Collins says belief is ultimately a matter of faith\u201d\u201dthat God’s existence can’t, in the end, be proved by science. And yet he sees plenty of “pointers to God,” natural phenomena that imply the existence of a biblical God. Here are Collins’s “pointers”:<\/p>\n
* There is something instead of nothing.<\/p>\n
* The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics, which make simple and beautiful laws.<\/p>\n
* The Big Bang: out of nothingness, the universe came into being. That cries out for explanation, since we have not observed nature to create itself . . . it causes us to postulate a creator, and the creator must be outside of time or you haven’t solved the problem.<\/p>\n
* The precise tuning of the physical constants in the universe. If gravity was a little weaker, things would all start flying a part. You can see a creator in these constants.<\/p>\n
Collins says his work reconciling science and religion has received mixed reviews from the evangelical Christians that it’s largely aimed at.<\/p>\n