Belief in God

Belief in God
by: Bruno Hagspiel, The Millennium Stories by Frank Mihalic

There was a well-educated man who solemnly announced to his friends that he would never believe anything which he could not understand.

An old farmer overheard the remark, turned to the young intellectual and said, "As I went into town today, I passed a field where some sheep were feeding. Do you believe that?" "Yes," said the young man. "Not far away from the sheep some cows were also grazing. Do you believe that?" "Yes," was the reply. "Not far from the cows were some pigs eating grass. Do you believe that?" "Yes." "All right, now you listen to this," said the farmer. "The grass the sheep ate turned into wool. The grass the cows ate turned into hair. The grass the pigs ate turned into bristles. The grass that the chicken eat turned into feathers. Do you believe that?" "Yes," the young man said. "Do you understand it?" "No," admitted the young man.

"Young man," said the farmer, "if you live long, you will find that there are a great many things which you believe without understanding. God is one of them."

Does God the creator exist?

Can we say confidently that there is no God?
Draw two circles, circle A has knowledge of entire universe, circle B has 10% of our knowledge and 90% of what we dont know. It would be arrogant to say "there is now God" when we stil do not have knowledge about the 90% of universe, the best is "I am not sure if there is a God or not"

Encourage non-believers to find evidence about God
Example; If we look at two statements "there is a cat in this room" and "there is no cat in this room", second statement is much harder to prove. First is we can see, smell, touch, hear the cat in room or look for signs. But the second statement must scrutinize every nook and cranny of room to ensure that there is no cat in the room.

People use wrong measures, criteria that are impossible to fulfill, such as "i will not believe that there is God until i can see him, hear his vioce, or touch him with my hand"
This kind of reasoning is invalid cause makes wrong assumption that can prove Gods existence using five senses, which is logically compared to statements such as "i will not believe that there is a moon until i walk on it" or "i will not believe there are electrons until i see them"; Even though we haven had not chance to walk on moon we can use our eyes, even though we can not see electrons we can see the effects of their existence from the way light bulb gives light. Can not measure something abstract to concrete terms. Even though we cannot prove Gods existence using our five basic senses, the evidence for his existence is very valid. He is spirit John 4:24 and leaves us evidence of his power.

Pantheism is not answer
God of all christian is different from god of those who believe in pantheism (hindu) which unites with the universe which means he is everything and everything in universe is part of god too. It is strange because one part of god can be expect understand everything about god (nature) and whole god or things in nature cannot understand the condition of man. how can material things that do not have personality be part of God the creator who has personality.

First evidence of order in universe (Psalm 8:3-4)
Einstern believed in God the creator while developing the theory of relativity as he saw the law and order of the universe. he knew we did not come about by chance.
e.g ozone layer, our eyes

moral reasons (Rom 2:14-15)
God inscribes what is good and evil in mans heart, hence we have a conscience. The believe of good and evil implies that standard of judement cannot be established by man but by God. For true justive to come about, there must be God, experience in lives of Christians.

Hope resources "principle of evangelism"

Just a few well known Christians in the science community:

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543 Polish Astronomer)
mathematically based system of planets going around the sun;

Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
Mathematician, scientist and philosopher;
Seeked to bring knowledge together in one system of thought by asking what could be known if all else were doubted - suggesting the famous "I think therefore I am". Actually, it is often forgotten that the next step for Descartes was to establish the near certainty of the existence of God - for only if God both exists and would not want us to be deceived by our experiences - can we trust our senses and logical thought processes. God is, therefore, central to his whole philosophy.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1627 philosopher)
scientific method of inquiry based on experimentation and inductive reasoning;
"It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity."

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642 Italian Physicist)
theoretical work, which was on dynamic;
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630 German Astronomer)
Early work on light, laws of planetary motion about the sun, close to reaching the Newtonian concept of universal gravity;
"Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God."

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662 French Mathemetician)
"There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ. But by Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ, we prove God and teach doctrine and morals. Jesus Christ, then, is the true God of men."

Newton Isaac: (1642-1727 English Mathemetician)
The solar system itself could not have been produced by blind chance or fortuitous causes but only by a cause "very well skilled in mechanics and geometry."; In Principia he stated, "The most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion on an intelligent and powerful Being."

Michael Faraday (1791-1869 English Chemist)
electricity and magnetism revolutionized physics;
"Since peace is alone in the gift of God; and since it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope."

Lord William Thomas Kelvin (1824-1907 British Physicist)
"I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism."

Robert Boyle (1791-1867 Scientist)
Boyle's Law" for gases, and also wrote an important work on chemistry

Max Planck (1858-1947 Physicist)
quantum theory & understanding of the atomic and sub-atomic worlds

A few others:
Samuel Morse (morse code)
Arthur Eddington (mathematical cosmologist)
Henry F. Schaefer (theoretical chemists)
William Phillips was co-recipient of the . 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics
Francis Collins (director of the U.S. Human Genome Project)
Rustum Roy (materials scientists, holds three chairs)
George Washington Carver*
Kenneth H. Cooper - "Father of aerobics"
Jim Irwin* - astronaut, Ark Hunter
Louis Pasteur*
Hugh Ross - physicist
Wright Brothers*

Aurora

Aurora borealis (the Northern Lights) and Aurora australis (the Southern Lights)
Formed at the magnetic poles when solar winds with charged electrons from the sun reach earth and follow the magnetic flux lines. When these electrons hit particular atom(dependent on altitude) creates a color. Magnetic and electrical forces react with one another in constantly shifting combinations creating a "dancing" light show.


















In the darkest of nights, there is a splendor and display of light shows dancing before your eyes; Its truly amazing; There are really few things that capture me and keeps my interest for long, one of them is the night sky especially the aurora. The light soothes me, speaks to me, and directs me to my home where its warm and safe. It always lifts my spirit when i look up at the night sky and see stars and moon.

Indescribable

Whirlpool Galaxy (also known as Messier 51a, M51a, or NGC 5194)
Location: approx. 23 million light-years in the constellation Canes Venatici
Right ascension: 13^h 29^m 52.7^s
Declination: +47° 11′ 43″
Apparent dimension:11′.2 × 6′.9
Discovered: Charles Messier on October 13, 1773.
Nick: Spiral galaxy

Fusion: Large sources of gravitation pull from nearby passing galaxies interact producing compression waves sweeps through hydrogen clouds causing diffuse gas to compress into tight pockets of opaque and dense gas, these dust lanes are seen as spiral arms. In regions where the concentration and density of gas reaches a critical value, further collapse under its own gravitational pull occurs, and stars are born at the center of the collapse.

In the X-core structure, the nucleus of M51 there are two dust rings around the black hole. Can you see what shape it forms? ....

Ecc 3:11
¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

Psalms 147:4,5
⁴ He determines the number of the stars
and calls them each by name.

⁵ Great is our Lord and mighty in power;
his understanding has no limit.

Isaiah 40:28
²⁸ Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.

Psalms 8:3,4
³ When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,

⁴ what is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?

Matt 10:30
²⁹Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. ³⁰And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. ³¹So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

The universe is immeasurable to man but the universe is finite in Gods finger tips. He created everything from the stars, moons and planets of the sky night to the small oxygen molecules we breathe. There are many things that we will not understand, we will not be able to fathom but what God wants us to know is his with us... He is the creator, he is the author and writer of life. He created everything. He has been there since the beginning of time, the alpha and omega (Rev 22:13). When comparing the universe to ourselves in size, we may feel very small and insignificant. However in God's eyes we are the most important people, we are his apple in his eyes. He love us so much that he sent his only son, Jesus Christ to relate to us in form of man and to die for us on the cross. So that we may have relationship with our father in heaven. He loves you and believe it or not, God knew you before you were even born.

Back to the Basics (the desginer)

Just looking at God's creation, the majestic and complexity that goes behind each design of each animal and plant. It's wonderfully and fearfully made. It must have taken high intelligence, creativity, power and love to bring this full picture into life. How can then, evolution philosophy ( forensic science, study in macro) brought about the different species and plants that all act in harmony and co-dependent on one another? How can we leave it up to random process, by chance, and over a long period. Just looking at the carbon n radio isotopic dating methods, it is fact among scientist that such methods are inaccurate. There has not been any real concrete evidence and fossils that has been bought up through claims of evolution. Even Charles Darwin himself, claimed that he may have been wrong in his theories. But it is still taught in school as fact and not as theory. Real observational science is based on evidence, that it is able to be duplicated each time with same result. Not assumptions.

If there has been any change of genetic to bring us to the present, it would be the loss of genetic material rather than evolution with new genetic information. There is simply no new input into the system. Furthermore evolution would have taken a long time, millions of years, but if this were true, most species of animal and plants would have been long gone. We would be long gone. Because time + chance are required to happen all at one same time for the species to survive. All the parts that are evolved must be instantaneous and how is this possible when evolution is a process over millions of years? You can not have partial lung, partial liver, partial heart to survive can you? Even the parts that we thought were useless like the appendix plays an important role in the development stage of a child.

We can conclude that God made everything to the very exact detail that they are. Evolution does not have explanation for Gods creation, only the designer has. So think about it, can it be that there is a designer, some power, genius that design this all. That every part and every little thing work together perfectly and in order. If there is art work there is artist, if there is creation there is a creator. Our God is our the creator.

Some of these thoughts have been mentioned in "incredible creatures that defy evolution" i purchased today. Wanted to wind down with a movie haha. With all that is said, I just like to think simple. I just want to look at Gods beauty and splendor. To enjoy everything that God has made like the birds in the trees and flowers on the side of the road I see everyday. I want to thank him that he made all these things for me to enjoy and take pleasure in.Thank you God.