Science Reluctantly Proves there is a God!

“Go wherever the answers will take you.”
Linus Pauling (a 2 time Nobel Prize winner) has said, “Science is the search for the truth.” And Science never stops searching! And now their searching has brought some of them into an inconvenient realization. It has become apparent that we have a beginning to our universe and something or someone had to do the beginning!

I love this part--The part where we can look the scientists in the eye (the ones who have consistently looked down on us) and say, “told you so!”.

(No offense to you scientists who read this blog because I know you are not like that!)
But, it would seem to be apparent that science has backed itself into an ever expanding corner and they can’t find a worm hole out!

It begins with the “beginning”. Christians, Jews and Muslims have always believed that there is a Creator WHO created the heavens and the earth. Many scientists looked at these poor people with pity (and disgust) believing that these people are deceived, desperate and devoid of intelligence-- for the most part.

Now there are plenty of scientists who do believe in a Creator, but those who do not, have had to put blinders on because of discoveries over the last few decades.

(Now those of you who know these things, please correct me if I’m wrong about any of these facts. This stuff is BIG and a little hard for me to understand so I’m open to correction.)

Many years ago, scientists believed that the universe was eternal and static. That it really had no beginning and therefore didn’t need an explanation of how it began. In Galileo’s day, people could only see about 3000 stars. Today, scientists can only estimate that there are at least 100 billion GALAXIES in our universe!!!!!!!!!!! Can you wrap your mind around that?

Now we know that the nearest star to us is Alpha Centauri and it is 24 thousand million miles away! It would take 8 light minutes to travel from our sun to the earth. But it takes over 4 YEARS for light to travel to earth from the nearest star! The farthest object we know about is a quasar which is about 17,000 million light years away!

Now here is the really exciting part~~~ When scientists started studying the light coming from the different stars, they discovered something amazing! They found a series of lines that separated bands of light coming from the stars.

In 1962, the light from a quasar was studied and the black lines had shifted from their place before and moved towards the red end of the light bands. Other stars were also studied and they too showed a red shift! Now what does that mean?

The answer was stunning! The red shift meant that the galaxies are traveling away from us at about 100 million miles an hour!!!!!! The red shift increases with an object’s increasing distance from the earth!

This discovery has amazing implications! It shocked many scientists and made them revamp their theories and beliefs.

When astronomers learned that our universe was expanding (as we speak), they realized that an ever expanding universe meant that it must have had a beginning! It’s like someone popped a tight balloon full of confetti and it blew out it’s contents with such power into space (with no gravity) that the confetti just continued to fly away from its source.

That is why the term, Big Bang, came into existence. And literally, it would seem that is what happened. (Some Christians take offense at this term but it very easily fits into the Genesis story.) Like consider who made the balloon and blew it up and then popped it???

After this discovery, a great debate started about what might have preceded the initial explosion. Quite a few brilliant thinkers came to the conclusion that, if there is a beginning to our universe, then it was plausible that something or someone had to start it---like God….

The “kalam argument” is one such belief system that has opened some of these minds. The argument is simple but profound: “Whatever begins to exist has a cause; the universe began to exist; therefore the universe has a cause.”

It is metaphysically necessary that anything which begins to exist HAS to have a CAUSE that brings it into being. Things don’t just pop into being out of nothing. This is a principle that is easily verified.

The expanding universe can also be proven mathematically. In 1905, Albert Einstein developed his theory of relativity and he began to apply it to the universe as a whole. He was shocked (and irritated) to discover that it did not allow for a static universe that he had previously believed the universe to be. According to his theory, the universe was either imploding or exploding. It was soon discovered that it was the latter.

And his Second Law of Thermodynamics is another one of his brilliant ideas that demonstrates the Big Bang wasn’t really just an explosion but a planned, ordered event. Explosions usually don’t create beautiful universes with planets all laid out nicely--especially ours--which just happens to be the exact, right distance from the sun! No… explosions usually create destruction and more chaos.

But this beginning bang or explosion or whatever it was, created order and an organized universe where things work according to laws. It was kind of like this beginning had an Organizer WHO planned the event!

There is so much more but I think that is all my finite mind can fathom right now. There is so much to think about! I hope this has been enlightening and has made you consider the wonders of our universe and the wonders of the ONE WHO made it!

For those of you who may still not believe in a Creator, I ask you to take all of this to its logical conclusion……..and then consider this:

“…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 men are without excuse.”
Romans 1:19-20
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Doubts about God

New Blog----Big Doubts

Everybody has them! Doubts. It’s normal to have doubts because we have been duped in the past and we don’t want it to happen again. But there is an area of our lives where doubts can hinder us in a big way.

That area is in the spiritual domain. Believe me, I have had plenty of doubts in this area. And it is good to have some skepticism because obviously you can’t believe everything you hear. BUT-- if you think that applies to people who say they believe in a God WHO created the heavens and the earth----think again!

In the next few blogs, I am going to PROVE to you (as much as is humanly possible) that there is, indeed, A GOD! Of course, I’m going to use other people's research who are experts in their field, so I can’t really take any credit for these amazing discoveries. But, I am going to lay out this information for you so you can see it clearly. And then you can KNOW there really is a God WHO exists and that you can actually know HIM yourself! You will be able to put those doubts out of your mind for good!

As you know, IF you have been reading my blogs, that I have been on a TRUTH seeking journey. It has been very enlightening and I have loved it! One reason I have loved it is because it has strengthened my faith in God so much! That was my hope when I started this journey in the first place, so I am thrilled!

But I also hoped it would strengthen your faith too. And that it would make you think about what you really believe or perhaps, what you don‘t believe but really want to.

Some very interesting facts I just learned are: the Earth is only 8 light Minutes away from our Sun; our Earth is 4 light YEARS away from the nearest star; And, get this, the farthest object in the universe (that we know about) is----17,000 MILLION light years away!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why is all of that important in talking about the spiritual realm and doubts? Because there is no way to even describe our universe because it is so vast!!! There is simply no end to it!!! How can that be? How can something have no end? It does not compute in our finite minds. Yet, we have proof that this is true about our universe even though we can't comprehend it!

Just like our finite minds cannot comprehend an omnipotent, infinite God even though there is a great deal of proof that HE does exist!

When you have to explain the universe and the earth and everything else without the ONE WHO made it, then you run into a lot of problems. Actually, there is really NO way you can explain it..............

You kind of have to say some silly things if you are going to be an atheist like: we were blown into existence and everything just kind of happened to work out so that there are all of these species that came from amoebas (we’re not sure where the amoebas came from?). And we evolved from apes but some of the apes didn’t make the cut. And we have a conscience and they don’t. Well they might, but they are still inferior to us so we must have found a better watering hole than they did because we came out so much better!

If you chose to do this life without God, then you are going to have a lot of unanswered questions in biology, astronomy, AND in your life.

But, when you do finally come to the conclusion that there MUST be a God, then you find a lot of answers to every question. And the answers make sense! And then our lives start making sense! And then it all falls together!

So, I hope you will enjoy discovering why more and more scientists are becoming convinced that there is, indeed, an Intelligent Designer behind our world and our universe!!!

The more you know, the more you will see. And the more you see, the more you will believe. And the more you believe, the more you will be blessed.
You'll see :)

Until next time--------Carol
Carolrtexas2@aol.com