There's probably no God - oh really?

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Plans are afoot to mount a bus advert campaign with the message "There's probably no God - enjoy your life". It's a copy of a similar London campaign.

But is it a true statement? Is there in all probability no God? Can we account for the physical universe, the biological world and the nature of humankind without any recourse to a Creator? What is the likelihood that we are here merely by chance?

For the first time in our history we can start to quantify parts of this question in probabilistic terms. The result is surprising.

Let's start with the physical universe. The field of cosmology tells us that the universe is exquisitely finely balanced.

Its density, back at the first moments of the "big bang", was critically balanced to better than one part in one billion billion billion billion.

A fraction more dense and it all would have collapsed again. A fraction less dense and it all would have evaporated - no galaxies, no stars, no planets, no mother Earth.

A fraction more dense and it all would have collapsed again. A fraction less dense and it all would have evaporated - no galaxies, no stars, no planets, no mother Earth.

All the known forces of nature are tightly balanced relative to each other.

A little this way and protons do not form. A little that way and neutrons don't form. Tweak another way and no particles at all. Tweak another way and everything is hydrogen only.

Now if the universe were truly random...

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