But, the universe
is fine-tuned. Now, how does something get tuned? Have you ever seen a radio
tune itself? Never mind. In today’s world I suppose that is possible. But, at
some point a person was involved; an engineer or someone to tune that radio.
How do you think the universe was tuned so close and exact? Who did it? Who
maintains it? We all know that if you leave your car in the driveway without
maintaining it for thirty years the tires will rot and it will become
undriveable. The Second Law of Thermodynamics says that all things fall apart.
Oh, and there is this;
Colossians 1:17 And he is
before all things, and by him all things consist.
Scientific papers
have expressed alarm at the harmful mutations produced in each generation of
people. One of them was entitled, “Contamination of the Genome by Very Slightly
Deleterious Mutations: Why Have We Not Died 100 Times Over?” But, we’re here,
our biology is preserved, life goes on and the planet is not yet cold and dead.
Again, I say 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?
Why is the universe so finely tuned as to permit us to exist?
You know, our
government has spent millions of dollars searching for extraterrestrials, life
on other planets, even microbials. They will continue to do so but will
probably never find it. The scientific community has a hunger, a lust, to
overthrow God. They are searching for microbes and water on Mars.
In the Rosetta
Mission they recently learned that water in space can be vastly different than
water on earth so they feel confident in at least admitting that our water
didn’t come from comets. But they will keep searching, hoping to be able to
drive the nail in the coffin for belief in the God of the Bible. Recent studies
on earth have shown that even if you have the correct water other things have
to be in place for life to exist as water isn’t enough.
There are two
other things that scream the truth of the existence of God. One is the very
desperate desire to prove beyond all doubt that He does not. Let me read you
part of the short religious history of man that God has provided in Romans.
Romans
1:19 ¶ Because that which may be known
of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the
invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even
his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they
glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish
heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
And in another context an
ancient warning;
Isaiah
66:4 I also will choose their delusions,
and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer;
when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
Remember what King David
thought of atheists in about 1000 BC.
Psalm
14:1 « To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. » The fool
hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt,
they have done abominable works, there
is none that doeth good.
Finally, evolutionary
biologists admit an astounding thing. Belief in God, according to some of them,
is hard-wired into the human brain. A neuroscientist and the author of several
books, Andrew Newberg, wrote a book entitled Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief. He
is called a neurotheologist, studying how religious belief and prayer affect
the brain.
On page 129 he wrote,
“…evolution has adopted this machinery, and has favored the religious
capabilities of the religious brain because religious belief and behaviors turn
out to be good for us in profound and pragmatic ways.”
As evolutionists often do he
refers to evolution as he does in other places with natural selection almost as
a god in itself rather than just a process or a mechanism by which new species
of dog, cat, or deer are produced by environmental stresses or opportunities or
human cross-breeding efforts (There are more than two dozen scientific
definitions of species.) The fact is that all of the genetic information
necessary for a creature to adapt to its environment are present within the
creature’s DNA and no dog ever became a cat and no alligator ever became a
trout. But, Newberg, like other of his ilk, refer to evolution as a sort of
inert god who unfeelingly adopts and favors in the passage I quoted. In a
preceding page he refers to natural selection as not tolerating something. So, it is almost humorous to see how these
kinds of scientists use language, at the least, in a very interesting way.
Susan Mazur, a science writer
and journalist who doesn’t appear to be a fundamental Baptist (said in a
tongue-in-cheek manner), wrote in her book The
Altenberg 16: An Expose’ of the Evolution Industry that, “Evolutionary
science is as much about posturing, salesmanship, stonewalling and bullying as
it is about actual scientific theory.” (v)
So, to summarize, if you want
to look outside of your own experience for proof that God exists I suggest
starting with life. There are many other topics we could talk about that prove
or at least suggest His existence but for brevity sake let’s review the points
I’ve made.
One, there is something rather
than nothing and since space dust did not create itself then something or
someone did. Two, life could not have begun here on earth and probably not on
some distant planet by chance. Some intelligent being had to create it. Three,
self-awareness and consciousness imply a reality greater than the physical
universe. Four, we are apparently “hard-wired” to believe in God. It is part of
our make-up.
We believe in God because He
has communed with our spirit so that we can. We experience Him in our prayer
and in the answers to it, the way the Bible speaks to us, in the truth found in
it, the way He molds and changes us by our reading and hearing it read, by the
reality arounds us that is confirmed in the Bible, and by His miraculous
intervention in our lives.
Moving back to the
text Heaven is one of those words
like evil that doesn’t need an ‘s’ on
the end to be thought of as plural although there is nothing particularly wrong
with saying heavens or evils. It’s just awkward sometimes. We say skies as in the old advertising phrase,
“Fly the Friendly Skies,” when there is only one sky. William Rosenau, in his
early 20th century work entitled Hebraisms
in the Authorized Version of the Bible reported that in the Hebrew grammars
he studied the use of the word heaven or
heavens, as for other plurals, is the
difference between referring to something as a number of individual separate
objects or as a singular to denote them collectively. So, contrary to the
skeptics who insist that writing heaven for
heavens is wrong, especially those
skeptics sitting under Authorized Version
preaching, it is not wrong, they are.[1]
In
the following passages we see the description of the creation of two heavens;
one what we call atmosphere and the other we call outer space.
Genesis
2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were
finished, and all the host of them.
[1]
William Rosenau, Hebraisms in the
Authorized Version of the Bible (Baltimore: The Lord Baltimore Press,
1902), 111.
Alexey
S. Kondrashov, “Contamination of the Genome by Very Slightly Deleterious
Mutations: Why Have We Not Died 100 Times Over?” Journal of Theoretical Biology, (1995) vol. 175, pp. 583-594. James F. Crow, “The High Spontaneous Mutation
Rate: Is it a Health Risk?” Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, (Aug 1997) vol. 94, pp. 8380-8386.
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