ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY 8

                                          ONE HEARTBEAT       AWAY        8

    Mark Cahill's Book


Consider the conclusion other scientists have reached about the universe's design: 

Sir Fred Hoyle (British astrophysicist):

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. 
The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question." 

Paul Davis, (Australian astrophysicist)

There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all .... it seems as if somebody has fine-tuned nature's numbers to make the universe .... The impression of design is overwhelming."

Alan Sandage (the greatest living cosmologist and winner of the Crawford prize in astronomy) :

The world is too complicated in all its parts and interconnections  to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order ..... is simply too well put together. 


John O'Keefe (NASA astronomer) :

We are, by astronomical standards, a pampered, cosseted , cherished group of  creatures ..... if the universe had not been made with the most exacting precision we could never have come into existence. It is my view that these circumstances indicate that the universe was created for man to live in.

Arno Penzias (Nobel prize winner in physics):

Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing , one with the very delicate balance needed to provide exactly the conditions required to permit life. and one which has an underlying  (one might say "supernatural")  plan.

George Greenstein  (astronomer)

As we survey all the evidence, the thought instantly arises that some supernatural agency  - or, rather,  Agency - must be involved. Is it possible, that suddenly, without intending to , we have stumbled upon scientfic proof of the existence of a Supreme Being ?  Was it God Who stepped in and so providentially  crafted the cosmos for our benefit?

Albert Einstein, one of the greatest scientists of all time, said, " I want to know how God created this world."  Maybe his desire is something all of us should ponder as we survey the evidence.

Moral Law

Another argument for God's existence is the reality of moral law. Man is a moral being, but evolution cannot explain where our sense of morality comes from. How can we know intuitively that something is wrong unless there is a right?  Why do right and wrong exist?  

Our moral nature can also be seen in our desire for justice. Although we don't always do what is right ourselves, we certainly don't have any trouble knowing when we've been wronged. And when that happens we demand that justice be done!  This moral law that humans live by had to come from somewhere. But where?  Mindless, random chance processes cannot explain the existence of a moral code.

The moral code is also related to the Law of Cause and effect, which we looked at earlier. This law dictates that 
an effect never precedes its cause, and is never greater than or superior to its cause. Therefore, there must be something that existed before the universe was brought into being, and that cause must be superior to our awesome universe in every way. As with a building, the universe exhibits design, so it must have a designer.  Since it exhibits intelligence, its Designer must be intelligent. Since it has life, its Designer must have life; And since it exhibits morality, its Designer must be moral.


When you really get down to it, it takes more faith to believe that there is no God, than to believe that there is a God. 

 How could matter come into being by itself from nothing?  How could an effect come from no cause?  How could life come from non-life?  How could intelligence come from non-intelligence?  How could meaning come from meaninglessness? 

 These are all things
 that an atheist must 
believe in order to be 
consistent - and they
 contradict the irrefutable
 Law of Cause and Effect.

How does that sit with your logic?  Always base your decisions on evidence, facts and truth. Don't just go with feelings when making decisions; feelings may be important in some aspects of life, but they do not determine what is true.

Well the ice beneath you is beginning to thicken. When considering the evidence from creation, design, art, order, science, and moral law, it is obvious that our search for eternal truth is beginning to narrow. 

In the next chapter we will look more closely at the design process for our universe ; then in Chapter three we will consider Who this Designer might be.




next post  tommorrow 18th July