Commentary

The Jewish Community needs vouchers. The cost of a Jewish education impoverishes some families, drives others to pursue a secular education, and restrains families from having additional children.

Through a 3-part series we will explore the arguments for allowing vouchers. In today’s editorial, we discuss the scientific evidence that God exists. In part 2, we examine the judicial history of the wall between Church and State. Lastly, we will demonstrate the need for vouchers, both within the Jewish community and American society.

Let’s begin with the scientific evidence.

The scientific community acknowledges that the existence of the universe is based on a long string of impossibilities. For example, if the Big Bang had been too strong, planets and galaxies could never have formed; too weak, and the universe would collapse into a black hole. For matter to exist, all six universal constants have to be exactly calibrated. The universe then needed to contain large amounts of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon to create suns, water, and organic life forms.

The probability for this to have occurred by chance is somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 in 10^500 (1 followed by 500 zeros).

Then we need to deal with the factors needed for human existence. Earth needs to be the right distance from a sun in a stable solar system. A molten core provides a magnetic shield against solar radiation. The gravity is sufficient to maintain an atmosphere. The carbon dioxide (greenhouse effect) prevents temperatures from swinging too much. Interestingly, the earth provides life’s basic needs in the proportion they’re needed – i.e. first air to breath, then water to drink, then shelter, and lastly food.

As for the complexity of life, a person has 46 chromosomes. The longest chromosome is over 220 million base pairs long.

The possibility of advanced life forms occurring by chance is virtually zero.

Atheists have proposed two distinct theories to challenge this powerful evidence of God’s existence. The first theory is that it’s the nature of the universe to continuously create alternate universes, like in the comic books. Since this is ongoing process with each existing universe creating other universes, there is an infinite and constantly expanding number of universes so that even the impossible could become possible in one of those universes.

There’s absolutely no evidence for such a theory but how else do you explain the impossible? Well, the other theory is that there is indeed a “Creator” but that creator isn’t God, just an advanced being. The concept of a creator, however, was rejected by the atheists when Christians tried to advance the theory of Intelligent Design.

Evolution, the other holy grail of atheism, also has serious deficiencies. The massive fossil record does not show a single instance of one animal type evolving into another. Fish don’t become frogs. Frogs don’t become alligators. Monkeys don’t become men. Rather, we only see gradual evolution within a species.

The other problem with evolution is that the evolutionary timeline is too short for such extraordinary advances. According to the fossil record, all modern life forms sprang into existence during the Cambrian explosion, which lasted less than 50 million years, not the billions of years evolutionary theory requires.

As scientific discovery advances, God’s existence becomes more evident. To suggest otherwise requires an absolute faith in nothing.

- editor