Respond Podcast Episode 1 - “A Universe Setup for Life” Presenter: Stuart Gray, @stuhgray

  1. We can get to know what God is like by studying nature

  2. The Universe is full of evidence it’s not the result of a random unguided process – but set up for life

  3. Chance does not have the metaphysical resources to:

  4. cause life or
  5. cause our environment which is setup for life. For example:
  6. Oxygen is a safe, diatomic molecule

  7. We have just enough for life to exist

  8. Our solar system is a perfectly situated habitat for us to do science on planet earth

  9. The “coincidences” for life go on and on in nature – surely this requires some sort of explanation

  10. Detectives discover the perpetrator indirectly using the evidence they can see

  11. Our senses allow us to observe the existence of the God thru nature
  12. Our view of God thru nature is indirect, like the Detective

References for this episode: St Augustine, De Civitatis Dei, Book XVI

Geraint F. Lewis and Luke A Barnes, A Fortunate Universe Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Darwin’s Corrosive Idea John West at Dallas Science Faith Conference 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWKKVL_Pkf8.

Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards, The Privileged Planet How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery, (Washington: Regnery Publishing, 2004).

Matthew 6:26-27.

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