An Overflow of Evidence

Last week I mentioned that the moral law, and evil itself, actually point to the existence of God. This week, I want to briefly look at two more arguments for the existence of God. The first argument I'll mention is known as the Kalam cosmological argument. It's simply the argument from a beginning. Did you know that almost all scientists agree that the universe had a beginning at a specific point in the finite past. We live in a world of cause and effect, and common sense tells us that you can’t get something from nothing. So if the universe began to exist, then it had to have a cause that exists outside of time and space. You see, the universe itself cannot be eternal. It is true that the actual amount of energy in the universe remains at a constant, however, all energy is ultimately running down to a state of unusable energy (just like our bodies grow old). If the universe was eternal, we would have had an eternity for all the usable energy to be used up already. The usable energy is not used up, therefore the universe had a beginning and a cause. I would argue that cause is the God of the Bible. We could go into more specifics, but this should suffice for now.

There are other evidences that bolster our case for God's existence. For example, the teleological argument looks at the incredible design we find in nature. If there is a design, then there is a designer. When Darwin proposed his theory of evolution, he believed single cell organisms were very simple creatures that could easily evolve. Now we know that they are complex biological machines that contain as much information as 1,000 volumes of an encyclopedia! The DNA in our cells that determine what we look like, etc. is basically the equivalent of a four letter alphabet. If that doesn't sound impressive, just think about the complexities that result from computer code which is nothing but 1's and 0's! This type of information requires a mind behind it. Even atheistic scientists understand this. The government used to fund a program called SETI (The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) which pointed radio antennas into space that listened for signs of intelligent radio signals from space. This is what the movie "Contact" was based on. Why would they do this? Because they understood that such signals would require a mind behind them. How much more complex is the DNA and biological "machines" that make up every cell of our bodies!! Truly we are, as the Bible says, fearfully and wonderfully made. You are not an accident or the product of random genetic mutations!

Paul echos this line of thinking in Rom. 1:20, "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." If all of nature had a beginning, then it stands to reason that the cause of all of nature must be beyond nature or super-natural. Agnostic astronomer Robert Jastrow said in a 1982 interview with "Christianity Today," "Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth. And they have found that all this happened as a product of forces they cannot hope to discover .… That there are what I or anyone would call supernatural forces at work is now, I think, a scientifically proven fact." From these three simple arguments (the moral argument, the kalam cosmological argument, the teleological argument) we can conclude that God is: immaterial, eternal, super powerful, super intelligent, morally perfect, and personal. That's a pretty could case we've built for arguing the existence of the God of the Bible.

For His glory,
Adam Tucker