Please could you get in touch. I’ve got a book out and wanted to send you a copy, if you are interested.

Best wishes

James

bede@bede.org.uk

‘Roger Penrose of Oxford University has calculated that the odds of our universe’s low entropy condition obtaining by chance alone are on the order of 1:1010(123), an inconceivable number. If our universe were but one member of a multiverse of randomly ordered worlds, then it is vastly more probable that we should be observing a much smaller universe. For example, the odds of our solar system’s being formed instantly by the random collision of particles is about 1:1010(60), a vast number, but inconceivably smaller than 1010(123). (Penrose calls it “utter chicken feed” by comparison [The Road to Reality (Knopf, 2005), pp. 762-5]). Or again, if our universe is but one member of a multiverse, then we ought to be observing highly extraordinary events, like horses’ popping into and out of existence by random collisions, or perpetual motion machines, since these are vastly more probable than all of nature’s constants and quantities’ falling by chance into the virtually infinitesimal life-permitting range. Observable universes like those strange worlds are simply much more plenteous in the ensemble of universes than worlds like ours and, therefore, ought to be observed by us if the universe were but a random member of a multiverse of worlds. Since we do not have such observations, that fact strongly disconfirms the multiverse hypothesis. On naturalism, at least, it is therefore highly probable that there is no multiverse.’

There are so many things to my mind that show that God is there from looking at natural theology,apart from special revelation,that there is a coherence between special revelation and the world around us.

Materialism has had a hard time of it recently, though. The universe is not eternal. Life isn’t fundamentally simple, or common in the universe. The earth isn’t just a pale blue dot. None of that proves logically that there is a god of the sort talked about in the Bible, but what has happened is that materialism has failed to prove that such a god is unlikely, “God Delusion” notwithstanding. In fact, as a demonstration of the intellectual bankruptcy of materialism, Dawkins’ book hits the spot nicely!

So philosophy and what we might call “general revelation” open the possibility up that there might be an external agent which transcends the universe. But if you want to know God is there, you have to look for evidence that he/she/it has made himself known.