You know if they
could have proven that life could have come together by random events on earth
like Miller-Urey’s experiment tried to do and failed in the 1950s it would be
astounding. But you’d have to have nothing and then have something suddenly
come into existence for it to simulate God without God. After all, Miller-Urey
made something happen with the
equipment and chemicals they introduced making themselves in the place of God.
But they did not create life and established conditions that evolutionists do
not believe were present in their fantasy of early earth anyway. So, it worked
as a publicity stunt but was not good science.
Then, there was
Dr. Wimmer in the latter part of the twentieth century who supposedly made a
virus out of synthetic DNA. Now he admitted in an interview that he did not
create life as a virus isn’t alive, it can’t reproduce itself and needs a host,
and he used synthetic DNA.
None of these
experiments or any other created life or proved that it could be created by
random processes without an intelligent mind involved.
So, now you have
the gorilla in the living room. You have something as complex as life and you
shouldn’t have it if there were no one to inject their intelligence into it.
Life isn’t possible without God.
You have the
atheist or the doubter demanding, “How do you know God exists?” and you have
your own testimony, if you have one, and you have this incontrovertible fact,
“Because without God life could not exist.”
You see, we are
not just alive. We are aware that we are alive. Science has a huge problem with
conscious self-awareness. Step three to proving that God exists. I am.
It has been said
repeatedly that consciousness is the window through which we understand.
Science has failed to pinpoint the actual brain processes that are behind our
awareness. Some neuroscientists and philosophers of science express a deep
pessimism that we will ever find an explanation for consciousness. But we know.
Every car mechanic or customer service rep, a farmer or bank teller can know
what a neuroscientist does not know. We know where consciousness comes from,
that function of our spirit.
Zechariah 12:1 ¶ The burden
of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the
heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
Scientists
say that a good theory, a theory that must supplant other theories, doesn’t
have to answer every question. But it must answer more questions than its
competitors. The belief in God answers far more questions than theoretical
science can even come up with.
God is the
greatest of all self-aware beings.
Exodus 3:14 And God said
unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt
thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
He made us. He
formed our bodies, our souls, and our spirits. In these verses are all three;
body, spirit, and soul.
Genesis 2:7 And the LORD
God formed man of the dust of
the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul.
1Thessalonians 5:23 And the
very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body
be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
He uses our spirit to see
us from the inside.
Proverbs 20:27 The spirit
of man is the candle
of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
We are made
self-aware and our soul is the seat of our self-identity and will and our
spirit makes us aware of it, of God, and of all things. It is our
understanding, our skills, our drives, our emotions, our yearnings.
It is sad that the
atheist or doubter will question your testimony as to whether or not you are a
credible witness for God’s existence. That was how I came to Christ, the
mechanism He used, the testimony of others. I vacillated between atheism, happy
to believe in any religion at all, and really, God just being irrelevant to my
life or thinking. But, over time I saw the truth of Christianity in the lives
of people around me.
No, it wasn’t
because of someone screaming Bible verses at me on a street corner. It wasn’t
from someone handing me a gospel tract. It was the testimony of Christians,
filled with faith and goodness, relying completely on God for their very
survival, trusting in Christ’s righteousness and not their own for eternal
life. Their faith was real, and it took time but God impressed on me that
reality until I accepted it myself and received Christ on March 19, 1986. It
was a Wednesday evening I believe.
The question of
whether or not God exists has been a subject of deep philosophical debate for
thousands of years. But, even outside of our experience we know.
Psalm 19:1 The heavens
declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
The proof of God’s
existence is all around us. Without God’s existence no reality makes sense for
very long.
Ask
yourself, if there was no God, then why is there something rather than nothing?
Why is something as complex as life here in this space of earth? If God doesn’t exist why do I know that I am? Where did that
come from, o’ wise one? How can we have this conversation?
The universe is
finely tuned, so finely tuned that something as rare and fragile as life can
live in it. Things like the ratio of the strength of electromagnetism to the
strength of gravity for a pair of protons, nuclear efficiency of fusion from
hydrogen to helium, the density parameter, the cosmological constant, and a
bunch of other intelligent sounding stuff make many scientists insist that the
universe is just so and because of that you, me, and that little chipmunk you
saw on your deck this morning can exist.
Other scientists
invent all sorts of nonsensical things to counteract this belief. They will
resurrect the multidimensions of the occult of the late 1800s which impacted
theoretical physics then and say there is a multiverse, many universes where
things are different and anything is possible. I might even be handsomer,
wealthier, and smarter on one of them, in their imagination only of course.
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