Scientists rely on data when forming a hypothesis. Here just a few topics of research that point toward a creator.
The Big Bang Theory
The atomic spectral lines in starlight exhibit a shift in wavelength caused by the Doppler Effect. The observed wavelengths get longer if the star is moving away from us or shorter if the star is moving toward us. In every direction astronomers look there is a red shift toward longer wavelengths. It shows all stars are moving away from us due to the universe expanding out from a central explosion. Background cosmic radiation discovered in 1965 confirmed the Big Bang Theory. That explosion of universe outward from an infinitesimally small central point is estimated at occurring ~13 billion years ago.
The Big Cause of the Big Bang must be outside of time, space & matter as we know it, because all that started when the universe exploded into existence. It suggests at least an unintelligent Big Cause outside of our universe. Multiple parallel universes are very popular in movie plots, but they can’t actually be proven scientifically. Besides the question of what created the multiverse is not all that different from asking what created the universe. I see no reason why God couldn’t create other universes if he could create ours. Other topics point to an intelligent creator.
The Origin of Life
You might think so, but evolution does not actually explain how life came about. Survival of the fittest requires living creatures. It explains how one creature might out-survive another like a poisonous vs non-poisonous butterfly, but it doesn’t explain how non-living mixtures of chemicals can become alive.
With all the research done, we now realize that we can’t just stir together lifeless chemicals & make something alive. You can’t mix up all the right proteins in a test tube to create even a single cell organism like an amoeba. The only way we can make new life in a test tube is by using living eggs & sperm or we modify existing living cells.
Compare the body of a person that dies peacefully in their sleep with the dead body just moments later. Chemically they are practically identical, but one is alive & the other isn’t. The weight & composition of the body does not change, but somehow there is a huge difference.
Some guess maybe aliens brought life to the earth, but that just relocates where life originated in the universe without answering the question of how it first started.
The Complexity of DNA
All those proteins needed to form an amoeba also have to be created somehow from the basic amino acids. Small proteins can contain 100 amino acids of 20 varieties. There are ~10130 different arrangements of the amino acids possible. The odds of forming the one needed are 1 in ~10130. Odds of 50 coin tosses all coming up heads in a row is 1 in 1015 for comparison. We would all ask to see the coin to make sure it wasn’t 2 headed if someone tossing it managed to get heads say just 10 times in a row.
DNA contains instructions on how to assemble proteins from building block amino acids, but DNA contains proteins too. It does contain instructions on how to generate specific proteins, but it can’t exist without the proteins it contains. It becomes a chicken & egg problem on how one was created without the existence of the other. Plus the assembly information in DNA is like the code in a computer program. The information is not random instructions anymore than Microsoft Windows is random code. It suggests an intelligent programmer designed the sequence before DNA even existed.
These topics don’t prove Jesus is God BUT they do point toward an intelligent creator of the universe. I am barely scratching the surface of these topics & they are just a sampling of topics that could be cited.
For more detailed information on the variety of evidence for God’s existence from Science, I recommend these 2 books. They are very readable for those not trained in these fields.
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