Psalm
14:1-5 The fool
has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt,
They have done abominable works, There is none who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God. They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; There is none who does good, no, not one. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on the Lord? There they are in great fear, fFor God is with the generation of the righteous.
They have done abominable works, There is none who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God. They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; There is none who does good, no, not one. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on the Lord? There they are in great fear, fFor God is with the generation of the righteous.
This week, Michael writes that Mortimer Adler, editor of The Great
Books of Western Civilization says, "Almost every writer in western
civilization has written on the subject of God. More consequences of
thought and action arise from the question, 'Is There a God?', than from any
other question."
Pastor Kennedy explains that the scriptures say that we can know God and
that in knowing Him there is eternal life. One argument for the existence
of God is The cosmological argument says that there is a cause for every
effect. This is the study of the universe. The universe, the cosmos itself is
an argument for the existence of God. If the universe exists, either it is eternal
or there was a beginning. Modern science points to a beginning point of
the universe. The second law of thermodynamics is the law of entropy. It
says that the universe is running down and the heat of the universe attempts to
approach a uniform temperature. If the universe were eternal it would have
already run down.
If the universe is not eternal then maybe it created itself. This "ex-nihilo"
philosophy says that you can get something from nothing. This is scientifically
impossible since it violates the law of conservation of matter and is contrary
to the laws of logic. It is becoming increasingly clear that the existence of
the universe is a convincing argument for the existence of God. Modern
scientific discoveries make it easier and easier to believe there is a God. There
are no scientific discoveries that refute Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning,
God created the heavens and the earth."
Life itself is an argument for the existence of God. The existence of
life points to a creator. The theory that life comes from non-life was debunked
when the theory of "spontaneous generation" (that life comes from
non-living matter) was disproven by Louis Pasteur when he showed that only life
begets life. Protein synthesis is so complex that a French Nobel prize winner
said that the probability of only one protein molecule would take 10 to the
234th power billions of years. DNA is even more complex than protein
synthesis. Each cell contains a DNA molecule. Francis Crick one of
DNA's discoverers said that DNA could not have arisen by chance. Hoyle
said that that the probability of life coming into existence would take 10 to
the 40,000th power to produce one cell. In other words this was
impossibility. Hoyle became a believer in God since the universe couldn't have
come about by chance and implies a creator.
Let's continue Michael's message in the next post.
In Christ, Brian
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