universe intelligently designed by God?
An amazing discovery of scientists, in recent decades, is that many properties of the universe are “just right” for life. For example, we have sunshine due to a tug-of-war lasting billions of years, with some forces pulling the sun’s fiery atmosphere inward, while other forces push it outward, but neither can “win” due to a fine-tuned balance of forces. To understand the fine tuning that allows sunshine and many other wonderful features of our world, imagine that you are sitting in front of a control panel with dozens of dials. To allow life, each dial — which controls one property of nature — must be tuned to a specific setting within a narrow range. You are alive because all dials are properly tuned, and this leads to a wide variety of life-permitting natural phenomena that include stars (which produce the energy and atoms needed for life), the chemistry of DNA, water, and proteins. Most scientists are convinced that fine tuning is necessary for a life-allowing universe.
