Creative Design Suits the Universe for Life
Even if some previous form of life sowed our life in the universe, that fact does not explain why the universe itself is fit for life, unless the previous form of life created the universe.
We use intelligence and information when we speak of our own ability to think and our own ability to organize. Then we ask where these capacities come from.
Obtaining information and using it intelligently overcomes disorder. The universe began in a highly organized state. That must mean that a powerful, pre-existing, intelligent form of life created it.
The Apostle John meditated on Moses’ creation narrative and began his gospel as follows:
We use intelligence and information when we speak of our own ability to think and our own ability to organize. Then we ask where these capacities come from.
Obtaining information and using it intelligently overcomes disorder. The universe began in a highly organized state. That must mean that a powerful, pre-existing, intelligent form of life created it.
The Apostle John meditated on Moses’ creation narrative and began his gospel as follows:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood {Or darkness, and the darkness has not overcome} it–John 1:1‑5.
John notes in Moses’ account that the first light shone after God spoke. The word of God was therefore prior to the formation of the light from the darkness. If we understand that when God speaks, He is expressing His timeless decrees, then the word of God already existed when time began. All created things including created intelligence owe their origin to uncreated intelligence. John deduces that the Word was involved from the beginning in the making of the universe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German poet and dramatist, 1749–1832) wasn’t satisfied with John’s reading of Moses’ creation account and tried to improve on it. In Faust: Der Tragödie (“Faust: The Tragedy”) Goethe wrote a scene in which Faust decides to translate John’s Greek into German. He rejects the priority of the Word and tries “der Sinn” (“the mind”), then “die Kraft” (“the power”), and settles on “die Tat” (“the act”).
God’s almighty power had to act to provide the energy for making the universe. That satisfies the requirements of the first law of thermodynamics. But God had to use His power with intelligence, as the second law says. Everybody knows that “acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.” Goethe was wrong. John was right because he followed through on Moses’ thought.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German poet and dramatist, 1749–1832) wasn’t satisfied with John’s reading of Moses’ creation account and tried to improve on it. In Faust: Der Tragödie (“Faust: The Tragedy”) Goethe wrote a scene in which Faust decides to translate John’s Greek into German. He rejects the priority of the Word and tries “der Sinn” (“the mind”), then “die Kraft” (“the power”), and settles on “die Tat” (“the act”).
God’s almighty power had to act to provide the energy for making the universe. That satisfies the requirements of the first law of thermodynamics. But God had to use His power with intelligence, as the second law says. Everybody knows that “acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.” Goethe was wrong. John was right because he followed through on Moses’ thought.
