There’s no question that we live in a highly improbable universe. There is no explanation for, among many other things, the origin of the universe, the origin of life, and the origin of human life.
The current materialistic “explanation” is that we live in one of a very large number of universes, so that - as improbable as is our existence - there were many, many chances for something very improbable to occur. The materialistic explanation is that somebody eventually will win the powerball lottery every day for ten years in a row. For a rational person, if somebody were to win the powwerball lottery every day for ten years in a row, it would prove that that lottery was fixed.
The question isn’t how improbable is the universe, it is whether the Creator of the universe is a personal God, one who loves us and who is just and merciful.
The argument against there being a loving God is the existence of evil in the world. Once you consider that there is a loving God, then you have to deal with such facts as Adolph Hitler. The answer to this is that God has given us free will. But, why such enormous evil? Why wouldn’t a loving God have some kind of test in which innocent people weren’t hurt so badly by evil people?
As Christians, while we have answers to many questions, we too have unanswered questions. Thus, in this life, we need faith and hope in addition to love. Faith in what cannot be seen, and hope in the future. In the next life, when all questions are resolved, we will only need love.
>>There’s no question that we live in a highly improbable universe. <<
Some believe that it will someday be replaced by something even more improbable.
Some believe this has already happened.
/Douglas Adams for the win! :)
Philiosophical arguments can go either way. The best evidence for the existence of God is Jewish scriptures and the person, work(miraculous and otherwise), and the physical resurrection of Jesus(Yeshua) who was thereafter known as the Anointed(Christ) to first his followers (Jewish and Gentiles) and then the world at large.