Intelligent Design vs. Natural Fluke (with a Video)

Intelligent Design vs Natural Philosophy Today

The construction, composition and arrangement of the Universe is such that it is not inconsistent with intelligent design. On the other hand there isn't anything evident in the Universe that doesn't appear to belong here like some sort of artifact from an intelligent designer. One might want a hyper-dimensional custom signature of God to appear in the great empty spaces between galaxies now and then crossing through space-time transcendently with a note attached that says 'I paid for and approved this Universe'. Without that votaries of science as a natural religion to support the idea of a godless Universe argues without direct contradiction.

The complexity and marvelous structure of the Universe makes it appear that life is a necessary and inevitable structure that had to form in the historical line of processes that followed the first appearance of mass and energy. The chemical elements and physical forces are so fine-tuned that life would not have been possible if they were a little different. Thus the dialectical helix supporting D.N.A. with its intricate process came into being after stars were formed, exploded yield new elements, and planets coalesced under gravity within dust clouds in the void. The processes were pre-determined and inherent in the beginning. The beginning pre-determined the end. For Christians God is alpha and omega. Life seems a necessary product of the existence of Universe. That supports points for intelligent design of the Universe as a whole.

The obvious complex structure of life and the process that allowed it to emerge from energy and matter over time for some manifests intelligent design. Paley's ontological argument about a found watch and its complexity allowing inference of an intelligent designer is comparable. Scientific atheists discard what is called the anthropic principle with the explanation that if life were to appear at all as a result of simple natural processes it necessarily would seem to be designed.

For one Universe to appear that is so complex and functions so well that it generated intelligent life when there are many physical constants that could have been different that would not have produced life in a Universe is greatly against the odds of fluke occurrence. There are two fundamental alternative explanations for the Universe being the way it is (fine-tuned for life ) that hypothetically occur before the start of this Universe. They are used to explain why the existence of the Universe should not be regarded as having occurred against extremely high odds and its perfection for life as rare..

One is that this Universe exists along with an infinite number of other Universes and at least one had to have perfect conditions for life; humanity happens to be lucky ones in such a Universe (the cosmic jackpot). This is a variation of the given an infinite amount of monkeys at typewriters at least one would type by random chance the collected works of Shakespeare.

The second is a similar though darker explanation; this Universe is one that reached birth from a nearly infinite number of aborted Universes;- and only Universes that could have life can reach full term because there is some sort of powerful mind-field pre-existing Universes that draws intelligent life unto itself. It is as callous about screening out and aborting life as planned parenthood.

Jesus Christ took the sins of the elect upon himself and imputed his righteousness upon them as well. Christians of course have faith in Jesus Christ. The saved or elect have righteousness and sin at the simultaneously; Simul justus et peccator . Christians are saved through the grace of God, the Lord Jesus Christ and work of the Holy Spirit. Christians also rely on the truth of scripture- sola scriptura. Therefore they believe God created the Universe because the Bible tells them so.

Philosophers and philosophically inclined theologians may inquire into how God created or scheduled the Universe to appear. It is also possible to examine the Bible and how it is to be interpreted or understood, I wrote a book named God, Cosmology and Nothingness (free to download for the present) that has my best try at that. It is faith however; blind faith in Jesus Christ, in which Christians place their hope. God is good.