First, the laws of mathematics insist that the universe could not have happened randomly and by happenstance. So many exact conditions must be met for us to survive that it is mathematically impossible for the cosmos to exist without them. The chances are more likely that a locked room full of gorillas with a word processor could eventually type out Gulliver’s Travels and War and Peace. For example, if the earth were tilted at an angle other than its present 23 degrees, which allows our four seasons, we would be frozen to death in a few days. If our moon were 50 thousand miles from earth instead of where it is, the tides would create tsunamis so high that all the continents would be submerged.
Second, the mind of man that has taken raw materials and transformed them into our modern conveniences is proof itself of a Grand Designer. Not only have we been created in God’s image, but we have innately within us the quest to discover and fabricate. How much does “life” weigh? It can’t be weighed. Yet is has taken the elements offered and converted them into the keyboard I type on and the automobiles we drive. Life is what makes space shuttles, Big Macs, roller skates, and cell phones. Who but God could make a carbon unit like you who can do these marvels?
Third, animal instinct screams for a designing Deity. How can a young salmon spend years at sea and suddenly decide to travel back to the river into which flows the tributary where he was born? If you pluck him out of his birthplace, he will know in a moment to start the struggle back to it. Eels are even more amazing as they make their way back to the same abyss near Bermuda from which they originated. No American eel has ever been found in Europe. A wasp will dig a hole in the earth, sting a grasshopper in exactly the right place so he won’t die but live on as a form of preserved food. She then will lay her eggs so that when they hatch they will be able to nibble without killing the insect on which they get their sustenance. Where did these abilities come from?
Fourth, man’s ability to reason and to chronicle his history proclaims loudly a designer God. Thanks to our intelligence as a species, we are able to look upward and see the wonder in creation and worship the awesome Creator. That is, some of us are capable of doing this. How so? We have this spark of universal intelligence in our DNA.
Fifth, newly discovered genetics displays design. If all the genes of all the people living today could be collected, a shot glass could hold them. Yet these are the absolute keys to the color of our eyes and the shapes of our noses. Just think of it. All of the characteristics of 7 billion humans are contained in a space less than one cubic inch. Our heredity is managed by this genetic magic. How so? God, in his omniscient creative wisdom, set it up this way, and not only for humans, but for animals and vegetables as well.
Sixth, the innate self-husbandry of the planet cries out Creator. The saguaro thrives in Arizona but not in the Gobi. Insects have no lungs as we do. They breathe through tubes. When insects grow larger than normal, their tubes do not grow in proportion to their bodies. This keeps insect from becoming as big as elephants. Can you imagine meeting a wasp as big as a tiger?
Seventh, that God can be conceived in our minds tells us there is a God. Design demands a designer. Buicks and homes have designers. Yet some say this complex planet on which we live has no such designer. The complexity of the universe demands not only a designer, but also an omnipotent designer who was able to contemplate every contingency. The recall of my present car tells me as smart as GM’s designers are, they are flawed in their abilities to get everything right. Ford just announced 750,000 automobiles to be recalled for faulty airbags and other design flaws. Even without the Bible, remote tribes knew to look upward. Nature itself caused them to realize there was Someone larger than themselves from which life and the amazing world we love sprang.
Can I prove God exists by some formula in a test tube in a chemistry lab? Nope. There is no need to. I am convinced God is by the very ideas suggested above. And that, coupled with faith, makes me a very special individual—for I have been created in the very likeness of God Himself. Just Goad. Not God. Why are there no atheists in foxholes? I think we understand why. Look up! Also see “Is God Real?” by Dr. Bobby Harrington.