Accident or DIVINE Design? A Powerful Video on Almighty God's Wondrous Design of Creation

Accident or DIVINE Design? A Powerful Video on Almighty God's Wondrous Design of Creation

I was talking to my daughter the other day about how water expands when it freezes and how everything else contracts when it transitions into a solid. I said, isn't that interesting? She said, yes, absolutely and it makes you think.

FG, Totally Amazing, and the Bible says that creation is just His finger work!

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; Psalm 8:3!

ETERNAL Salvation is His masterpiece!!

John 3:16-17!

Amen!

God is truly a good and wonderful artist.

I’m simply not religious enough to be an atheist.

A.....MEN.....!

Maybe for non-believers, nothing new under the sun in this video.

Also the narrator should not quit his day job, unless narrating videos IS his day job. If it is, he should definitely QUIT!

The existence of God is more easily acceptable than the concept of His alleged benevolence, as we observe the misery and mayhem that surround us. His wondrous designs become less admirable when viewed through the barbed wire fence of personal tragedy and pain. Is it any wonder that many people opine that God is dead?

God did not design a world filled with pain and tragedy. Mankind opened its floodgates by disobeying God. Because of His great beneficence He expelled us from the Garden so that we could become mortal and not partake of the fruit of the Tree of Life. Otherwise we would have been saddled with our sins for eternity. God is good all of the time. Everything He does is good. Even choosing our trials and suffering.

(I was talking to my daughter the other day about how water expands when it freezes and how everything else contracts when it transitions into a solid. I said, isn’t that interesting? She said, yes, absolutely and it makes you think.)

I tried to prove God’s existence in college with the usual, ontological, cosmological, teleological, apologetics. I found that the teleological argument is gaining strength via Intelligent Design. My prima facie argument: there are too many cosmic coincidences that allowed life to proliferate on Earth, beginning with the abundance of carbon and water in the universe (triple alpha process), the inherent property of water to be most transparent to light in the blue-green part of the visible spectrum, location of the sun (a class G2 star) w.r.t Earth, the size and location of our moon and the origin of the first self-replicating RNA molecule, these examples represent too many apparent fine-tunings so that the probability of life emerging through spontaneous processes or via self-organization are so low as to be mathematically impossible.

After a thorough examination of the evidence I came to the conclusion that God’s existence cannot be proved rationally. My paper ended with a faith-based approach, faith is the evidence of things not seen, the substance of things hoped for. Heb. 11:1 I turned my paper in thinking that it would not be received well. I was surprised when it came back with an A- and a note to read Kierkegaard. I read Søren Kierkegaard’s “God’s Existence Cannot Be Proved.” He concluded that God’s existence cannot be proved using logic, rational thought or empiricism. “The paradoxical passion (suffering) of the Reason comes repeatedly into collision with the Unknown, which does indeed exist, but is unknown, and insofar does not exist. But when I let the proof go the existence is there … this little moment, brief as it may be - it need not be long, for it is a leap.”

Time, space and all the matter in the universe cannot bring meaning to life, only the irrational knowledge of faith can do that. Tolstoy

The teleological argument (argument from design) has been gaining ground because of relatively recent scientific discoveries. Examples include,

1: The apparent sizes of the sun and the moon are almost equivalent when viewed from the surface of the earth. The moon is 400 times closer while the sun is 400 time larger. These two differences cancel as to the angular extent of these objects in the sky. All other moons in our solar system revolve above their host planet’s equator. Our moon revolves within 6 degrees of the earth’s orbital plane (the ecliptic). Not only do these coincidences make eclipses common, but the events are stunning as viewed from our vantage point, especially a total solar eclipse. Let’s see, more stuff about the moon. Our moon rivals the four moon’s of Jupiter in size. Jupiter probably captured its moons or the moons formed with Jupiter, but the probability that our moon stayed in a stable orbit from gravitational effects alone is very small.

A more likely scenario involved a collision between the Earth and a Mars sized planet early in the formation of the solar system. Models of this type of collision frequently produces a binary system. You can say that the moon came out of the earth. Now the moon keeps the earth in a stable rotational tilt of 23.5 degrees. This tilt gives us the wonderful changes in seasons that we enjoy today in most Temperate Zone regions. The moon was very important to the development of life on this planet.

2: The position of the earth in the solar system and the effect of this on the formation and proliferation of life. If the earth were only 1% closer to the sun, water vapor would have never condensed to form the oceans, resulting in a runaway greenhouse effect similar to what happened on Venus. No life could survive in such a hostile environment. If the earth were only 2% farther away from the sun, the earth most likely would have ended up in a perpetual ice age. Life could exist but not persist.

3: 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 long ago, preventing any chance of life surviving. The liquid form of water is only transparent to electromagnetic radiation in the visible range. The maximum output of the sun’s energy is in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum, right where water is 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.

4: The inverse square law for the force of gravity allows stable orbits for the planets revolving around the Sun. The solution was determined empirically by Kepler and is an ellipse. If the force of gravity were less than the inverse square the planets would fly off into space. If this force were greater than the inverse square the planets would spiral into the Sun.

5: From Atomic physics we know that every atom rings like a bell or has a particular resonance. The frequency of this ringing is so precise that we use atomic resonance to keep track of the time. The cesium 133 atom has a resonance frequency of 9,192,631,770 cycles/second. The smaller increments that a second can be divided into, the more accurate the clock. A quartz crystal stimulated by a battery resonates at about 32,000 Hz. You can see that the atomic clock is much more accurate than a wrist watch. The quartz ringing is not atomic resonance but the conversion of pressure exerted on a crystal into electrical energy or “piezoelectricity.” That’s another story.

Atomic nuclei also resonate at precise energies. This nuclear resonance allows certain components to fuse into larger nuclei. We measure the likelihood of this fusion process in terms of an area or nuclear cross section. Physicists came up with a unit called the “Barn.” This name was a joke for the phrase “you can’t hit the broadside of a Barn” because a Barn is 1.0E-24 cm. squared. For comparison, the size of a nucleus is 1.0E-12 cm.

So the Barn is very small and that’s the joke. OK, it’s not that funny. Anyway, the square root of one Barn is about the length of a nucleus. One example of fusion from this nuclear resonance is the triple-alpha process where three helium nuclei merge into one carbon nuclei. A helium nucleus consists of two protons and two neutrons and is also known as an alpha particle in radioactive decay. Under high temperature and pressure, two alpha particles fuse together to form an unstable isotope of beryllium, Be8. Then the beryllium nucleus can combine with another alpha particle to form a stable carbon nucleus, C12.

Now, the resonance energy of the carbon nucleus is precisely the same as the combined resonances of the beryllium nucleus and the helium nucleus. If these resonance energies did not match precisely, there would be very few carbon atoms in the universe (1). We all know how important carbon is to the existence of life. Carbon is produced inside of large stars through the triple-alpha process. The carbon in your body was once locked in the core of a massive blue star before it exploded as a supernova.

6: 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.

7: Universal constants (c, e, K, k, G, h, alpha=1/137) and the dependence of their values on the existence of life. Experiments in magnetism and electricity started out as separate disciplines. As a result, the magnetic permeability constant and the electric permittivity constant were determined independently. But, if you take one over the square root of the product of these quantities, the value obtained is the speed of light. Now, we study electro-magnetism.

8: Cosmic numbers (10^-40, 10^+40) and scale (planck time, length of the universe). Conservation laws and symmetry (energy, mass, momentum, charge, parity). The path of least resistance is conservation of energy and demonstrates tremendous efficiency in nature.

9: The notes of two similar vibrating strings sound harmonious just when the ratio of their lengths is a simple fraction [2]. This relationship between fractions and music convinced the Pythagorean brotherhood that numbers ruled the world. The incredible order found in numbers, prime number pairs, transcendental numbers, perfect squares and cubes, fibonacci numbers and the golden mean and fractals. The first time I saw a fractal diagram, I saw God’s fingerprint.

10: The remarkable consistency of the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere and the consequences of being either too low or too high. The oxygen content of our atmosphere is about 21%. This is the result of a delicate balance between plants which absorb carbon dioxide and give off oxygen and organisms like ourselves, that absorb oxygen and give off carbon dioxide. If the amount of oxygen dropped below 18% globally, most oxygen breathing organisms would die, especially the larger ones. If the amount went above 24%, some models predict that forest fires would rage out of control on a global scale. 21% is a very safe level to maintain.

11: The overwhelming probability against the DNA molecule forming from complex proteins through spontaneous self-organization [1]. The self-replicating RNA molecule is irreducibly complex and its origin cannot be explained by evolution alone [4].

12: The discovery in 1998 that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating, showing that universe is not closed. This leads to a question. If the universe is open or flat (see cosmic inflation), and it started with a Big Bang, what caused the Big Bang? Density fluctuations in a vacuum or God. Both explanations require faith.

13: Climate models can not reconstruct the past or accurately predict 10 years into the future. Instead of discarding this theory of catastrophic global warming (or even consider modifying it), climate true believers have decided to change the observations, pitiful. Concerning Intelligent Design (ID), Roy Spencer is an expert in meteorology, atmospheric science and climate. In TCS Daily, Spencer wrote, “Twenty years ago, as a PhD scientist, I intensely studied the evolution versus ID controversy for about two years. And finally, despite my previous acceptance of evolutionary theory as ‘fact,’ I came to the realization that Intelligent Design as a theory of origins, is no more religious, and no less scientific, than evolutionism. In the scientific community, I am not alone.” [1]

I too conducted a thorough study of evolution v. ID. I found that the origin of the first self-replicating RNA molecule is not known, that micro-evolution is very limited in scope (adaptation within the species), that evidence for macro-evolution (speciation) is weak and ad hoc theories are needed to hide problems with the origin of life and in the fossil record, i.e., panspermia (complex life, RNA, came from space), punctuated equilibria (isolated episodes of rapid speciation between long periods of little or no change), Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT), tries to explain the sharing of complex genes across species, almost simultaneously after the emergence of life. This discovery, which violates the rules of random mutation and natural selection, was the result of many genome mapping studies. The tree of life is not a tree. It’s more like a twisted, folded nesting of roots. The predictions associated with the theory of macro-evolution fails the test of observation and experiment. Darwin knew nothing about inheritance (see Mendel) or the existence of DNA, chromosomes and genes. “Evolution is inextricably tied to inheritance.” [5]

14: Even with billions of candidates of earth-like planets the criteria for success is very narrow. We need a stable main sequence red or yellow host star, a terrestrial planet within the habitable zone, water should be plentiful but we need oceans to stabilize the planet’s climate (atmosphere near saturation vapor pressure). We need a near-circular orbit and a moon about the size of ours to stabilize the tilt (rotational) axis. We’re very lucky to have a moon this big but it was the result of a low probability event (a Mars-sized planet striking the Earth at a glancing angle, spitting our moon out of Earth’s mantle). We would need that spark of life (self-replicating RNA molecules).

We would need plant life to pollute the planet with oxygen at precisely 21% (maybe 20-23%), unless the intelligent life does not need oxygen. But from my research it seems that oxygen is a necessary ingredient for intelligent life (I would consider that an axiom). We need enough time for life to proliferate without cosmic extinction-level events (volcano/comet swarms, asteroids, a close on-axis Gamma Ray Burst (GRM), close supernovae explosions, rogue star/planet encounters. I almost forgot, we need a Jupiter-sized planet or two about 5-10 Astronomical Units (AUs) out from the sun to protect this lucky planet from comets and asteroids. I remain skeptical but I’m open to the possibility that extra-terrestrial civilizations exist, even though the probability of success is extremely small. Add Earth’s magnetic field driven by a river of molten rock far below Earth’s surface. Mars once had an atmosphere with surface lakes and rivers of liquid water. But when Mars molten core cooled and solidified, it lost its magnetic field and the atmosphere slowly boiled off into space, along with most of the liquid water on the surface. But there may be large caches of water ice under the surface, especially near the polar axes.

15: The fact that the oceans are most transparent to light in the blue-green region of the visible spectrum (an inherent property of water) and that the blackbody curve of the sun’s radiance peaks in that narrow region of the electromagnetic spectrum, is evidence of design in nature. There are so many fine tunings necessary for our existence it’s just too precise to be a coincidence. We should thank our lucky stars that the earth has a magnetic field to protect us from harmful solar radiation and cosmic rays. Earth should not have a moon so large (as large as the Galilean moons of Jupiter) but thank God we do. The moon keeps the earth’s rotational axis at a stable 23.5 degree tilt. Without the moon our earth would have tipped on its side many times, becoming hostile to life on earth.

Science is not emotional, science is not based on subjective personal anecdote. The science of climate change is based on observational evidence and trend analysis over extended time periods, decades, centuries, thousands of years, etc. In the U.S. over the last 100 years, the trend (frequency, intensity) in droughts, floods, snowfall, hurricanes and tornadoes is not significantly different from zero. The frequency and intensity of wildfires in California is down significantly from 50, 100 and 200 years ago, with a slight increase over the past 20 years attributed directly to poor fire management (reduced controlled burns) endorsed by the “hands-of” environmental community.

Supplemental notes, climate science:
Fall season snowfall trends in the northern hemisphere are increasing. The Alarmists like to use decreasing spring snowfall trends but these data are flawed from faulty satellite derived estimates. Let’s not forget the fraudulent 2015 “pause buster” paper from Tom Karl et al. that used SSTs from ship data to inflate warming since 2002. NCDC did not even consider using data from the Argo floats.

Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, it’s plant food and a trace gas: 4.2 molecules of CO2 in 10,000 molecules of air. CO2 is not the primary driver of climate. Climate is dominated by changes in the sun, ocean oscillations and natural internal variability. Our climate is complex, non-linear and dynamic, with many checks and balances to prevent the environment from becoming hostile to life (except to the occasional extinction-level event from asteroids or super volcanoes).

Global sea-level rise has been a steady 8” per century ever since we came out of the Little Ice Age (LIA) around 1800 AD. The climate was warmer 1,000 years ago during the Medieval Warming Period (MWP). The Vikings grew crops in Greenland and grapes were grown in York, England.

Looking back 2,000 years, comparing the Roman warming period and the Medieval warming period with today, the Modern warming period is not exceptional. The current Holocene interglacial period began 20,000 years ago. 8,000-6,000 years ago, during the Holocene optimum, global sea levels rose 10 meters, temperatures were warmer than today for 2,000 years but the Greenland ice sheet never melted. Global temperatures have increased about 1˚C per century since coming out of the Little Ice Age ~1850.

Global sea level rise has been a steady eight inches per century (no acceleration). Computer forecasts of 3˚C global temperature rise by 2100 are based on highly speculative assumptions concerning climate sensitivity to CO2 doubling, minimal impact from solar forcing (negative and positive) and a poor understanding of the role of natural internal variability and ocean oscillations, not to mention the high uncertainty in such long-range predictions. But the uninformed will continue to make unfounded claims based on emotions, propagating the false narrative of human caused climate change (arrogant presumption that humans are somehow more important or more powerful than nature), misrepresenting the facts and the science, reducing the dynamic complexity of climate change to 4.2 molecules of CO2 in 10,000 molecules of air, politics masquerading as science.

Ocean acidification is a false narrative. The average pH of the oceans is 8.1, very alkaline with calcium saturation down below 1,000 meters. Lower pH levels can be found in regions of upwelling (from decay products near the ocean bottom). Below 2,000 meters the ocean is very cold, near freezing. It’s like a natural refrigerator, accumulated from several ice ages over the past one million years, each lasting over 100,000 years. Our current interglacial period (Holocene) began in earnest 10,700 years ago. But glaciers began to melt about 18,000 years ago with global sea-level rise of 100 meters over the next 10,000 years.

References:

(1) Overman, Dean L., “A Case Against Accident and Self-Organization”,
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1997.

(2) Conway, John H. and Guy, Richard K., “The Book of Numbers”, Springer-Verlag New York, 1996.

(3) The Bible, Romans 1:20.

(4) Darwin’s Black Box, Michael Behe, Simon & Schuster, paperback (2006).

(5) Replacing Darwin, Nathaniel T. Jeanson, Master Books, (2017).

I don’t believe that mankind will ever create anything that can compare with the creations of God.

>>God is good all of the time. Everything He does is good. Even choosing our trials and suffering.<<

Heard it too many times already, but my years behind the barbed wire and unanswered prayers make me disagree. I hope that you have reason to hang on to your unproven beliefs.

Accident or Divine Design.

Always and ultimately, it is divine design. Nonetheless, from our viewpoint, many things are by accident. It is magnificent how a sovereign God divinely orchestrates even the small things in ways to bring Him glory and our pleasures.

I can understand pain, abuse, heartbreak. I’ve never been imprisoned behind barbed wire so I can’t understand what you’ve been through. But I don’t have beliefs to hang onto. I don’t believe in God. I know Him. I only came to faith when I was 46 so I had decades of sin and depravity to live through and many times I considered suicide to overcome my despair. I was not seeking meaning in my life. I was not seeking God.

For some reason for which I have no explanation He reached out to me. I hope that one day He will call you into a relationship with Him. It is otherworldly and what I can tell you is that after I came to know Him, my live was not the same. It actually got worse. Much worse. And all I was promised was that He would be with me during my trials and tribulations. That may not seem like much but it was everything and it was enough, and what I learned was that sorrow and pain were extraordinary blessings. So I hope that one day you will come to know the same. God bless and keep you until that day.

Sincere thanks.

Always wondered how animals see the beauty of earth’s nature.

Well done posts. I’ve read some of the same books you have.

If you’ve not read Metaxis’ new one yet “Is Atheism Dead” (2021), you really should. Also, of course, Steven Meyer’s works.

For any that have yet to begin into the recent ID vs materialism debate, believe me, it will change your life.