Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

In a recent article in The Spectator, a French engineer, investor, and author argued, and I quote,

it's getting harder for scientists not to believe in God.

According to Michel E. Boleret, and I quote the article, more and more convincingly.

And perhaps in spite of itself, science today is pointing to the fact that to be explained,

our universe needs a creator.

Boleray then goes on to, quote, Robert Wilson, a Nobel Prize winner for the discovery of the

Echo and the Big Bang in 1978, and an agnostic who said,

if all of this is true, he was speaking there of the Big Bang theory, we cannot avoid the question

of creation, end quote. Well, for centuries now, this inherent conflict between faith and reason

between science and religion has just been widely assumed. For example,

in their 2003 book, Rare Earth, why complex life is uncommon in the universe, two scientists,

Peter Ward and Donald Brownley argued that, contrary to science fiction, there's little chance

of complex life existing anywhere but on Earth. But just because our world is kind of special,

they went on to carefully point out multiple times in the book. That does not imply that it came

from a creator. Now, Boleray thinks that this whole philosophical cold war that's been going on

for so long is beginning to thaw, and not because scientists are abandoning facts

and reason. Instead, it's facts that's convincing them of the truth. Again, I quote the article.

With sets of converging evidence from different scientific disciplines, cosmology to physics,

biology to chemistry, it's increasingly difficult for materialists to hold their position.

Indeed, if they deny a creator, they have to accept and uphold that the universe had no beginning,

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