By Jeremiah Love —
When Fazale Rana was an undergraduate, science convinced him to be agnostic. But when he studied as a graduate, the deep dive into biochemistry made him rethink his position.
“When I began studying biochemistry in depth as a a graduate student, I came to appreciate the elegance and the sophistication and the ingenuity of the design of biochemical systems and asked the question okay where do these systems come from?” Fazale says on Aspiring Christianity.
Today, the former senior scientist in research and development at Procter & Gamble says that 80 years of lab research has shown that complex molecules needed for the simplest cell to exist could not form alone in the chaos of the world.
“We’ve demonstrated empirically over and over and over again intelligent agency is critical for the chemistry to take place that would contribute to the origin of life,” says Fazale, who goes more by Fuz. ” This has been referred to as the Hand of God Dilemma.”
In other words, chemists have reproduced and induced the chemical reactions they think might have originated life. The trouble is that it requires the guidance and intervention of a scientist in a very controlled environment — none of which conceivably could have been present at the origin of life on Earth.
This is called the “the problem of unwarranted researcher intervention,” Fuz says.
“The irony is that the very experiments designed to justify chemical evolution are actually driving us towards the counter explanation which is intelligent design,” Fuz says.
Ultimately, Fuz found the acceptable explanation about the origin of life in the Bible.
“I was deeply impacted by the Sermon on the Mount and encountered Jesus through the pages of scripture in such a way that I recognized my sin and my need for a Savior and was convinced that it was my salvation through the death of Christ on the cross,” Fuz says.
Fuz got a PhD in chemistry with an emphasis in biochemistry from Ohio University. He pursued postdoctoral studies in the biophysics of cell membranes at the Universities of Virginia and Georgia.
Now, he’s working more as President and CEO at Reasons to Believe to communicate to skeptics the powerful scientific case for God’s existence and the Bible’s reliability.
Fuz lives in Southern California with his wife Amy. They have five children.
