Return of the God Hypothesis: Breakthroughs in Physics, Cosmology, and Biology Seeking Evidence for the Existence of God

by Stephen C. Meyer

An uncaused first event violates the principles of causality and sufficient reason with all the destructive consequences for rationality discussed above. If, however, naturalists posit that the necessary and sufficient conditions of the origin of the universe existed from all eternity, then we would expect to observe evidence of an infinitely old universe. But we do not. Indeed, as soon as the necessary and sufficient conditions for the production of a given event occur, that event will occur. If the necessary and sufficient conditions for the production of the universe always existed back into the infinite past, then the universe itself should have come into existence an infinitely long time ago (when those conditions “first” occurred) and we should have evidence of that. But, again, we do not. Instead, we have evidence of a finite, not an infinite, universe.