The Universe ‘Speaks’ About God

FROM DENIAL TO BELIEF IN GOD able to function so accurately, in such a way that I can breathe, I can walk, I can run, I can speak, I am alive?” “That is because of the laws of Nature.” “But what is that which you call ‘the laws of Nature’?” “Hmmm, well, I suppose by this, I mean the blind interplay of physical and chemical forces.” “But what is the reason why these supposedly blind forces always function in one particular direction, which takes them towards a determined end? How do they organise their activities so that a bird can fly, a fish can swim, and a human being can come into existence with all his many special abilities? Can all this result from some ‘blind’ interplay of physical forces?” “My friend, please don’t ask me all this! A scientist can only narrate how what is happening is happening. He does not know why whatever is happening is happening.” This hypothetical conversation makes clear the reality of the scope of present-day science. Undoubtedly, science has told us many new things. But whatever it has told us is some features of events and phenomena in the universe. It does not have the answers to why those events happen and why those phenomena are as they are. For instance, no doubt, science has told us a lot about how the delicate parts of a fly work, but what is that Mind that knew that a fly would require these delicate parts and bestowed them on it? Only religion can provide an answer to this question. Suggesting, as atheists might, that this is an outcome of the working of this or that law of Nature is hardly convincing, for the laws of Nature are a phenomenon of the universe, not an explanation of the universe. They are phenomena