The existence of a Creator
- May 18
- 5 min read
If you deny the existence of a Creator, the deepest mysteries of reality do not disappear.
They simply get transferred to causes that are still unexplained, unseen, and in many ways supernatural from a materialistic perspective.
This is not an argument against science.
Science is one of humanity’s greatest achievements. In fact, the more science discovers about reality, the more astonishing the universe appears.
The real debate is not “science vs. God.”
The real debate is:
What best explains the evidence?
Let’s think carefully about some of the biggest questions in existence.
1. THE UNIVERSE HAD A BEGINNING
Modern cosmology strongly supports the idea that the universe had a beginning.
According to the standard Big Bang model, space, time, matter, and energy all came into existence approximately 13.8 billion years ago.
This is important because before the Big Bang, there was no physical universe as we know it. Time itself appears to have begun with the expansion of the cosmos.
Even many atheist physicists acknowledge this creates a profound philosophical problem:
What caused the universe to exist?
Nothing in ordinary experience suggests that something can arise from absolute nothingness. In science, effects require causes. Yet materialism must somehow explain how the entire physical universe emerged.
The laws of physics cannot explain their own origin because those laws themselves are part of the universe.
The late Stephen Hawking once asked the following:
“What is it that breathes fire into the equations?”
That question still remains.
2. THE UNIVERSE IS FINELY TUNED
The universe is governed by extraordinarily precise physical constants.
Gravity, the cosmological constant, electromagnetic force, the ratio of proton to electron mass, and many other values appear delicately balanced for stars, chemistry, planets, and life to exist.
For example:
• If gravity were slightly stronger, stars would burn too quickly.
• If it were weaker, stars might never form.
• If the cosmological constant were altered even by an extremely tiny fraction, galaxies could never exist.
Physicist Paul Davies said:
“The impression of design is overwhelming.”
Even atheist astronomer Fred Hoyle famously remarked that the universe looked as though “a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.”
This does not “prove God” mathematically, but it raises a serious question:
Why is the universe intelligible, ordered, and astonishingly calibrated for life instead of random chaos?
3. LIFE FROM NON-LIFE REMAINS UNSOLVED
One of the greatest unanswered questions in science is abiogenesis—the origin of the first living cell.
A living cell is not a blob of simple chemicals.
It contains:
• Information storage systems
• Molecular machines
• Energy conversion systems
• Error-correction mechanisms
• Self-replication machinery
• Nanotechnology beyond human engineering
DNA itself functions like a digital code system.
Inside a single human cell is information comparable to vast libraries of data.
Despite decades of experiments, scientists have never created life from non-life in an unguided natural environment.
The famous Miller-Urey experiment produced some amino acids under highly controlled laboratory conditions, but amino acids are not life.
They are merely simple building blocks.
Going from chemistry to a functioning self-replicating cell remains an enormous leap.
Even many origin-of-life researchers openly admit that the problem is extraordinarily difficult.
4. CONSCIOUSNESS IS STILL A MYSTERY
You are aware.
You experience thoughts, emotions, imagination, beauty, pain, meaning, and self-reflection.
But how does unconscious matter suddenly become conscious?
Neurons exchange electrical signals, but no one has fully explained how subjective awareness emerges from physical particles.
This is known in philosophy and neuroscience as “the hard problem of consciousness.”
Materialism can describe brain activity, but describing electrical activity is not the same as explaining inner experience itself.
Why should atoms ever produce the following:
• Love?
• Logic?
• Morality?
• Imagination?
• The awareness of existence?
Consciousness remains one of the deepest unsolved mysteries in science.
5. OBJECTIVE MORALITY
Most humans instinctively recognize that some things are truly wrong:
• Torturing innocent children
• Murder
• Betrayal
• Cruelty
But if humans are only accidental products of blind natural processes, where do objective moral obligations come from?
Natural selection may explain survival behaviors, but it does not explain why moral truths feel binding and real.
If morality is only chemistry and social conditioning, then concepts like justice and human rights become subjective preferences.
Yet most people live as though morality is genuinely real.
That raises a powerful philosophical question:
Why do humans universally search for meaning, justice, truth, and moral purpose?
6. INFORMATION IN DNA
DNA is not merely chemistry.
It is a highly ordered information system using a four-letter digital code.
In every known example in human experience, meaningful coded information comes from intelligence.
Books come from minds.
Software comes from minds.
Languages come from minds.
Yet inside living cells exists information vastly more advanced than anything humans have ever engineered.
The question is not whether DNA contains information.
It clearly does.
The question is
What is the ultimate source of that information?
SCIENCE DOES NOT REMOVE WONDER
Some people assume belief in a Creator is “anti-science.”
Historically, many founders of modern science believed the universe was understandable precisely because it reflected rational order.
Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, and many others viewed scientific discovery as uncovering the laws governing creation.
Science explains mechanisms.
But mechanisms alone do not always explain ultimate origins or purpose.
Knowing how ink forms letters does not explain who wrote the book.
FINAL THOUGHT
Denying the existence of a Creator does not eliminate mystery.
It simply shifts the mystery elsewhere:
• A universe from nothing
• Order from chaos
• Life from non-life
• Consciousness from matter
• Morality from blind atoms
• Information from unguided chemistry
The deeper we study reality, the more the universe appears astonishingly ordered, mathematical, information-rich, and finely structured.
You may ultimately disagree about what that means.
But these are not shallow questions.
They are among the greatest questions human beings can ask.
Think deeply.
Follow the evidence honestly.
And never lose your sense of wonder.
Note
But knowing there is a God is not enough:
There are different levels of belief and different objects of belief, and not all that’s called “belief” is actually saving faith. James 2:19 says, “You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.” So, if a person simply believes that there is a God in heaven—and that’s the extent of his faith—then he has exactly the same faith as the demons of hell. That’s not saving faith, even though it involves a measure of belief. Therefore, yes, a person can “believe” in some sense but not be saved.
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