Three major scientific discoveries during the last century contradict the expectations of scientific atheists (or materialists).
1st: The physical universe had a beginning. Contrary to the expectations of scientific materialists who had long portrayed the material universe as eternal and self-existent (and, therefore, in no need of an external creator). Observational astronomy and theoretical physics has validated our evolving universe.
2nd: We live in a kind of Goldilocks universe. Right time, right place, right life-supporting conditions. The fundamental physical laws and parameters of our universe have been finely tuned, against all odds, to make our universe capable of hosting life. The term “fine-tuning” is used to characterize sensitive dependences of facts or properties on the values of certain parameters. Even slight alterations in the values of many independent factors — such as the strength of gravitational and electromagnetic attraction, the masses of elementary particles, and the initial arrangement of matter and energy in the universe — would have rendered life impossible. Their God workaround is the multiverse. This multiverse idea portrays our universe as the outcome of a grand lottery in which some universe-generating mechanism spits out billions and billions of universes — so many that our universe with its improbable combination of life-conducive factors would eventually have to hit the life-generating lottery. A universe-generating mechanism is required. Prior fine-tuning has to be built-in to produce a workable universe. Unguided randomness could never do that.
This goes to show the sad desperation of the God deniers.
3rd: Molecular biology has revealed a digital code that was built into the foundation of life. Chemical constituents in DNA function like letters in a written language or digital symbols in a computer code. Again, if you believe that unguided randomness did that, you need to find another line of work.
The DNA molecule’s ability to direct the assembly of crucial protein molecules in cells depends upon specific arrangements of chemical constituents called “bases” along the spine of its double helix structure. This advanced computer program is far beyond any software that has been created by man. Ain’t no guided, or unguided randomness gonna do that. Undirected chemical evolution can’t get the job done either. The origin of the information in DNA (or RNA) that is needed to build the first living cell from simpler non-living chemicals won’t happen randomly. Instead, our uniform and repeated experience — the basis of all scientific reasoning — shows that systems possessing functional or digital information invariably arise from intelligent causes. The origin of digital information and complex machines in cells.
Information arises from conscious activity. Information is necessary to build living systems. The presence of irreducibly complex systems in cells also constitutes proof of the design of that cell.
