Can science prove the existence of God?

What it means if there’s no life anywhere else in the Universe, and what we know so far.

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” -Winston Churchill

This past weekend, Eric Metaxas lit up the world with his bold article in the Wall Street Journal, Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God. What he argues, specifically is that to the best of our knowledge, this is our planet:

Image credit: ISS expedition 25, via http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=46820.

while this is every other planet out there.

Image credit: Mars Spirit Rover, NASA/JPL/Cornell.

Which is to say, we live in a particularly privileged place. We live on a planet that has all the right ingredients for life, including:

• We’re at the right distance from our Sun so that temperatures are conducive to life.
• We have the right atmospheric pressure for liquid water at our surface.
• We have the right ingredients — the right balance of heavy elements and organic molecules — for life to…