Can Order Exist Without Design?
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Skeptics, critics, and atheists insist that order can exist without design. Can there be order without design?
The Bible, however, raises a logical question, and then provides a brief, but profound, answer:
“Look up at the sky! Who created the stars you see? The one who leads them out like an army, he knows how many there are and calls each one by name! His power is so great–not one of them is ever missing!”—Isaiah 40:26 Good News Translation
However, skeptics, critics, and atheists say: “Believers in God are confusing design and order, which are not the same thing. If there is design, then there is order, but if there is order, there is not necessarily design. For example, there is order in the way the planets orbit the Sun, but there is no good evidence that anybody designed it that way. And there is evidence that this order is just part of the inherent fabric of the universe. Gravity is a fact.”
But where did the order and natural laws originate? All atheists can come up with is, basically, that it all just is, period! Does that make sense?
“For every house is built by some person; but he who is the architect of all things is God”—Haweis New Testament
The following article from “Evolution News and Science Today” debunks the above assertions:
New Scientist, is calling The Universe: Order without design by Carlos Calle “excellent.” Why?
There’s nothing new here, just the same old multiverse stuff that has been critiqued. The author combines a bunch of highly speculative, mostly metaphysical, controversial theories to reach his conclusions: eternal inflation, string theory and colliding branes. There will ALWAYS be speculative, untestable “cosmological” theories, so someone can always point to the latest ones and say, “See no need for a beginning or fine-tuning by a designer–the latest science says so!” These speculative theories have half-lives measured in years, unlike the now well-established Big Bang theory.
In any case, multiverse speculations do not explain those aspects of our existence that are not necessary for our existence or survival, such as the discoverability of the universe.”
“For every house is built by someone, but God is the One who has created all things”—Hebrews 3:4 Catholic Public Domain Version
The facts show that order cannot exist without design, and thus atheism is ‘a house built on sand’ (Matthew 7:26), without any logical foundation.