HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? - PART FIVE

                                         HAS SCIENCE                 DISCOVERED GOD?

      PART FIVE 

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Accident or Miracle?

But couldn't this fine-tuning be attributed to chance?  After all, odds-makers know that even long shots can eventually win at the race track. And against heavy odds lotteries are eventually won by someone. So, what are the odds of human life existing by chance from a random explosion in cosmic history?

For human life to be possible from a big bang defies the laws of probability. One astronomer calculates the odds at less than one trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion. It would be easier for a blind-folded person  -  in one try - to discover one specially marked grain of sand out of all the beaches of the world.

Another example of how unlikely it would be for a random big bang to produce life is one person winning over a thousand consecutive mega-million dollar lotteries, after purchasing only a single ticket for each.

What would be your reaction to such news?  Impossible - unless it was fixed by someone behind the scenes, which is what everyone would think. And that is what many scientists are concluding - Someone behind the scenes designed and created the universe. 

This new understanding of how miraculous human life is in our universe,  led  the agnostic astronomer, George Greenstein, to ask : "Is it possible that suddenly, without intending to, we have stumbled upon the scientific proof of the existence of a Supreme Being? "

However, as an agnostic, Greenstein maintains his faith in science, rather than a Creator, to ultimately explain our origins. 

Jastrow explains why some scientists are reluctant to accept a transcendent  Creator:

"
   There is a kind of religion in science; it is the
   religion of the person who believes there is 
   order and harmony in the universe.... this               religious faith of the scientist is violated by the
   discovery that the world had a beginning under
   conditions which the known laws of physics are
   not valid, and as a product of forces or
   circumstances we cannot discover. When that
   happens the scientist has lost control. If he 
   really examined the implications, he would be
   traumatized.

" 
    It is understandable why scientists like                   Greenstein and Hawking seek other 
   explanations rather than attribute our finely
   tuned universe to a Creator.  Hawking
   speculates that other unseen (and unprovable)
   universes may exist, increasing the odds that 
   one of them (ours) is perfectly fine tuned for           life. However, since his proposal is speculative, 
   and outside of verification, it can hardly be
   called "scientific."  Although he also is an 
   agnostic, British astrophysicist Paul Davies, 
   dismisses Hawking's idea as too speculative. 
   He writes: "Such a belief must rest on faith             rather than observation.

"

Although Hawking continues leading the charge to  explore purely scientific explanations for our origins, other scientists, including many agnostics, have acknowledged that what appears to be overwhelming evidence for a Creator.  Hoyle wrote;

"A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature."

Although Einstein was not religious, and did not believe in a personal God, he called the genius behind the universe "an intelligence of such superiority, that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."

Atheist Christopher Hitchens, who spent much of his life writing and debating against God, was most perplexed by the fact that life could't exist if things were different by just "one degree or one hair." 

Davies acknowledges: 
"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."

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