Order in the Creation of Nature

Our natural environment is permeated with an amazing degree of order. The following passage from one of Imam Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib’s (a.s.) speeches eloquently characterizes the intricate design on display in the creation of the peacock:
“and of the most amazing of bids in point of creation is the peacock, whom He designed in the firmest constitution and whose colors He arranged in the finest arrangement. ... It is as though the amazing circles and suns formed on it were of pure gold and pieces of emerald. If you would liken it to what grows from the earth, you should say it is a bundle of flowers collected from the flowers of spring. And if you would liken it to apparel, it is like the brilliant and colorful fabrics or like the beautiful curtains from Yemen. ”
What makes the peacock even more amazing is that the peacock sheds its feathers periodically, like trees in autumn. Their feathers grow anew and mesh together, once again displaying their unique brilliance and beauty. The new feathers replacing the old ones exhibit the exact same color patterns. Such brilliant and beautiful design is beyond the comprehension of reason and the expression of language.

These are only a few of the infinite embodiments of natural beauty. Every day more natural mysteries are uncovered, inspiring us with awe and wonder. But. what is the purpose of all of this beauty and design inherent in the natural order? Are we justified in holding the view that there must be a designer, who has produced this beauty and design? The name that occurs to our minds, when we speak of the beauty and design that permeates the world is, God.

He is the source from whom all beauty derives.

Any living creature you look at has a distinct lifestyle. Have you ever wondered how many different types of animals live in this world? How many years would it take to count all of them?

If one day human beings were given the task to care for the animals and provide for their needs, how many experts and scientists would be required to manage the lives of all these animals? Considering this question, would it be reasonable if someone claimed that the wonderful and limitless diversity of life came into existence without any foreknowledge and merely as a result of the change collisions of particles? Is it not absurd to attribute to chance a magnificent order of life that thousands of intelligent human beings are incapable of replicating or even managing?

Many natural scientists are devout believers in God. They proudly affirm their belief in God as the Wise Designer of the world. The religious fervor of sonic of these scientists is-accordin  own claims-even more intense than many other believers. But there are also other scientists who. while refraining from openly avowing their belief in God, express their worldview in such as implies their monotheistic belief. It might not be an overstatement to claim that most scientists arc believers, the materialists and atheists constituting the minority among them.

Newton, the famous scientist and celebrated discoverer of gravity, remarks:

“Studying the car, we infer that its creator must have been aware of the physical laws governing sound. The creator of the eye must have known the sophisticated laws pertaining to light and the visual sense.
Contemplating the celestial spheres, we infer the existence of the Magnificent Truth that governs them in accordance with a unique order. ”
“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.”

Albert Einstein:

“The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books-a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.”

Sir Michael Faraday (1791-1867), founder of Electronics and Electro-magnetics said:

“The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.”

William Thomson Kelvin, the famous mathematical physicist and the founder of Thermodynamics says:

“Overpoweringly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie all around us; and if ever perplexities.
whether metaphysical or scientific, turn us away from them for a time, they come back upon us with irresistible force, showing to us through Nature the influence of a free will, and teaching us that all living things depend on one ever-acting Creator and Ruler.”  “We feel that the power of investigating the laws established by the Creator for maintaining the harmony and permanence of His works is the noblest privilege which He has granted to our intellectual state. As the depth of our insight into the wonderful works of God increases, the stronger are our feelings of awe and veneration in contemplating them and in endeavoring to approach their author.”
“I have long felt that there was a general impression in the nonscientific world, that the scientific world believes Science has discovered ways of explaining all of the facts of Nature without adopting any definite belief in a Creator. I have never doubted that that impression was utterly groundless. Science can do little
positively towards the objects of this society.” “But it can do something, and that something is vita! And fundamental. It is to show that what we see in the world of dead matter and of life around us is not a result of the fortuitous concourse of atoms.”

Materialism:

The view that everything that actually exists is material (i.e., physical). This view leads to the denial of all immaterial realities, including God.

Robert Boyle:

“All the loveliness imparted to the creature is lent it.
to give us enlarged conceptions of that vast confluence and immensity that exuberates in God.”