The Case for God
As a lawyer, I’m aware that any proponent of a proposition has the burden of “producing evidence” to meet the ultimate “burden of proof”. First, if Darwinists state life has resulted by random natural forces, then they have the burden of producing evidence to answer the questions: “What do you mean that life originated by random events?” and “How did you come to that conclusion?”. Greg Koukl at “Stand to Reason” (
On the other hand, we have overwhelming evidence that God exists. I am listening to J.P. Moreland’s CD from my Apologetics Certificate Program at Biola, “The Case for God”. Moreland lays out multiple arguments that cumulatively carry the burden of proof that God is the originator of all existence, and particularly organic life. You cover some of these in your extensive “lessons”.
Since Evolutionists maintain only “natural processes” are at work, they refuse to entertain alternative propositions for the origins of life. In the law, a proponent (plaintiff) only wins by “default” when there is no “answer” on file, and no evidence presented in rebuttal. The best defense, I have learned from trial strategy, is a good offense. Particularly, the best defense is to present an alternative, independent reason for why things happen as they did. The “Case for God” is scientific. Nature is full of God’s intelligence, and screams his handiwork even to the deaf. Even the phrases “Natural Selection” and “Natural Processes” suggest an Intelligence that “selects” and “processes”.
You may have heard of SETI. It is an organization funded by the government, using scientific investigation, to systematically “Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence”. It had to adopt criteria for identifying “intelligence” “out there” when it found it. The criteria are: 1) complexity; 2) order; 3) non-repetition; 4) the whole of the structure is dependent on every part.
So, a human sentence (or a series of 100 prime numbers, as in the case of the movie “Contact” with Jodi Foster) satisfies all four criteria. Take biologist Michael Behe’s cellular flagellum identified in his book “Darwin’s Black Box”. Remove a part of the flagellum apparatus, and the whole thing ceases. The living cell is a complex, ordered, non-repeated, whole operation that communicates information. Metaphorically, it is a “statement” that has “meaning”, i.e., purpose. This is of course the Intelligent Design [“I.D.”] argument, but is only one of 4 or 5 others that Moreland summarizes.
Making the case FOR God, based on scientific evidence is the best way to expose the weaknesses of the case for a purely “random chance” theory of life. Chuck Colson tells the story of Anthony Flew, long renowned atheist, in his book “The Good Life” (2005). Flew was “overcome” in his atheism by the evidence for I.D. He simply could not deny that life was too complex, ordered, and unique to be the product of chance. [It requires much more “faith” to believe in chance than to believe in design in view of the evidence.]
In conclusion, the “Origin of the Species” has become more like a religious text than an scientific treatise.
