Many do not know that Science was started by the church, which also ran the first Universities. Believing in God, it made sense to study creation systematically, looking for laws that described how the universe operated. But if everything that is, is the result of a chaotic, undirected explosion, there's absolutely no reason to expect order. And order, and the fine tuning of the universe, are a puzzle for atheistic science.
The term “fine-tuning” is used to characterize sensitive dependences on the values of certain constants that appear in physical laws in physics, biology etc. In terms of it being a puzzle, Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time) noted, "The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron. ... The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life.” From Wikipedia “The occurrence of life in the universe is very sensitive to the values of certain fundamental physical constants and that the observed values are, for some reason, improbable.”
Improbable is something of an understatement. In particular probabilities that reflect one chance in 10 to the power of 120 for a fine tuned universe to occur, are thrown around. That number is over 10 to the power of 39 times more than the estimated number of particles in the visible universe. By comparison, the complete works of Shakespeare coming out of an explosion at the print factory, is likely (please use this with gentleness and humility)!
An online quote from Richard Dawkins reads “The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it happened by blind chance. Superficially the obvious alternative to blind chance is an Intelligent Designer.” In other words it looks designed, but it can't be, because it would contradict the presuppositions of naturalism. It's a circular argument of course! Did I mention resistance to change? In what looks to me like desperate attempt to double down on naturalism, the theory of the multiverse has been proposed. It's a kind of survival of the fittest among a myriad of invisible, and scientifically unverifiable parallel universes.
What I am saying, is that to claim that order and fine tuning come out of an undirected and uncontrolled explosion (the Big Bang or whatever) makes no sense. And the fact that there is order and fine tuning is surely evidence for what is being called Intelligent Design (ID). ID is an evidence-based scientific theory about life's origins. Of course, the internet, calls it pseudoscience (not real Science). But order in the universe is far from the only evidence for ID. In particular the Discovery Institute, which advocates it, has many convincing things to share. For example Stephen Myer's 'Signature in the cell' argues for ID from DNA. He and Michael Behe (Irreducible Complexity), have many interesting related videos on YouTube.
Father, You tell us that to those who have, more will be given. But to those who have not, even what they have will be taken away. In fact You send strong delusion to those who do not love the truth (2 Thessalonians 2:10). There are many I love who are deceived, and who don't seem to want to hear the truth. I pray for them Lord, and for myself for boldness and humility, and that my very life would speak truth, in Jesus Name Amen
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