Everyone knows that cars, computers, pianos, and projectors all require engineers, technicians, and tuners for them to function properly. New machines are built by intelligent people. Older machines receive tune-ups by intelligent tuners. Surely, no one believes that tune-ups happen by accident. How can anything be finely tuned without a fine-tuner?
Atheistic evolutionists continually find themselves in a conundrum because of their admission that our Universe is fine-tuned. If the physical laws of the Universe (gravity, for example) are merely inherent in the Universe and simply evolved to their current status by time and chance along with everything else that exists, the question arises, “Why, then, is the Universe so fine-tuned?” Why do planets not crash into each other during their orbits? How have astronomers been able to predict with amazing accuracy where a planet, such as Mars, would be in 20 years? How can we pilot and guide spaceships to travel 240,000 miles to a particular point on the moon while both the earth and the moon are in motion?
Atheists allege that the Universe and its laws are the result of non-intelligent, purely naturalistic, random processes, yet at the same time, leading atheists contend that it is “ordered in an intelligible way.” Unbelievers have acknowledged many examples of fine-tuned properties in the Universe and have even admitted that it looks as if “a super-intellect has been monkeying with physics.”1
In truth, it looks as if a super-intellect lies behind the precise, fine-tuned, law-driven Universe because there is a Super- Intellect behind it all. The simple, satisfying answer for why the Universe works so well, and for why Earth is so perfect for life’s existence, is because the Universe has a Fine-Tuner. Just as a fine-tuned automobile demands a tuner, so our fine-tuned Universe demands a Designer. Nothing makes sense if an ultimate Tuner does not exist, but everything makes sense if He does.
Although many ridicule Genesis 1:1 as being unreasonable and unscientific, the fact is, Scripture’s explanation makes perfect sense in light of the fact that we live in a finely tuned Universe. “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork” (Psalm 19:1). Indeed, “God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1), and He is “upholding all things by the word of His power” (Hebrews 1:3).
—Eric Lyons
Endnotes
1 Paul Davies, “Laying Down the Laws,” New Scientist, June 2007, p. 30.
