…. the Universe was created by God?
Richard Dawkins writes: “But of course any God capable of designing something as complex as the DNA/protein replicating machine must have been at least as complex and organised as that machine itself”. The more we learn about our Universe, the more carefully designed it turns out to be. Even the fundamental constants defining charge and gravity have been fine-tuned to a remarkable degree - a variation of 1 part in 100 million of their actual values would have meant that at the moment it all began, which we nowadays refer to as ‘The Big Bang’, all of matter would simply have flown apart. Each person’s DNA - something contained within every cell of our bodies, carries information that if written out in book form would stretch from here to the moon. Yet every time a cell divides it makes an exact copy of that DNA molecule for the new daughter cell it generates, without any copyists mistakes. Within each cell are also specific molecular machines that check that the code is properly replicated, and should this not be the case, set about correcting that mistake. We find order and design from the largest structures to the microscopic ones. There are pairings of organisms such as bats and flowers that turn out to be the only means of survival for the flower species. Two views about all this exist today. Either everything came about by blind chance as a result of random mutations, or life has been very carefully and skilfully designed by a Creator - a Being we refer to as God. What science tells us is that random mutations - e.g. alteration of the DNA code will always lead to destructive, rather than constructive results. Those who insist that “everything that exists came about through blind chance” may well do so because they cannot tolerate the idea that there might be a Creator God and as a result they might find themselves accountable to him for their lives.