Does God Even Exist? Evidence and Arguments

“Does God even exist?” - this is a question that almost every person asks themselves at some point in life. Whether you grew up in a believing family or an atheistic one - sooner or later you face this fundamental question. And rightly so. Because the answer to it determines everything: the meaning of life, morality, hope for eternity.

In this article, I want to share with you the arguments that convince my mind that God exists - and not just any god, but the God of the Bible. I won’t ask you to take a blind leap of faith. Instead, I’ll show you evidence that requires trust but doesn’t require turning off your reason.

My Personal Search

I spent years searching for the answer to this question myself. I wasn’t born with certain faith - I had to walk my own path from doubt. I remember the moment when I didn’t know if God existed. But instead of closing the topic, I started searching. And I found the arguments I want to present to you now.

The Testimony of Creation - The Teleological Argument

Look around you. Look at the complexity of the world - from the structure of the atom to galaxies, from a single cell to the human brain. Could all this have arisen by chance?

For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

— Heb 3:4 (ESV)

This logic is relentless. Every house has a builder. Every watch has a watchmaker. Every design has a designer. And the universe - infinitely more complex than any human creation - would have no Creator?

The Phone Nobody Designed

Imagine walking across an empty field and finding an iPhone. Would you think: “Oh, interesting - over millions of years, particles of metal, glass, and silicon randomly came together and a working smartphone emerged”?

Absurd. Every reasonable person knows that a phone requires a designer. It requires engineers, programmers, designers. I don’t need to know the person who designed it to know that someone had to do it.

Now think: the human body is millions of times more complex than any phone. The human eye contains 130 million photoreceptors. The brain has 86 billion neurons connected by trillions of synapses. And we’re supposed to believe it all arose… by chance?

DNA Code - The Most Complex Program in the World

As someone who understands programming, I know one thing: code doesn’t write itself. You could bang on a keyboard for billions of years - you won’t create a working program. Code requires a programmer. It requires intelligence, planning, purpose.

And DNA? It’s the most complex information code in the universe. Three billion “letters” of code in every cell of your body. Instructions for building an entire organism - from eye color to heart structure.

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

— Ps 139:13-14 (ESV)

Where did this information come from? Information doesn’t arise from chaos. Never. Programs don’t write themselves. Even artificial intelligence - though it can generate text and code - won’t create anything on its own. A human is needed to run it, and before that - a human who programmed and trained it. Code requires a coder. DNA requires… God.

Irreducible Complexity

Biochemist Michael Behe introduced the concept of “irreducible complexity.” It refers to biological systems that cannot arise gradually because every “unfinished” version doesn’t work.

There are plenty of such systems in biology: the bacterial flagellum, the blood clotting cascade, the immune system. They couldn’t arise “step by step” because every incomplete variant is useless to the organism.

Evolution says: “small, random changes, accumulating over millions of years.” But these systems couldn’t arise through small changes - they had to arise complete. And that requires… a designer.

Who Started It All? - The Cosmological Argument

Let’s look at this from another angle. Everything that exists has a cause. The chair you’re sitting on was made by a carpenter. The tree from which the wood came grew from a seed. The seed fell from another tree. And so on.

But if we keep going back infinitely - nothing would ever come into existence. There must be a first cause that itself has no cause. Something (or Someone) that always existed and started everything else.

The Question Science Doesn’t Answer

Science excellently describes “how” - how the laws of physics work, how evolution proceeds, how galaxies form. But science doesn’t answer the question “why”.

Why does anything exist instead of nothing? Why are there laws of physics? Why is the universe comprehensible to the human mind?

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

— Rom 1:20 (ESV)

Physics can describe the Big Bang. But it can’t tell us what was before it. It can’t explain why it happened at all.

The Big Bang - What Was “Before”?

Modern cosmology says the universe has a beginning - the Big Bang. About 13.8 billion years ago, all matter, energy, space, and time began to exist.

But what caused the Big Bang?

Materialists say: “it arose from nothing” or “always existed as a singularity.” But these aren’t answers - they’re avoiding the question.

Every effect has a cause. This is a basic principle of logic and science. If the universe had a beginning - it must have a cause. That cause must be:

Timeless - because time began with the universe
Spaceless - because space began with the universe
Immaterial - because matter began with the universe
Incredibly powerful - because it created the entire universe
Personal - because it made a decision to create

What fits this description? God.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

— Gen 1:1 (ESV)

The Desire That Points to You - The Argument from Desire

Every natural desire corresponds to something real. Hunger points to food. Thirst points to water. Tiredness points to sleep. Sexual attraction points to the opposite sex.

What about the desire for something more? That elusive longing for something beyond this world? For meaning, for eternity, for transcendence?

This is a universal human experience. Every culture in history has developed some form of religion, some search for transcendence. Where does this desire come from if there’s nothing that could satisfy it?

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart.

— Eccl 3:11 (ESV)

God put eternity in our hearts. That’s why nothing finite satisfies us. That’s why even after achieving all our goals, we feel emptiness. Because we were created for a relationship with the Infinite.

How Do We Know What’s Good and Evil? - The Moral Argument

Where does morality come from? Why do we know that certain things are objectively wrong - like torturing innocent children for fun?

If there’s no God, morality is just… opinion. A product of evolution. A social convention. Nothing more.

But do you really believe the Holocaust was “wrong” only in the sense that our culture thinks so? That in another culture it could be “good”? Or that in a million years, when humanity dies out, the Holocaust will become morally neutral?

No. Intuitively you know that certain things are objectively wrong. Regardless of culture, era, opinion. This objective good and evil requires an objective standard. And an objective standard requires… God.

For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness.

— Rom 2:14-15 (ESV)

Where does this “law written on hearts” come from? Where does the universal sense of justice that transcends cultural boundaries come from? Evolution doesn’t explain objective morality - at best it can explain why we think something is good or bad, but not why it actually is.

Fine-Tuning - A Universe Tuned for Life

Physicists have discovered something astonishing: the physical constants of the universe are precisely tuned for life. Change one by a fraction of a percent - and life becomes impossible.

Gravitational force: if slightly stronger, stars would burn out too quickly. If slightly weaker, galaxies wouldn’t form.
Electromagnetic force: if different, atoms couldn’t form chemical bonds.
Cosmological constant: if it differed by 1 part in 10^120, the universe would either collapse or expand too fast.

Materialists try to explain this with the “multiverse” - the hypothesis that infinitely many universes exist, and we happen to live in the one where conditions are right. But this isn’t science - it’s speculation. We have no evidence for other universes. It’s faith disguised as science.

A much simpler explanation: someone set those dials. Someone designed the universe so that life would be possible. That Someone is God.

Does Believing in Chance Require Greater Faith?

Let’s consider the alternative. If not God - then what? Materialism offers its answer. Let’s examine it honestly.

Mathematics and the Origin of Life

What’s the probability that even the simplest functional protein could arise by chance? Biochemists calculated: about 1 in 10^164.

For comparison: the number of atoms in the entire observable universe is “only” 10^80. These are hard numbers to imagine, but they show the scale of the problem - the random emergence of even one functional protein is mathematically practically impossible.

And life requires not one protein, but thousands - precisely coordinated.

Some say: “give enough time, and anything is possible.” But mathematics suggests that even billions of years may not be enough.

The Assumptions of Materialism

Honestly, materialism also requires certain assumptions. Here are some of them:

The universe arose without an external cause
The laws of physics exist without explanation of their origin
Life arose from inanimate matter
Consciousness emerged from physical processes
Morality is a product of evolution
Life has no objective, external meaning

I’m not claiming these assumptions are impossible. But I want you to notice that materialism also requires a kind of faith - faith that chance and time are sufficient to explain everything we see.

For me, faith in an intelligent Creator seems a simpler and more coherent explanation of reality.

Let me be direct: I personally don’t believe in the Big Bang theory or evolution as an explanation for the origin of life. I believe literally in the biblical account of creation - that God created the world in six days and that the earth is young. I know this position is unpopular today (though for most of human history it was commonly accepted), but I believe it better fits what we see in nature and what Scripture says.

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day.

— Exod 20:11 (ESV)

I don’t expect you to agree with me right away. But I encourage you to investigate this matter for yourself - with an open mind and the Bible in hand.

Why the Christian God?

Let’s assume I’ve convinced you that some God exists. Why should it be the God of the Bible? Why not Zeus, Allah, or Brahma?

He Is Not Capricious Like Pagan Gods

Greek, Roman, and Norse gods were… like humans. They quarreled, cheated, were jealous, vengeful, capricious. They changed rules according to their moods. They couldn’t be trusted.

The God of the Bible is different. He is constant, unchanging, perfectly moral. He doesn’t change the rules. He can be trusted.

For I the Lord do not change.

— Mal 3:6 (ESV)

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

— James 1:17 (ESV)

The God of the Bible is the only God who truly “fits” what we intuitively expect from God: absolute perfection, constancy, justice combined with love.

Fulfilled Prophecies

The Old Testament contains hundreds of prophecies about the Messiah - written hundreds of years before Jesus. Place of birth, way of life, manner of death, resurrection. They all came true.

Place of birth (Bethlehem) - prophesied in Micah 5:2, written ~700 BC
Entry into Jerusalem on a donkey - prophesied in Zechariah 9:9
Betrayed for 30 pieces of silver - prophesied in Zechariah 11:12-13
Crucifixion (pierced hands and feet) - prophesied in Psalm 22, written ~1000 BC, when crucifixion as a method of execution didn’t yet exist
Casting lots for garments - prophesied in Psalm 22:18

But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth.

— Isa 53:5-7 (ESV)

This passage was written about 700 years before Christ. Reading it, you feel like you’re looking at an eyewitness account of the crucifixion.

The Historicity of Jesus and the Resurrection

Jesus of Nazareth is a historical figure - even atheist historians admit this. He lived, taught, was crucified under Pontius Pilate. These are facts, not a matter of faith.

But Christianity stands or falls with one event: the resurrection. If Jesus didn’t rise, we are the most pitiful people in the world. But if He did rise - it changes everything.

I describe the evidence for the resurrection in detail in a separate article: Did Jesus Really Exist and Rise from the Dead?. There you’ll find analysis of the empty tomb, the martyrdom of the apostles, and the explosion of Christianity.

The Gospel Preached to Every Nation

There’s one more argument - prophecies being fulfilled before our eyes.

And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

— Matt 24:14 (ESV)

Jesus said this 2000 years ago. In times when traveling from one end of the Roman Empire to the other took months. In times when most people never left their village.

And today? The Bible is translated into over 700 languages. The Gospel has reached virtually every nation on earth. The internet allows the Good News to be proclaimed to the most remote corners of the world.

This was a “crazy” prophecy in the 1st century. Today we see it being fulfilled.

Let’s summarize. You have two choices:

Option 1: Materialism

The universe arose from nothing, without cause
Life arose by chance, despite astronomically low probability
The precise fine-tuning of physical constants is a lucky break
Morality is an evolutionary illusion
Your life has no objective meaning
After death there is nothingness

Option 2: Theism (God of the Bible)

The universe has a Creator who designed it
Life is the work of an intelligent designer
Fine-tuning points to intentional action
Morality is objective because it comes from God
Your life has meaning - you were created out of love
After death there is eternity with God (or without Him)

Which option is more rational? Which better explains the facts?

God is not an abstract force. He wants a relationship with you. If you sincerely seek Him, He will reveal Himself. That’s a promise.

You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

— Jer 29:13 (ESV)

Does God exist? Yes. The evidence points in one direction. But the final decision is yours. Because God doesn’t force - He invites.

One thing is certain: God lives. And each of us - believer or unbeliever - will one day face the answer to this question. When death comes, we will all find out. The only question is whether it will be a joyful meeting with the One we sought all our lives, or a painful discovery that we ignored the invitation that was before us all along.

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment.

— Heb 9:27 (ESV)

Don’t wait until the last moment. Prepare yourself to meet your Creator - seek Him now, with all your heart.