I can believe this.
With each process, as they dig deeper into them, find it more and more complex and more mathematically impossible to accept it as natural processes.
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” – Psalms 19:1
“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” – Romans 1:20
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 excuseRomans 1:20.
Intelligent design wins that argument.
It seems physicists are more likely to believe in God than are biologists.
Probably because biology is taught in a very reductionist manner.
Full stop.
I do not believe the first two, Copernicus and Galileo, had any interest in overthrowing religion and God. They were attempting to more fully understand God's amazing creation if I remember correctly.
Roll back the calendar two+ centuries, and many of the great thinkers considered Christianity itself to be reasonable. The stench of modernity has a way of infecting everything, sadly.
Yes, while the simplistic science, reining nowadays in high schools, is explaining world without God, the sophisticated modern science cannot avoid him.
The problem is that the modern science is so complicated, that no ordinary high school science teacher can understand it.
It is sort of “I see God in these equations, you have to believe me!”
Materialist theories explaining the origins of the universe around us are becoming less persuasive.
It’s incredible with the Hubble and Webb telescopes how galaxies have become the new stars.
Their heads and hearts are getting harder, to compensate.
“Carlo Rubbia, Professor of Physics at Harvard and Nobel laureate: ‘We come to God by the path of reason, others follow the irrational path.’”
Well, isn’t he special.
I have always believed that one should give credit to those who were right. In this case, Carlo is a late arrival. He should admit it and give at least a little credit to those who were right when he was wrong. Besides, many who came to believe in God before him were rationale.
1) Expanding Universe (Big Bang)
2) Fine-tuning of physical constants
3) Junk DNA wasn't junk after all.
4) No plausible evolutionary explanation for the origin of life.
4a) No non-DNA based lifeforms have ever been found, which suggests that there was one origin of life making it a highly improbable event.
5) Cells are orders of magnitude more complex than presumed/predicted by evolutionists.
6) Neurosurgeons can't locate consciousness within the brain. The mind is part physical and part immaterial.
7) No plausible evolutionary explanation for the the Cambrian Explosion.
Several of these are derisively labeled 'God of the gaps' arguments, but over the last 50 years the gaps have widened, not narrowed as atheist predicted.
Three points that science gives as evidence of God’s existence: 1) the Big Bang. A creator is needed to create the universe, 2) The universe is too young to have arisen out of chaos or accident. There must be a creator. 3) the odds that the parameters for the natural forces are precisely aligned so that life can exist on the planet are so vast, they are nearly impossible to occur by accident. So a designer/creator was involved.
The worst hold out is Darwinian biology. They can’t explain the complicated machinery inside the cell at all. That machinery didn’t arrive by chance or accident.
I can’t understand how anyone educated in the hard sciences doesn’t believe in the Almighty.
When my organic chem class taught us how hard it was to synthesize a mid size molecule it became quite apparent that there are few natural conditions which would allow synthesis of those molecules to occur. To propose that those unnatural chemical reactions could occur in sequence and stay in a 3d spatial conglomeration in a natural environment long enough is a very, very unlikely scenario
To propose that the language of dna could occur by chance and control the mechanisms of the workings of a cell is completely unfounded.
Once I knew that it was easy to believe that natural evolution could not occur.
Who the creator of life on Earth is, is not discoverable by math or physics. Jesus is a great candidate. He changed water to wine, raised the dead, made food to feed great crowds, made the lame walk, and came back to life after dying on the cross, and being buried for 3 days
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Consider Intelligent Design as a theory of origins. The fine tuning required for us to be here is beyond reason. The Earth’s precise placement with a large Moon to keep the Earth in a consistent tilt of 23.5°, Earth’s magnetic field protects from harmful solar and cosmic rays. The oceans provide a natural thermostat for our climate, our Sun emits much of its energy in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum where water is most transparent to light, an inherent property of water.
The solid form of water floats. This is unusual for a compound. If the solid form of water were denser than the liquid phase, the oceans would have frozen over a long ago, preventing any chance of life surviving.
The liquid form of water is only transparent to electromagnetic radiation in the visible range (an inherent property of water). The maximum output of the sun’s energy is in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum, right where water is most transparent to light. These two inherent properties of water (solid form floats, transparent to visible light) and the sun’s perfect surface temperature allowed life on earth to proliferate.
The atmosphere as a protective layer for life on the surface. The ability of life to create and maintain a suitable environment for proliferation. Bio-feeback mechanisms that prevent the environment from becoming hostile to life. The Earth’s magnetic field protects life on Earth from high energy particles emitted by the Sun. Movements of molten rock deep in the Earth generate a magnetic dynamo which provides a strong magnetic field to protect life on Earth.
Mars has a solid core and a weak magnetic field. When Mars core cooled and solidified it lost the ability to protect the surface from solar and cosmic rays. Loss of a magnetic field may have enhanced the loss of lakes and rivers of liquid water on the surface of Mars. Eventually most of the atmosphere boiled off into space leaving a thin remnant of CO2, only 1% of the Earth’s surface pressure.
Consider Intelligent Design as a theory of origins. The fine tuning required for us to be here is beyond reason. The Earth’s precise placement with a large Moon to keep the Earth in a consistent tilt of 23.5°, Earth’s magnetic field protects from harmful solar and cosmic rays. The oceans provide a natural thermostat for our climate, our Sun emits much of its energy in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum where water is most transparent to light, an inherent property of water.
The solid form of water floats. This is unusual for a compound. If the solid form of water were denser than the liquid phase, the oceans would have frozen over a long ago, preventing any chance of life surviving.
The liquid form of water is only transparent to electromagnetic radiation in the visible range (an inherent property of water). The maximum output of the sun’s energy is in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum, right where water is most transparent to light. These two inherent properties of water (solid form floats, transparent to visible light) and the sun’s perfect surface temperature allowed life on earth to proliferate.
The atmosphere as a protective layer for life on the surface. The ability of life to create and maintain a suitable environment for proliferation. Bio-feeback mechanisms that prevent the environment from becoming hostile to life. The Earth’s magnetic field protects life on Earth from high energy particles emitted by the Sun. Movements of molten rock deep in the Earth generate a magnetic dynamo which provides a strong magnetic field to protect life on Earth.
Mars has a solid core and a weak magnetic field. When Mars core cooled and solidified it lost the ability to protect the surface from solar and cosmic rays. Loss of a magnetic field may have enhanced the loss of lakes and rivers of liquid water on the surface of Mars. Eventually most of the atmosphere boiled off into space leaving a thin remnant of CO2, only 1% of the Earth’s surface pressure.