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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