I remember clearly the summer after my freshmen year of college. I spent the majority of my free time diving into the worlds of contemporary science and philosophy looking for absolute, irrefutable proof that God was real. I figured that one way or the other, whether God was real or not, I would be able to prove it if I did enough research.
My search turned out to be a very disappointing one. Scientifically, I learned how little we actually know about all kind of topics, especially those as mysterious as, for instance, the beginning of the universe. Philosophically, I learned, for instance, that I couldn’t even “prove” that my memories had actually happened, or that anyone or anything real existed outside of my own head.
“Proving” that God existed in a strict, mathematical kind of way was out of the question.
But I have learned from extensive research that contemporary science frequently does point to God. In fact, even though most scientists have definitively decided for themselves that there is no God, they continue to uncover Him on piece at a time.
- Scientists now almost universally acknowledge that the universe is not eternal, rather it had a beginning. Something outside of the universe caused it to come into existence.
- Scientists now also acknowledge that whatever caused our universe to come into existence, it contains vast amounts of meaningful, fine-tuned information. Scientists call this fine-tuned information “universal constants” and “laws of nature.”
- Serious, respected mathematicians who attempt to calculate the chances that this information would arise randomly, without an intelligent Creator, find that the probability is almost exactly 0.
- The leading view among scientists today about the mystery of consciousness is that it is either a fundamental constant of reality, or directly results from them.
Thus, contemporary scientists recognize that the universe has an outside cause, full of meaningful information, which in all probability results from intelligence and not randomness, and which contains or directly results in consciousness
They may not admit it; they may not even realize it. But they are uncovering God, despite their best efforts, one piece at a time.