One way to determine whether there is a God is to apply this well-established principle:
WHAT IS MADE REQUIRES A MAKER. The more complex the thing made, the more capable the maker must be. For example, look around your home. Tables, chairs, desks, beds, pots, pans, plates and other eating utensils all required a maker, as do walls, floors & ceilings. Yet those things are comparatively simple to make. Since simple things require a maker, is it not logical that complex things require an even more intelligent maker? A watch requires a watchmaker. What of our infinitely more complex solar system, with the Sun & its planets revolving around it with split-second precision century after century? What of the awesome galaxy we live in, called the Milky way, with its more than billions of stars? Have you ever stopped at night to look at the Milky Way? Were you impressed? Then think of the incredibly vast universe that contains untold billions of galaxies like our Milky Way! Too, the heavenly bodies are so reliable in their moments century after century that they have been compared to precision timepieces.
If a watch, which is relatively simple, implies the existence of a watchmaker, surely the infinitely more complex & awesome universe implies the existence of a designer and maker. That's why the Bible invites us to 'raise our eyes high up & see,' and then it asks: "Who has created these things?" The answer: "It is the One [God] who is bringing forth the army of them even by number, all of whom he calls even by name. Due to the abundance of dynamic energy, he also being vigorous in power, not one of them is missing." (Isaiah 40:26) Thus, the universe owes its existence to an invisible, controlling, intelligent power--God.
The more scientists study the earth, the more they realize that it is uniquely designed for human habitation. It is just the right distance from the sun to get the proper amount of sun, with just the right angle of tilt, making seasons possible in many parts of the earth. The earth also rotates on its own axis every 24 hours, providing regular periods of light & darkness. It has an atmosphere with just the right mixture of gases so we can breathe & be protected from damaging radiation from space. It also has the vital water & soil needed to grow food. Without all those factors, and others, working together, life would be impossible. Was all of this an accident? These conditions could not have hardly arisen at random. They involved purposeful design by a Superb Designer.
If you went into a fine house and found that it was generously stocked with food, that it had an excellent heating & cooling system, and that it had good plumbing to supply water, what would you conclude? That it all just came about by itself? No, you would surely conclude that an intelligent person designed and made it with great care. The earth was also designed & made with great care in order to provide what its inhabitants need, and it is much more complex and well-supplied than any house. Also, consider the great number of things that add delight to living. Look at the vast variety of beautifully colored flowers with their pleasant scents that humans enjoy. Then there is the great variety of foods so delicious to our taste. There are forests, mountains, lakes & other creations pleasant to look at. Too, what of beautiful sunsets that enhance our enjoyment of life? And in the animal realm, are we not delighted by the playful antics & lovable nature of puppies, kittens & other young animals? So the earth provides many delightful surprises not absolutely needed to sustain life. These show that the earth was designed with loving care, with humans in mind, so that we would not just exist but would enjoy life.
Therefore, the reasonable conclusion is to acknowledge the Giver of all these things, as did the Bible writer who said of Jehovah God: "You yourself have made the heavens & the earth. For what purpose? He gives the answer by describing God as "The Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing who formed it even to be inhabited."--Isaiah 37:16; 45:18.
What about living things? Do they not require a maker? For example, consider a few of the amazing features of a living cell. Even the smallest cell, (bacterial) is a microminitaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the non-living world. Regarding the genetic code in each cell, the capacity of DNA to store information vastly exceeds that of any other known system; it is so efficient that all the information needed to specify an organism as complex as man, weighs less than a few thousand millionths of a gram.
A scientist says : "In terms of complexity, an individual cell is nothing when compared with a system like the brain. The human brain consists of about ten thousand million nerve cells. Each nerve cell puts out somewhere in the region of between ten thousand and one hundred thousand connecting fibers by which it makes contact with other nerve cells in the brain. Altogether the total number of connections in the human brain approaches a thousand million million." "Even if only one hundredth of the connections in the brain were specifically organized, this would still represent a system containing a much greater number of specific connections than in the entire communications network on Earth." This scientist then asks: "Could any sort of purely random process ever have assembled such systems?" Obviously the answer has to be no. The brain must have had a caring Designer and Maker. The human brain makes even the most advanced computers look primitive. All in all, we
believe all this had an intelligent beginning, that Someone made it happen. It also had to be Someone who cared.
Consider the unique blood system that transports nutrients & oxygen and protects against infection. A single drop of blood contains more than 250 million separate blood cells. The body contains perhaps 25 trillion of them. Replacements are made at a rate of 3 million new cells every second.
There are many other marvels in the human body. One is the eye, so superbly designed that no camera can duplicate it. Robert Jastrow, an astronomer sums it up wonderfully: "The eye appears to have been designed. No designer of telescopes could have done better." Popular Photography says: "Human eyes see a far greater range of detail than film does. They see in three dimensions, at a tremendously wide angle, without distortion, in continuous motion...Comparing the camera to the human eye isn't a fair analogy. the human eye is more like an incredibly advanced supercomputer with artificial intelligence, information processing abilities, speeds, and modes of operation that are far beyond any man-made device, computer or camera.
The Supreme Builder
The Bible states: "Every house is built by someone, of course: but God built everything that exists." (Hebrews 3:4, the Jerusalem Bible) Since any house, however simple, must have a builder, then the far more complex universe, along with the vast varieties of life on earth, must also have had a builder. And since we acknowledge the existence of humans who invented devices such as airplanes, televisions, and computers, should we not also acknowledge the existence of the One who gave humans the brain to make such thing? The Bible does, calling him "the true God, Jehovah...the Creator of the heavens and the Grand One stretching them out; the One laying out the earth and its produce, the One giving breath to the people on it." (Isaiah 42:5) "You are worthy, Jehovah, even our God, to receive the glory & the honor and the power, because you created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created."--Revelation 4:11. Yes, we can know that there is a 'God by the things He has made. "for [God's] invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world's creation onward because they are perceived by the things [God] made."--Romans 1:20.
THE FACT THAT SOMETHING MADE IS MISUSED DOES NOT MEAN IT HAD NO MAKER. An airplane can be used for peaceful purposed, as an airliner. But it can also be used for destruction, as a bomber. Its being used in a death-dealing way does not mean it had no maker.
God Informs Us About His Purposes
A loving God does indeed reveal his purposes to sincere ones who search for Him. He does provide inquiring humans with answers to questions such as why he has permitted suffering. The Bible states: "If you search for [God], He will let Himself be found by you. "There exists a God in the heavens who is a Revealer of secrets." The Sovereign Lord Jehovah will not do a thing unless he has revealed his confidential matter to his servants the prophets."--Chronicles 28:9; Daniel 2:28; Amos 3:7
This is a small reminder that God exists and created everything on this earth. I consider myself a humble & obedient servant of God. I try to live my life as a reflection of God, while following the principles and teachings of God as interpreted through His Son Jesus Christ. But, I am a sinner and in being a sinner I'm not without fault, as we all are. I don't consider myself spiritually any better than the next person, but throughout my life I have tried to live in a spiritual way to the best of my ability, even though I am a sinner. I'm not trying to preach to anyone, since that's not really my style, but when you are called by God to interject things on people, it may seem that way. I'm not concerned with how anyone views me or how anyone feels about me since the only person I'll stand in judgement of is the One who created me & everyone & everything else, The Holy Father, God. There is a lot more that I will put up on here in the very near future that may help people, (and that's my reason for putting this up anyway) and I intend to put up more awe inspiring religious things and would pray that everyone in earshot or eye shot will read and reflect on. Gods loves us and only asks us to come to Him. In closing, fear God and throw yourselves down and beg for mercy, because that is the only way you will ever see His face and not be DESTROYED!
