Kerby Anderson

Three major scientific discoveries in the past century point to God. That is the argument Dr. Stephen Meyer makes in a recent commentary in The Federalist, which is based on his new book, Return of the God Hypothesis. The first significant discovery is that the physical universe likely had a beginning. This is contrary to the expectations of scientific materialists who assumed that the material universe was eternal and thus self-existent. Scientists discovered that galaxies far from the earth were receding faster than those close at hand. The observed “redshift” demonstrated that the universe was expanding from an initial Big Bang. Later evidence also confirmed these observations that contradicted the expectations of scientific materialists and confirmed those of traditional theists. Second, physicists have discovered that we live in a kind of “Goldilocks universe.” Scientists are finding fundamental physical laws and parameters of our universe that have been finely tuned, against all odds, to make our universe capable of hosting life. This points to the possibility that a cosmic “fine-tuner” exists. Former Cambridge astrophysicist, Sir Fred Hoyle argued: “A common-sense interpretation of the data suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics” to make life possible. Third, discoveries in molecular biology have revealed the presence of digital code at the foundation of life. This suggests a master programmer behind the genetic structure of DNA. Bill Gates acknowledged that “DNA is like a computer program, but far, far more advanced than any software we’ve ever created.” These three scientific discoveries all point to the existence of a Creator God. [printfriendly]