We have considered the question of why we are here. Now let’s look at what we are—intelligent, conscious, uniquely complex beings living on a finely tuned planet in a vast universe. Can this all be the result of chance?

I don’t believe it can. And neither do many scientists, philosophers, or even former atheists who have confronted the astonishing reality of life itself.

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DNA: A BILLION BITS OF ORDERED INFORMATION

The human body is built from billions of cells, each containing DNA—a precise, coded instruction manual for life. The structure of DNA is not random; it’s ordered, repeatable, and intelligent in form.

Where did that information come from?

Even the world’s foremost atheist for much of the 20th century, Antony Flew, changed his mind when confronted with the mystery of DNA. He concluded that the sheer complexity of biological life could only have arisen from an intelligent source.

To this day, science cannot reproduce life in a lab. It cannot explain how life arose from non-living material. The conditions required are so specific that the probability of it happening by chance has been described as mathematically and astronomically impossible.

If DNA is information, then reason demands that there was an author—not a random accident.

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CONSCIOUSNESS: THE PROBLEM THAT WON’T GO AWAY

Closely tied to our biology is something even more mysterious—consciousness. We are aware. We reason, reflect, create, imagine, and choose.

But consciousness is not physical. You can dissect a brain, but you won’t find a thought. You can scan for activity, but you won’t measure love, sorrow, or hope.

Where does this inner world come from?

Some lifelong blind people report seeing images during near-death experiences. People speak of floating above operating tables and watching the doctors below them before being resuscitated. These are not fantasies—they are widely documented events, often by medical professionals.

How can these experiences be explained if the brain is all we are?

They can’t. Unless there is something more—a soul, a spirit, a part of us that transcends the material. Something placed there by a Creator.

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SCIENCE EXPLAINS THE “HOW”, BUT NOT THE “WHO”

Science is a wonderful tool. It has revealed the inner workings of cells, galaxies, and quantum particles. But science has limits.

It cannot tell us why we exist.

It cannot tell us what is right and wrong.

It cannot produce a single living cell from non-life, even with full human intelligence and control.

And most critically, it cannot explain the origin of the design it so carefully studies.

Where there is a design, there must be a designer. Where there is intelligence, there must be a higher intelligence. Where there is life, there must be a life-giver.

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GOD OR NOTHING?

It comes down to this:

Which is more plausible?
That an eternal, intelligent Creator made the universe and life with purpose and design—
or that nothing somehow created everything, and that randomness created life?

For me, the answer is clear. Intelligence does not come from non-intelligence. Information does not write itself. Life does not arise from chaos.

We are here because God wanted us to be.

Our forebears offended God, but we were redeemed through the death and resurrection of Jesus. The suffering Jesus was given to us all so that we could believe in God and earn eternal life.

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FINAL REFLECTION

The deeper we look into life, the more it resembles a message, not an accident.

If DNA is a code, then there is a coder. DNA has always been here, but it was only discovered in recent times. Could it be that God has been waiting for us to find it?

If consciousness is real, then we are more than just matter.

If life has meaning, then there is One who gave it that meaning.

The mystery of life, when seen clearly, does not point to nothing—it points to Someone.

Mike.

mike@acaseforgod.com

Post 5 of a 33-part series exploring the evidence for the existence of God.

In my next Blog, we ask the question “Can we trust the gospels?”