Can You Prove It?

1.4 What do the Arguments from Nature Prove?

What do these arguments from the anthropic principle, irreducible complexity, and human nature prove? They are certainly not enough to prove that the Christian message is true. However, what they can do is to show that, in the current state of scientific knowledge, there is nothing unreasonable about Christian faith, and that the naturalistic arguments which are often brought to bear against such faith are out-dated and may be based on little more than scientific ignorance or prejudice.

Of course, we should use such arguments from creation with care. In particular, we should not marry the Christian faith too closely to any single scientific theory. (After all, look what happened to people who believed the Earth was flat!)

In years to come, astronomers and biochemists may discover some natural scientific explanation for why the universe has to be the way it is, or for why human nature is as it is - but meanwhile, current scientific developments are certainly interesting from a Christian point of view, and tend to support such belief rather than to oppose it.