Skeptics claim, “There is no evidence for God” but is that an accurate statement?
Since we cannot put God in a laboratory and measure Him, the question presents itself of whether the reality we observe is better explained by the existence of an intelligent Creator or by a universe originating from nothing, by random chance, with no intelligence, purpose, or explanation.
We must ask ourselves, “Which explanation makes the most sense of the universe we observe?”
I . The First Cause
We observe that whatever begins to exist has a cause. If we were to trace every cause back to the very beginning of all things, we’d have to ask the question: “what caused everything else to begin?”
This is known as the ‘First Cause’, starting every other cause henceforth. This First Cause cannot simply be another created thing within the universe, since then we’d have to ask, “what caused it.” Rather, the First Cause must be independent of the universe by whose existence it explains.
Consider the Big Bang theory: it erroneously attempts to describe the universe as having expanded from an extremely hot, dense origin approximately 13.8 billion years ago but doesn’t answer what caused itself to begin nor explain how it is separate from the rest of the universe.
If time, space and matter have a beginning, their ultimate first cause cannot simply be another part of time, space and matter. For instance, if you had space but not time, when would you put it? Or if you had matter but not space, where would you put it? Yet somehow the Big Bang knew what, when and where to put its creation from nothing, including itself originating by nothing, which is self refuting.
Yet the Bible answers the First Cause in ten remarkably profound words:
GENESIS 1:1
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Notice these three fundamental elements:
- “In the beginning” — that’s time
- “The heavens” — that’s space
- “The earth” — that’s matter
Genesis succinctly defines the origin of the very framework we observe within our physical universe, time, space, and matter, and identifies Who created it: “God created…”
The Universe Had a Beginning
Trying to disprove the First Cause, modern skeptics have theorized the universe always existed, thus rejecting their previous theory of the Big Bang.
Yet even the basic laws of thermodynamics point to the fact our universe is not an eternal, self-sustaining source of energy.
The first law tells us energy is conserved; it is not simply created or destroyed within a physical system.
The second law tells us, in a closed system, usable energy tends to decrease as entropy increases.
If the universe were an eternal, unchanging system, why has it not already reached thermodynamic equilibrium? Instead, we find a universe with a finite history and thus, an apparent beginning.
An eternal, self-created universe does not provide an answer congruent with scientific principles and yet “God created…” most certainly does!
The Universe Is Governed by Order and Law
The universe is not chaotic. It operates according to remarkably precise and consistent physical laws.
Gravity, electromagnetism, the forces within the atom, and numerous physical constants have specific values that make stars, planets, chemistry, and ultimately life possible.
If these values were changed even in the slightest detail, the universe as we know it would not exist.
Why does the universe possess this remarkable order? Albert Einstein marveled at this very mystery. In his 1936 essay Physics and Reality, he wrote:
“The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility… The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.”[1]
And in a 1921 address to the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Einstein asked how mathematics, “being after all a product of human thought,” could be “so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality.”[2]
The universe is not only ordered—it is intelligible. We can discover mathematical relationships that describe its behavior with astonishing precision.
This remarkable order is consistent with an intelligent source — a Lawgiver.
Design Points Toward a Designer
We recognize design everywhere in ordinary life. If we discover a watch lying on a beach, we don’t conclude that wind, waves, and time accidentally assembled it. We infer a designer designed its parts in a highly specific way to accomplish a purpose.
And yet the universe — especially living organisms — contains vastly greater complexity than a mere watch!
Consider the human eye: vision involves an extraordinarily coordinated system including the eye, retina, nerves, brain, and countless molecular processes.
And what was once called a “simple cell” is not simple at all. Modern biology has uncovered extraordinary molecular machinery operating inside living cells with each human cell nucleus containing 3 billion base pairs of DNA in a single haploid set and roughly 6 billion in a standard diploid set!
The question is not if biological systems can change over time, it’s: “Where did the information, organization, and remarkable complexity required for life come from?”
Life Comes From Life, Not Nonlife
How did the first living organism arise?
Biogenesis describes what we observe: living organisms come from other living organisms. However, abiogenesis—the proposed origin of the first life originating from nonliving chemistry— is not supported by any scientific law, discovery or observation.
Scientists have proposed numerous hypotheses for how this might have happened but no laboratory experiment has demonstrated the complete transition from nonliving matter to a fully functioning, self-reproducing living organism.
The origin of life remains an active scientific question.
Astrophysicist Hugh Ross has pointed out the enormous difficulties encountered in attempts to produce life from chemical “soups,” including the precise molecular arrangements required by living systems.[3]
We are left with another remarkable question: Why is there life at all, rather than simply matter and energy?
II. Moral And Spiritual Evidence
Observing our universe only through a naturalistic worldview overlooks morality, consciousness, emotions, beauty, pain and love. Things we all have experienced yet transcend physical science and test tubes.
Consciousness Is More Than Matter
You are conscious. You don’t merely have a brain—you experience thoughts, meaning, and self-awareness.
Science can study what happens in the brain when we think, but there remains a profound philosophical question: Why should physical matter produce subjective experience at all?
We can describe the physical activity of the brain, but not explain why there is an inner experience of being ‘you’.
If consciousness is ultimately nothing more than unconscious matter and physical processes, why does consciousness even exist? But if reality begins with an intelligent, conscious Creator, creating us in His image (Gen. 1:27), consciousness is a byproduct of His intelligence shared with us.
Morality Points Us Toward God
Most people believe some things are genuinely right and wrong. We intrinsically know that murdering an innocent person is wrong.
But where does objective moral obligation come from? Why do we have a conscience?
Evolution cannot explain morals or why our conscience would lead us to lay down our life in sacrificial love protecting a weaker person in defiance to Darwin’s survival of the fittest evolutionary theory.
If morality is ultimately nothing more than human opinion and preference, then there is no objective standard by which we can say that one society’s moral beliefs are actually right and another’s are actually wrong.
Thus anarchy not harmony becomes the societal norm. The existence of objective moral values points beyond humanity to an objective Moral Lawgiver.
God Has Not Left Himself Without a Witness
A person is known by what they do and say. We learn about historical people through their actions, writings, and the effect on this world they leave behind.
Thus, “if God exists and created us, can we expect Him to reveal Himself to us?” Yes we can! God has revealed Himself to us in two major ways: through what He has made and through what He has spoken.
Creation gives us evidence of God’s power, wisdom, and order:
PSALM 19:1
“The heavens declare the glory of God;
and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.”
God’s Word reveals to us Grace and Truth through Jesus Christ:
JOHN 1:1-3,14
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him… And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”
The Bible is not merely a collection of spiritual ideas but consists of 66 different books written by 40 authors in 3 world languages spanning 5,000 years of proven human history down to the date, historical accounts, names of kings and nations, geographical locations, cultural details, and events that can be examined against what we know of the ancient world today.
Respected archaeologist of over 1,500 ancient sites, Dr. Nelson Glueck, said: “Scores of archaeological findings have been made which confirm in clear outline or exact detail historical statements in the Bible. And, by the same token, proper evaluation of biblical description has often led to amazing discoveries.”[4]
God’s Word also contains promises—most notably concerning Israel—that unfold across centuries of history and are observable today.
Evidence about Israel’s physical land (Gen. 17:8), the regathering of her people back as a nation (Ez. 34:13), the fact Israel exists today—continue to show us God has given both His creation and His Word as witnesses of Himself.
ROMANS 1:20 declares, “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made.”
We see Creation and God’s Word point to the Creator.
So Who Created God?
At this point, a skeptic may ask the obvious question: “If everything needs a creator, who created God?”
But the argument for God is not that everything needs a cause, it’s that everything that begins to exist needs a cause.
God, by definition, is not a being who began to exist but has always existed:
REVELATION 22:13
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”
Therefore, the question is not: “Who created God?”
But rather: “What best explains the existence of everything that began to exist?”
An eternal, powerful, intelligent, conscious Creator provides the answer.
III. Conclusion
God is the first cause of all things, creating time, space and matter while remaining infinitely beyond His creation. The universe exists, has a beginning and operates according to remarkably precise laws such as being mathematically intelligible, finely tuned for the possibility of life and is not an eternal, self-sustaining source of energy.
Living organisms do not originate from nonliving organisms; they contain extraordinary complexity and information. Furthermore, consciousness cannot be explained by mere physical processes of unconscious matter but by recognized objective moral truths around us set by an eternal Lawgiver.
All of these observable principles are found in a written record of God’s revelation containing historical, geographical, and prophetic claims that have been proven true under scrutiny.
Remember, God has given us two witnesses: what He has made and what He has said. Thus, the question is not whether there is any evidence for God. There is.
The deeper question is: “Which explanation makes the most sense given all the examined evidence?”
Sources
- “Physics & Reality.” American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Oct. 2003, Source link. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026.
- Einstein, Albert. “Geometry and Experience.” Lecture, 27 Jan. 1921, Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin.
- Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos, 1993, p. 148.
- Dr. Nelson Glueck, Rivers in the Desert, (New York: Farrar, Strous, and Cudahy, 1959), 136.
