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Who Made God

Searching for a Theory of Everything
By Professor Edgar H. Andrews. (Sept. 2009)
The author is Emeritus Professor of Materials
at the University of London and an international expert on the science of large molecules.
The Christian Book Publisher EP Books has
published another excellent book, for people
who are interested in science. Edgar Andrews
has managed to explain difficult subjects in this
book in an accessible language. Edgar Andrews, so says the Principal of the London
Theological Seminary, Robert Strivens, demonstrates that a right understanding of the
scientific enterprise poses no threat to biblical
Christianity - indeed, that the kind of world we
live in is precisely what the biblical account of
God and creation would lead us to expect.
The author based the title of his book on a favorite question of the sceptics: If God made
everything, then who made God? Edgar Andrews starts with the hypothesis that God
exists. Then he proceeds with investigating to what extent scientific research confirms that
hypothesis. This is a legitimate startingpoint, since that is how science works. You form
a hypothesis and you test it. In his book he frequently crosses swords with famous scientists such as Richard Dawkins and Stephen Hawking, who both deny the existence of God.
Although God cannot actually be proven by the Godhypothesis, the Godhypothesis is
much more defendable than the assumption that God does not exist. Science is still looking for the all-inclusive, all-encompassing theory. Scientists are frenetically banishing
every possible proof that may indicate the existence of God, even when logic clearly
points to a (divine) design. Who can be against that, for design can also be described in
scientific jargon!!
For the Godhypothesis, and therefore for the purpose of this book, the author uses as his
startingpoint four things that are scientifically unexplainable: (1) the origin of the universe,
(2) the origin of the laws of nature, (3) the origin of life and (4) the origin of mind and
thought. These four irregularities are sublimely worked out by the author. For the first
two points Andrews uses many arguments that have already been addressed in quite a
number of books by other authors. The last part deals with morality (the contents of our
thoughts). This is the territory of the Bible. How remarkably that this is presented scientificaly!
The third part, about the origin of life, is very fascinating and it deals with the basic
building blocks of life as they are layed down in our genetic code. Until today I have never
read such a well substantiated argument about this subject. Edgar Andrews poses that
chemistry, or biochemistry, doesnt contain information in or by itself: DNA is the infor-

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mation-carrier that needs a dictionary to be understood: in itself a combination of something means nothing. It is the meaning attached to it that makes it sensible. So there must
have been someone, some power, to add that kind of information to the chemical compounds and make them workable or functional. As a matter of fact, in the primeordeal
soup, when it all started, amino acids break down (the fluid in a cell cytoplasm or cellmatyrix is a universe in itself), which poses another and insurmountable problem, if we
let nature do its work and push away God. Yet, according to the chemical script of DNA,
life can and does arise in an infinite number of variations, and in doing so it also passes
itself on to the next generations. DNA is the language of God. Therefore: God spoke (in a
language) and created.
Id love to talk with prof. Andrews sometime about different subjects. Let me mention just
one of them here. Andrews claims that mathematics (and therefore numbers too) is only
the product of the human mind (ch. 10). Here he seems to agree with Richard Dedekind.
In a paper dated 1887 and entitled What are Numbers and What Do They Mean? Dedekind defined numbers as a fabrication of the human mind. This view has been the leading
thought in science ever since. The view is justified if God does not exist. Atheist Bertrand Russell followed the same idea and said physics is mathematics, not because we
know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little about it. We can
only discover its mathematical attributes. But if God exists, mathematics could be the
language God uses to give the universe cohesion (through the laws of nature), in a way
comparable to the code embedded in the DNA-script. Thus the mathemetical formulas are
the ultimate explanation for the phenomena we observe around us, even if those formulas
seem to have no relation to our own sensory perceptions and imaginative powers.
O yes, I assume you have guessed it already, my advise has a golden edge: an excellent
book!
Hubert Luns