Is there a God? 3

But with the view that God exists, we can give an explanation as to the reason why the universe is the way it is; well, it is because God fashioned the universe with us in mind. This argument, if successful, strongly argues for the existence of a Creator that takes an interest in humanity.

Let’s carefully examine the universe we live in, every evidence makes it less likely that the universe was formed by accident and more likely that it was designed by a Creator. When all evidence is taken into consideration, the argument from design would conclude that there can be no question as to whether the universe just happens to be so or whether it was intentionally formed that way; because the universe unmistakably demonstrates intelligent design.

“The practical problem for those who object to the teleological argument is how to account for all the accidents in the universe and all the adaptations. To take just one fact, it is obvious that the eye was designed for sight and was no mere or even fortuitous accident. How is the eye to be explained if there is no Designer? Too many denials invite a justified incredulity” (David Clark, Professor of Systematic Theology, Philadelphia School of Christian Workers). The universe simply displays too much design, too much wisdom. Only God could have possessed such unfathomable wisdom, and He does. “To God only wise be glory, through Jesus Christ, for ever. Amen” (Romans 11:27). The 17th century theologian Stephen Charnock wrote: “Men acquire wisdom by the loss of their fairest years; but God’s wisdom is the perfection of the divine nature, not the birth of study, or the growth of experience, but as necessary, as eternal, as His essence. He goes not out of Himself to search wisdom: He needs no more the brains of creatures in the contrivances of His purposes, than He doeth their arm in the execution of them. He needs no counsel; He receives no counsel from any (see Romans 11:34 and Isaiah 40:14). He is the only Fountain of wisdom to others.”