It is amazing how quickly people are to draw conclusions about things based on a minimal amount of information. My feeling is, that no matter how smart we think that we are and no matter how much we know about the origins of life and the universe, we remain enormously ignorant.
The complexity of life itself, the laws that govern the universe and the amazing way in which this earth, a living planet, provides everything that life needs to sustain it, points to intelligent design.
Through my own personal struggle with faith, I have learned that there is a dilemma that one comes against when considering faith in God. Once a person accepts that there is a God, one enters into the realm of absolutes and this realm can be frightening because if there is an absolute God who gave mankind absolute laws in which to live by, then this means that one day this God is going to administer absolute judgement on me. At this point, the message of salvation through Christ may be attractive but it is also tempting to back away at this point, and look for some other way to make sense of it all.
Here is a web site that may be helpful to you and your friend. It has some really good articles that use science to support God.
May God Be With You.
I agree wholeheartedly. Just think, after a century of massive scientific discoveies, we've hit two walls that seem to be unsurmountable-each in the opposite direction of the other: the subatomic and deep space.
I mean, it seems to me that no matter how deep we go in finding the smallest thing there is, there's always six more things beneath it.
On the other end of the spectrum, we are limited to this planet, maybe Mars, that's about it, baby. Every time the Hubble telescope looks at deep space, into the farthest reaches of time, much too early to even form a planet, what does it find? Galaxies where galaxies should not be!
To me, at least, it means that the more we've learned-the less we really know!
Perhaps God wants it that way?