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Let me give you two scenarios to consider. In the first scenario you are walking down the road, and you find a variety of coins in a random mess of piles spilled all over the road. You are thinking to yourself, “Wow, someone must have dropped a lot of change!” Or you might be thinking, “Wow, a Loomis (money truck!) must have collided with something to spill the coins all over the road!” Indeed, that might be the case!
In the second scenario let us suppose that you are walking down the road, and you find 25 quarters in 5 rows of 5, all on heads. Do you think to yourself, “Wow, I guess someone must have accidentally dropped their coins all over the road!”? Or do you think to yourself, “Wow, a Loomis truck must have collided with something to spill these coins in this particular pattern all over the road!”? No, of course not! You don’t think for one millisecond that the second scenario is any sort of accident at all. Why not? The reason for this is because there is order and precision. The coins are in lines (5 rows of 5), which equals precision. The coins are also in an order of sorts (all on heads). It looks like this scenario was planned and had intention behind it due to the order and precision. We know that accidents don’t create such order.
Here is the question: How many times would you have to toss 25 quarters in the air before they all, randomly, without assistance, landed in 5 rows of 5, all on heads during the first toss (thus, picking up the 25 quarters and trying again if they fail to do so)? The chances are, likely, Zero. While we could run the stats, I’m almost certain that it is impossible to throw 25 quarters up in the air and have them to land, on a single toss, in 5 rows of 5, all on heads. If it did happen, you would likely say, “This thing is rigged!”
While many see the logic behind the second scenario (that that type of precision and order does not happen without assistance and planning and intentionality), they fail to apply the same type of logic to the universe. Our universe is infused with design. Our universe is ordered in such a way that it is similar, even more so, with our second scenario of ordered quarters than the random coins spilled all over the road in the first scenario. In order to say that there is no God, no Designer, no Creator for our universe (and for ourselves, most of all) is like saying 25 quarters will randomly all in 5 perfect rows of 5, all on heads, in a single toss. We know that is impossible.
How do we know the universe is designed? Let me give you a few scientific constants that we know of that show our universe is designed. Psalm 19:1 says, “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork.” What “handwork” can we see? If the gravitational force were altered by 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000001, then our sun would not exist and neither would we. If the neutron were not 1.001 times the mass of the proton, then life would not be possible for neutrons would decay into protons or vice versa. If the oxygen in our atmosphere were at 25%, then fires would erupt; if it were at 15%, then humans would suffocate. Instead, our oxygen level sits at a smooth 21%, making life sustainable on earth. Also, if the earth was tiled just slightly off from what is currently is, then surface temperatures would be too great for inhabitants.
Many of these scientific constants have been identified as laws within nature that, were they altered slightly, would alter the universe, and our own existence. Indeed, the universe would not exist given the precision and order of many of these constants. As I look at the universe, it looks vastly more complex than 25 quarters landing perfectly in 25 rows of 5, all on heads. It sounds more like tossing 7 trillion quarters up, one time, all landing on heads, in perfect rows creating a perfect square. Only a mind and intelligence can do that, and only a mind and intelligence (God) could have ordered our universe as it is. The universe looks rigged indeed!