Richard Dawkins claims that God is a delusion and that religious faith is evil. But what if the scientific evidence itself is telling a different story?
Many people think that science and faith tell conflicting stories about how the universe began. But the scientific picture is of a definite moment of creation in a vast cosmic explosion (the 'Big Bang'), which had to be carefully adjusted for human life to be possible.
Over the past fifty years scientists have uncovered a series of amazing facts which show that the creation is an extremely unlikely place, fine-tuned in specific ways that make human life possible. It shows all the signs that it has been purposefully designed as a place for us to live. 'God: new evidence' and ‘God and the Big Bang’ are two series of videos about the remarkable evidence from cosmic fine tuning that points us towards the Creator.
The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important questions we have to answer. I think it is a scientific question. - Richard Dawkins
The Universe we live in seems to be a very unlikely place... Are we just lucky? Or is there some deep significance to the fact that we live in a Universe just right for us? - New Scientist magazine
'If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, the Universe would have recollapsed before it ever reached its present state.' - Professor Stephen Hawking
The universe is unlikely. Very unlikely. Deeply, shockingly, unlikely - Discover magazine
'Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan.' - Nobel Prize-winning scientist Arno Penzias
The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers… the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life. – Professor Stephen Hawking
‘The fact that we are just on the knife-edge of existence, if the dark energy were very much bigger we wouldn’t be here, that’s the mystery.’ - Professor Felix Bloch, Stanford University
The impression of design is overwhelming. – Professor Paul Davies
We can't understand the Universe in any clear way without the supernatural.' - Astronomer Allan Sandage
'Clearly there are religious implications whenever you start to discuss the origins of the Universe. There must be religious overtones. But I think most scientists prefer to shy away from the religious side of it.'- Professor Stephen Hawking
'A significant and growing number of scientists, historians of science and philosophers of science see more scientific evidence now for a personal creator and designer than was available fifty years ago.' - M J Wilkins and J P Moreland
Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since to come to see that, when correctly formulated, this argument constitutes a persuasive case for the existence of God. – Professor Anthony Flew