God and the Universe

FROM DENIAL TO BELIEF IN GOD Science has discovered that many non-physical or non-material realities exist in the physical world— meaningfulness, design, intelligence, and purposeful planning. This discovery is indirect evidence of the existence of the Creator. A scientific method applicable to forming an opinion about the existence of God is to see which theory the world discovered by science is verifying, either the theory of denial of God or the theory of affirmation of God. This principle of reasoning in science is called verificationism. There is a principle in science known as the principle of compatibility. This means that a theory that is not observable but is based on the information obtained through observation is then given the status of truth based on this indirect testimony. A theory for such compatibility will be accepted as truth based on indirect verification. If this scientific principle of reasoning is applied to the belief in God, then fundamentally, the belief in God becomes a proven belief. Scientists who describe their case as agnostic have consciously or unconsciously chosen a way of escape. They cannot deny God according to their knowledge, so they claim their point is agnostic. THE ‘THEORY OF EVERYTHING’ Although Einstein was born into a Jewish family, after studying science, he doubted God’s existence. A year or so before his death, in January 1954, he wrote a letter in German to a Jewish philosopher, Eric B. Gutkind, stating