by Steve Bro

Created on: July 24, 2011

If a child were to be raised without any awareness of science or religion, if he were to be allowed complete freedom from any influence for or against the idea of a Creator of life, what conclusion would he naturally arrive at?

Imagine a child being accompanied through a forest until he came to a clearing. In the clearing is a house. The house has a complete range of furniture and all services built into it. Suppose a person then informs the child that the house was not designed or constructed by anyone but just came into existence. How would the child react? The child knows, from his own limited experiences in life so far, that complicated objects and structures do not assemble themselves and run themselves. Without lying to the child, it would be almost impossible to convince them that no-one created the house.

Life and its complexity is under similar scrutiny in our modern scientific age. Those who reject the concept of deliberate creation claim that scientific evidence indicates that life is not the result of design and construction and that the fundamental principle established in the non-biological world, namely that design requires intellect, does not apply to the biological universe. They make these claims despite the fact that they cannot explain why biological organisms are exempt from the application of fundamental logic. Ironically, belief in a creator of life is logical and scientifically sound.

Before presenting evidence and reasons to consider the existence of a designer of biological life, it is appropriate, even essential to establish one important fact; Contrary to the claims of many non-religious people, a great number of eminent scientists and scholars believe that the universe was designed and created by an intelligent mind. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, “today at least 80% of the scientists who deal with biology would probably admit that biology and life are regulated by some higher power”. Furthermore, according to the science journal “Nature”, “Almost 40% of biologists, physicists and mathematicians surveyed, believe in a God who not only exists, but also listens to and answers prayers”. So if you, the reader, do believe in a creator, you are in the company of some very intelligent people including Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and the molecular biologist Michael Behe, not to mention Charles Darwin himself!

Bryant Lecomte du Nouy, the first scientist to apply mathematical

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