Evidence Commentaries

On this website, I talk about research pointing to the possible need for a creator in the origin of the universe, life, life’s species, and consciousness. In response to such writings, I hear often that natural science and religion occupy different realms. Therefore, we can’t use natural science to examine religion. In most cases, there is also an underlying thought that we don’t need God to explain origin issues. However, the different realm attitude says we shouldn’t even try to see if God is needed. A number of years ago, I addressed this issue in the context of the origin…

This is a little technical, though the general ideas can be followed by a broad audience. I view the origin of life as a strong argument for God. Yet, I see Internet chatter saying the origin of life has been solved except for minor details. I don’t know where these people come up with that idea. Many reputable sites say the whole issue remains a mystery. For example, look at the first paragraph here: https://news.uchicago.edu/explainer/origin-life-earth-explained. When I have done talks on evidences for God’s existence, I have almost always mentioned one particular issue related to the life’s beginning. The issue…

The Anthropic Principle presents a strong evidence for God, but what is this principle?