The
second question that begs itself is, “How do you know that God exists?”
There have been
lots of arguments in history regarding God’s existence. There is everything
from Pascal’s Wager. It goes like this in a shortened way. If I believe in God
and He doesn’t exist I won’t know because I will cease to exist. If you don’t
believe in God and He does exist, you will suffer.
There have been
arguments from Aesthetics, Desire, Conscience, the Moral Argument, the
Ontological Argument, and on and on for thousands of years. But, really, the
argument for God’s existence breaks down to where we live. The most important
proof of God’s existence is that there is something rather than nothing and
since stuff doesn’t create itself it had to be created, and that’s where God
comes in.
Of course, faith
cannot be based on this idea. Faith is based on your experience with Him and on
the truth of what He has said in His book. Not only have I encountered a risen
Saviour in prayer, Bible reading, answered prayer, and in the creation and
reality around me but I completely trust His book containing His ministry of
reconciling mankind to Himself. I have no doubts. God speaks to my heart
through His book changing me without me hearing words in my ear but working on
me from the inside in His special way.
You may not find
me a credible witness. Unbelievers become adamant, raving even, that as a
person of faith you are a lunatic, or weak, or small-minded. They cannot accept
that a perfectly rational scientist, businessman, or scholar of any type could
believe in and love a God who has not revealed Himself to them.
These are things
outside of our personal experience with God, a personal experience that no
unbeliever can understand or accept unless God Himself touches their hearts,
that suggest or even prove His existence.
Let’s take something as complex as life. The
astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle was born in Yorkshire, England on June 24, 1915. He
was conferred a master's degree from Cambridge in 1939 and then was elected
Fellow, St. John's College, Cambridge in the same year. He worked his way to
become a Professor of Astrophysics and Natural Philosophy in 1958. He was a
leading contributor in the discovery of how the elements from lithium to iron
are synthesized inside stars.
Professor N. Chandra Wickramasinghe was born in Colombo, Sri
Lanka, on January 20, 1939, studied astrophysics at Cambridge, and was a
student of Hoyle's. He received a Ph.D. in 1963 taught at Cambridge. He later
became a Professor of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy at the University
College, Cardiff, Wales. He is an expert in the use of infrared astronomy to
study interstellar matter.
These are no lightweights although Wickramasinghe has gone a
little bonkers in the last few years. But they both came to the logical atheist
conclusion that life came from outer space. Why? Because it was impossible for it to have happened by
random chance on earth, not in 15 billion years or a hundred billion years. Let
me read you a quote published recently by Dr. Wick…
“Improbability of Life
The blueprint for all life from bacteria
to plants to animals was discovered in the 1950s by Watson and Crick to reside
in DNA – in particular in the precise arrangements of the nucleotides A,G,T,C
that effectively code for proteins that in turn control cell function. In a
series of books and articles published in collaboration with the late Sir Fred
Hoyle, I have argued that highly specific arrangements needed for the operation
of living cells cannot be understood as arising from random processes. For the simplest
bacterium (Mycoplasma genitalium) the probability that its few hundred genes
will be discovered by random shuffling of their amino acid components gives a
figure of 1 in 10 to the 1000th power or smaller. Hoyle and I have
compared such horrendous improbabilities to the odds against a ‘tornado blowing
through a junk yard leading to self-assembly of BOEING 707 airplane.’”[1]
1 in 10 to the
1000th? These types of scientists estimate there is only 10 to the
80th power number of atoms in the universe. Saying that life came
about by random processes is like me saying that I’m getting handsomer,
wealthier, and smarter as I get older. You would just look at me and go, what?
I’m joking, right? But, scientists who believe in spontaneous generation, I
mean abiogenesis, or life by accident are serious.
So, proof that God
exists, step one. Life could not have happened on earth by chance. It’s not
mathematically conceivable, not by any stretch of your Star Wars, Battlestar
Galactica, Star Trek, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Dr. Who imagination.
But, what about it coming from somewhere else? That’s called panspermia and
that’s what Dr. Wick believes in.
Well, NASA
scientists Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee, in their book, Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in
the Universe, explained that it is also highly unlikely that life came from
someplace else as this planet, located where it is, is the best and most likely
place for life to exist and, in fact, probably could not exist anywhere else.
So, proof that God
exists, step two. Life could not have happened anywhere but on earth. But, it
couldn’t happen here by chance. So, something else, or someone else rather,
must be happening than mere material processes randomly achieved, or if you
don’t like my use of the word random, then how about without purpose or intent,
by accident.
Who could it be?
[1]
Chandra
Wickramasinghe & Robert Bauval,
Cosmic Womb: The Seeding of Planet
Earth (Rochester, Vermont:Bear & Co., 2017), Kindle
ed., chap. 1.
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