Frank Zappa made his life out of making things ugly.
“His music was intentionally ugly,” Doug Powell said.
“He was an atheist and his music portrayed that worldview. He hated Christianity, but he also went after objective beauty.”
And Zappa found that the more he tried to make things ugly, the more musicians struggled to play his music, to break away from the innate sense of wanting to make it beautiful, Powell said.
“What has to happen to strive for intentional ugliness? You have to know there is an objective standard of beauty (that you’re going against),” he said. “And for there to be an objective standard of beauty, there has to be a God.”
Powell, a speaker and writer on apologetics topics, said humans are born with “a natural intuition of beauty” and know that “the presence of beauty is outside ourselves.”
And because it is outside ourselves, it has a definition that can be agreed on, even if something is not a particular person’s “taste,” he said.
“If beauty were in the eye of the beholder, beauty would be a meaningless word.”
How does objective beauty show that God exists?
“It is unchanging, infinite, transcendent and personal, just like God,” Powell said.
For more information, visit www.selflessdefense.com.
Share with others: