Center of the Universe?

As I’ve considered the vastness of our universe I’ve always been amazed at how small and insignificant our planet is, even though it stands out for its beauty and life. I never grasped just how special the beauty and life of our planet is.

The evidence for a creator is more powerful today than it ever has been in all of history. The probability of our existence is astronomically small. It’s one in 10 to the power of several hundreds. Absolutely, ridiculously small. A few decades ago, it was one in 10 to the 60^th power, but the more we learn the smaller it gets. It’s like flipping a nickel onto a smooth, hard surface 10,000 times and having it land perfectly on its side every time, never giving either a head or tail.

Some atheists like to say that maybe the probabilities aren’t really that small, but they are making completely unfounded assumptions to try and dismiss what our knowledge of physics, chemistry, and biology tells us. They also like to propose that there must be an infinite number of universes. There is no evidence for even one other universe except that our universe exists and it’s nearly impossible for us to exist without some intelligent power fine tuning our design. If that designer doesn’t exist there must be a nearly infinite number of universes because that’s what it would take to get one like ours. But there is much more evidence for a creator than for multiverses.

Now if I accept the evidence for intelligent design in our universe, then it appears all this fine tuning was done just so we could exist. All 14 billion years of the universe’s existence so far happened so we could be here for the few hundred thousand years that humans have apparently been on this planet. Who knows how much longer we’ll be here?

Experts say there are at least 100 billion galaxies in the universe but probably closer to 200 billion. Our Milky Way galaxy might have 500 billion stars. Still, the likelihood of there being another planet like earth that can sustain life is infinitesimal. Even if there were billions of planets just like earth, the probability of self-replicating molecules that form the foundation of life ever randomly coming into existence is infinitesimal. We should not exist, but we do. Reason dictates that something brought us into existence.