Apart from the mind-boggling complexity of biochemistry and cell function, contemporary physics has established that the universe is extremely fine-tuned for the existence of intelligent, interactive life.  That is to say, in order for intelligent, interactive life to exist, the fundamental constants and quantities of nature must fall into an incomprehensibly narrow life-permitting range.  This is called the ‘Goldie Locks’ zone. There are three competing explanations of this remarkable fine-tuning: physical necessity, chance, or design.

 The first two are highly implausible, given the independence of the fundamental constants and quantities from nature’s laws and the desperate manoeuvres by scientists needed to save the hypothesis of chance. That leaves design as the best explanation. Phenomenon like gravity is incomprehensible unless we understand that they are the product of intelligent design. A Physicist by the name of Dr Paul Davies said, “Through my scientific work I have come to believe more and more strongly that the physical universe is put together with an ingenuity so astonishing that I cannot accept it merely as a brute fact.”

Scientists have discovered that from the beginning (the ‘big bang’) the universe was fined-tuned with incomprehensible precision that allowed life to exist. How do you explain the instant presence of this ‘design’? A lucky accident? We are talking about fantastically enormous odds that the big bang produced. To get technical, for example, if the subatomic weak force had been altered by as little as one part out of 10100 – that is ten followed by one hundred zeroes – the universe would not have been life permitting. There is a dozen or more of these kinds of constants and quantities, all of which must fall into this exquisitely narrow range of life-permitting values in order for the universe to be life-permitting. So, the idea that this happened just by chance is just infinitesimally probable. Surely an all-powerful, all knowing, God is the best explanation for the fine-tuning of the universe for intelligent life.

Cosmologist Chandra Wickramasinghe stated, “It is quite a shock. From my earliest training as a scientist, I was very strongly brainwashed to believe that science cannot be consistent with any kind of deliberate creation. That notion has had to be very painfully shed. I am quite uncomfortable in the situation, the state of mind I now find myself now in. But there is no logical way out of it. I now find myself driven to this position by logic. There is no other way in which we can understand the precise ordering of the chemicals of life except to invoke the creations on a cosmic scale…. We were hoping as scientists that there would be a way around our conclusion, but there isn’t.” (Quoted in: ”There Must be a God.” Daily Express.). Anthony Flew, the former Atheist, philosopher, author, and debater put it this way, “The most impressive argument for God’s existence are those that are supported by recent scientific discoveries, such as the fine tuning of the universe.” (Quoted in “The Agnostic Enquirer” p118)