I recall that as a child I had vague notions about the planets in our solar system.
Why is ours one way and the others not?
Ours has life because it is this certain way—it was the toss of the dice that determined that one would have life and the others not.
Their size, their positions, their orbits, their constitutions—it was all arbitrary.
Life was an accident and I just happened to be there to think about it.
The universe’s origin was arbitrary.
Its makeup was arbitrary.
Our galaxy’s shape was arbitrary.
Our solar system’s position in the galaxy was arbitrary.
Its makeup was arbitrary.
Our star was arbitrary.
Its makeup was arbitrary.
Our planet was arbitrary.
Its makeup was arbitrary.
Its life was arbitrary.
I was arbitrary.
My biochemical makeup was arbitrary.
In fact, my very thoughts on the whole subject were arbitrary.
Everything in the entire universe—as parts and the universe as a whole—was arbitrary. If any little thing would have been slightly different, everything would be much different and I would not have been there to think about it.
But so what? I was mere an slight arbitrary bio-organism amongst very many and I was riding on the back of an arbitrary ball of matter spinning around an arbitrary dying star like so much space debris.
This was “science” as taught within a presuppositionally reductionist, absolutely materialistic, worldview philosophy.
I was robbed.
I was robbed of the design inference which gives meaning to purpose. I was robbed of appreciating the wonders for design and was indoctrinated into believing arbitrary reductionism.
I was robbed of knowing that our universe is a certain way for a certain reason—it is fine-tuned.
Our galaxy is shaped as it is for a reason, the earth is positioned as it is for a reason, the earth is as it is for a reason, the planets and our moon are the way they are and where they are for a reason.
Life on earth is not arbitrary, human life is not arbitrary, my life is not arbitrary and yours is not either.
We should never close our eyes to the wonders of the designed universe and its life just because some have erected a facade of scientific respectability around their chosen worldview philosophy.
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