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

by Stephen C. Meyer

quantum cosmology does not explain the origin of the universe in purely materialistic terms. Instead, to the limited extent it succeeds, it attributes causal powers to abstract mathematics and depends upon intelligent inputs of information from theoretical physicists as they model the origin of the universe. Thus, it does not dispense at all with intelligent design or with theism as an explanation for the origin of the universe. Instead, quantum cosmology implies the need for an intelligent agent to breathe, if not “fire into the equations,” then certainly specificity and information. Thus, it implies something akin to the biblical idea that “in the beginning was the Word.” And that’s not nothing—by anyone’s definition.