Sunday, August 17, 2014

The Universe: Accident or Design?

3Faith convinces us that God created the world through his word. This means what can be seen was made by something that could not be seen. Hebrews 11:3

"A little science estranges men from God, but much science leads men back to Him." Louis Pasteur

"According to Dr. Francis Collins, director of the Human Genome Project, 40 percent of working scientists claim to be believers. As a believer himself, Collins finds exploring nature to be 'a way of getting a glimpse of God's mind,' and observes,'All truth is God's truth, and therefore God can hardly be threatened by scientific discoveries.'" Ray Comfort, How To Know God Exists, 2007, p 71

Dinesh D'Souza "Why I Believe in God" video. Exposes atheist falacies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ien2Ah3lEY


Check out this video. Every microscopic cell [except red blood cells] has 6 feet of DNA coiled up in it. Many evolutionists are opening to the possibility of creationism because of the complexities of life and the universe, exemplified by this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27TxKoFU2Nw


Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. Maria Mitchell  Astronomer who discovered Miss Mitchell's Comet.

Arno Penzias, Nobel Laureate, co-discoverer of cosmic microwave:
"The best data we have [concerning the Big Bang] are exactly what I would have predicted had I had nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms and the Bible as a whole."
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Arno Penzias said, “Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural, plan.” 

Robert Wilson :(March 4, 1914 – January 16, 2000) was an American physicist known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, as a sculptor, and as an architect of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), where he was the first director from 1967 to 1978.
"Certainly there was something that set it all [the universe] off...I can't think of a better theory of the origin of the universe to match Genesis."

George Smoot American astrophysicist, cosmologist, Nobel laureate, and $1 million TV quiz show prize winner (Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?).  :
"There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the Big Bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing."

Robert Jastrow,  avowed agnostic, astronomer, leading NASA scientist, author: God and the Astronomers:
[last line of his book, p. 116]:
"For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; He is about to conquer the highest peak: As he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."
"Now we see how the astronomical evidence supports the Biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and Biblical accounts of Genesis are the same: the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy."
In an interview with Christianity Today, Jastrow said "Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth. And they have found that all this happened as a product of forces they cannot hope to discover. That there are what I or anyone would call supernatural forces at work is now, I think, a scientifically proven fact."


"Either no one created something from nothing [atheistic view], or Someone created something from nothing.[theistic view]" Frank Turek

According to anthropologists, religions that share certain beliefs--a spiritual God or being, belief in the afterlife, the power of prayer or spiritual incantations, etc.--are found in virtually every culture on earth.  Could it be that we are created with this 'hard-wired" into our brains? Mark Graham

"The Big Bang represents the instantaneous suspension of physical laws, the sudden, abrupt flash of lawlessness that allowed something to come out of nothing. It represents a true miracle, transcending physical principles."    physicist Paul Davies

"The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some freakish, vastly improbable event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle. ...Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10 [-12] grams, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than than any machinery made by man and absolutely without parallel in the non-living world."  Molecular biologist Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis , 1986, p. 250

"I suppose that nobody will deny that it is a great misfortune if an entire branch of science becomes addicted to a false theory. But this is what has happened in biology...I believe that one day the Darwinian myth will be ranked the greatest deceit in the history of science."  Swedish embryologist Soren Lovtrup:  Darwinism: The Refutation of Myth,  p. 422


"As we look out into the universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked to our benefit, it almost seems as if the universe must in some sense have known that we were coming."  Freeman J. Dyson, physicist, Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study.


"Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe that was created out of nothing and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life.  In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan."  Arno Penzias: Physicist, Nobel laureate  (Faith convinces us that God created the world through his word. This means what can be seen was made by something that could not be seen. Hebrews 11:3)


"Science is the glimpse of God's purpose in nature.  The very existence of the amazing world of the atom and radiation points to a purposeful creation, to the idea that there is a God and an intelligent purpose back of everything...An orderly universe testifies to the greatest statement ever uttered:  'In the beginning, God...'."  Arthur H. Compton, Nobel Prize winner in Physics


"The universe and the laws of physics seem to have been specifically designed for us. If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist: Either atoms would not be stable, or they wouldn't combine into molecules, or the stars wouldn't form the heavier elements, or the universe would collapse before life could develop, and so on."
Stephen Hawkins, Evolutionist


"The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God...I am aware that if we admit a first cause, the mind still craves to know whence it came, and how it arose."
Charles Darwin, letter to a Dutch student at the University of Utrect, April 2,1873, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (London: John Murray, 1888), p. 306.


"I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account for virtually all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity.  This belief must be classed as a superstition...we have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world."  ---Sir John C. Eccles [1903-1997]1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
Charles R. Darwin, Origin of Species, 2nd Ed., 1860 p. 491 [Conclusion]
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"All of us here on Earth who are composed of the 'higher elements' make up a miniscule percentage of the universe. As [Michio] Kaku* puts it, we are the exception, specks of dust, but ones that, as part of a rare universe with intelligent life, are the byproduct of countless miraculous accidents."
{"countless miraculous accidents"?}
Carlin Flora, science writer
*Michio Kaku, Theoretical Physicist



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