'God moves in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform.' So does the universe, and the more we discover about physics, the more mysterious it seems.

Paul Davies also has discussions on "why is there something and not nothing". He basically concludes that because there IS something, there MUST be something and nothing cannot exist because if it could, it would. Logically speaking, nothing should be easier than something, "something" requires a degree of effort and/or energy. Yet here we are. So to wrap it up nicely, something cannot come from nothing. We as observers even see this first hand, no matter or energy has ever just spontaneously appeared. It is always an effect of a cause. Which leads us to the ultimate question, and that is "how?". Well nobody knows exactly, but I think two logical conclusions can be drawn. One, that the universe and everything within it has always existed, will always exist without end, and stretches infinitely in all directions. That is the "static universe theory". This has been widely discredited in favour of the big bang theory. Which brings us to number two. Something else infinite and eternal made the universe and everything within it, or at least laid the groundwork for everything within it. This, to me, is most logical because firstly where did the big bang come from (remember something can't come from nothing), and secondly, how is everything so orderly and not chaotic. Again, chaos is much easier than order. For me, the only logical conclusion is intelligent design. Take that where you will, is it God, is it nature itself, or is it a super advanced civilization? That's really the only debate. It's not debatable that everything just spontaneously appeared from complete nothingness. That's absurd. I am not a religious person, in terms of following any organized religion, but the concept of God is much less absurd to me than stuff popping up out of thin air. I absolutely believe in God, and it's because of science and logic, not despite them.

I missed the part where he actually Answered The Question.

Paul Davies is an extremely intelligent man and, along with biologist Chris McKay, is one of the foremost scientists today in my opinion. Any monkey can do science, peer-reviewed or not, but it takes a special person to have imagination and become a genius.

In keeping with your channel name and such discussions as this one with Professor Paul Davies, would you kindly take a look at Mudfossil University here on KZfaq and consider debating the professor and Roger Spurr? It’s long passed time that such amazing and important information from Roger Spurr be taken into account. For all our sakes, I hope that you will seriously consider doing this. Thank you.

UNBELIEVABLE! No physical thing can make or direct itself. There cannot be an infinite regress of physical causes. At some point, there has to be a creation of physical things. Prove otherwise. All power comes from a greater power, always!

If you are not a *materialist* then you have a big question to answer: *Who is God?* Paul Davies says he doesn't _"believe in miracles"_ but then has a universe making itself from nothing violating several laws of physics ie miracles! Seems to me God has not left us the option of picking and choosing who he is or having a small piece of Him. It's all or nothing as it logically must be.

Sounds like the God of Einstein and Spinoza....but hard to decode his interesting points into a coherent picture Best Wishes

I think that what we call intelligence is a tool for adaptation. Like eyes (a part of the brain) brains have evolved independently several times in the history of life on Earth. So what we call the universe is still our limited view of what we can grasp.

Paul like many scientists is struggling with the amount of things we know are true without knowing why. It is why science is sometimes called the study of discovering questions. This is not unusualy and it does lead many to feel there could be something(s) behind the observable pulling the strings. I accept him more than some others because he is not declaring this as fact, just his thoughts, so declaring hypothesis not dogma. A few similar on here have tried stating it as fact, and that defies what makes science great, the willingness to be wrong.

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He could have a least explained why he doesn't "like" the idea of God. He accepts a rational and intelligent order, why not, then, a Rational and Intelligent source of it.

He shares Einstein's views on life, universe and "God". Common grounds for any H.sapiens intelligent and honest enough.

"Language: ALL DIGITAL communications require a formal language, which in this context consists of all the information that the sender and receiver of the digital communication must both possess, in advance, in order for the communication to be successful." (Wikipedia: Digital Data) Inherent in DNA is language. Language is scientifically proven to be the product of only Mind/ Consciousness / Intelligence.

I would honestly like to know why they associate God (The Creator) with religion? God is not religion , the bible is not religion , Jesus is not religion , The Holy Spirit is not religion

did he say he believes? I fell asleep.

Paul Davie is one of my favorites, a lot more reasonable than a lot of those anti-Christian scientists no a days.

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He doesn't believe in any god. He relishes in the human brains unique nature to understand reality, none of which is supernatural. This is the most honest way to be.

Paul basically says he is a generic theist.

GOD HA HA HA.

'the human brain evolved'? Says who? Alfred Russell Wallace, the co-proposer of evolution by natural selection broke with Darwin over the impossibility of explaining how the human mind could 'evolve' by mindless random events and mindless natural selection.

Davies has said plenty of times in other interviews that he does NOT believe in a theistic God and that he believes the universe takes care of itself, creation, existence, and meaning. To try to frame him as some kind of reluctant theist is disingenuous.