I have to admit, the evidence from his own lips suggests not.<\/p>\n
From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n “We still don’t know what exactly happened at the time of the Big Bang, 13.72 billion years ago. Cosmologists and physicists now have good ideas which are yet to be proved definitely, that the whole universe came into being as a quantum event out of literally nothing,” he said, according to the Times of India.<\/p>\n “This leaves religion with nowhere to go. Because however difficult it may be to explain the origin of the cosmos, it would be even more difficult to explain the origin of a designer who made the cosmos.<\/p>\n \u201cSo you have absolutely nothing to gain by postulating any kind of intelligent designer, because that simply evades the question we’re trying to solve. If you want to believe in some kind of god, don’t look to science.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n There are three problems with this.<\/p>\n First, it confuses the categories of things that have an origin \u2013 like the universe \u2013 and things that don\u2019t \u2013 like God. God, by definition is a necessary not a contingent being: he does not depend on something else for his existence. To look for a cause for the universe\u2019s coming into being makes sense, to look for a cause for God\u2019s coming into existence has no meaning because, in order to be God, he must have always existed.<\/p>\n Second, saying: \u201cthe whole universe came into being as a quantum event out of literally nothing\u201d doesn\u2019t solve the problem of how something that requires a cause for its existence arrived, apparently, without a cause: what caused the \u201cquantum event\u201d?<\/p>\n Third, since Richard Dawkins\u2019 atheism is a presupposition not something that has been demonstrated logically or empirically, it isn\u2019t surprising that science can\u2019t help him find something he is already convinced isn\u2019t there. Scientists who do not start out with a belief that God does not exist see a great deal of evidence for a universe that has been designed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have to admit, the evidence from his own lips suggests not. From here: “We still don’t know what exactly happened at the time of the Big Bang, 13.72 billion years ago. Cosmologists and physicists now have good ideas which … Continue reading