The Fallacy of Mechanical Interpretation

made grave blunders, causing massive destruction on Earth and the rest of the universe. But that nothing of the sort happens in the universe is a clear indication that it is created by a Supreme Mind that has designed it to function with perfect accuracy, beyond anything that man-made machines are capable of. Consider the following: “There is no God of the universe. A universe is only a machine made of matter.” If the above sentence appears correct from the grammatical point of view, from the point of view of reality, it is entirely erroneous. The sentence would have been accurate had machines—even the smallest and simplest of them—been able to come into being on their own, without a maker, and if they could operate independently. But all the machines we are familiar with have been made and operated by humans. This being the case, how could it be possible, as many atheists argue, for the amazingly vast universe to come into being on its own and function on its own, continuously, over billions of years, with complete accuracy? Need for a ‘Grand Engineer’ of the Universe Making and operating a machine requires a human being. No matter how sophisticated a device is, it cannot come into being and function without human intervention at some level or the other. This negates the mechanical interpretation of the universe—the argument that the universe is a machine that has come into being on its own and is functioning on its own, without a Creator and Master behind it.