WHY I KNOW GOD EXISTS ¡ ¡ JoLynn Gower 493-6151 jgower@guardingthetruth.org 1 ¡
VERSE FOR THE JOURNEY • Colossians 1:16-17 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. • Hebrews 1:1-3 God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. 2 ¡
THE UNSEEN PROOF • Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science to construct a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Stephen Hawking • Romans 1 says that God can clearly be seen through what has been made: this is only observation with the naked eye • But there are things that we cannot see, that only a privileged few ever see, that also speak to the existence of God 3 ¡
THINGS THAT ARE NOT VISIBLE • Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible. • Only in recent years have scientists come to understand how completely true that passage of scripture really is! • One of the most amazing of these is the human eye • The human eye has 40 individual subsystems including retina, pupil, iris, cornea, lens, and optic nerve • 137 million light sensitive cells send info the the brain • 130 million are rods that process black and white • 7 million are cones that process color • Rods are activated by low light levels; cones require much more light – this is why night vision is in the gray tones Electric impulses are translated to the brain through the optic nerve 4 ¡
THE INTRICACIES OF GOD • “Man has never yet developed a camera lens anywhere near the inconceivable intricacy of the human eye.” Robert Jastrow • Inside the eye, the visual cortex interprets the pulses as color, contrast, depth, etc. • The optic nerve and the visual cortex work together to capture, deliver, and interpret 1.5 million pulse messages per 1/1000 second • Evolutionists have struggled with this complexity • “To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.” Charles Darwin 5 ¡
USING WHAT GOD MADE • Psalm 94:8-9 Pay heed, you senseless among the people; and when will you understand, stupid ones? He who planted the ear, does He not hear? He who formed the eye, does He not see? • 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 … but just as it is written, "THINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT HEARD, AND which HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HEART OF MAN, ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM." For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. • Sangyeon Cho, MIT grad student, has developed new imaging technology using lasers; In the past, flourescent microscopic technology produced a relatively indistinct, fuzzy glow. If such particles were to emit more focused, laser-like light, they might produce sharper images of deep tissues and cells 6 ¡
THE HUMAN EAR • The ear has three parts designed to collect sound waves that are converted into vibrations delivered to the inner ear using the ear drum • The most delicate bones in the human body are the hammer, anvil and stirrup in the ear • When sound waves go to the ear drum, it vibrates, moving these tiny bones and translating the vibrations to the liquid in the cochlea in the inner ear • The liquid moves tiny, microscopic hairs, and creates nerve signals that the brain understands as sound. WOW • Additionally, the ears function as a balance mechanism; loops above the cochlea have liquid that moves tiny hairs which send nerve impulses to the brain telling the position of the head; the brain sends the message to the right muscles so you keep your balance 7 ¡
THE WORLD OF QUANTUM • Quantum physics deals with very small particles such as protons, neutrons, electrons, gluons and quarks. Quantum mechanics looks at how these particles behave and how they interact with electromagnetic radiation. Quantum theory looks at how these particles interact in the large-scale world. • Quantum physicists determined that tiny objects such as photons or electrons are both particles and waves. Quantum physics has become a way to describe the subatomic world. Albert Einstein argued that the vagueness of quantum physics was unacceptable. • Max Planck realized that radiation energy is not continuously emitted and developed Planck's constant. • Other scientists who studied quantum mechanics include Niels Bohr, Hans Geiger, Ernest Marsden and Ernest Rutherford. 8 ¡
SUBATOMIC PARTICLES PROTON ¡= ¡ 2 ¡UP ¡QUARKS ¡ & ¡1 ¡DOWN ¡QUARK ¡ ¡ ¡ NEUTRON ¡= ¡ 2 ¡DOWN ¡QUARKS ¡ & ¡1 ¡UP ¡QUARK ¡ ¡ ¡ UP ¡QUARK ¡= ¡2/3+ ¡ DOWN ¡QUARK ¡= ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡1/3-‑ ¡ PHYSICISTS ¡AND ¡CHEMISTS ¡SEE ¡ATOMS ¡AND ¡THEIR ¡COMPONENTS ¡AS ¡ ¡ THE ¡SMALLEST ¡PARTICLES ¡TO ¡BE ¡STUDIED; ¡BIOLOGISTS ¡SEE ¡CELLS ¡ ¡ 9 ¡
VISIBLE OR INVISIBLE • Colossians 1:15-16 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by Him all things were created, in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. • Invisible: aoratos: things that cannot seen by the unaided human eye • Genesis 1:25 God made the beasts of the earth after their kind , and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. • Mendel began unraveling the mystery of why things, both plant and animal, reproduce “after their kind” • Deoxyribonucleic acid is a molecule that carries the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses. 10 ¡
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THE CELL NUCLEUS DNA is a fine, spirally coiled thread in the nucleus of every living cell that serves as a guidebook so the cells "know" what they're supposed to do. The strands are so fine you need a high power electron 12 ¡ microscopes to see them .
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TO THE MOON AND BACK? • The human genome, the genetic code in each human cell, contains 23 DNA molecules each containing from 500 thousand to 2.5 million nucleotide pairs. DNA molecules of this size are 1.7 to 8.5 cm long when uncoiled, or about 5 cm on average. • You have about 10 trillion cells in your body, so if you stretched the DNA in all the cells out, end to end, they would stretch over 744 million miles. The moon is only about 250,000 miles away, so all your DNA would stretch to the moon and back almost 1500 times. The sun is 93,000,000 miles away, so your DNA would reach there and back about 4 times! 14 ¡
THINGS UNSEEN • 1 John 4:20-21 If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also. • Our bodies have about 100 trillion atoms per cell • Each atom is made of many subatomic pieces • Our bodies have about 10 trillion cells • Psalm 139:13-14 For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well. • Matthew 10:30 "But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows. 15 ¡
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