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Einstein didn’t believe it was possible.
Stephen Hawking said it might be the greatest scientific discovery of all time.
What discovery has baffled the greatest scientific minds of the
past century, and why has it caused them to rethink the origin of our universe?
New, more powerful, telescopes have revealed mysteries about our universe that
have raised new questions about the origin of life.
Has science discovered God?
But wait a minute! Hasn’t science proven we don’t need God to
explain the universe? Lightning, earthquakes and even babies used to be
explained as acts of God. But now we know better. What is it about this
discovery that is so fundamentally different, and why has it stunned the
scientific world?
This discovery and what molecular biologists have learned about
the sophisticated coding within DNA have many scientists now admitting that the
universe appears to be part of a grand design.
One cosmologist put it this way: “Many scientists, when they
admit their views, incline toward the teleological or design argument.”[1]
Surprisingly, many scientists who are talking about God have no
religious belief whatsoever.[2]
So, what are these stunning discoveries that have scientists
suddenly speaking of God? Three revolutionary discoveries from the fields of
astronomy and molecular biology stand out:
1. The universe had a beginning
2. The universe is just right for life
3. DNA coding reveals intelligence
The statements leading scientists have made about these
discoveries may shock you. Let’s take a look.
One-Time Beginning
Since
the dawn of civilization man has gazed in awe at the stars, wondering what they
are and how they got there. Although on a clear night the unaided human eye can
see about 6,000 stars, Hubble and other powerful telescopes indicate there are
trillions of them clustered in over 100 billion galaxies. Our sun is like one
grain of sand amidst the world’s beaches.
However,
prior to the 20th century, the majority of scientists believed our own Milky
Way galaxy was the entire universe, and that only about 100 million stars
existed.
Most
scientists believed that our universe never had a beginning. They believed
mass, space and energy had always existed.
But
in the early 20th century, astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered the universe is
expanding. Rewinding the process mathematically, he calculated that everything
in the universe, including matter, energy, space and even time itself, actually
had a beginning.
Shockwaves
rang loudly throughout the scientific community. Many scientists, including
Einstein, reacted negatively. In what Einstein later called “the biggest
blunder of my life,” he fudged the equations to avoid the implication of
a beginning. [3]
Perhaps
the most vocal adversary of a beginning to the universe was British astronomer
Sir Fred Hoyle, who sarcastically nicknamed the creation event a “big bang.” He
stubbornly held to his steady state theory that the universe has always
existed. So did Einstein and other scientists until the evidence for a
beginning became overwhelming. The “elephant in the room” implication of a
beginning is that something or Someone beyond scientific investigation must
have started it all.
Finally,
in 1992, COBE satellite experiments proved that the universe really did have a
one-time beginning in an incredible flash of light and energy. [4]
Although some scientists called it the moment of creation, most preferred
referring to it as the “big bang.”
Astronomer
Robert Jastrow tries to help us imagine how it all began. “The picture
suggests the explosion of a cosmic hydrogen bomb. The instant in which the
cosmic bomb exploded marked the birth of the Universe.” [5]
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Everything from Nothing
Science
is unable to tell us what or who caused the universe to begin. But some believe
it clearly points to a Creator. “British theorist, Edward Milne, wrote a
mathematical treatise on relativity which concluded by saying, ‘As to the
first cause of the Universe, in the context of expansion, that is left for the
reader to insert, but our picture is incomplete without Him.’” [6]
Another
British scientist, Edmund Whittaker attributed the beginning of our universe to
“Divine will constituting Nature from nothingness.” [7]
Many
scientists were struck by the parallel of a one-time creation event from
nothing with the biblical creation account in Genesis 1:1. [8]
Prior to this discovery, many scientists regarded the biblical account of
creation from nothing as unscientific.
Although
he called himself an agnostic, Jastrow was compelled by the evidence to admit, “Now
we see how the astronomical evidence leads to a biblical view of the origin of
the world.” [9]
Another
agnostic, George Smoot, the Nobel Prize winning scientist in charge of the COBE
experiment, also admits to the parallel. “There is no doubt that a
parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of
creation from nothing.”[10]
Scientists
who used to scoff at the Bible as a book of fairy tales, are now admitting that
the biblical concept of creation from nothing has been right all along.
Cosmologists,
who specialize in the study of the universe and its origins, soon realized that
a chance cosmic explosion could never bring about life any more than a nuclear
bomb would—unless it was precisely engineered to do so. And that meant a
designer must have planned it. They began using words like, “Super-intellect,”
“Creator,” and even “Supreme Being” to describe this designer. Let’s look at
why.
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Finely-Tuned for Life
Physicists
calculated that for life to exist, gravity and the other forces of nature
needed to be just right or our universe couldn’t exist. Had the expansion rate
been slightly weaker, gravity would have pulled all matter back into a “big
crunch.”
We’re
not talking about merely a one or two percent reduction in the universe’s
expansion rate. Stephen Hawking writes, “If the rate of expansion one
second after the big bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred
thousand million million, the universe would have re-collapsed before it ever
reached its present size.” [11]
On
the flip side, if the expansion rate had been a mere fraction greater than it
was, galaxies, stars and planets could never have formed, and we wouldn’t be
here.
And
for life to exist, the conditions in our solar system and planet also need to
be just right. For example, we all realize that without an atmosphere of
oxygen, none of us would be able to breathe. And without oxygen, water couldn’t
exist. Without water there would be no rainfall for our crops. Other elements
such as hydrogen, nitrogen, sodium, carbon, calcium, and phosphorus are also
essential for life.
But
that alone is not all that is needed for life to exist. The size, temperature,
relative proximity, and chemical makeup of our planet, sun, and moon also need
to be just right. And there are dozens of other conditions that needed to be
exquisitely fine-tuned or we wouldn’t be here to think about it. [12]
Scientists
who believe in God may have expected such fine-tuning, but atheists and
agnostics were unable to explain the remarkable “coincidences.” Theoretical
physicist Stephen Hawking, an agnostic, writes, “The remarkable fact is
that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make
possible the development of life.”[13]
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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 racetrack. And, against heavy
odds, lotteries are eventually won by someone. So, what are the odds against
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 1 chance in a trillion trillion
trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion
trillion trillion.
[14] It would be far 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?”[15]
However,
as an agnostic, Greenstein maintains his faith in science, rather than a
Creator, to ultimately explain our origins. [16]
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 a 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 in 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. [17]
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 is also 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.”
[18]
Although
Hawking continues leading the charge to explore purely scientific explanations
for our origins, other scientists, including many agnostics, have acknowledged
what appears to be overwhelming evidence for a Creator. Hoyle wrote,
“A
common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed
with physics, as well as chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind
forces worth speaking about in nature.”[19]
Although
Einstein wasn’t religious, and didn’t 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.”[20]
Atheist
Christopher Hitchens, who spent much of his life writing and debating against
God, was most perplexed by the fact that life couldn’t exist if things were
different by just “one degree or one hair.” [21]
Davies
acknowledges,
There
is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. It
seems as though somebody has fine-tuned nature’s numbers to make the Universe….
The impression of design is overwhelming. [22]
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DNA: The Language of Life
Astronomy
is not the only area where science has seen evidence for design. Molecular
biologists have discovered intricately complex design in the microscopic world
of DNA. In the past century, scientists learned that a tiny molecule called DNA
is the “brains” behind each cell in our bodies as well as every other living
thing. Yet the more they discover about DNA, the more amazed they are at the
brilliance behind it.
Scientists
who believe the material world is all that exists (materialists), like Richard
Dawkins, argue DNA evolved by natural selection without a Creator. Yet even
most ardent evolutionists admit that the origin of DNA’s intricate complexity
is unexplainable.
DNA’s
intricate complexity caused its co-discoverer, Francis Crick, to believe that
it could never have originated on earth naturally. Crick, an evolutionist who
believed life is too complex to have originated on earth, and must have come
from outer space, wrote,
An
honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state
that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to almost be a
miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied
to get it going.[23]
The
coding behind DNA reveals such intelligence that it staggers the imagination. A
mere pinhead of DNA contains information equivalent to a stack of paperback
books that would encircle the earth 5,000 times. And DNA operates like a
language with its own extremely complex software code. Microsoft founder Bill
Gates says that the software of DNA is “far, far more complex than any
software we have ever developed.”[24]
Dawkins
and other materialists believe that all this complexity originated through
natural selection. Yet, as Crick remarked, natural selection could never have
produced the first molecule. Many scientists believe that the coding within the
DNA molecule points to an intelligence far exceeding what could have occurred
by natural causes.
In
the early 21st century, leading atheist Antony Flew’s atheism came to an abrupt
end when he studied the intelligence behind DNA. Flew explains what changed his
opinion.
What
I think the DNA material has done is to show that intelligence must have been
involved in getting these extraordinarily diverse elements together. The
enormous complexity by which the results were achieved look to me like the work
of intelligence…. It now seems to me that the finding of more than fifty years
of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful
argument to design.[25]
Although
Flew was not a Christian, he admitted that the “software” behind DNA is far too
complex to have originated without a “designer.” The discovery of the
incredible intelligence behind DNA has, in this former leading atheist’s words,
“provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to
design.”
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