Joel Hendon

Design As An Argument For the Existence of God


Posted: Monday, April 19, 2010

by Joel Hendon
http://hebronics.org/index.html

Those who deny the existence of God, will fight any evidence which is produced to the contrary. And since everyone has to admit there is no empirical evidence for or against His existence it seems somewhat foolish sometimes to attempt to produce even the strongest of evidence. But Christians have the obligation, the direct command, to teach others of God and His Son. So that is our purpose that somewhere, somehow, some may be persuaded.

The Design of the universe is vehemently denied by those of the atheist persuasion, yet it is an absolutely terrific piece of evidence for His existence. A few centuries ago, when man felt he could count the stars with reasonable accuracy, it might have made some slight sense to say that, of the 2,000-3,000 celestial bodies, only one was fortunate enough to be able to sustain life. But, now that we know that there are at least 2 billion stars in our own little Milky Way galaxy, possibly twice that many, and there is obviously no other such "privileged planet" in our galaxy.

Cosmologists continue to hold their breath, waiting for a sign of life elsewhere. They would give their right arm to just determine that water once existed on the moon. Why? They continue to pray (or whatever atheists do) for some semblance of a radio wave from the depths of the universe, or to glimpse a real sure-fire antennae-headed alien in a space ship.

Now that they have determined there are actually billions of galaxies, some which may contain as many as a trillion stars, and as yet are uncertain if they have successfully determined the outer limits of the entire universe, surely they will be able to find another planet with life on it. But don't put your money on it yet.

Several years back, two reputable and highly credentialed scientists, after much research, collaborated on the writing of a book which they entitled "The Privileged Planet". Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Richards wrote the book and also made a documentary, showing the extremely elaborate points which have caused the earth to be inhabitable. With the astronomical odds that even one of these many features would ever occur, more especially all of them.

Both men were severely criticized by the atheistic so-called "mainstream" scientists, but better described as those who survive on massive grants to continue the naturalists charade. Gonzalez was refused tenure at the Iowa State University because of his part in producing the book and documentary. Below is one of their best refutations of the book.

"Charles G. Lambdin reviewed the film, concluding that while life on planets may be remote, there are a lot of planets and "Using Gonzalez and Richard's own odds of habitability, this suggests that there may be one billion habitable planets due to chance alone." He also argued that the film's claim that the fact that we can do science at all suggests the universe was designed so that we can understand it is no different than the old quip that the nose must have been designed so that we can wear spectacles." (Wikipedia)

Maybe the odds show that there may be a billion other planets which could sustain life. But, so far they have nothing but the odds. No other life.

Author Biography: Joel Hendon was born near Gadsden Alabama. He attended public schools in Cherokee County, Alabama and after serving a tour of duty in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, attended Jacksonville State University, majoring in Business Administration. He became a Christian in 1948, and although he followed secular work as a career and retired from Allied Signal Aerospace, he is an avid student of the Holy Bible and related works as well as biblical history. He has an extensive website of conservative religious and political articles.http://hebronics.org/index.html

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