A Beginning Necessitates a Beginner! (The Big Bang)
Just within the last century, science has discovered evidence that our Universe had a finite beginning in time. Since there is no natural process that creates something out of nothing, I believe that there needed to be a causal agent outside of the realm of the Universe to start the "Big Bang" and believe that God was that First Cause.
Stephen Hawking, who has tried to look for a loophole in the scheme of things, had the following to say about the implication of a beginning to our Universe; "So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator."
The Tuning is just so Fine! (Cosmic Coincidences and The Anthropic Principle)
There are several characteristics about our Universe, solar system, and planet that make complex life possible. Interestingly enough, these characteristics fall within astronomically small boundaries. For example, consider the expansion rate of the Universe which cannot vary by more than 1 part in 10^55. If the expansion rate was any smaller the universe would collapse, even before stars formed. If this value was any larger, no galaxies would form.
Our Universe appears to be incredibly fine-tuned for life and this observation is made by several scientists. Astronomer Fred Hoyle said the following: "A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion beyond question." Paul Davies also noticed the peculiar fine-tuning of our Universe, "There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all....It seems as though somebody has fine-tuned nature’s numbers to make the Universe....The impression of design is overwhelming".
There's no Free Lunch (The Information Theory Problem)
In our current age of scientific enlightenment it has become an accepted fact of science that biology is incredibly complex. If you doubt this, just pay attention to the scientific news clippings on the Design Watch page. And there is one known source for this highly specified and complex information found in living systems - that is intelligent design. This means that theories like abiogenesis and undirected Darwinism that rely upon a random and undirected process to create information are sterile in their ability to explain the life that we see on planet Earth.
Consider the quote by John von Neumann, a founding father of Computer Science, "I shudder at the thought that highly purposive organizational elements, like the protein, should originate in a random process."
