I also don't know if this is in the right forum so if not move it please.
Does God really exist?
You might wonder. If your looking for measured proof that God exists, science has been unable to find it.
Or has it?
For centuries, science and faith have seemed to be worlds apart. Much of this happened because of how the church in Rome treated a scientist named Galileo in the early 1700s. Galileo publicly supported a new theory that Earth revolved around the sun. But the church insisted the Bible said otherwise. As a result, the pope punished Galileo---he even threatened to have Galileo killed unless he began to teach again that the sun revolved the Earth. From that point on, many "religious" people saw scientists as people who wanted to attack religion; and scientists became anti-religion.
What people didn't know was that someday Galileo, who deeply believed in God, would be known as one of the scientists of all time. He foresaw that a new invention, the telescope, would prove the church wrong---as it did. He wanted to save them from embarrassment of supporting the wrong theory. But they wouldn't listen.
Because of this divide, it seems that we today have two choices: accept God on the merit of faith, choosing to believe what the Bible says (that God does exist and loves us individually) or believe what science claims to prove (that there is no God).
However, over the last fifty years, science has admitted that every discovery leads to more questions than answers. A century ago, many scientists believed they were on the verge of knowing all the answers regarding how we arrived on this planet called Earth. Now scientists say they have more to discover, the more they discover they don't know.
For example, if the force of gravity were slightly less, the universe would collapse on itself, like a balloon with the air sucked out of it. If the force of gravity were slightly more, it would have drifted apart as gases, instead of forming solids. If the force that held protons and electrons together were the slightest bit weaker, hydrogen would not exist, and therefore water would not exist, and therefore life would not exist. At all levels, it seems coincidence after coincidence after coincidence has made life possible in a lonely, cold universe.
Yet are there coincidences? Scientists have tried different computer models to simulate the creation of a universe that could sustain life. They can only find one model that works: Christian's, with the incredible adjustments of creation that truly are difficult to believe as mere coincidences, As a result, many scientists are led to faith in God because of what they see in the universe---an amazingly complex interworking of humans, plants, animals, stars, etc. It can only be the product of careful design of a loving creator.
Many scientists now believe that the fifteen-billon-year construction has had one goal: producing human life. Now that should make you feel special
! Science is proving that of human life being produced by chance are like winning the same ten-million-dollar lottery every week for the next year.
It's true that belief in God is truly a leap of faith, and no one can be forced to believe. Yet every year we see further proof that science---and reason---no longer stand in the way of a belief in God as the creator of this universe.
