Nick DiMaggio’s Reviews > The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God > Status Update

“My conclusion can be summed up in a single word: design. I say that based on science. I believe that irreducibly complex systems are strong evidence of a purposeful, intention design by an intelligent agent. No other theory succeeds; certainly not Darwinism.”

If the universe had not been made with the most exacting precision we could never have come into existence.

“You see, everything else being equal, we tend to prefer hypotheses that are natural extrapolations of what we already know.”

“the fine-tuning of the universe, they’re generally referring to the extraordinary balancing of the fundamental laws and parameters of physics and the initial conditions of the universe. Our minds can’t comprehend the precision of some of them. The result is a universe that has just the right conditions to sustain life. The coincidences are simply too amazing to have been the result of happenstance”

“All of us have a tendency to minimize God, to think and behave as if we weren’t really immersed in his creation and that we aren’t ourselves the product of his unimaginable creative power. Looking at the evidence — in nature and in Scripture — reminds me over and over again of who he is. And it reminds me of who I am too — someone in need of him.”

“New narratives are created; new stories are told. The theory of evolution, now unsupported by the original icon, is never questioned; instead, it’s used afresh to justify a redesigned model.”

“Believing that evolution occurred — that humans and all other living things are related as part of creation’s giant family tree, that it is possible that the first cell arose by the natural processes of chemical evolution — neither requires nor even promotes an atheistic worldview.”