Order from chaos/disorder does not work for me.  When it comes to the existence of God, or less specifically the existence of a powerful Intelligence, I do not need to look farther than the existing universe.  Evidence abounds in the Earth alone that points definitively to a Creation.  So why do atheists look at the world and then say, “There is no evidence to support or suggest the existence of God?”

This one discussion point leads to a question for all of us.  If there is evidence (the universe), why does a conclusion of Created Order not follow as a deduction?

The question is this: What would you accept as evidence?  If someone refuses to believe based on the evidence, is the evidence insufficient, or is there something wrong with the lens of the observer?  If I show you a rock, let you touch the rock, watch you taste the rock, and hit you with the rock, and you still say to me, “There is no rock,” then any number of things might be true.  You might be insane.  We all might be insane.  We may all just be a bundle of perceptions.  You might not be willing to accept the evidence of the rock’s existence.  However, your unwillingness to admit the rock’s existence is not a determining factor of its reality.

Simply choosing to “believe” a thing exists is not an act of creation or abolition.  The rock I hit you with (depending on your philosophy, of course, but here I’m going with what I consider to be normative) exists, whether or not you believe it.  This brings me back to the argument for the existence of God from the Ordered Universe.

The universe reflects order in many ways.  We have genetic code that works, by and large.  Physics laws are generally reliable.  When you breed a cat with a cat, you get a cat.  Horses can’t mate with fish.  Solar cycles repeat themselves in predictable patterns.  Even our thoughts have general order to them.

Since we know from reliable scientific discovery that human genetics are incredibly complex, why would someone argue that human life could happen any other way than being created by some Intelligence?  Why would a person examine the overwhelming evidence for Created Order and then deny that a Powerful Intelligence was responsible for its existence?

Think through this one example with me… You have 26 twenty-six sided dice.  Each die has every letter of the American English alphabet on it, one letter per side.  Imagine you had a large area in which to roll these dice as many times as you like.  Would they ever land perfectly lined up in order from A to Z?  Of course not.  Is is possible?  I’d have to say Yes, it’s possible.  However, it is plainly reasonable to assume they will never correctly line up.  Even given billions of years.  The odds are astronomical that it would ever happen.

Is the human genome less complex than the alphabet?  I should think not.  A cursory glimpse into the night sky or through a microscope should stew in us a sense of wonder and awe, and should serve as a giant helping of evidence for a Creator.  When cleanly examined by an honest mind, the world and universe lend themselves to the idea of a Creator.  This is apart from a historic, Christian understanding of the Bible.  This idea stands alone, by itself, with what I can only see as a mountain of evidence that a Creator not only exists, but fashioned this here universe.