Franck Barfety

Three reasons we believe in God. Gabe and I talked about three reasons we believe in Theism as opposed to a Naturalist worldview. He wrote down these concepts as we discussed them.

First, it is impossible to cross infinity. Time had to have a beginning because one cannot count backwards to negative infinity. We pulled out the dominoes to review this concept, and just because they’re fun. Just like there would always be one more domino to represent one more day in the past, we could never start time without the first moment or unless we had the first domino to start our falling dominoes. If time is like a chain of dominoes then God brought the first piece.

Second, the exquisite fine-tuning of the universe. There are 30 to 50 universal constants such as the mass of a proton, the speed of light, the gravitational constant or the relationship between mass and energy. Changing any of them by even a billionth of a percentage point would make life impossible. Gabe laid on his bed and shot his small basketball in the hoop on his bedroom wall, and says, “You mean it’s like shooting this basketball and making the shot the same way every time, over and over!” These constants are unmistakably designed and denying this is futile.

Third, the universal moral law. Right and wrong. Gabe wrote a short list of virtues (being helpful, courageous, good, honest, kind, loyal ) and vices (being selfish, bad, lie, steal, killer). The moral law is not found in the flesh of humans, in the brain or on the liver. The moral law transcends culture, time and personalities. Human persons are aware of it and consciously obey it or willingly disobey it.