If there is a knock at the door, there is a cause behind it. There will never be a knock at the door without a cause. Or if a glass of water suddenly bursts open, it must have had a cause. There is a principle that everyone in the world agrees on.

"Nothing comes from nothing"

If you can't accept something like that, that it knocks on the door without a cause, then you can accept even less that the ~entire universe~ came into being without a cause.

We know that this world has a beginning. We know it through the Big Bang theory, but actually this is nothing new. The ancient Greeks were already saying this. It was Aristotle who claimed that this world could not exist ~ eternally ~ and thus provided a very simple argument. He says that if this world had existed forever, we wouldn't be here in the first place. It's like an infinite shopping queue - you'd never get to the checkout. So if there was an infinite past, we would never arrive at today. It automatically follows that this beginning must also have a cause.

Aristotle had a buddy called Plato. Plato had a completely different argument. He said that "design is the evidence of a designer". Design is something that can be recognized. And that right away. And you would never accept any other explanation for it except design. Imagine you're walking through the desert and suddenly you come across a palace. And you would ask: ,,who built this palace?" "This palace?" they reply, "Nobody built it. There was an earthquake here the day before yesterday. And stones flew out and they piled on top of each other and when the earthquake was over, the palace was there.

What may sound insane at first turns out to be a doctrine taught in school textbooks. Four billion years ago, there were a lot of temperature differences and lightning in the atmosphere, which produced the building blocks of life, which then sank down into the oceans, where the building blocks came together in one place, collided with each other and joined together in such a way that the first living cell was formed.

Look, you may be holding your mobile phone in your hand later. Realize that the outer shell is made of plastic. And you know that plastic is made from oil. And inside this cell phone is a silicon chip. Silicon, by the way, can be found all over the world, especially in sand. And oil and sand can be found together in certain places in the world, for example in Iraq. And that's where this mobile phone comes from. It started 3.5 million years ago. There was a series of earthquakes in Iraq. And one of these earthquakes washed up lava from beneath the earth's surfac, and this lava came into contact with this oil, which reacted further to form plastic, which then accumulated on a rock. And then that flowed down to a stone that was exactly the shape of a mobile phone. Then it snowed from above. That cooled the plastic. And then lightning struck the surface. And the lightning transformed the sand into silicon, but not just any silicon. Into a silicon chip with exactly the right programming for precisely this phone. And then there was an earthquake, which put this plastic shell on the silicon chip and then there was another lightning strike, which welded the whole thing together and it was done.

Unbelievable, isn't it? But that's what you learn in school about the origin of life. The same textbooks convey the image of a human cell that is structured like a modern factory. There is a real production department, a construction planning department; a safety department that now only allows "authorized workers" to enter the cell. There are maintenance workers who carry out repairs independently. There is a recycling department, a waste disposal department, etc. There is no production facility in the world that can match the complexity of one of the most primitive cells. And if you can't even accept that factories just come about by chance, then you can even less accept that cells just happen by randomly throwing the building blocks together, even if you had billions of years.

In short, the response is basically that the emergence of all this is based on the theory of random probability. Design is a thing that is characterized by accuracy and precision. A mountain can grow as it wants over millions of years, it is always a mountain. It can look however it wants. But to give it the shape of a palace, you have to design it. The universe can look however it wants; it is always a universe. A universe that offers the possibility for people to live in it needs a very specific shape - and that is what characterizes design.

What is the probability - taking into account the physical variables - that a universe in which life is possible came about by chance? One in billions of billions? Or in trillions of trillions of trillions? Or in even more? Sir Roger Penrose, a well-known British mathematician and close collaborator of Stephen Hawking, pondered this question and tried to calculate this probability.

By taking into account what he considered to be all the variables necessary to make human life possible on a planet like ours, he calculated the probability that such environmental conditions would arise under all possible outcomes of the Big Bang.

According to Penrose, this probability of such an outcome was 1 in 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 123. That is not a typo. It is a power of ten followed by another power of ten! It is difficult to even imagine what this number means. This is, by the way, more than the supposed total number of atoms that exist in the entire universe, which is "only" 10 to the 78th power. But Penrose's result is far greater than this! In applied mathematics, a probability of 1 in 10 to the power of 50 means a "zero probability". Penrose's probability result is trillions of trillions of trillions of times less than this. In short, Penrose's number makes it clear that a "random" or "unintentional" creation of our universe is an impossibility.

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Conclusion

Precise design. Now let's take a look at the whole package. Leave aside the statistics and the columns of numbers. There has been a paradoxical course in the development of mankind. Today, we are able to explain the structure of this universe better than ever before. Interestingly, however, this has not at all led to people being even more convinced that the whole thing is a product of intelligent design! No, the opposite has happened...

Imagine if a researcher had driven his jeep into the South American jungle. And he had simply left it in the middle of the jungle. And now some indigenous Indians would have found this jeep and, with the key in the ignition, Indians would have sat in it to go for a few laps with friends. These are Indians who have never had anything to do with civilization or technology. They grew up completely isolated from the rest of the world. What would they think of this jeep? They would immediately say, "wow, that's intelligent design! someone intelligent must have designed it". Maybe some would even say it was sent down by a celestial being, but that doesn't matter. At least they would realize that it didn't just come out of nowhere. This is intelligent design!

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Now let's take a leap in time. We're going a hundred years into the future. And our Indians are now civilized. They have evolved. They have schools, universities, researchers, scientists, lawyers, doctors, engineers, mechanics and so on. They can now explain every light bulb and every cable on this jeep. The more they study this body, the more they should realize: "WOW, what a fascinating technical device! It could NEVER have been created *just like that*". This applies even more to this universe. I could accept people 5,000 years ago telling me that the universe simply came into being like that. They had a completely different idea of it then. They thought the earth was just a disc, there was a cheese bell over it, there were a few holes in it for the stars and they sometimes got dark and light. Yes, someone can sell that to me as a product of chance, without further ado.

But today, after everything we know about this universe?

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Do we want to keep going around in circles?

There is more.

...Much More