Can We Ever Prove Mathematically That Our Universe Was Designed By God?
If hard math is the opposite of faith, where does it point?
The more we study our universe, the more inescapable this conclusion becomes.
We used to think we evolved randomly. Life could evolve anywhere, given a few basic starting conditions. Given this, we expected that life should exist widely throughout the universe, taking on the nature of whichever environment it chanced to occur within.
But the more we study how life works, the less tenable this position becomes. It’s near inescapable that life exists on planet Earth because it met a staggering number of necessary conditions — over 200 factors had to exist in perfect harmony for life to exist on our pale blue dot.
But I don’t expect you to take my word for it.
Let’s turn to the scientists and mathematicians directly.
The same year Time featured the now-famous headline [“God Is Dead,”], the astronomer Carl Sagan announced that there were two important criteria for a planet to support life: The right kind of star, and a planet the right distance from that star. Given the roughly octillion — 1 followed by 27 zeros — planets in the universe, there should have been about septillion — 1 followed by 24 zeros —…
