Science was meant to disprove religion – so why is it bringing us closer than ever to proving God is real?
by Matthew Phelan, Daily Mail:
Many atheists, including eminent scientist Richard Dawkins, believe religion is antithetical to science.
But a blockbuster study reporting evidence of ancient traces of hemoglobin, a key protein in blood, encrusted into the famed ‘Shroud of Turin’ contradicts this ‘black and white’ vision of science and spirituality.
Believed by many to be the burial cloth used to entomb Jesus Christ, the shroud has long been regarded a hoax perpetrated by medieval painters — despite a growing body of X-ray and chemical analysis suggesting the artifact may be genuine
DailyMail.com has heard from scientists in other fields whose life-long pursuit of empirical truth in the lab has led them to ‘believe in God as the author of creation.’
Their comments provide modern echoes of Albert Einstein’s famous declaration that ‘God does not play dice with the universe’ and Charles Darwin’s own belief in God.
Dr Denis Alexander, a biomedical researcher and past chair of molecular immunology at the UK-based Babraham Institute in Cambridge, told DailyMail.com his decades in immunology has only increased his belief in an omnipotent creator.
‘I see the sheer complexity of the immune system as truly staggering,’ Dr Alexander explained.
‘For sure, as an evolutionary biologist, I see that complexity as the outcome of millions of years of evolution,’ the scientist clarified. ‘But at the same time the finely-tuned immune system reflects the intelligibility of the universe we inhabit.’
‘The fact that we have a system that can, in principle, defend ourselves against pretty much any invader that we might encounter during life on this planet,’ he said, ‘is remarkable.’
‘It looks like a rational universe with a rational Mind behind it.’
Dr Alexander co-edited a book of essays written by scientists who ultimately came to find Dawkins’ critiques of religion lacking, after their own bouts of atheism: Coming to Faith Through Dawkins: 12 Essays on the Pathway from New Atheism to Christianity.
He found examples, across disciplines, of fellow researchers whose rational exploration of the laws undergirding our universe brought them closer to God.
But two emerging scientific discoveries stood out to him as the most compelling.
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