ARGUMENTS AGAINST GOD AND RELIGION — Part I From Physical Sciences

creation of the universe, whereas the findings of physicists are confined to determining the outward structure of this universe, as it appears to exist before us. What modern science tells us is only an elaboration upon, rather than an explanation of reality. What modern science tells us is only an elaboration upon, rather than an explanation of reality. The entire body of modern scientific enquiry is concerned only with the question: ‘What is it that exists?’ The question: ‘Why does it exist?’ is far beyond its purview. Yet it is upon this second issue that we should be seeking enlightenment. Eg: Digestion can now be explained as a chemical reaction under the control of enzymes but does not explain who determined such a reaction to take place with such control. The complexity of the various reactions and interactions to produce the digestive mechanism is so incredible that it is impossible to consider it an act of chance. It is only God who established these principles with the creation of life. Eg: Rainfall — Science only gives more detailed information of the mechanism of rainfall but cannot ultimately tell us how or why these natural laws came into being, continue to exist and cause the universe to function with such precision. The American biologist, Cecil Boyce Hamann, has this to say: Where the mysteries of digestion and assimilation were seen as evidence of Divine intervention, they now are explained in terms of chemical reactions, each reaction under the control of an enzyme. But does it rule God out of His universe? Who determined that these reactions should take place, and that they should be so exactly controlled by the enzymes? One glance at a present-day chart of the various cyclic reactions and their interaction with each other rules out the possibility that this was just a chance relationship that happened to work. Perhaps here, more than any place else, man is learning that God works by principles that He established with the creation of life. From this narrative, one can understand the actual value of modern discoveries. Science and technology having vastly increased the