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Darwin said: "...we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator," (Origin of Species, p488)


Does Science Support Atheism?

Let's try the scientific method: first the atheist hypothesis and then "the God hypothesis"...

Observation (Atheist/Agnostic): Everything seems to have emerged from random, un-intelligent natural processes with no original intent.

Question: Where does intelligence come from?

Definition of Intelligence: ability to perceive, reason and create, etc.)

Hypothesis (Atheist/Agnostic): If everything emerged from un-intelligence, then un-intelligence produces intelligence.

Experiment: Observe un-intelligent things to determine if new intelligence emerges without any need of intelligence.

Tests: FAIL: 1) No intelligence can be observed emerging from un-intelligence or spontaneous generation. 2) Using evolution to test this hypothesis would be using the same data to both test and formulate the hypothesis and thus would be circular reasoning (a logical fallacy).

Analysis: Any test must be repeatable now and produce actual results now (i.e. falsifiability). Claiming that more time or millions of years in the future are needed is not falsifiable or "pie-in-the sky".

Conclusion: There is no falsifiable evidence/test to support the atheist/agnostic hypothesis. It seems to depend on logical fallacies and blind faith and lacks common sense. Darwin's Origin of Species does not support atheism/agnosticism...

Darwin said: "Have we any right to assume that the Creator works by intellectual powers like those of man?" - Origin of Species, p. 188

Can an Intelligent Origin Be Proved?

Revised Observation: Everything emerged from some origin that may be intelligent.

Same Question: Where does intelligence come from?

Hypothesis ("The God hypothesis"): If everything emerged from intelligence, then intelligence produces intelligence (i.e. the anti-hypothesis of the atheist hypothesis).

Experiment: Observe mankind's intelligence and design characteristics and behavior to test and help determine the possible intelligent origin of the universe.

Tests: 1) Any intelligent person is born (produced) by intelligent parents (i.e. a falsifiable test). 2) Designers made artificial intelligence (i.e. a falsifiable test).

Conclusion 1: Testable evidence supports the intelligent God hypothesis and contradicts the atheist/agnostic hypothesis.

Conclusion 2: Testable evidence demonstrates that one can not reasonably use an undetected Designer to disprove or exclude God or a Designer of the universe, because it can be tested that a human designer is not intrinsically detected when observing their design. We don't intrinsically detect a designer when we are observing their design. Thus, we can predict that a Designer of the universe would not be intrinsically detected when observing their design, e.g. nature.

Action: Science dictates that scientists follow the testable evidence. As shown here, the testable evidence leads us towards God and any real scientist would be moving in this direction.

How Could an Intelligent Designer Exist Before Time Began?

Logical Assumption: The beginning of time means the beginning of our "arrow of time" which is unidirectional, moving from past to present and characterized by cause and effect, and limited by Planck time of 10^-43 seconds (quantization). However, many scientists believe that processes may occur within Planck time (e.g. the Planck epoch) or even before the universe began (e.g. string theory), etc. Thus, there could be infinite granularity of time that has no limits and not even a beginning. In fact, our experience of limitations on time, etc., leads to the obvious question, how could our time be limited in direction and quantization, etc., if there was nothing to limit? Thus, our physical laws seem to predict or require an unlimited/infinite default version of things such as time, energy, force, space, dimensions, information, etc., in order to limit it.

Hypothesis: The laws of nature, Quantum Mechanics, and also mathematical infinity, seem to be the most fundamental, rational basis for something infinite beyond our Newtonian laws such as the possibility of an infinite Designer/Lawmaker/God.

If God exists, Who Made God?

This is a fallacy of anthropomorphic reasoning. Our "arrow of time" is responsible for our experience of cause and effect. Why would an infinite God who created the arrow of time and other physical laws be subject to our finite arrow of time? Thus, in eternity with no beginning of time there would be no need for cause and effect and thus an infinite Designer/Lawmaker/God would not need a cause.

Testable Evidence Supports a Cosmic Intelligent Designer

Testable Hypothesis 1: One can not reasonably use an undetected Designer to disprove or exclude a Designer of the universe. A designer is not intrinsically detected when observing their design. Reasonable example: Observe any man-made design and you will likely not detect the designer as you observe the design.

Testable Hypothesis 2: An intelligent designer makes intelligence. Reasonable examples: artificial intelligence, human intelligence, etc.

Testable Hypothesis 3: A process is made by a designer. Reasonable examples: scientific process, educational process, printing process, computer programming processes, etc., process of evolution, reproduction, chemical processes, atomic and sub-atomic processes, etc.

Testable Hypothesis 4: A designer leaves tell-tale signs like assembly instructions and manufacturing processes. Reasonable examples: semiconductor manufacturing processes, DIY kit instructions, DNA/RNA processes, process of evolution, atomic and sub-atomic processes, etc.

Conclusion: There seems to be un-contradicted, testable evidence, that is useful for making predictions, that intelligence and other processes are made by an intelligent Designer. In diverse areas of life, one can confirm that it takes intelligence to make something intelligent, or to increase intelligence or knowledge. And it apparently takes an intelligent designer to make processes. Thus, it is rational to think that there is an intelligent Designer of the universe (and all of its natural processes, etc.).

Let's see what the Bible had to say 2000 years ago about observing, testing, and understanding reality: 1 Thessalonians 5:21 Test all things..., 1 Peter 3:15 ...give [a] reason..., Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made [i.e. science], so that men are without excuse. - NIV. So, let's use real science, like the Bible says, based on observing, testing, reasoning, and understanding "what has been made", not basing ones point of view on imagination or blind faith or assumptions.

What is an Intelligent Designer of the Universe Like?

"...all physical theories...break down at the beginning of the universe."
- Stephen Hawking.

su-per-nat-u-ral: of, pertaining to, or being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena; - Dictionary.com

Logical Assumption: Mathematical infinity, singularities, the "Big Bang", extra dimensions, and parallel universes are not able to be directly tested and are beyond and unexplainable by the laws of nature, yet scientists believe these are possible, showing that super-natural qualities, like a God's infinite nature, can exist. This is not proof. It's simply enabling the possibility of a super-natural God.

Logical Assumption: Since by definition a law or rule implies a law maker/enforcer, then it is logical to think that the laws of nature have a cosmic law maker/enforcer.

Testable Hypothesis 5: A designer is present during the design process.

Testable Hypothesis 6: A designer cares about their design and jealously watches over and protects it and may also have other agents caring for and watching over their design.

Testable Hypothesis 7: A designer makes themselves available at some point to demonstrate their design or answer questions about it.

Testable Hypothesis 8: A designer is born of intelligent parents.

Conclusion: It would be rational that a Designer of the universe who could design atomic and sub-atomic processes, etc., and cause our arrow of time, would be super-natural and able to operate outside of our laws of nature including our "arrow of time" (see more below). Our time is unidirectional with limited time slices called Planck time. These limitations could have been imposed by a cosmic Designer at the point we call the beginning of time while a cosmic Designer's time could be bidirectional, etc., with no limitations. Since human designers make themselves available, it would also make sense that a Cosmic designer would make themselves available to mankind. There is written evidence of people observing such a designer. In the Bible, the Designer of the universe was present during the design (Genesis 1), was called a jealous God who jealously cares about his design and watches over it, and also has agents caring for and watching over the design (i.e. angels), has made himself visibly available, in the form of Jesus Christ who reportedly commanded the weather, walked on water, and raised the dead, instantly appeared and disappeared, etc., in front of many witnesses. Jesus also claimed to be born of super-natural parents and then later was born of a human mother in order to be present on the earth in human form, making himself available to be questioned and proved. The Bible says that Jesus created all things and that he was born of the Spirit and the Father making a super-natural Trinity: Colossians 1:15-18 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible... John 3:6,35 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit...The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. Hebrews 1:2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe.

What Else Can Be Understood?

Logical Assumption: Mankind's law making and law enforcing abilities, characteristics and behavior, etc., are also a product of our origin and can be tested just like anything else to determine the intelligent origin of the universe and it's laws.

Law: the observed regularity of nature - Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Logical Assumption: In order to prevent an equivocation fallacy, there needs to be a common definition: All laws, man-made or otherwise, are all part of nature and have a common meaning: Laws cause physical regularity.

"A law of physics is a pattern that nature obeys without exception." - Sean Carroll, California Institute of Technology

Logical Assumption: Man is fallible, and human lawmakers and law enforcers can't enforce laws perfectly. The fact that the laws of nature are followed perfectly and "without exception" by every particle in the universe seems to be evidence of an omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, perfect God.

Testable Hypothesis 9: A human lawmaker creates laws and human law enforcers or man-made mechanisms then enforce the laws. Thus, it is reasonable that the laws of nature have a Law Maker and Law Enforcer.

Testable Hypothesis 10: An intelligent human being creates effects and forces. Thus, it is reasonable that magnetism, nuclear forces, gravity, or any other natural forces, or stored forces contained in inertia and nuclear and chemical processes, are ultimately caused directly or indirectly by an intelligent Being (Law Maker or Law Enforcer).

Testable Hypothesis 11: A human being creates, senses, processes, and stores information. Thus, it is reasonable that any information discovered, stored, or processed in nature was ultimately caused by an intelligent Being.

Testable Hypothesis 12: Intelligent human designers, lawmakers, and scientists are applauded for their intelligence if they can develop the most "elegant" or simple process, design, or law to accomplish a complex solution or outcome. Thus, it is reasonable that a cosmic Lawmaker or Designer would make the most simple and elegant laws or processes to accomplish a complex outcome, i.e. the simpler the process, relative to the complexity of the outcome, the more intelligent the designer. Therefore, the process of evolution would be evidence of an intelligent Designer, not any evidence against one.

Testable Hypothesis 13: Laws are generally a limitation on something and a reduction in complexity in order to form "physical regularity", such as speed limits, roads and tunnels, etc. Thus, because of this apparent dependency, it seems reasonable that the laws of nature may be proof that the super-natural does exist. There may be unlimited speeds infinitely faster than the speed of light, unlimited distances infinitely smaller than the Planck distance, bi-directional, infinite time, and a super-natural Designer/Law Maker..

Conclusion:Laws apparently imply a reduction in complexity. For example, our arrow of time is only unidirectional and apparently has a minimum time slice (i.e. Planck time = 10^-43 seconds). Thus, whatever is making/enforcing our laws of nature likely can operate between Planck time and Planck distances and would therefore likely be more complex than we are. One can try to imagine an intelligence that could operate infinitely faster than the speed of light, in infinitely small time increments bi-directionally (i.e. no beginning and no end), and think in infinite dimensions of time. In fact, information, like math and other forms of communication, and also our thought processes, seem to be able to represent or describe perfection and infinity. The ability to conceptualize in our minds and then communicate infinity and perfection may be the fundamental characteristics that differentiate humans from other life, making us self-aware and conscious, etc., feeling like we can imagine things outside of our finite existence. These qualities could also motivate our creativity as we seek to make things better than what they are and feel that we can reach beyond the natural.

These testable principles have apparently never been contradicted, apply universally, and are always useful for making predictions.

Thus, since intelligence, laws and processes are found in the universe, and we don't detect a Designer, it is logical and predictable that there is an intelligent Creator. And a super-natural Creator/Lawmaker/Enforcer would apparently be necessary to limit and maintain our natural space-time and cause the laws of nature to exist. By definition, random chance cannot create a single reasonable pattern without intelligently applied laws or limitations.

Conclusion: There is no evidence that a Creator was not needed to make evolution or natural processes or the laws of nature, etc. In fact, testable evidence and predictions apparently completely contradict atheism/agnosticism. Therefore, confidence in atheism/agnosticism seems to be blind faith with no scientific basis. A plethora of diverse, uncontradicted, testable evidence, useful for making predictions, demonstrates that God is logical and based on science and his son Jesus Christ is responsible for the laws of nature and creation of the universe. In addition, the Bible contains the only scientifically accurate creation account (see Bible Integrity). It seems that we should thank God for creating us and our universe, and seek to find out what he wants us to do and to serve Him daily. In the Bible, John 3:16 seems like the best place to start: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. - NIV

Fred Hoyle said: "there is a good deal of cosmology in the Bible." (The Nature of the Universe, p.109.)

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