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HARUN YAHYA
n its April 12, 2003, edition, The New York Times carried an
article by the famous astrophysicist Paul Davies entitled
"A Brief History of the Multiverse." In this article, Prof.
Davies attempts to defend the claim that there may be an
I infinite number of universes, and that our universe just
happened to be suitable for life, which is the latest argument in
which materialist thinkers have sought refuge in the face of the
finely tuned design in the universe.
We first need to briefly set out why materialists developed such
an argument. For thousands of years, the divine religions and
philosophies that accept the existence of God have maintained that
there is purpose and design in the universe, whereas materialists—
those who claim that nothing exists apart from matter—have rejected
the existence of purpose and design. A series of astronomical and
physical discoveries in the twentieth century, however, revealed that
the design in the universe was so clear as to be undeniable. These dis-
coveries revealed that at the moment the universe began, all vari-
ables—from the speed of the Big Bang to the strength of the four fun-
damental forces, from the structure of the elements to that of the Solar
System in which we live—were exactly what was required to support
life. This tremendous discovery, which scientists in the 1970s an-
nounced and described as the Anthropic Principle, clearly invali-
dated the materialist argument for non-design.
In his article in The New York Times, Paul Davies summarizes this
fact and admits the inevitable conclusion; the existence of God:
Why is nature so ingeniously, one might even say suspiciously,
friendly to life? What do the laws of physics care about life and
consciousness that they should conspire to
make a hospitable universe? It's almost as if a
Grand Designer had it all figured out.
However, although regarding the design
in the universe as proof of the existence of
God, Prof. Davies rejects this fact. In order to
account for the origin of the design in the uni-
Paul Davies
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