Is Science Making The Case For God? (Video)

The jury’s still out on scientific proof for the existence of a Supreme Being, but it’s a question that certainly resonates with the reading public — even the highly educated, entrepreneurial types that peruse The Wall Street Journal.

According to the Facebook page of radio host Dennis Prager, an article by American Christian author, speaker and TV host Eric Metaxas, called “Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God,” published last Christmas Day, has just hit 400,000 Facebook likes. Prager also says it’s the most popular WSJ article ever (it has, at this moment, 8,128 comments alone, has been shared to Facebook over 400,000 times and to Twitter more than 6,000).

According to Metaxas, the odds against life are literally astronomical — and getting longer all the time — and the confluence of factors necessary for the existence of life is looking increasingly unlikely to happen on anything more than a vanishingly small number of planets.

In short, the Earth, bursting at the seams with life, appears to be part of an ever-smaller club, if not one with a membership of … one.

Here’s a taste:

Today there are more than 200 known parameters necessary for a planet to support life—every single one of which must be perfectly met, or the whole thing falls apart. Without a massive planet like Jupiter nearby, whose gravity will draw away asteroids, a thousand times as many would hit Earth’s surface. The odds against life in the universe are simply astonishing.The odds against life in the universe are simply astonishing.

Yet here we are, not only existing, but talking about existing. What can account for it? Can every one of those many parameters have been perfect by accident? At what point is it fair to admit that science suggests that we cannot be the result of random forces? Doesn’t assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being?

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Prager’s online learning portal, Prager University, also produced a video on the same subject with Metaxas, released on Feb. 9.