Six years ago, Wall Street Journal published an article on Christmas Day entitled, "Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God," by Eric Metaxas. Surprisingly it was shared on Facebook 600,000 times, far far more than any other article ever in WSJ.
Back in 1966 Time magazine featured the narrative that faith in God is obsolete. But science has revealed much evidence for His existence since then.
That same year, 1966, astronomer Carl Sagan announced that any given planet could support life if it had the right sort of star and was the right distance from it. The intervening years revealed that at least two hundred parameters are required by a planet to support life. That lowered the odds of finding such a planet to near zero.
Astrophysicists have discovered that the four fundamental forces of the universe were set less than one-millionth of a second after the big bang. Any slight variation of their values would have eliminated the universe.
Astronomer Fred Hoyle (who coined the term "big bang") said his atheism was shaken by these developments.
Oxford professor Dr. John Lennox has said “the more we get to know about our universe, the more the hypothesis that there is a Creator . . . gains in credibility as the best explanation of why we are here.”
from the website of Eric Metaxas
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