Though devout atheists will never admit it, God provides the best explanation for the existence of the universe and everything in it. As I wrote in chapter two of What Happens NEXT, God is certainly a better explanation than the alternative one: Something came from nothing, (which actually required something), then everything created itself. Atheists might admit that something had to have always existed, but they won’t admit that what has always existed is God. They prefer it be the Laws of Nature, but the Laws of Nature point to intelligence, and intelligence is always the product of a mind. Atheists deny that the Laws of nature require intelligence. They are just intrinsic to the universe. It takes intelligence to understand them, but no intelligence is required for their existence. That's nonsense to me.
Romans 1:20 puts it this way, “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.”
As the Teleological Argument maintains, God is the best explanation for the order and design we see in nature. Believing that an intelligent designer encoded the information in DNA seems more logical to me than claiming “lots of time” and “dumb luck” did it. Why do mathematical formulas, natural laws, and chemical-based processes require some of the most brilliant minds in the world to discover and employ if it was just dumb luck or nothing that created them? If they were written into the universe from the beginning, who wrote them, and how did they cause anything? A dazzlingly complex and well-ordered human cell is difficult to explain by the mechanisms of chaos, time, and mutations. Even though there are rare instances where mutations are advantageous, they almost always cause a loss of information. My experiences with chaos, time, and mutations have certainly not been advantageous. That is what I would expect if the Second Law of Thermodynamics is to be believed. I certainly would not expect the factory-like precision, intricate functioning, and multifaceted order of the human cell that scientists have revealed.
If complex code, such as that found in DNA, can exist without any kind of “programming, testing, or debugging,” why do so many computer scientists waste years at University studying something that came about by blind chance? Seems that something that is a result of dumb luck would be easy to figure out and would not require years of advanced study. If dumb luck and chaos created everything, why does it take so many brilliant minds and painstaking, methodical work to understand it? Or at least understand a small percentage of it. No. Blind luck is not a viable explanation. It was the Christian worldview, that the world is intelligible and ordered, like God, which gave rise to science. It’s why all of the great early scientists, such as Newton and Kepler, were Christians. The view that everything is just chaos and dumb luck, the atheists view, never would have given rise to science. After all, how can you make sense of dumb luck and chaos? How can you study it? Why would you? How ironic it is for atheists to believe they are the champions of science.
In my latest YouTube video, I cover the mathematical evidence for the existence of encoded information in the Hebrew scriptures. I'll let you know up front that one experiment I cover in the below videos had a p-value of (Or one chance in approximately 1.48 decillion.) Another experiment, that didn't include everything I searched for, had a p-value of 0.000000000000000000000000000833. (Or one chance in approximately 1.2 nonillion.) Those are very small numbers, indicating highly significant results. One comment from ChatGPT 4 when calculating p-values for my two experiments was: "This extremely low p-value indicates that the specific pattern you found is highly unlikely to be due to random chance, suggesting some underlying structure or significance in the text related to your findings." These experiments convince me that the Bible is encoded and God is the one who encoded it -- since only God knows the end of everything from the beginning of everything. But there are hundreds of experiments that have been run by code proponents over the years, and they are world-class mathematicians. My only claim to math fame was that I use to tutor students in algebra.
I have encountered several people who deny the existence of codes in the Hebrew Bible. What bothers me is that they deny the existence of codes but refuse to look at the evidence. If someone is intellectually honest with me, I don't have a problem with that. Fine. A dear friend of mine rejects the codes, but he looked at the evidence first. The issue I have is with the skeptics who simply refuse to look at the evidence because an atheist told them it was nonsense, and some of them are Christians! They reached their conclusions long ago based on what some atheists said! Didn't they think that those atheists might be a little biased? When I first heard about the Bible Codes, I was not a Christian. I was a skeptic, and I hated the Bible. At least I could still think for myself and examine evidence with an open mind. There are people who are so arrogant they won't even look. That's sad. You can't go where the evidence leads if you refuse to follow it. But some people just dismiss every idea they didn't come up with themselves and seem to believe everybody else is an idiot. It must be hard to be a know-it-all, especially for those closest to them.
Harold Gans did an interview with Sarah Shapiro several years ago at JewishAction.com. As he pointed out in the interview, "There are mathematicians ... who believe that since chance occurrences of ELSs can be found in any text, this must be the explanation for patterns that look like codes in the Torah. Some of these mathematicians take as their starting point the firm conviction that there is no such thing as a Supreme Being, and certainly not a Supreme Being Who wrote the Torah. These individuals have made it their mission to prove that the apparently coherent patterns we claim to have discovered in the Torah are a matter of coincidence, or the result of either self-deception or falsification. The most prominent of these critics, Dr. Brendan McKay of the National University of Australia, claims to have found patterns comparable to Torah Codes in the novels War and Peace and Moby Dick...
"While the mathematical issues are difficult for non-mathematicians to comprehend, I can summarize as follows: Professor McKay and his colleagues never claimed to have discovered real codes in those non-Torah texts. Their only 'successful' results were obtained by deliberately rigging the experiment in such a way that the layman wouldn’t recognize the mathematical flaws.
"To their minds, there is no other possibility, because they took it as a given that the Torah is not a Divine document, and that therefore the whole idea of Torah Codes is intrinsically absurd. The 'discovery' of 'codes' in Moby Dick or War and Peace to them is no more absurd a claim than the 'discovery' of 'codes' in the Torah.
"The public does not understand that these critics openly admitted that their research did not result in the discovery of even a single valid code in any text other than the Torah."
Proverbs 18:13 says, "He who answers a matter before he hears it—this is folly and disgrace to him." That's what has been going on with Bible Codes. There is a lot of nonsense posing as Bible Codes. I understand why people reject that kind of thing. It usually involves people using the Bible Code as a crystal ball. Well, the Bible is not a crystal ball, and I am not talking about that. So hear me out. Look over the evidence in my below videos, and if after an objective analysis, you still don't believe the Bible is encoded, then fine. But please don't look down your nose at me and tell me it's nonsense if you have never even looked at the statistical evidence for encoded information in the Bible in the first place.
That's not science.
This is science vs nonsense.
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