On Man and Reality
Part 3 - Is the Universe a Product
of Chance or Design?

The Current View of Reality
Cosmologists tell us that, if the parameters that define the immutable laws, which govern our Universe, had been minutely different from what they are; planetary environments capable of supporting life never would have become possible. Those immutable laws came into effect with the birth of the Universe. The chances against all of the parameters defining those laws having been born with just the right values to make life evolution possible, compute as infinitely large. The slightest alteration to any one of them would have rendered most, if not all of the complex evolutionary steps prerequisite to the emergence of life, impossible. As it is, those steps appear to occur all over the Universe.

It seems that, once the primeval nature of the Universe and its laws had been determined, the path that evolution would follow was rendered both inevitable and intellectually predictable.

Random events certainly supply the means by which evolution proceeds. However, the similar nature of the results produced by them, everywhere in the Universe, confirms that it is the laws that govern their outcome, which determine the path that evolution follows. In other words, the laws, which define the Universe at its beginnings, define it at all stages of its evolution. The manner in which the Universe unfolds, thus is predetermined.

The Inference
Given the infinite odds against chance having produced the immutable laws that have made life possible, it is difficult to imagine how a chaotic Primeval Universe, which has unfolded to produce an exacting and ordered Reality capable of hosting life, could have come into existence unless it was designed with such an end in mind. However, such an explanation presupposes the existence of a Celestial Designer and demands that evolution be working towards producing something of great value to that Designer.

The fact that, late in the evolutionary process, Reality is producing wilfully motivated, design-oriented, creative Beings, suggests that procreation (the creation of Beings in the Designer’s own image) could be its purpose. If a Celestial Designer wished to create Beings in its own image and to provide them with a playground in which to evolve through practicing their creative abilities and solving the accompanying dilemmas, then a Reality similar to our own would be the result.

That does not mean, as some of our forebears conjectured, that Man is created in his designer’s image. However, it makes it likely that his history describes an advanced segment of an evolutionary path, which is heading towards the creation of such a Being.

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