It Is More Reasonable To Believe in God

Today is Good Friday, or originally, God's Friday, the day the Lord was crucified and died. So it is fitting to note, as Stephen C. Meyer does, that there are 3 Major Scientific Discoveries In the Past Century That Point to God. Notice that he didn't say prove the existence of God, but they are all evidence of the existence of God.

The first happened in the 1920s with the discovery that the Universe had a beginning, just as it says in the opening chapters of Genesis. If the Universe had a beginning, they what came before it? What most characterizes the Universe is a quality called space, which houses energy and matter. One of the qualities of space is that to get from one point in space to another point inevitably requires time. No matter how fast a thing travels, it takes a certain amount of time. So, what is the Universe expanding into? Spacelessness? No space means no time, so is that eternity? A thousand questions enter the mind from this discovery.

The second discovery was that the parameters that make the Universe...well...the Universe, are precisely tuned to make life possible. The chances of that happening by random accident are vanishingly small. So small, indeed, as to be impossible. Again, the mind reels.

The third discovery is probably the most profound so far, that of the cell itself. Oh, not the existence of the cells, but the extreme complexity of them. The cell is so complex that again, the chances of it arising randomly are again vanishingly small. See, all of the systems of the cell have to come into being at once. The cell has to have a barrier between it and its surrounding environment, and it has to have a nucleus that includes the DNA necessary to reproduce itself. And of course it must have a means to take in energy to build the proteins necessary to maintain and replicate itself, while expelling wastes. Imagine the intelligence that designed a cell? Note too that statistically, the Universe is not old enough to have randomely developed a cell, let alone creatures such as ourselves, who can understand His creation, if dimly.

Now, this is not part of the article, but it is interesting to note that there is no evolutionary explaination for music. It has no value, and yet we all have a sense of music. At its most basic, I think everyone recognizes melody, and can reproduce one. Is this evidence of God? I think it is.

In light of these discoveries, it seems more rational to believe in God than to face life as an atheist.