SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY

This principle prevailing in the universe may be termed an intelligent selection. There are billions and trillions of things in the universe, but everything, without exception, is an example of this intelligent selection. This principle is so common that a British Nobel Prizewinning physicist, Dr Fred Hoyle, chose the title The Intelligent Universe for a book he wrote on this subject. This phenomenon of the universe provides conclusive proof of God’s existence. Intelligent design is clearly a proof of an intelligent Creator. Logically, it is unthinkable that intelligent action should exist without an intelligent Creator. Believing in intelligent action without believing in an intelligent Creator is like believing in a complex machine without believing in its engineer. Dr Fred Hoyle explains in his book, that in the initial stages of scientific discovery, the violent reaction of the Christian Church against the scientists still lingers in human memory. People fear that if proof of the existence of an intelligent Creator behind the universe is declared, there will be a resurgence of the religious extremism of former times. This is a baseless fear. After the scientific acknowledgement of the intelligent Creator, history will witness the return of the true divine religion. Two Options We have two explanations for the extraordinary order and proportion existing in the universe. One is that the universe is its own designer. Yet all the research conducted on the universe refutes this, because the order discovered by science in the universe is clearly based entirely on intelligent design. On the other hand, atheists claim that there is everything in the universe except what is called ‘intelligence’. We are then asked to believe that the universe discovered by science is totally designed, but that at the same time, it is totally non-intelligent. In such a state of affairs if we believe that the universe is the designer of its own design, it is like believing a statue is a self-created being and has moulded itself into a meaningful design. Given this situation we are left with only one option to explain the universe. And that is to accept some agency outside the universe as being responsible for its underlying design. We have no other choice besides this one. If we deny the existence of God, we shall have to deny the existence of the universe as well. Since we cannot refute the existence of the universe, we are compelled to accept the existence of God.