Michael Guillen, Ph.D. has educational equivalents of 3 doctorates. He is a theoretical physicist. He taught physics at Harvard for eight years receiving awards for distinguished teaching. He is president of Spectacular Science Productions. For his work on Good Morning America,World News Tonight, Nightline, and 20/20, he has won Emmys, Teddys, and an EMMA. His other books include: Bridges to Infinity: The Human Side of Mathematics and Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics. He believes that to see reality clearly you need stereoscopic vision. That’s the way our two eyes work. Each looks in a slightly different direction and our brain creates a 3-d picture by amalgamating this data. Guillen speaks of the need to develop our IQ (Intelligence Quota) and what he calls our SQ (Spiritual Quota). "Can a smart person believe in God?" contains the story of his journey to faith in God. He made me smile with the idea that it takes a great deal of faith to be an atheist! Given all our current understanding of scientific laws there is a convergence of two major scientific problems. The first is Guillen’s claim that atheists, once they accept the obvious: that life on earth is very complex and magnificently developed, also have to have an unusual belief in the great power of random chance. By definition this group of believers does not believe in Intelligent Design of the universe. Unless I’m missing something – all that’s left is the power of randomness. Their idea is that you take all the parts of a calculator, shake them for millions of years in a paper bag, hit it with the occasional lightening bolt and, supposing nothing wears through fiction, a long time later a fully assembled adding machine will emerge. Not only that but the little machine will be blessed with the program to produce other calculators without any supervision. Now call the late Sir Fred Hoyle to the witness stand. Sir Hoyle, Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge University also founded the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge. He was best known for his theory on the structure of stars and on the origin of the chemical elements in stars. He was a joint proponent of the Steady-State model of the Universe. Fred was also the originator of that other converging problem for atheists. In his book Intelligent Universe Hoyle says: "The probability of life originating at random is so miniscule as to make it absurd." Sir Fred calculated that randomness would need about 300 times the age of the earth to create one protein molecule by accident. Professor Hoyle wasn’t a Christian, but he was an honest scientist who before his death in 2001 concluded that "a super-intellect" must have "monkeyed with physics, chemistry and biology" in the production of life as we now it. I find this satisfying because I learned years ago that I didn’t have enough faith to be an atheist. Perhaps it doesn’t take as much faith as it does heart rebelliousness. The very next question after deciding if there is indeed a Creator God must be "Can I know Him?" Immediately there arises another query: "What does He want from me?" The October 2004 Time Magazine has an eyebrow-raising article called The God Gene. Lindon Eaves, director of The Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics believes our human brain is "hot-wired" to seek a relationship with God. He is an agnostic who struggles: "The question is, to what is this wiring responsive? Why is it there?" Notice how he is approaching it from the standard evolutionist concept. This is the belief that we are the result of the action upon us of our environment. A great mind from the past wrote: "Lord, our hearts are restless until they find their rest in Thee." Reader you don’t need more information to find God. Like the author of those last words you need a willingness to repent of self-will and a humble surrender to your Maker.
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