One reason for the intellectual revival of theism was the intriguing scientific discoveries of the 20th century. these include the big bang which postulates a cosmic beginning to the universe. This was a departure from conventional thinking that postulated the universe was static and eternal,needing no creator. In the 1970's cosmologists discovered the intriguing phenomenon of fine-tuning, which explicitly demonstrated that the universe's laws and arrangement seemed designed and fine-tuned so that complex conscious life, like human beings, could exist. Near the beginning of the 20th century we had an utterly inadequate understanding of biology's nuts and bolts. We thought cells were just homogeneous blobs of protoplasm. In 1953,however , James Watson and Francis Crick demonstrated the double helix structure of DNA,the information storage device of the cell. Following this discovery, the molecular biological revolution continued, unearthing more and more fascinating sophisticated futures at the microscopic level.Crick -even he was an atheist- was so impressed with the apparent design in the DNA that he became convinced that this could not have happened by chance,and that some sort of extraterrestrial intervention was involved. These discoveries in progress in science, as well as their philosophical implications, progressively brought theism back onto the intellectual and academic discussion table . Today theism is a perfectly respectable position.
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