APOLOGETICS 1

Who created the Universe? Science has discovered that the universe is expanding. Which means it had a beginning. But how did the matter come to existence? Who created it? One of the laws of thermodynamics is that it takes matter to create matter. Matter just doesn’t pop up out of thin air. Big bang is a common principle for the creation of the universe. In order to have a band there needs to be an explosive charge to blow up the matter. Who created the explosive charge? Who created the space to blow the matter up? Who lit the fuse to set off the charge to blow up the matter? How come all the planets are round? When matter blows up it is jagged and destroyed into pieces. If the universe came from the same matter how come the moon is a dead planet, the sun is all gas/energy, and earth has water and life? It’s funny how non-believers used science to say Christianity is not true. But when Christians present the scientific facts, the non-believers say it is hogwash and science just has not discovered that yet.

Let’s try and get a perspective of how big the universe is. Searching I find 14 Billion to 94 Billion light years in diameter and one light year is almost 6 trillion miles. Try to picture 6 Trillion miles for just one light year. A trillion is 12 zeros. 1 million is 6 zeros, 1 billion is 9 zeros, and 1 Trillion is 12 zeros. Then times it by 14 Billion. You do this by simply adding the zeros (9 + 12). That is 14 with 21 zero’s behind it. That is how big the universe is and who can create such a thing? When I search, “How long would it take to go 1 light year?” and found this, “Our crewed spaceships, like Apollo, reach speeds of around 39,400 km/h (24,500 mph). It would still take around 27 thousand years to travel one lightyear. A plane travelling at 965 km/h (600 mp/h) would take 1 million years to travel one lightyear.” The universe is too large for me to imagine.

The universe also has these constants like gravity that have to be perfectly set or else the universe does not exist the way it does today. The constants are so finely tuned that it points to “Intelligent Design” which means there was a designer who created and calibrated the constants just precisely. Dr. Jay Richards is credited for writing this article giving 22 constants: https://intelligentdesign.org/articles/list-of-fine-tuning-parameters/

Going to this website https://intelligentdesign.org/ one will see Dr. Stephen Meyer has many videos on intelligent design. Dr. Meyer is the author of “Return of the God Hypothesis”. Chapter 8 of this book is titled, “Extreme Fine Tuning - by Design?” Dr. Meyer quotes Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford physicist, regarding the likelihood of all the constants being set perfectly, “the number that Penrose calculated - 1 in 10 to the 10 to the 123 - provides a quantitative measure of the unimaginably precise fine tuning of the initial conditions of the universe.”……”To put this number in perspective, it might help to note that physicists have estimated that the whole universe contains “only” 10 to 80 elementary particles….But that number nevertheless represents a minuscule fraction of 10 to the 10 to the 123.”

Question who created the universe? The mass, the explosive charge (Big Bang),the 14 to 93 billion light years of space, the 22 constants and who fine tuned them. Here is a short video by Dr. Craig giving examples or odds in some of the constants being fine tuned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE76nwimuT0

Here is a link to a YouTube video with Dr. Meyers you may find interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skzwT4dyoNE The host is Dr. Sean McDowell, professor at Biola College, and teaches apologetics courses at Biola. He is son of Dr. Josh McDowell. Here is the link to Dr. Meyer’s website https://returnofthegodhypothesis.com/ Here is another video if you find the first one interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69C29ZNTZgY

Earth’s Solar System – is perfect to support life on earth. If earth were closer or further from the sun, it would burn up or freeze. The moon is the right size and strategically placed to provide a gravitational pull to create tides in the ocean. Which helps create oxygen we need to breathe. Photosynthesis is a process where sunlight is collected by plants and used to create oxygen. Without the sun and the moon, the earth could not support life.

Earth – has the perfect conditions to support life. It has water, oxygen, sunlight to and keep the planet just warm enough and grove plants for food. The human body was designed or created to eat plants, Genesis 1:29. In Daniel 1:12-16 we read eating plants works better than eating the royal food. Here is a YouTube video by Dr. Michael Denton, “The Fitness of Nature for Mankind” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SL_xqSvWqU Dr. Michael Denton looked at the conditions on earth that have to be perfect for mankind to exist. And these conditions point to an intelligent designer.

Water – it exists in 3 different states. Liquid, solid and vapor (clouds). Obviously we need water to drink to keep us alive. Body can only survive 3 days without water. Rain falls on land, irrigates vegetation, flows into rivers and back out to ocean.

Oxygen – we get this from photosynthesis. Here’s one definition I found online, “Photosynthesis, the process by which green plants and certain other organisms transform light energy into chemical energy. During photosynthesis in green plants, light energy is captured and used to convert water, carbon dioxide, and minerals into oxygen and energy-rich organic compounds.” (Photosynthesis is unfathomable)

How important is Photosynthesis? We need it for oxygen and we wouldn’t have food to eat.

Sunlight – has different band widths and radiation levels. They have to be just right or else photosynthesis doesn’t happen. Again no oxygen and food.

Atmosphere – acts as filter letting in the right ultraviolet light and protecting us from the harmful ultraviolet rays. So what is in the atmosphere, oxygen, carbon dioxide and water vapor. These are at the right levels or else the wrong ultraviolet rays come in.

Around 23:15 – summarized all these parameters is “a series of staggeringly ludicrously improbable consequences” for life to exist on earth.

Nature is also fit for the circulatory system 34:16 that takes oxygen from the lungs and distributes throughout the body. Blood has a low viscosity because of water and allows blood to flow through tiny veins distributing oxygen.

37:35 Fire – man is the only creature that can create fire. Man has a hand and intelligence that allows him to make metals for other purposes such as making electricity, airplanes, cars, computers, technology.

The atmospheric conditions have to be just right for fire. Too much oxygen and we have spontaneous combustion. There are many different atmospheric conditions support either fire or life but not both. For instance, we know jet planes fly at 30,000 feet but there is not enough oxygen for man to survive.

40:20 The only rational conclusion we can make is that intelligent agent designed the world for human beings.

46:25 The search for another planet like earth has proven very hard. Is it strange there are no other planet is like earth. Or was this by design? He referenced watching the third episode of BBC series produced in 2021 called “The Planets” which describes the history of our solar system. The universe was designed for our species (humans) on this planet. Science is revealing that man was ordained into the nature of thing to the very beginning of time. (Looks like God created the solar system with the purpose to support man/human beings, whom he created in his imagine)

Dr. Jay Richards also wrote a book titled, “The Privilege Planet” (earth) and here is a link to him speaking at an apologetics conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_m9DxLJ7V0 and here is a link of a movie of his book, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmIc42oRjm8