It seems creationism has been laughed at and ridiculed by the secular western masses (while having no viable explanation how everything came to be) for quite sometime and is substituted by anything other than an intelligent designer. Still, the majority of mankind believes in a higher power that is beyond scientific measurements to be the source of everything. One can bring logical and convincing rationales in support for this belief in higher power, making a substantial shift in people's worldview. Let's look at three.
1. Design
Beauty
We're surrounded with an endless supply of beauties that appear to have been carefully constructed by an intelligent source. If we are to believe that a rose was created by a mindless accident that cannot plan nor design, then we should also be prepared to explain how this random event also had the creativity to add in hundreds of beautiful varieties of roses. Roses have a particular design that wasn't stemmed from closing the eyes and splashing buckets of inks at a canvas; such glamours (along with everything else) could only have been envisioned and supervised by a conscious entity who has an idea of what beauty is.
Complexity
Another component to the design is complexity and the level of engineering. Even though any man-made technology doesn't compare to the inner workings of a cell, most people who reject creationism still believe a cell (including its life) originated from a lottery style fate. "The complexity of the simplest imaginable living organism is mindboggling. You need to have the cell wall, the energy system, a system of self-repair, a reproduction system, and means for taking in 'food' and expelling 'waste,' a means for interpreting the complex genetic code and replicating it, etc., etc. The combined telecommunication systems of the world are far less complex, and yet no one believes they arose by chance" (Dr. Stephen Grocott, In Six Days, 2001). Just the simplest organism is just too complex for a random occurrence to have invented it. Also, how did this accident assemble and knit together the body of the first living organism, along with somehow creating the first life for it? The complexity of creation only points to an intelligent entity who has the capacity in the mind and ability to devise intricacies.
Thoughtful Construction
Perhaps one of the strongest features that indicates a careful calculation, craftsmanship, and supervision by a conscious entity is the level of thought that went into each and every detail of everything. "The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron. ... The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life" (Dr. Stephen Hawking, 1988, A Brief History of Time, Bantam Books, p. 7, 125). So we have a universe whose countless variables could only have been fine-tuned by a higher power and not by some accident with no plausible cause, and we have planet Earth that was fine-tuned to support life. Consider some of the variables that allow Earth to be suitable for life: ideal distance from the sun (what scientists call the Goldilocks zone), ideal axial tilt that results in seasons, ideal concentration of breathable air, ideal atmospheric pressure, ideal gravity that's not too weak nor too strong, ideal axial rotation that we call a day, the ozone layer that shields us from ionizing radiations, plenty of soil for plants, large body of liquid water, etc... It's just ridiculous to suggest that a blind chance somehow figured out what all those variables should be and that it overcame all the possible dilemmas to make Earth habitable.
2. Mutualism
Mutualism is when two different organisms exchange benefits to one another. A classic example is the relationship between a bird and a flower, where the bird retrieves nectar and the flower gets pollinated. Plants give us food and fresh air, and us in turn give them CO2 and water them. How did an accident figure out that we need plants for food and air? And if all living things came from one organism, how did that organism evolve into plants and animals, and to which did it evolve first? This opens up the possibility that either plants or animals once existed without one another, which is perhaps impossible for survival. Plants and animals, that depend on each other for survival, could only have been created by a problem-solving intelligent designer at a close time interval, who understood mutual benefits to be necessary.
3. Life
Modern biology teaches that life can only arise from another life. But one popular hypothesis states that life came from an organic primordial soup that slowly weaved the first organism into life. But this doesn't explain how life came to be from a non-living matter, nor is it supported by any experiments. Researchers tried to create life in the lab by passing electricity through some compounds in an anticipation that the compounds will self- assemble into a living organism. Still to this day, they haven't had any positive results and haven't shown that life could emerge from chemicals. “An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going” ( Dr. Francis Crick, Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature, 1981, p. 88).
Conclusion
An entity that can create matter out of nothing can very much create life also. The creation of everything is complex, so complex that it should not surprise us in the least if it's a miracle and not some easy task that can be repeatedly replicated in a lab. The universe must have allowed at least one highly sophisticated entity to exist who called the shots considering that nothing cannot suddenly become something by itself. It is silly to suggest that the universe was self-sufficient, that it needed not a creator who fine-tuned its mathematical variables, and that the non-conscious universe itself, without the help of any intelligence, designed hundreds of different roses that attract bees for pollination and thoughtfully constructed the Earth to be as ideal for life as possible. There is a creator.
