At a recent lecture, it was asked, "Why do today's students get startled and dumbstruck looks if mentioning God in class?" And usually, it's followed up by the teacher or professor asking, "You don't believe in God, do you?"
The last two decades of science have brought us closer to understanding our creator God of the Bible. From that perspective, it can be used as an aid in teaching the Bible to today's techno-modern society.
With science's teachings in its many disciplines, from anthropology to astronomy, nothing steers young folks away from God more than saying the universe was created in six days about 6,000 years ago. Bringing thinking youth back to the church with an evolutionary approach of only 6,000 years is a difficult task. However, today, some very bright contemporary scientists can provide support for logical thinking about our creator God of the Bible including its creation at the Big Bang, only a little longer than 6000 years.
We know the earliest evidence of written mathematics dates back to the ancient Sumerians, about 3,000 BC, who built the earliest civilization in Mesopotamia. Around the same time, ancient Egyptians used geometric equations to approximate the area of circles and other formulas.
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According to the Jewish Torah, it is believed that Adam and Eve were created approximately 5,770 +/- years ago. Abraham's migration from Mesopotamia, which marks the real start of Biblical history and the Bible's Old Testament as a whole, is clearly indicated in Genesis 12, confirmed in so many words in Josh. 24:2, and borne out by subsequent Biblical passages.
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I understand the need to start at the beginning, but I'd prefer to begin a about 500 years ago, around the time of Nicolaus Copernicus and when Columbus discovered America. It was about that time that modern science began, with new mathematics (calculus) and physics. Then came archaeology, anthropology, biology, medicine, electricity, and DNA. With the help of some very bright scientists, one can arrive at the existence of God/Christ with enthusiasm.
We'll start with our God's creation, beginning with the Big Bang, and put evolution on the back burner for now. Let's start with the foundations of last century's scientists like Einstein, Bohr, Bell, Heisenberg, Watson, and Crick. They all point to how the universe couldn’t have formed without some very clever designer. This is the conclusion that so many of today's cosmologists to biologists have arrived. We have outlined their hypotheses in the articles and videos below.
Still, there are those who won't admit this conclusion of fine-tuning by a designer/creator. So now, as "their escape clause," they hypothesize that our universe is just one of many, part of an infinite multiverse of universes. Give me a break, that's just a cop-out, and by the way, unprovable.-->
From the very large - universal scale, let's jump down to the smallest (subatomic) particles - the dozen and a half or so that lie within the electron, proton, and neutron, the domain of quarks, leptons, neutrinos, muons, bosons, photons, etc. Recent revelations here are so mind-blowing in relation to one number - 1 over 137 - that even the most hardened philosophical and scientific atheists have concluded that things could not happen at random. A designer was necessary.
"It's one of the greatest damn mysteries of physics," a magic number that comes to us with no understanding by man. You might say the "hand of God" wrote that number, and "we don't know how He pushed his pencil." - Nobel Laureate in Quantum Physics, Richard P. Feynman.
Lastly, switching to biology at its microscopic level, you find the DNA coding for all life. Even more than the other scientific disciplines, DNA is the most functionally amazing of all sciences. In other words, a designer is presupposed. In fact, the odds for DNA evolving are staggering - higher than the number of atoms in the universe! The conclusion is that DNA had to be conceived and designed by an intelligence.
Now that I have concluded that God is out there, what about me? In my exploration, it is DNA coding that defines all living things. The overwhelming conclusion of the enormity and complexity of DNA's coding is that it could not evolve from our or any other primordial world. At best, a missing gene in the DNA double helix might alter a species slightly, but it cannot evolve on its own, and therefore, there is no evolution in the purest sense.
Not only is the realization that this code defines all living things, but it is the God-given life essence as stated by Luke 21: "Once having been asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, 'The kingdom of God does not come from your careful observation, nor will people say, 'Here it is' or 'There it is' because the Kingdom of God is within you.'" And as for our brain, consider this: The brain itself does not produce consciousness. That is, as Dr. Eben Alexander puts it, instead, a kind of reducing valve or interface connecting nonphysical consciousness, our soul, to our human body in the physical world.
Staying within the realm of biology, it’s been recently determined that our brain is the organ of movement, perception and emotion only, but our intelect and will lie outside of the brain in our soul. Its fascinating video is below.
It is not possible for me to go into any detail about quantum mechanics/physics and the fundamentals of genetics - genes and DNA here. However, I have assembled in no particular order, numerous videos and articles from renowned scientists of many persuasions that can help one better understand how science is pointing to an all-intelligent God and even learn to understand the relationship of one's soul and immortal afterlife.
If you arrive at the same conclusion, that God exists "out there" as a person and our creator and part of the natural order of things, you might then ask where we are headed from here. The good news is, it has already been written in a book called the Bible. Explained is God's/Jesus' interplay with mankind, the bulk of which makes complete sense and of which John 1:3 sums it up: "All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made."
So we will conclude: Today, science is bringing us inescapably closer to our creator God, which can, from that perspective, be used as a motivating force in teaching the Bible to today's ever-more agnostic and secular society.
Despite the fact that many scientists and doctors believe that there is no such thing as the soul —and that there is no part of us that exists beyond death. Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor explores evidence of our soul’s existence outside of our brain’s mind proving we are at our essence spiritual beings. He relates the Story of Pam Reynolds's NDE (also included) the most notable and best documented in NDE research ever. 29:00
As the author says, "Of the many scientific evidences, he is 'going for the jugular' with this explanation of proof of God." Why, you may ask. Just watch and see. We think you'll agree. There simply isn't stronger evidence than in this video on DNA shown here". 23:13
THE FLAGELLA is one of natures true wonders. Flagellar motor research pioneer Robert Macnab wondered at this complexity and wrote: "One can only marvel at the intricacy, in a simple bacterium, of the total motor and sensory system." It is a nanomachine a millionth the size of a grain of sand that can rotate five times faster than a Formula One engine and can change direction faster than a mosquito beats it wings. 6:42
WATER - our most familiar liquid, is not only necessary for life but the driving force of all nature. Its physical properties such as freezing point, viscosity, heat absorption are all necessary for life. And water is the only liquid that expands when freezing. And on the grand scale, water preserves the physical & chemical stability of our planet. 8:05
Scientists often side step Intelligent Design, with the theory that we live in an unprovable multiverse, where all things are possible. Stephen C. Meyer PhD. has in recent times taken a lead position as a strong advocate of Intelligent Design and that our universe was created by an intelligence, namely the God of the Judeo-Christian bible. 45 min lecture, “God and the Origin of the Universe”
Atheist Turned Christian. Sy (Seymour) Garte, PhD biochemistry - tenured professor at NYU, Rutgers, and the Univ. of Pittsburgh, director at the Center for Scientific Review of the National Institutes of Health. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers and four books. 29:59
Life as we know it would not exist without this highly unusual number called the "Fine Structure Constant" or 1/137. It's the number all theoretical physicists wory about says Richard Feynman. If it had any other value, life as we know it would be impossible. And yet scientists have no idea where it came from. 5:21
What is amazing is that within every cell in your body, there is code three billion letters long! And, 99.9% of your DNA is similar to everyone's genetic makeup! How can one explain this sophisticated messaging, coding, residing in our cells? You cant, unless you include God. A Compelling article.
DNA - God's amazing programming; evidence for his existence. Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. (Video 4:24)
Evolution: Bacteria to Beethoven For a century Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has been as unquestioned as Newton’s theory of gravity. But science never stops asking questions now there questions about the origins of life that Darwinism can’t answer? Cambrian Explosion (Video 5:52)
Bases its argument that the multitude of parameters needed for life on our planet that were determined at the big bang could not just be a coincidence.
Eric Metaxas for Prager Univ. (Video 5:43 Min)
How Quantum Physics Proves God's Existence. Science and religion have been at divisive odds during Earth's entire existence, until recently, that is. Today the more that is learned about quantum physics, the more we discover itis Biblical basis and proof of God's design. Great Article
Understanding Counterintuitive Quantum Entanglement -where the speed of light is rendered as not absolute, and instant communications could exist Galacticallyss. Still with no mention of God what could this mean?
Theoretical Physicist, Michio Kaku takes us on a Journey from Newton to
String Theory and the Mind of God. String Theory he says, The Universe Is a Symphony of Vibrating Strings in 11 dimensions and where God resides. (Video 5:33 Min)
What's a Greater Leap of Faith: God or the Multiverse?
by Brian Keating, Professor of Physics at the University of California, for Prager Univ. for Prager Univ. (Video 4:25 Min)
✡ Gerald Schroeder Physicist MIT, combines decades of research to change the debate between religion and science.
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Harry Cliff works at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
questions if we have reached the end of physics?
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This mini Docu explores recent discoveries in physics, astronomy and the biology and DNA and how they relate to the existence of God.
A layman's primer (Video 25:00 Min)
A fanciful tale of all the things that have to be “just right” for our earth to exist let alone be habitable for we human kind, was the creation of the earth itself. This theory only came to light in year 2000. It pretty much explains how God did it - create the four fundamental ingredients on earth needed for our existence. Here's how.
