G. K. Chesterton once said that we don’t live in the best of all possible worlds, we live in the best of all impossible worlds. As this article from the Wall Street Journal illustrates, it seems that science is finally beginning to agree with Chesterton: 

In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: Is God Dead? Many have accepted the cultural narrative that he’s obsolete—that as science progresses, there is less need for a “God” to explain the universe. Yet it turns out that the rumors of God’s death were premature. More amazing is that the relatively recent case for his existence comes from a surprising place—science itself.
Here’s the story: The same year Time featured the now-famous headline, the astronomer Carl Sagan announced that there were two important criteria for a planet to support life: The right kind of star, and a planet the right distance from that star. Given the roughly octillion—1 followed by 24 zeros—planets in the universe, there should have been about septillion—1 followed by 21 zeros—planets capable of supporting life.

Read the rest here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/eric-metaxas-science-increasingly-makes-the-case-for-god-1419544568