The Existence of God

To many people the evidence of fine-tuning immediately suggests divine creation as the explanation.  Even some atheists, at times, could not resist admitting this commonsense interpretation.  Theoretical physicist and popular science writer Paul Davies wrote, ‘The impression of design is overwhelming.’[1]  After discovering one of the first cases of fine-tuning, the late astrophysicist, Fred Hoyle declared, […]

Three Objections to Fine-Tuning[1] 1.Someone might say, ‘but if the constants and initial values had been different, maybe different forms of life might have evolved.’ By ‘life’ scientists mean the property of organisms to take food, convert it into energy, grow, adapt to their environment, and reproduce.  In order for life to exist, constants and

First, physicists identify four fundamental forces of nature.  In terms of increasing strength, they are gravity (G0), weak force (1031 G0), electromagnetic force (1037 G0), and the strong nuclear force (1040G0). Second, since extreme examples of fine-tuning deal with extraordinarily large numbers, we need to have an idea of just how big they are.  It will give us some

1.  Fine-Tuning to Allow a Habitable Planet When we think of the specific conditions that are needed nearer home in our solar system and on earth, we find that there are a host of parameters that must be just right in order for life to be possible.  A number of factors must be fine-tuned in

2.  Fine-Tuning of the Constants What is a constant? What is meant are the constants of physics.  When the laws of nature are expressed as mathematical equations, like the force of gravity, the electromagnetic force, and the subatomic ‘weak’ force, you find certain symbols in them that stand for numbers that don’t change.  These unchanging

What is Fine-Tuning? Over the past century, scientists have discovered that if certain properties of the universe were changed very slightly from what they are, we would not be here.  They have to be within a very narrow range for our universe to make life possible and be habitable. The universe is fine-tuned for the

Introduction Science has accomplished enormous progress and achievements in genetics since the turn of the 21st century. Scientists have sequenced and mapped the entire genomes of more than 2800 organisms/species including human, and the count is on.[1] Macroevolution of evolution theory tells us that humans, as well as other multicellular forms of life, have evolved from

But we must not forget that there is another side to this.  The nature around us has contributed to the purity and beauty of the world, yet what have our own actions made of it? We may have refined petroleum and made machines out of iron, but we have also filled the land and sea

This world has one God.  He is its Creator and Master.  The greatest proof of God’s existence is the existence of the world itself.  Spread around us in all its vastness and complexity it bears witness to the existence of a great God who, in His infinite power, controls it.  If we have no choice

Revelation A simpler way of providing evidence for God’s oneness is by referring to revelation.  The argument here is that if God has announced himself to humanity and this revelation can be proven to be from Him, then what He mentions about himself is obviously true.  The daring assumptions, from an agnostic perspective at least,