Key Takeaways
- The existence of a design standard in creation — including 30–37 trillion cells and DNA’s precise information — points to an intelligent designer.
- The universe’s fine-tuning is so precise that any variation in the gravitational force or expansion rate would prevent life — evidence of intentional design.
- Universal moral agreement across cultures requires an objective moral standard, which is only possible if God exists as its source.
Why People Question God’s Existence
This a question that is rampant in our world today, most people ask genuinely either because something tragic has happened to them and they can’t fathom how a loving God would allow that to happen. My friend once preached to a young girl who claimed that there was no God because her younger brother whom she was taking care of died even after she prayed.
Some other might claim that there is no God not because of any personal tragic experience but because of what they see around them, I once met a guy from Ukraine and he said that he doesn’t believe in God because of the Ukraine–Russia war, that if there was a God why didn’t he stop the war.
And there are the others who do not believe in God just because they feel there is no tangible proof to belief in God, of which I disagree and I will say why I disagree shortly but sometimes I think the underlying thing for this is that most people can’t bear the fact that there is a supreme being that would be over their life. Because we know that when someone says there is no God it gives them the liberty to do whatever they desire without limitations. And how you know that this is the state of some is that if you ask them if there were proof for the existence of God would you believe in him and they may say no/yes. If no, it means that at this point it is no longer a mind thing, it is now a heart issue.
The Classic Arguments
There are several arguments which have been made to prove the existence of God like the ontological argument, cosmological argument, teleological argument and so on. But I would like to talk about this topic in a bit more detail as I would talk about it with a person on the street.
The Standard of Creation: Design, DNA, and the Universe
First I would like to say if there is no God, meaning there is no standard — and what do I mean by this? I am a medical student and in medicine there are things called congenital defects or malfunctions and this is when people are not born normally. And I usually say that if there is no God meaning that anyone can come into this world the way they want, so if we see a lame person or a person who is blind, we can’t say they are not normal if there is no God.
But then the reason why when we see those things we say “oh this person have a problem” is because for human beings there is a standard, in that every human being should have 2 legs, 2 eyes, etc.
And this standard had to be put there by someone and that someone is God.
Same way we know that every car should have 4 wheels and if you see a car with 3 wheels you say it’s not good, because someone put that standard for the cars — it didn’t just come into this world like boom. I would call this first point the standard of creation. If we even dive in deeper to the human body, the human body is estimated to contain 30–37 trillion cells, and in each of these cells we have the DNA. And each DNA is a 4 letter chemical alphabet that spells out the precise assembly instructions for every protein out of which humans are made of. And this is information and we know that wherever we see information there is an intelligence behind it. And in this case the DNA points to an intelligent designer who is God.
Stephen C. Meyer, American philosopher of science, states this explicitly in discussing DNA and the origin of life. In Signature in the Cell, he writes:
“Experience shows that large amounts of such information (especially codes and languages) invariably originate from an intelligent source — from a mind or a personal agent. In other words, intelligent activity is the only known cause of the origin of functionally specified information.”
Apart from the human body, another example of the standard of creation is the earth. Even scientists in recent decades have discovered that attributes of the world from the very beginning are so precise that if any one of these attributes were slightly changed the universe wouldn’t exist or if it did it wouldn’t support life.
“If the gravitational force were altered more than 1 part in 1040, stars would not exist and therefore neither would we.”
A quote from Stephen Hawking:
“If the expansion rate of the universe was different by one part in a thousand million million a second after the big bang, the universe would have collapsed back on itself or never developed galaxies.”
The Standard of Morality
Then we also have another proof that God exists and I would call this the standard of morality. And what do I mean by this? We see that in the world today there are things that regardless of nationality/race we consider bad or wrong — for example, killing; we know it’s bad. So even if countries differ in certain laws we all agree that killing is bad. And how did we come to this agreement? By objective morality? Of course not. Because if everyone had their own opinion of what is good and what is bad the world would definitely be in chaos by now. Let’s take for example Adolf Hitler — the man who caused the holocaust and genocide of about 6 million Jews — if we claim that there is no God meaning there is no objective morality, only subjective morality, then we can’t say what Hitler did was wrong, because what if that was his own opinion of good.
So the mere fact that people around the world can agree on something as being bad is because there is a standard of morality, and this objective morality is given by God. If not, it would just be a matter of opinions.
C.S. Lewis puts it this way:
“As an atheist, my argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some kind of idea of a straight line.”
In other words, the very concept of evil points us to the existence of a moral standard — and therefore the existence of God.
Under this we can also say that evil proves that God exists. For more on this, it is written in a different blog.
When We Don’t Have All the Answers
However, because we do not have the answer to every single question — for example, the lady I told you about that lost her little brother even after she prayed for him — I cannot be able to explain why, and I greatly sympathise with her. But I also want her and those out there who have gone through something very tragic and devastating to know that God sees us and he understands our pain. And how do I know?
The Bible says so:
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”
— 2 Corinthians 1:3–4 (NKJV)
And apart from that, recently I had a dream of a little boy and in that dream this little boy had gone through so many tragic experiences and he didn’t know that God existed. So in the dream I wanted to tell him that God existed, but even with the whole philosophy and all I could explain to him, I couldn’t answer his questions about why what had happened to him had happened. Anyways, when I woke up I was led to pray for him and while I was praying for him I was crying, because I felt what he was going through even though I didn’t know what he was going through — but in the dream I knew he was going through a lot. And then I said to myself: if me as a human being can feel the pain of that little boy even without knowing everything he has been through, how much more God who knows everything.
How much pain does He feel for him — and that’s why probably He showed me that dream and prompted me to pray for the little boy.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the DNA in human cells point to an intelligent designer?
Angel Kanu argues yes — DNA is a four-letter chemical alphabet coding precise assembly instructions for every protein in the human body. Stephen C. Meyer, in Signature in the Cell, states that large amounts of functionally specified information invariably originate from an intelligent source. This points to God as the designer.
What is the standard of morality argument for God’s existence?
The argument holds that people worldwide recognise acts like genocide as objectively wrong — not merely culturally wrong. This cross-cultural moral consensus requires an objective standard of morality that transcends human opinion. Without God as the source of that standard, morality collapses into subjective preference. C.S. Lewis observed the same: to call the universe unjust, you need a concept of justice — which points back to God.
How does the fine-tuning of the universe support God’s existence?
Scientists have discovered that attributes of the universe from the very beginning are so precise that if any one of them were slightly changed, the universe would not exist or could not support life. The gravitational force could not vary by more than 1 part in 10^40 without stars ceasing to exist. Stephen Hawking noted that if the expansion rate after the Big Bang differed by one part in a thousand million million, the universe would have collapsed or never formed galaxies.