exist to bring itself into existence. They don’t even struggle with seeing the logical problem. How could a theoretical physicist and ASU’s newsroom have missed it so badly? Well, it is the outcome of not thinking clearly about basic truths.
Why would ASU boast about this? It is embarrassing, but apparently, whoever put together the ASU news didn’t catch how embarrassing it was. My guess is this person has never read Psalm 14.
In Psalm 14, the Psalmist says that it is the fool who says in his heart that there is no God. This includes the philosophical materialist but is not limited to him. It is anyone who denies that sin leads to death. From the very beginning, this is what got humans into trouble. Adam and Eve were told, “The day you eat, you will surely die.” They did not believe this and ate anything. In Romans, Paul says the same thing: “The wages of sin is death.” Every sinner is mocking God and saying, “God doesn’t see and doesn’t do anything—we can sin, and there will be no consequences.” Such a one is the Biblical fool.
And then the Psalmist tells us what happens to this fool. He becomes corrupt. In other words, the Atheist doesn’t live an upright life. If the atheist said, “God does not see,” but then lived a good life, we’d be having a different discussion. But as you can see in our culture, those who reject God live unclean lifestyles. They publicly boast about their iniquity, and they do their best to teach their shameful lusts to children. There are consequences for denying God, and they show up in the inherent corruption that comes into your life, and they will show up on the Day of Judgement when you are rejected by God.
I will let you look up what happened to Lawrence Krauss so you can decide for yourself if his career followed the trajectory of Psalm 14.
So why isn’t ASU’s New College boasting about being the home of Professor Owen Anderson, PragerU star, Michael Knowles discussion partner on the Book of Job, Robert Kiyosaki’s free speech interview, etc etc? Those kinds of appearances reach the group ASU says, on paper, they want to reach. Why not promote ASU’s most famous professor, who has the most name recognition in pop culture (and is among the top 3% at ASU for academic publications as well)?
ASU’s news article about Lawrence Krauss tells you all you need to know about what they are proud of. They will continue to feature professors who have zero name recognition but who promote the Marx/Kinsey/Money/Foucault agenda. Let’s see how the next four years go for ASU.