Proof of God – Intelligent Design
What would constitute objective proof of God? Well, consider the
following self-evident and universally recognized truth: Concept
and design necessitate an intelligent designer. The presence of
intelligent design proves the existence of an intelligent designer.
It’s simply cause and effect. In our search for proof of God’s
existence, we could examine the various claims of supernatural
occurrences, determine whether or not these are legitimate
experiences, and build a case for the existence of the
supernatural, which would be a step towards identifying a
supernatural Creator God. Or we can just apply what we already know
and search for signs of intelligent design within creation
itself.
We know that design necessitates a designer. In fact, in
accordance with this fundamental axiom, design detection
methodology is a prerequisite in many fields of human endeavor,
including archaeology, anthropology, forensics, criminal
jurisprudence, copyright law, patent law, reverse engineering,
crypto analysis, random number generation, and SETI. And how do we recognize intelligent design? In
general, we find “specified complexity” to be a reliable indicator
of the presence of intelligent design. Chance can explain
complexity alone but not specification—a random sequence of letters
is complex but not specified (it’s meaningless). A Shakespearean
sonnet is both complex and specified (it’s meaningful). We can’t
have a Shakespearean sonnet without Shakespeare. (William A.
Dembski, The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small
Probabilities, 1998.)
Proof of God – Nature
So where’s the proof of God’s existence? In accordance with our
familiar axiom and in light of the tremendous advances we’ve made
in molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics and information
theory, the proof of God is all around us!
Through the microscope, we observe the E. coli bacterial
flagellum. The bacterial flagellum is what propels E. coli bacteria
through its microscopic world. It consists of about 40 individual
protein parts including a stator, rotor, drive-shaft, U-joint, and
propeller. It’s a microscopic outboard motor! The individual parts
come into focus when magnified 50,000 times (using electron
micrographs). And even though these microscopic outboard motors run
at an incredible 100,000 rpm, they can stop on a microscopic dime.
It takes only a quarter turn for them to stop, shift directions and
start spinning 100,000 rpm in the opposite direction! The flagellar
motor has two gears (forward and reverse), is water-cooled, and is
hardwired into a signal transduction (sensory mechanism) so that it
receives feedback from its environment. (“Unlocking the Mystery of
Life,” video documentary by Illustra Media, 2002.)
When we apply the general principles of detecting specified
complexity to biologic systems (living creatures), we find it
reasonable to infer the presence intelligent design. Take, for
example, the bacterial flagellum’s stator, rotor, drive-shaft,
U-joint, and propeller. It is not convenient that we’ve given these
parts these names – that’s truly their function. If you were to
find a stator, rotor, drive-shaft, U-joint, or propeller in any
vehicle, machine, toy or model, you would recognize them as the
product of an intelligent source. No one would expect an outboard
motor - much less one as incredible as the flagellar motor
- to be the product of a chance assemblage of parts. Motors
are the product of intelligent design.
Furthermore, the E. coli bacterial flagellum simply could not
have evolved gradually over time. The bacterial flagellum is an
“irreducibly complex” system. An irreducibly complex system is one
composed of multiple parts, all of which are necessary for the
system to function. If you remove any one part, the entire system
will fail to function. Every individual part is integral. There is
absolutely no naturalistic, gradual, evolutionary explanation for
the bacterial flagellum. (Michael Behe, Darwin’s Black Box,
1996.)
The bacterial flagellum (not to mention the irreducibly complex
molecular machines responsible for the flagellum’s assembly) is
just one example of the specified complexity that pervades the
microscopic biological world. Molecular biologist Michael Denton
wrote, “Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small,
weighing less than 10-12 grams, each is in effect a veritable
micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely
designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up
altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more
complicated than any machinery built by man and absolutely without
parallel in the non-living world.” (Michael Denton, Evolution: A
Theory in Crisis, 1986, p. 250.)
Proof of God – His Fingerprints are Everywhere
Where is the proof of God? If we’re willing to open our eyes, we’ll
see the fingerprints of God all around us and all throughout us.
Our very existence proves the existence of a Creator God.
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