The Devil is in the details, and the more details, the more Devil.
We’ve all seen it happen. Someone tells a lie, then they have to tell a lie to support that lie,and then…and then… and then… Most of us in day-to-day life can spot when this happens. Just by the multiplication of explanations and the complexity of their connections we start to mistrust the situation and the person. Do the same now.
It is my contention that scientific and historic discoveries are revealing God to this generation to a clearer degree than any other. Those who don’t want a God to reckon their lives to have to create a plausible alternative. As discoveries march on toward the reality of God, their alternatives prove over and over not to work. But instead of choosing the obvious and logical reality – God – they construct ever more complex theories and models. Perhaps they are comforted when they lose themselves in their mountains of details, but they have lost themselves.
You cannot do that. Complexity does not reflect wisdom and simplicity does not reflect stupidity. It is quite the opposite, and you will know it when you see it if you want to see it. If you want to be blind, you can be blind.
I will give you a GREATLY abbreviated example.
In another post we will discuss something called “The Anthropic Principle” or “The Finely Tuned Universe”. Without great explanation at this time just let me say that there are a multitude of facts about our universe that make if appear as if the entire universe were designed for conscious life to form here on Earth, right now. There are a great many books on the subject, but for one that simply explains it and the theological ramifications of it, I suggest Godforsaken by Dinesh D’Souza.
Just how precise and amazing are these universal constants and what are the odds that all these factors would be exactly what they are?
Stephen Hawking: “The other forces and constants are very precisely tuned. The remarkable fact is that these values seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life.”
Astrophysicist and Cosmologist at the Univ of Chicago, Michael Turner writes: “The precision is as if one could throw a dart across the entire known universe, and strike a bullseye 1 millimeter in diameter on the other side.”
Now this exactly matches what a Christian would expect to find. We believe that God created the universe, at least in part, for we do not claim to know all his goals and intentions, so that he could have a truly loving relationship with beings like himself.
So what is the explanation if you are someone who refuses to consider God? The “Multiverse”.
You see the odds of our universe turning out exactly as it is by chance, are infinitesimal. So, there must be many, many universes and ours just happened to be the “lucky” one. How many universes does Dr Hawking propose to make the theory work? A billion, billion at least, perhaps an infinite number…and he says it with a straight face. Don’t mind that there is no evidence of even one other universe. And how does it solve any problem at all regarding God? We now need a mechanism to create even more universes.
Let’s examine this by way of an analogy, and let’s make the odds MUCH easier to attain than Stephen Hawking’s “billion, billion” universes.
- Imagine there are 30 state lotteries, all with odds of winning less than 1 in 25,000,000
- Someone buys on the same day 1 ticket for each lottery.
- That Friday, that one person wins all 30 state lotteries.
- Investigators would assume they had fixed the lottery, and admit it, you would too.
- Now imagine at the trial the defense counsel brings in Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins and they both testify that, while there is no evidence for it, there could be an infinite number of other universes and all of them may have state lotteries, so with that many possibilities, it could happen by chance that in our universe among these many universes one person could just be that lucky.
- It is more likely that the jury would all actually die laughing than they would acquit the winner based on this testimony.
So which is more rational to believe:
- The universe appears to be designed for us by God, just as the Bible says.
- Or that you really could win 30 state lotteries on the same day?
This is just a single example of clear, simple, realistic logic. Be willing to recognize the obvious truth, because the cost of the lottery ticket is too high and the odds to long.
