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BY HERBERT VEGO
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ON THE NIGHT when our part of the earth was counting down the 10 seconds leading to the transition from 2017 to New Year 2018, I looked out the window and up above the sky while firecrackers were exploding from all directions. I thanked God for the life that has survived six decades.
I wondered why atheists and agnostics could not see God in line with the famous Bible verse, “The heavens declare the glory of God” (Psalm 19:1).
I spent the next hour browsing the internet. I learned that learned atheists view order in the universe as a product of the “big bang” theory – resulting from chance, akin to winning the lottery despite the odds. Simply explained, they believe that the universe as we know it started with a small singularity, then inflated over the next 13.8 billion years to the cosmos that we know today.
However, some of them admit that for human life to be possible from a big bang defies the laws of probability, calculating the odds at less than one chance in a trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion.
You must have seen theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, a quadriplegic agnostic, speak on TV: “The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life.”
But he could not illustrate how the “big bang” produced the first life?
We God believers can only reason out that all of the above scenarios are impossible – unless it was fixed by the omnipotent Someone behind the scenes.
Scientists who believe in God may have expected such fine-tuning, but atheists and agnostics are unable to explain the remarkable “coincidences.”
In his book The Symbiotic Universe, agnostic astronomer George Greenstein asked, “Is it possible that suddenly, without intending to, we have stumbled upon the scientific proof of the existence of a Supreme Being?”
In another book, God and the Astronomers, agnostic astronomer Robert Jastrow postulated why some scientists are reluctant to accept a transcendent Creator: “Science is the religion of a person who believes there is order and harmony in the universe. When it is violated by the discovery that the world had a beginning under conditions in which the known laws of physics are not valid, the scientist has lost control. He would be traumatized.”
Greenstein and Hawking cannot accept a God-made universe because, being speculative, it could not be verified in the realm of science – in other words, beyond the reach of either the microscope or the biggest telescope.
Although Hawking continues to explore purely scientific explanations for our origins, other scientists have acknowledged what appears to be overwhelming evidence for a Creator.
British astronomer Sir Fred 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.”
Albert Einstein wasn’t religious, but 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 had spent much of his life writing and debating against God, was forced to admit that life couldn’t exist if things were different by just “one degree or one hair.” (hvego31@gmail.com/PN)
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