Monday, 2 May 2016

Who designed the Designer?


Considering the arguments of the atheists against God, their major objection to God seems to be that a God who could create a complex universe and design life on one of the planets, earth, has to be a very complex Being. So they ask, who created the Creator? Who designed the Designer?

The question put up by these atheists is God ‘must be a supremely complex and improbable entity, who needs an even bigger explanation.’[1] Naturally, the puny human mind, even if it is the mind of a sharp atheist like Richard Dawkins, is not able to fathom the depths of a Being called God.

On the face of it the question is so ludicrous. If God has to be created, then He is no God at all. He is God because He is self-existent, above all created beings and the created matter in the universe. Dawkins is not able to comprehend a powerful Being, who is not created, but is in existence always, in eternity, needing no one to create Him.

Just because people like him have difficulty in comprehending an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent God, who is the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End, can they postulate that God does not exist? Isn’t it like the proverbial ostrich, which would bury its head in the sand and think that the enemy around him does not exist, because he is not able to see him!

What is the alternate explanation provided by atheists like Dawkins? Since they are not able to think, imagine, visualize, comprehend or experience God the Creator, in their limited capacity to think, a task which is constrained by a brain which is perishable on death, they propose natural selection as the alternative.

Natural selection discovered and propounded by Charles Darwin looks like a life-savior for the atheist, who does not want to believe in an all powerful God. So they switch a lie for the Truth; a mechanistic force like natural selection in the place of the living God the Almighty.

Again, how does an atheist swearing on natural selection explain the origin of life itself? Only if there was life on earth as a starting point, natural selection could have operated on it and produce a gradation of life from simple to the complex life-forms. That is what they propose, as if it all happened in a dream!

Dawkins says, ‘origin of life was a unique event which had to happen only once.’[2] The explanation of this unique event, he brazenly attributes to luck, ‘initial stroke of luck.’[3] Is that an explanation worth a great mind like Dawkins? Just like a child he believes in luck! The starting of the first life on earth, that magnificent event, can it be attributed to mere luck? Is it a child’s play? Is this a scientific explanation? People, even great biologists, need to think.

Not wanting to believe in a Creator God, these people spun magic weave after weave, worse than what they condemn among creationists. Not able to explain the origin and existence of a life-friendly planet, the earth, where the six fundamental constants which hold the universe together are so finely tuned, so that life could appear and is supported, these atheist scientists propose a Multiverse (many universes!). They propose, ‘there are many universes, co-existing like bubbles of foam, in a ‘multiverse’.[4]

The idea is somewhere somehow by a stroke of luck the first life appeared and there after Natural Selection took over to shape and bring out different life forms including man/woman, as if from a magical Pandora box! But is there any proof?

NO, not a single shred of proof! Scientists who reject God because there is no proof and that it is highly improbable, are willing to bet their lives on luck and multiverse, without any iota of proof! Amazing!

Such people would rather believe in a mechanical grind named natural selection than God who created it all. Let me ask, who made natural selection a force? How did it get the so called power to select and what is its intelligence to make such a selection? What is its motivation? Who gave it such motivation, if any? The scientific-minded atheists have no answer.

There are only suppositions, guess work, presumptions, assumptions, hypotheses and lastly faith in some luck, fluke by which life originated. 

I think they could have done better!



[1] Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Transworld Publishers, London, 2006, P.176
[2] Ibid, P.167
[3] Ibid, P.168
[4] Ibid, P.173

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