Lately I’ve been studying probability. One thing that struck me was the formula that says that the chance of something happening is one minus the chance that it didn’t happen. It occurred to me that you could use this formula in a religious context. The chance that there is a creator is one minus the chance that the universe as we know it came into being on its own. For anyone who has studied science in any way knows that the likelihood of this occurring by chance is basically zero, say one in ten to the millionth power; the exact power doesn’t matter when you get that big. Since one minus zero is one we can say with almost complete mathematical certainty that the universe was created.

For those who might object to this reason by the evidence we have seen in support of Darwinian evolution in the last century I will offer an analogy. Imagine that a very intelligent looking person tells you three things: 2+2 = 4, you should look both ways before crossing the street, and the moon is made of mozzarella. Should we, because the first two things he told us are true, believe that the moon is made of cheese. I think not. Darwinian theory has three main tenets as well: survival of the fittest, common descent, and random mutation. Survival of the fittest isn’t contested by anyone to my knowledge. Common descent has gained credibility in recent decades due to DNA evidence suggesting humans and apes share unlikely DNA characteristics, for example the same broken DNA strands. This doesn’t make it true, but does make it more credible. In the trillions of cases that have been studied in the last one hundred and fifty years to find support of random mutation we haven’t seen anything more complex than a few amino acids moving around. The more we learn about the complexities of life the more unlikely it is that life occurred by random mutation. I won’t comment on whether the moon being made of mozzarella is more or less likely than random mutation to be true. What I will say is that based on current knowledge we can say with almost sure mathematical certainty that there is a creator.