Doubts & Questions
“There’s no evidence for God’s existence.”
The claim that "there’s no evidence for God" assumes a narrow view of what counts as evidence. If we only accept scientific, repeatable, laboratory-based experiments, we limit ourselves to material realities alone. But if God exists, He is not merely a part of the universe, He is the cause of space, time, and matter itself. Expecting to find Him in a physics experiment is like searching for the author of a novel inside the pages of the book itself.
Instead, we should ask: What kind of evidence would we expect for an all-powerful, transcendent being?
The reality is, evidence for God is everywhere - woven into the fabric of the universe itself, from its very origins to its precise laws and the very fact that we are capable of contemplating these questions at all. The following examples are just a drop in the ocean of the overwhelming clues pointing to a Creator.
1.1. The Fine-Tuning of the Universe
The fundamental forces of nature - gravity, electromagnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces - are precisely balanced in a way that makes life possible. The odds of these constants being so perfectly tuned for a life-permitting universe are astronomically low. If any of them were altered even slightly, the universe would be inhospitable. In a random, unguided universe, we wouldn’t expect such precise order and mathematical elegance. This precision strongly suggests an intelligent mind behind the cosmos.
Even atheist physicists like Fred Hoyle, who once rejected God, later admitted:
"A common-sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics."
1.2. The Origin of Life from Non-Living Matter
Despite decades of research, science has made no progress in explaining how life emerged from non-living chemicals. The presumed first life forms - single-celled organisms - already had complex biological information encoded in DNA, the most advanced information storage system known.
To illustrate: the amount of genetic information in even the simplest cell is equivalent to an entire library’s worth of books, all containing highly organised, functional instructions. The leap from simple chemical reactions to a fully functional, self-replicating, information-driven life form is not a small step - it’s a massive chasm.
Random processes alone, even over billions of years, cannot account for this level of specified complexity. The best explanation? A guiding intelligence at work behind physical processes.
Even renowned atheist scientist Francis Crick (co-discoverer of DNA) admitted:
"An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that, in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle."
1.3. The Emergence of Human Consciousness
Animals exhibit intelligence, but there is a fundamental gap between human and animal cognition. Humans don’t just survive in nature; we manipulate and tame it.
Think about it: humans build civilizations, compose orchestras, explore space, create philosophical ideas, and develop advanced mathematics. No purely materialistic explanation accounts for this immense cognitive leap from the animal kingdom to human rationality. The self-awareness, creativity, and moral reasoning that separate us from other creatures suggest something more than just natural selection - pointing instead to a mind beyond the physical world.
Even atheist philosopher Thomas Nagel has admitted:
"Consciousness is the most conspicuous obstacle to a comprehensive naturalism. It is not just a physical phenomenon."
1.4. The Existence of Logic and Objective Morality
Laws of logic and moral truths exist independently of human opinion. If the universe were purely material, concepts like "truth" and "justice" would be subjective, merely byproducts of human evolution. Yet, we know that things like murder, rape, and cruelty are objectively wrong - not just because society says so, but because they violate an intrinsic moral law.
Likewise, laws of mathematics and logic are not human inventions - they are discovered. These universal, immaterial truths exist whether or not humans do. But where do they come from? Why does the universe behave mathematically?
The best explanation is that these laws reflect the rational mind of a Creator, rather than being just brute facts of reality. As Albert Einstein put it:
"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible."
The Real Issue: Lack of Evidence or Unwillingness to Follow It?
When someone dismisses all these signs - fine-tuning, the origin of life, human consciousness, moral law, and logic - and the many not mentioned, it’s not a lack of evidence that stands in the way. It’s an unwillingness to accept where that evidence leads.
If someone refuses to even consider non-material causes, they have ruled out God before even examining the case. But refusing to look through a telescope doesn’t mean the stars don’t exist.
The bottom line? God has left fingerprints everywhere - in nature, in reason, in morality, and in our very existence. The real question is whether we’re willing to see them.