THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

nothing but an embodiment of consciousness, so if the existence of consciousness is proved, the existence of God is also proved. British scientist Paul Charles William Davies (born 1946), currently a professor at Arizona State University as well as the Director of BEYOND: Centre for Fundamental Concepts in Science, summarizes the latest scientific stand on the subject: Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth—the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves. For 40 years, physicists and cosmologists have been quietly collecting examples of all too convenient “coincidences” and special features in the underlying laws of the universe that seem to be necessary in order for life, and hence conscious beings, to exist. Change anyone of them and the result would be lethal. To see the problem, imagine playing God with the cosmos. Before you is a designer machine that lets you tinker with the basics of physics. Twiddle this knob and you make all electrons a bit lighter, twiddle that one and you make gravity a bit stronger. It happens that you need to set 30-something knobs to fully describe the world about us. The point is that some of those metaphorical knobs must be tuned precisely, or the universe would be sterile. Example: neutrons are just a little heavier than protons. If it were the other way around, atoms could not exist, because all the protons in the universe would have decayed into neutrons shortly after Big Bang. No protons, then no atomic nuclei, and no atoms. No atoms, no chemistry, no life. This is the final logic to which scientific discoveries have reached in the twenty-first century. Now the problem is only one of idiom. If you use the scientific idiom, you will speak the above kind of language. But if you speak in the religious idiom, you would say that the river of knowledge has reached its final stage, that is, the realization of God. o