Why I Believe in God!

Dennis Edwards

1. Love and Friendship

When I was an atheist and at the point of suicide, the fact that somebody loved me led me not to kill myself. The fact that love existed caused me to doubt my atheistic beliefs. The fact that love existed caused me to search further for better answers than atheism had supplied. Someone’s love for me saved my life and gave me hope that I could find the answers to my existence. here's a short clip on the question of whether God exists or not from the Ravi Zacharis International Ministry.

2. Amazing Universe with Appearence of Design 
It’s pretty hard to look up at the sky on a starry night and not experience an amazing feeling of awe and wonder at it all. Could all this glorious universe beautifly desplayed before my eyes be the working of chance forces? I just found it hard to believe. The perfect order of the universe, it’s appearance of design, the fact that too many factors have to be so perfectly fine-tuned for our universe to exist, is just beyond comprehension. This holds true also for our solar system which seems perfectly designed to allow carbon based life to exist on Earth. Just too may coincidences need to be met.

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.” Abraham Lincoln

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me." Immanuel Kant

“Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.” Isaac Newton

Here's a excerpt from the documentary Privelged Planet on the fine-tuning of the universe.

3. Complexity of Nature

The fact that all life is highly complex even the so called simple cell seems to indicate a designer was involved. Biological machines exhibit the same qualities of simple machine which need all functioning parts in place at once in order to be operative. They cannot have evolved piece by piece as all parts need to be in place at the same time in order to be of any use. The biological machine, their complexity, as well as the complexity of every life form points to a designer. Chance just cannot explain the complexity that we see. Here are a few quotes from Michael Denton's book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis!

“The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle.”

“Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 gms, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world.”

"To the skeptic, the proposition that the genetic programmes of higher organisms, consisting of something close to a thousand million bits of information, equivalent to the sequence of letters in a small library of one thousand volumes, containing in encoded form countless thousands of intricate algorithms controlling, specifying and ordering the growth and development of billions and billions of cells into the form of a complex organism, were composed by a purely random process is simply an affront to reason. But to the Darwinist the idea is accepted without a ripple of doubt - the paradigm takes precedence!” ― Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory In Crisis

“I don’t know how long it is going to be before astronomers generally recognise that the combinatorial arrangement of not even one among the many thousands of biopoymers on which life depends could have been arrived at by natural processes here on the Earth. Astronomers will have a little difficulty at understanding this because they will be assured by biologists that it is not so, the biologists having been assured in their turn by others that it is not so. The “others” are a group of persons who believe, quite openly, in mathematical miracles. They advocate the belief that tucked away in nature, outside of normal physics, there is a law which performs miracles.” From British Astronomer and Mathematician Sir Fred Hoyle as quoted in Werner Gitt's In the Beginning Was Information on page 105.

Here's Dr. Michael Behe commenting on the complexity of the cell.

4. The Information in DNA and Laws of Information

The DNA is an information code which not only gives the plan of what biological parts need to be made but guides the making of the machines that make the parts. From our observable experience we know that no sophisticated information code like DNA could come about without an intelligent source. All sophisticated information that we experience in life comes from an intelligent source, a brain, a mind and not mindless matter. Therefore, we can conclude that the existence of the DNA molecule is the result of an intelligent designer or mind. Here is a quote from Signature in Cell  by Dr. Stephen C. Meyer. 

"As information theorist Henry Quastler observed, 'The creation of information is habitually associated with conscious activity.' Indeed, whenever we find specified information–whether embedded in a radio signal, carved in a stone monument, etched on a magnetic disc, or produced by a genetic algorithm or ribozyme engineering experiment–and we trace it back to its source, invariably we come to a mind, not merely a material process. And, as origin-of-life research itself has helped to demonstrate, we know of no other cause capable of producing functional specified information starting, again, from a purely physical or chemical state. Thus, the discovery of functionally specified, digitally encoded information in the DNA of even the simplest living cells provides compelling positive evidence for the activity of a prior designing intelligence at the point of the origin of the first life." Stephen C. Meyer

Here's Stephen Meyer explaining the information problem for the evolutionary theory.

"There is no known law of nature, no known process and no known sequence of events which can cause information to originate by itself in matter." a quote from Dr. Werner Gitt from his book

In the Beginning Was Information page 107

If you want to watch his 53 minute seminar, here it is below.

5. The Law of Causality

The Law of Causality says that when something comes into existence it always has a cause and that cause is in some way superior to that which was caused. For example, a building was caused by the design of a human being. A baby lion is caused by the mating of its parents. An atomic explosion is caused by the minds of men. Therefore, to say that “Nothing” exploded and brought the universe into existence is a non statement. “Nothing” cannot explode and cause space, time, and matter to come into existence. “Nothing” is not a sufficient causality for the perfectly designed universe we live in. Something greater than nothing and greater than the Universe caused the universe to come into existence. It’s sometimes defined as the uncaused cause of the universe. William Lane Craig has used this argument in many of his debates with non-believers.

"The kalam cosmological argument is an argument that can be simply formulated. Premise one: Whatever begins to exist has a cause. Things don’t come into being from nothing. Two: The universe began to exist. There’s good philosophical and scientific evidence that the universe is not eternal in the past, but had a beginning. And from that, it follows, three: Therefore, a cause of the universe exists. And then you do a conceptual analysis of what it is to be a cause of space and time, matter, and energy, and I think you’re able to show that a beginningless, uncaused, timeless, spaceless, immaterial, enormously powerful, personal creator of the universe exists, which is the core concept of God." William Lane Craig 

6. The Law of Biogenesis

The Law of Biogenesis says life always comes from life and not from non-life. Louis Pasteur disproved the Law of Spontaneous Generation in the early 1860s a few years after Darwin's Origins was published. Life does not spontaneously come about from non-life. Life only comes from life. The Law of Biogenesis disproves the belief in Spontaneous Generation which the Evolutionary Theory needs to begin life. Spontaneous Generation has never been seen to take place. Therefore, it is a belief system and not a scientific fact. The Law of Biogenesis disproves the Theory of Evolution.

Here's a quote from wikipedia on the subject. Biogensis: The principle stating that life arises from pre-existing life, not from nonliving material. "Conceptually, biogenesis is primarily attributed to Louis Pasteur and encompasses the belief that complex living things come only from other living things, by means of reproduction. That is, life does not spontaneously arise from non-living material, which was the position held by spontaneous generation."

Here's a short clip about Pasteur's work.

7. Laws of Logic

Where do the Laws of Logic come from? If the laws of logic, and even mathematical laws exist, from where do they originate? If we live in a total natural or material world, how do we explain the existence of laws of logic, mathematical and physical laws? Where do they come from?  Greg Bahnsen uses Laws of Logic as a defence of Theism.

8. Objective Moral Values

The fact that there exists objective moral values, that we more or less have the same moral standards worldwide, suggests that there is a Universal Moral Law. If there is a Universal Moral Law, that suggests that there is a Universal Moral Law Giver. Can matter be the cause of the Universal Objective Moral Laws? Here's a short video explaining the argument for God from Objective Morality.

9. Consciousness

The fact that we have a brain with a consciousness, with a little voice that talks to us telling us which way we should or should not go seems to indicate a higher reality beyond the material world. Materialism and Atheism do not have good answers for why we have a conscious. How could random biological functions generate or create consciousness? I can’t understand how it can happen.
Here's an argument from an atheist though he finishes by restating what he's trying to prove, called begging the question, without in any way proving it.

"Darwinian evolution implies that human beings emerged through the blind operation of natural forces. It is mysterious how such forces could generate something nonphysical; all known causal laws that govern the physical relate physical states of affairs to other physical states of affairs. Since such processes evidently have produced consciousness, however construed, consciousness is evidently a natural phenomenon, and dependent on natural phenomena." From an article by Dr. J.P. Moreland.

William Lane Craig put the argument from consciousness as follows [5]:
If God did not exist, intentional states of consciousness would not exist.
But intentional states of consciousness do exist.
Therefore, God exists.

Peter Kreeft has put forward a deductive form of the argument from consciousness[6] based upon the intelligibility of the universe despite the limitations of our minds. He phrases it deductively as follows:
"We experience the universe as intelligible. This intelligibility means that the universe is graspable by intelligence."
"Either this intelligible universe and the finite minds so well suited to grasp it are the products of intelligence, or both intelligibility and intelligence are the products of blind chance."
"Not blind chance."
"Therefore this intelligible universe and the finite minds so well suited to grasp it are the products of intelligence."

Watch J. Warner Wallace talk on the question of consciousness below.

10. Beauty of Life and Nature

Beautiful sunrises and sunsets, mountains of snow, and fields of grain, waterfalls with their rainbows glowing in the mist, wonderful animals, amazing planets and galaxies, babies and little children all point to a amazingly artistic creator, something beyond the possibility of chance randon actions. Here's a song marvelling at the beauty of life from a Christian perspective.

Here's Louie Armstrong singing about the wonderful world:


11. Sexuality

Sex is just such an amazing thing. How chance, i.e. random accidents in biological processes, could come up with the sexual parts and their counterparts in the right place at the right time is just beyond me. The evolutionists believe some amazing things. I think God creating the first couple is just a better explanation. Otherwise, biology once had some amazing abilities that we don't see existing today.

Here's a video by someone pointing out some of the difficulties:

12. Evolution lacks a Mechanism

Neither Natural Selection or Mutations are creative mechanism. Mutations have been shown to be more than 99% destructive. Natural Selection is a preserving mechanism and deletes DNA material rather then create it. Therefore, neither mutations, nor natural selection have the ability alone or together to create new additional DNA information that can add functional body parts to a growing organism. It has not been seen to take place naturally in nature. The Theory of Evolution doesn’t have a capable mechanism to create new viable DNA information needed to produce new body parts. There is no mechanism. Watch this video by Professor Randal Pollard and follow the links afterwards. Professor Pollard teaches in layman terms so you can see the difficulty the Evolution Theory is confronted with.

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTqbq_OAk3g
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWZAobdVPws
Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blrsyy110kQ
Part 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdkUGRYn2vA

13. Life After Death Experiences

LIfe after death experiences don’t make sense in an atheistic material world. Life after death experiences seem to indicate life beyond death and point to another reality. Atheism and materialism have no adequet answers for this dilemna.

Here is an excerpts from testimonies of nurses who worked in hospice care.

Here's a short excerpt from Raymond Moody who pioneered the study of Near Death Experiences and wrote extensively on the subject.

14. Healings and Miracles

The fact that unexpainable healings and miracles have taken place and do take place leads one to the conclusion there is more to life than meets the eye. Atheism and materialism again do not have adequet answers for this phenonemon. Here's a tesimony from a Reverend who died for 45 minutes and then came back to life.

15. Emotionally

It just seems to make good emotional sense that there is a reason for our existence. It makes good emotional sense to love and forgive others. It makes good emotional sense that our actions mean something and that some day we will give account for all that we’ve done or haven’t done. It just seems to me to make good emotional sense that life is just not in vain, that there is a meaning to it all and that meaning rests with God and His love for us. God and His love for us makes good emotional sense and makes life bearable and worth living.

Hope you'll look into the question of God, if you haven't yet. Call upon Him in Jesus' name and He will answer. He answered me and He can answer you if you'll seek Him with all your heart.