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I've heard others say it similarly, but you got it, a great defence for Gods existence. I heard someone else say, "The universe is so finely tuned, that it couldn't have happened by chance. It is made with mathematical laws that man did not make, man discovered them."As a physiscist, I think that the strongest rational argument for God's existence is the mathematical representability of the natural laws. Science has proved that natural phenomena can be predicted through some specific mathematical equations, the laws of physics.
The fact that through a system of mathematical equations it is possible to predict sistematically the results of all mechanical, chemical, electromagnetic, optical and thermal processes makes it unreasonable to suppose that nature hasn't an intrinsic mathematical, and therefore rational, structure. There is in fact no reason to expect that a non-mathematically structured universe could be sistematically described by a system of mathematical equations. Actually the first scientists (Galileo and Newton) who began to use mathematical equations to express the natural laws, were christians and they justified their choice because they believed that the universe was a creation of an intelligent God. Their intuition has certainly revealed one of the most fruitful intuitions in history and all scientists now accept the idea that the natural laws can be expressed through matemathical equations, even if some of them (atheists and agnostics) seem not to understand the theological implications of this fact.
I would like to point out that a mathematical equation cannot exist by itself because it is an abstract concept and it may exist only as a thought in a conscious and intelligent mind.
The insurmountable problem for atheists is to explain the existence of the laws of physics and their intrinsic conceptual and mathematical nature.
Usually atheists refer to the natural laws as "patterns or regularities" (or equivalent expressions) but these are only vague and empty rethoric figures, without any real meaning. The point is that all modern physics, and in particular quantum mechanics, consists of abstract mathematical models without any concrete representations.
In conclusion, the existence of this mathematically structured universe does imply the existence of an intelliogent and conscious God; this universe cannot exist by itself, but it can exist only if there is a conscious and inteligent God conceiving it according to some specific mathematical equations.
One I like to use is the fetus. How it's designed and created, not by itself. Cells into fibers into organs and systems simultaneously happens miraculously. Cells don't have intelligence, they don't decipher the genetic codes, they don't know how to create thousands of miniaturized factories within themselves that in turn create complex molecules, amino acids, proteins, etc. When you think The brain has a network of connections - 4 quadrillion. How much is that? Think of a forest of trees each having 100k leaves, then 40k trees in a square mile, and them a million square miles. Now imagine they are all connected.
But really, one cell is more complex than anything man has ever made. And with a special topping on the cake, the baby looks like both parents. You can go into it further but realize, this process cannot happen by itself. It requires an intelligent supreme being to create life, every single time with every organism.
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