Thoughts on Existence of God (updated 5-3-2005)

The following are quotes from scientists and others in regards to the Cosmological Argument. It will be updated as time goes on.

"'If there is no God, why is there something rather than nothing?' is a question that we all have to answer. And in light of the evidence, we are left with only two options: either no one created something out of nothing, or else someone created something out of nothing. Which view is more reasonable?"
-- Norman L. Geisler, I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist, p. 94.

"Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind."
-- Albert Einstein, Science, Philosophy, and Religion: A Symposium

"Only a rookie who knows nothing about science would say science takes away from faith. If you really study science, it will bring you closer to God."
-- James Tour, Nanoscientist

"Theologians generally are delighted with the proof that the Universe had a beginning, but astronomers are curiously upset. Their reactions provide an interesting demonstration of the response of the scientific mind -- supposedly a very objective mind -- when evidence uncovered by science itself leads to a conflict with the articles of faith in our profession. It turns out to that the scientist behaves the way the rest of us do when our beliefs are in conflict with the evidence. We become irritated, we pretend the conflict doesn't exist, or we paper it over with meaningless phrases."
-- Robert Jastrow, an agnostic, God and the Astronomers, p. 16.

"Since the evidence shows that time, space, and matter were created at the Big Bang, the most probable scientific conclusion is that the universe was caused by something outside of time, space, and matter (i.e., an Eternal Cause)."
-- Norman L. Geisler, I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist, p. 89.

"So why then doesn't God need a cause? Because the atheist's contention misunderstands the Law of Causality The Law of Causality does not say that everything needs a cause. It says that something that comes to be needs a cause. God did not come to be. No one made God. He is unmade. As an eternal being, God did not have a beginning, so he didn't need a cause.
'But wait,' the atheist will protest, 'if you can have an eternal God, then I can have an eternal universe! After all, if the universe is eternal, then it did not have a cause.' Yes, it is logically possible that the universe is eternal and therefore didn't have a cause. In fact, it is one of only two possibilities: either the universe, or something outside the universe, is eternal...The problem for the atheist is that while it is logically possible that the universe is eternal, it does not seem to be actually possible. For all the scientific and philosophical evidence tells us the universe cannot be eternal. So by ruling out one of the two options, we are left with the only other option -- something outside the universe is eternal...
...And in light of the evidence, we are left with only two options: either no one created something out of nothing, or else someone created something out of nothing. Which view is more reasonable? Nothing created something? No. Even Julie Andrews [(The Sound of Music)] knew the answer when she sang, 'Nothing comes from nothing. Nothing ever could!' And if you can't believe that nothing caused something, then you don't have enough faith to be an atheist!"
-- Ibid., p. 92-94.

"This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."
-- Isaac Newton, "General Scholium," in Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

"Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved."
-- Francis Crick, codiscoverer of DNA, Darwinist
Yeah, I bet they have to keep telling themselves that, considering the evidence that says the contrary.

"More time will make things worse for the Darwinist, not better. How so?
Let's suppose you throw red, white, and blue confetti out of an airplane 1,000 feet above your house. What's the chance it's going to form the American flag on your front lawn? Very low. Why? Because natural laws will mix up or randomize the confetti. You say, 'Allow more time.' Okay, let's take the plane up to 10,000 feet to give natural laws more time to work on the confetti. Does this improve the probability that the flag wil form on your lawn? No, more time actually makes the flag less likely because natural laws have longer to do what they do -- disorder and randomize."
-- Norman L. Geisler, I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist, p. 124-125.