New Proofs of God's Existence

As I mentioned to you, I just returned this past week from the Intelligent Design Conference in Dallas, Texas. I had not attended one since about 10 years ago, when I went to one in San Diego. It's interesting that in these past 10 years, how much more information is available, even at that time. There was an excellent lecture, and actually these were top scientists, by Stephen Meyer, on the return of the God hypothesis. This is a book that he is writing. It should come out in August. It's interesting that there is an article on the Internet available. It's basically what he covered in that article, is what we heard firsthand.

Then afterwards, I was able to interview Jay Richards. He is a science philosopher, and wrote the book along with Guillermo Gonzalez, The Privileged Planet.

One thing he said in particular got my attention in that interview. It was the analogy that he used. I asked him in my interview, what new information has come out? He has been involved over 20 years in this intelligent design argument. The matter of intelligent design just means that from everything that we see around us, instead of believing that some blind forces of evolution, through natural selection and random mutation, that we have living things. Many believe that that's the only explanation. But now there is the intelligent design argument that says, no, things are far more complex than can be explained by natural selection and random mutations. So I asked him, where they believe they are? Now he's been involved more than 20 years. Here is his answer. He said, so intelligent design in many ways is essentially a research program. What you saw here in this conference, and what Steve Myers has been doing over the years, is filling in the evidence for design, including discovering things we didn't know about 20 years ago.

So 20 years ago, we might have talked about the information in DNA, but we didn't talk about epigenetic information. So here's a new field that opened up within these past 20 years. Epigenetic information. What does that mean? It means they have now discovered that DNA is not the only source for developing proteins and coding for the creation of living things. What they found in the cell is that there is genetic information outside the DNA molecule that also regulates and helps form things. One such epigenetic source is mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondria is this little module inside the cell which generates energy. It's kind of like the gasoline truck for the cell. This mitochondria carries energy as it is needed. But inside that mitochondria, you have DNA. You have information that is not in the nucleus of the cell. So it makes it even more complex because now it's not like having one watch with all the cogs and information. Now you have two watches that are coordinated. You have to coordinate both to get things done right. He says in many ways, their studies are similar to an archaeologist on a dig that has detected the tip of a T. rex dinosaur fossil. In other words, on this side, they see something that doesn't look like a rock. They go there and they look and see this is a bone. But it's actually just the tip of the tail of this huge dinosaur. And so he says 20 years ago, we were just at the tip of the information. He goes on to say, you know that you are onto something and that this is not the normal mountainside.

This is an artifact of something, but there's still a whole dinosaur fossil left to discover. So I think we are now part way up the tail. So they've gone from the tip and they're maybe halfway, part way. They still haven't gotten into the whole dinosaur, but the information has advanced. And one of the discussions that left us truly awestruck, surprised, fascinated, is what I want to share with you. And that is the explanation of the different worldviews about creation and God. And where the evidence has led us up to now, I want to share this information with you today. And we're going to use the Bible as well. But to me, these are additional proofs of the existence of God. And the way it was presented just majestically by Dr. Stephen Meyer.

There are new people among us. We have also young people and even members that this is so important for our own strengthening of our faith and we're able to explain it to others. And so to me, this is called an apologetic tool. Apologetic means a defense of our faith. It's a tool for us. And to me, it makes it so much clearer what the evidence truly points to. So let's begin in Hebrews 11, verse 6. This is where we start because here it tells us about faith, the importance of it. And I'd like to read it from the Message Bible version. The importance of proving that God exists. It says, it's impossible to please God apart from faith. You have to have that trust and belief. Do you remember when you actually were completely convinced that God existed? Yeah, as a young man, I was a Catholic. I believed that God existed, but I hadn't really proven it to myself. It was only when I came into the church that I went over the different proofs. And we have a booklet called Does God Exist? that covers a lot of these points. But here it says, it's impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that He exists and that He cares enough to respond to those who diligently seek Him. Now the word here, when it says seeking Him, it's a very strong word in the Greek. It means to be dedicated. It's not just something you do lackadaisically. You don't do it lazily. No, you diligently. This is something you're constantly seeking God and knowing that He does respond, that He does care for us. And so, as I listened to these different men, and there was one, his name is James Tour. And he is a credentialed scientist. He's into molecular machinery in the cells. And he is one of the world authorities. He's from Rice University. And he is what is called tenured. That means that he's been a professor long enough they can't fire him. So he can speak his mind and he doesn't worry about getting fired. And he gave basically an attack speech against his colleagues who believe in evolution. And he's just saying, don't believe this. This is baloney. This isn't true. We see it in the lab. They see it, but they are admitted. And so it was remarkable to listen to this scientist. He's patented more than a dozen different molecular patents on molecular machines. And he's a preeminent chemist. These guys actually built molecular machines that race. And they're like a millionth of an inch in diameter. And they put little wheels and they put a little engine and they put a little fuel. And then they race this molecular machine. And they actually had a race with scientists around the world. And he said his group won the race. And so we're not talking about mediocre teachers. We're talking about top men. And when you listen to men like Jay Richards, Steve Meyer, James Toor, you realize it's all about the love of the truth. And these men are facing all kinds of criticism and attack, but they know what the truth is. And they're willing to stand up and take the beatings and the criticism. And this is the same thing. We have the love of the truth. The truth as it is related to God. So, Dr. Richards mentioned we began with a set of reliable intuitions. When they started this intelligent design, they started out with certain premises that have proven themselves over time to be true. Now, in the last 20 years, we started filling out that research program. But I must say the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. So between scientists that are casualties of personal attacks and just the kind of difficulty of this, it would be nice if there were more key players. So, of course, they get worn down because they've got this enormous pressure, and they're always being criticized.

It says you have a lot of graduate students and young scientists that work on this matter and feel they have to work behind the scenes. And quietly, you get scientists like James Tour that are so prominent, he can say what he wants. But there are many hundreds of junior scientists who can't yet talk about it, about the truth, what they see. So I would say the pressure to conform and not to speak about it has gotten worse, even while the evidence has gotten stronger. And I see a parallel here between these ID supporters versus the establishment of science with evolution, and the parallel between Herbert Armstrong and the traditional Christian religion.

He had to face all kinds of criticism, ridicule, slander. Why? Because he was being used by God to bring back the wonderful biblical truths. And basically, all of us are a result of someone opening this truth to us. And of course, God is working. He uses people in this way. But I see the parallel. These poor men, the withering criticism they receive, and us too. We receive withering criticism. It's not easy to write articles when you see there are going to be these people that just don't want the truth to be out there.

Notice in Romans chapter 1 and verse 18. Romans chapter 1 verse 18 through verse 22. Now this is a very strong section of Scripture. And I'm going to read it in God's word version. There are versions that are stronger than that. But I think this is enough. But it shows in Paul's day, of course, they had Greek philosophers. They had all kinds of studious people and all kinds of speculation. And they even had a type of evolution in their days with a fellow called Democritus who set up this theory of atoms that everything that exists is made just out of atoms, indivisible parts of matter.

And that's all there is. And he began a movement in philosophy called hedonism. And that it just lived for the moment. We're just matter and energy and there's nothing else left. So enjoy yourself, live, be happy, because tomorrow you're going to die. That type of mentality. So Paul addresses the philosophers, the scientists, and the religion of his day. This is what he says. God's anger is revealed from heaven against every ungodly and immoral thing people do as they try to suppress the truth by their immoral living.

The new King James brings out this very important point here in verse 18 where it says, they suppress the truth in unrighteousness. So nothing new. If you know the truth, you're going to be attacked. People are going to try to suppress it. That's why people believe in myths and all kinds of traditions that are truly false. But they want you to just go along with the crowd. Don't ruffle feathers. Believe what's being told to you. So it takes courage to be part of this church.

Just like these intelligent design theorists. It takes courage to do what they do. So he goes on to say, The complexity of everything. All the laboratories in the world with all of their billions of dollars and millions of scientists now, because just in the Chinese community, they have millions of them. Do you know that they have not been able to create a human hair? Even to that point. And yet they're going to criticize God. They can't even duplicate a human hair. It's so complex. And so he says here that they suppress the truth and that they have no excuse. They knew God but did not praise and thank him for being God.

Instead, their thoughts were pointless and their misguided minds were plunged into darkness. While claiming to be wise, they became fools. They were wise of this world and they think they know so much, but actually they become fools because in their vanity and their denial of God, as many do, they have become fools. They exchanged the glory of the immortal God for statues that look like mortal humans, birds, animals, and snakes.

For this reason, God allowed their lusts to control them. As a result, they dishonor their bodies by sexual perversion with each other. These people have exchanged God's truth for a lie. That came to me. How important that statement. Turning what God says is true and they say, no, that's a lie. And their lies, what do they say? That's the truth. That's how they have exchanged it. That's how crazy and confused this present world is. So they have become ungodly and serve what is created rather than the Creator who is blessed forever. It's interesting that one of the terms for atheism, which means those that don't believe in God, is scientific materialism, where they think only matter exists, matter and energy. Everything has to be molecules or some type of energy.

And so what they are doing is worshipping the creation instead of the Creator. They say the creation. And through evolution, everything that we see comes about. So when they say evolution, they are actually worshipping the creation, not the Creator.

Going on, it says, for this reason God allowed their shameful passions to control them. Their women have exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. So he says when people don't take God into account, all of a sudden the looseness of their morality just abounds.

They have no boundaries. They don't have any limits. And so one of the biggest and strongest urgings that a human being has is sexual. And so they say, well, there's no God. I can decide what to do. All of a sudden what God says is something good and healthy to them? No, that's blase. No, let's experiment. And so we have here what is called lesbianism. And that comes from a Greek island called Lesbos, where the women were lesbian. They had this type. So Paul knew what he was talking about because this actually was occurring in his day. But it was not only the women.

He says likewise their men have given up natural sexual relations with women and burn with lust for each other. Men commit indecent acts with men so they experience among themselves the punishment they deserve for their perversion. Those are the diseases. And what are they called? Venerial diseases. And the term venereal comes from the Greek goddess, the sex Venus. And so even there you see the relationship that also venereal disease was rampant in this Greco-Roman Empire. And so people got all kinds of diseases, like they do today, too. Now, let's also say this, that we teach you love the person, you hate the sin. So you separate the two. We're not here like some wild-eyed fanatics about it.

No, we're teaching the Bible. And when God says a sin, just like there's all kinds of sins, and all sin is against God's law. And so this is just one more sin in society. But we want to help the person. If they come to the knowledge of the truth, they can be changed. So there's nobody that is excluded from God's possible grace and mercy, if they want it, if they're willing to repent.

So I want to clarify that. Continuing on, it says, And because they thought it was worthless to acknowledge God, in other words, for them to gain fame and to gain popularity, they said, oh, it's better not to take God into consideration. Let me be famous. Let me be important among people. God allowed their own immoral minds to control them. So they do these indecent things.

And this has been the reputation of the Greek culture was very loose in their sexual ways. When they had the Olympics every four years, the men would run naked. They wouldn't even put on a loincloth. And basically, the Greeks didn't have issues about sexual relations. And it's been mentioned there in history that Socrates also was killed, not only for teaching against certain traditions that the Greeks were wrong about, but he also had children and youths that he had relations with. And so, again, it goes way back in time. If we would have lived in those days, we wouldn't have been so shocked as far as the sexual looseness of those days as we have them today.

He goes on to say, they are mean, they are filled with envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and viciousness. So something happens to the person. They don't have that self-control, that temperance that the Bible speaks about. They don't obey their parents. They don't have any sense, don't keep promises, and don't show love to their own families, or mercy to others.

Although they know God's judgment, that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do these things, but also approve of others who do them. So that's part of the Scriptures. And we live today in a society that is flaunting their ungodliness. And believe me, God is angry. He's a loving God. But He is being crossed, He is being insulted, and He is being challenged by this society. And so we know God is going to intervene one day. He's not going to put up with this forever. So these Scriptures, as a background, let's begin from scratch about creation. This is what got my attention.

Stephen Meyer, who is a philosopher of science, understands this whole area of teaching. And he says that you actually have four main world views that deal with God. Now, again, these are the main ones. Number one is atheism or naturalism. Atheists denies the existence of God and believes that all there is is just matter, just molecules out there. All that exists is matter and energy. The universe is all there is. There was a famous TV personality back in the 60s, 70s, Carl Sagan.

He had a famous TV program, Cosmos. How many saw that, Cosmos? I saw some. And he said the famous statement there, one of the opening scenes. He said it in a very eloquent way. It sounded like the Wizard of Oz. The Wizard, he says, the cosmos is all that there is. Or ever was, or ever shall be. It sounded like a priest or something like that.

But that was his big spiel. He said, no, there's nothing else. He put on a little sign. He could have put an atheist and materialist because that's what they believe. The pontifex of science at that time was Carl Sagan. But it is a growing belief in atheism. As the world becomes more secular, more people are turning off to God. Here in the United States and Europe, basically, they say it's over. The churches are depopulated, less than 10% attend.

And some places, 2% or 3% attend. A lot of the big cathedrals and churches, they are being sold, turned into hotels or discotheques or something else. But it is a popular belief. The only real growth in belief in God is in the developing nations, places like in Africa or in South America.

But in the developed countries, in Europe, including areas of the US, Canada, Australia, you hardly talk about the subject of God. The second worldview is called pantheism. Basically, this is in the Eastern religions. You have Hindu religion, Taoism, Confucianism, and primitive religions. And what does pantheism teach? That God is within the universe. He is the great thing that permeates the universe.

He is co-existent with it. So that's why they say that when a person dies, it's like a drop going into the ocean and it just absorbed. And then another drop appears and it's just a constant cycling. But God is all the universe. Then you have deism, where there is the belief in a creator God. But the idea is that he acted at the beginning of creation and got the laws of nature started. And then he's no longer involved. He just started basically things going and sort of like an absentee landlord. He just left things, the laws to develop. He doesn't intervene. He doesn't do miracles. He's not a personal God. He doesn't really care about you or me. He just got the ball rolling. That is the God of Einstein and the philosopher Spinoza, who popularized it. Some scientists are daists. It's the halfway house between materialism and theism, which is a belief in the biblical God. And then you have the fourth worldview, which is theism. This says that there is a creator God who is actively involved in the creation and who is to be worshipped and obeyed. Mainly it's talking about the God of the Bible. The Jews and Christians believe this. Muslims also believe it, although they falsified the Bible. They had their own book of the Koran, and it's a very different system than Christianity or Judaism for that matter. So let's look at the latest scientific evidence. Here we have four different competing worldviews. Now, with all that has been brought forward, what we saw in this intelligent design conference, what did we say about the first worldview? Atheism. Atheism was actually stronger back 100 years ago than it is today as far as the argument and the evidence for it. 100 years ago, basically people thought that the universe had always existed.

Einstein believed that, and the famous scientists of their day, they thought, this has always existed. And so we don't have to explain how it came here, because it's always existed.

The Princeton physicist Robert Dickey admitted in 1965, he said, an infinitely old universe would relieve the necessity of understanding the origin of matter at any finite time in the past. So he says, boy, it'd be great. If we could prove that the universe has always existed, then we don't have to talk about how it got started. And that would be convenient. And atheists all agree. Because if a materialist says all that there is is matter, and then he says, well, matter has always existed, then we don't have to say how it originated, how it came to be, because it's always that way.

As Stephen Barr, professor of physics at the University of Delaware, put it, the idea that the universe and that time itself had a beginning really did enter Western thought from the Bible, and indeed from the opening words of the Bible. So the Bible has always been there. And it says that the universe had a beginning. And the beginning was, the heaven and the earth were created by God.

And so here we have a God who created, brought things from nothing. And the term there using a brah, in that first Genesis 1, 1, in the beginning, God created the universe. When he said created, it means bring it from non-existent things. It originated. So it talks about a beginning. Virtually all the pagan philosophers of antiquity, including Aristotle, and according to most scholars, Plato as well, held that time had no beginning.

Modern materialists and atheists, for obvious reasons, have generally followed the ancient pagan view. So they're part of this worldview that, oh, everything has existed, matter, and that's why we don't have to explain its origin. But what happened in this past century? Several discoveries have shown the universe does have a starting point, a beginning. The first big evidence was Einstein's theory of relativity that showed by the equations that this is an expanding universe.

Now, Einstein did not want that to be the result. So he used what he called the fudge factor, and he added a constant to keep the universe from expanding. And later he said that was the biggest mistake in his career, that he had made it because of philosophical reasons, because he was a materialist. And he didn't want this expansion because it shows that sometime in the past it came from nothing, that it expanded out of this infinitely small space.

Then, in the 1920s, Edwin Hubble, an astronomer out here in these San Gabriel Mountains, and every time I go toward Pasadena, I'll go and I'll look for Mount Wilson. How many have seen the observatory of Mount Wilson? Yes, you can still see it from the freeways going there toward Pasadena and north.

And at that time in the 1920s, they had the largest telescope in the world. It had a 100-inch diameter lens. 100-inch. That's over 6 feet. And with it, Edwin Hubble saw that there was an expanding universe. All the stars were expanding outward. Well, Mr. Einstein, when he heard about this, he didn't like it.

At that time, he still had that fudge factor. He still had that constant that really didn't fit his theory. And so he decided to come over here to Pasadena, and he made the trip, and he went up the Mount Wilson Observatory, and he saw for himself the evidence. These are his famous words. He says, in his broken German, as Wolf would know, he says, I now see a necessity of a beginning, a beginning of the universe.

He now saw the necessity because he saw the evidence. And then Bell Laboratories in 1965 detected the cosmic background radiation. They won a Nobel Prize in astronomy for that. And so now, the great majority of the scientific community knows there is a beginning to the universe. And so that has been an enormous blow against atheism. Why? Because atheism cannot explain the cause of the beginning of the universe. If they start with the universe, and they know there's a moment in time, as you wind back all of this expansion, you get to a point where space and time curve to an infinite space, which means there is nothing there.

It came from nothing. And of course, the Bible says that God is the outside source. Atheism cannot explain that outside source for things. And they've resorted to all kinds of gimmicks like, well, maybe we have many more universes, and this just happens to be the right one. But then the question is, well, what is spitting out all these universes?

What is the mechanism that keeps producing all of these universes? And by the way, you have to have an intelligence, because if you have something that is not intelligent, and it's kind of this machinery spitting out universes, you just get the same copies. So that doesn't help you. You need to have something that keeps changes to variables. And so again, you have to go to an intelligent designer. And of course, all of this is made up just to avoid realizing that this is a universe that is carefully created and orchestrated.

So we read in Hebrews 11 and verse 3, By faith we understand that the worlds were framed, which means set in order as by an architect. They were framed by the Word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible. And so we know matter cannot create matter. And one of the laws of thermodynamics says that matter cannot be created nor destroyed. But that is within a closed system of the universe, because matter had to be created initially.

And once it gets going, the laws prevent matter from creating more matter. We have the same amount of matter from the initial creation, but it has just been expanding and diffusing more. Okay, so the problem with atheism is they can't explain the cause and origin of the universe if that's all there is. The universe cannot create itself. It is just matter and energy. You need something outside, greater and more powerful, to produce it. And that's what the scientific evidence shows. So let's go to the second one, pantheism, where you have the Hinduism, and of course that's over in India. That's where the Hindu religion is. And they have this idea that God is everything that we see around us.

Also Taoism, Confucianism, that's all over in China, and the area of Southeast Asia. Pantheism believes that God is within the universe and coextensive with it. But as conceived by pantheists, this God cannot act to bring about the physical universe from nothing. Since a God that does not exist independently of the physical universe cannot bring it about.

It is part of the universe. So you have the same problem. If pantheism teaches that everything has to do with the universe, they cannot explain how this universe got to be. If initially the physical universe did not exist, the pantheistic God could not exist either. And if that God did not exist, it cannot be invoked or used to explain the origin of the universe from nothing. So again, we go back to square one. Neither atheism nor pantheism satisfy the scientific evidence of today.

So let's go to number three. Deism, the belief in a creator God that acted in the beginning to get all things going, but then let the natural laws do the rest. They believe God is not actively involved as a personal God. He doesn't do miracles. He doesn't care about anybody. So Deism denies that God has continued to participate in his creation. Now, Deism could account for a transcendent God. What does a transcendent God mean? It means a God that's outside of the universe. He transcends. He is above everything. So in that, Deism does explain that. And also for the fine-tuning of the universe, because it says that he got the laws going, he got everything integrated, but it can't account for the origin of information in the DNA, which was way after the initial start of the universe.

So if he just got the laws going, DNA is information that only comes from a mind. It is not created by matter. Matter carries information. Information needs a mind to create it, an intelligence. A rock, they say you're dumb as a rock, right? Because a rock can't think. It doesn't have a mind. And so again, the problem with Deism is that it doesn't account for all of this massive information to create life and then to add new life forms that take an enormous amount of genetic information, which has to be programmed. It's like a computer program.

You need to have a programmer. If you're just pushing buttons and there's no program, you're not going to get anything intelligent or intelligible. And so here is a problem with Deism. Deism cannot account for the evidence of creation or design after the Big Bang or the initial creation of the universe. Since it stipulates that God, that absentee landlord, chose not to involve himself in the events or workings of the universe he created.

So that takes us to number four, the worldview of theism. Deism is the only explanation that can adequately explain the origin of the universe, the origin of fine-tuning of the universe, the origin of life, and of the species that throughout the earth and also in the fossil record. Since it says that this God sustains all things as a result of his ongoing creative activity. So God is not some passive being. He is actively involved. Notice in Colossians chapter 1. Colossians chapter 1 verse 15 in God's word version.

Colossians 1 verse 15, it says, He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. He created all things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. We talk about Christ here. Whether they are kings or lords, rulers or powers, everything has been created through him and for him. He existed before everything and holds everything together. So it's an active God. It's a theistic God.

It's not deism. It's not pantheism. It's not atheism. No, it is a God as it's faithfully described in the scriptures. Notice in Hebrews 1 verses 1 through 3. I like to read this in the New Living Translation. It says, Long ago God spoke many times and in many ways to our ancestors through the prophets. And now in these final days, he has spoken to us through his Son. God promised everything to the Son as an inheritance, and through the Son he created the universe.

The Son radiates God's own glory and expresses the very character of God. And he sustains everything by the mighty power of his command. So again, what kind of worldview do you want to have? Do you have one that doesn't satisfy these requirements? What we have been able to understand today, the discoveries? Or do you want to have one that satisfies all of these conditions? Back in 1992, over 15 years ago, the historian of science, Frederick Burnham, stated that the God hypothesis, the idea of the existence of God, is now a more respectable hypothesis than at any time in the last 100 years.

So here's a scientist that admits the evidence. Now God is more and more an explanation to the evidence that they are discovering. Burnham's comment came in response to the discovery of the so-called Kobe, the cosmic background explorer that basically traced all the heat diffusion in the universe. And it backs the expanding state. It backs the origin of the universe. And so this man says, guess what? Our understanding, atheism or materialism, doesn't satisfy the evidence that we are seeing. What does satisfy is the God explanation that he exists.

Yet it is not only cosmology, says Stephen Meyer, that has rendered the God hypothesis respectable again, as one surveys several classes of evidence from the natural sciences. Cosmology, physics, biochemistry, molecular biology, theism emerges as a worldview with extraordinary explanatory power and scope. Theism explains a wide ensemble of significant scientific evidence and theoretical results more simply, adequately, and comprehensively than any other major competing worldview. So to me, what is left as far as studying this and thinking there is some other explanation than theism, that God has explained actively involved makes the most sense.

And if you add to the theism as described in the Bible, he is a God who cares for his creation and above all for mankind. God gave man consciousness, that's an awareness of himself, and free choice, free will.

Why? Because he didn't want us to be like robots. He wanted us to decide to love him, to glorify him, and to follow his ways. He didn't want to obligate us. It makes perfect sense. The problem is, with choice, we can either go for good or for evil. But that was necessary. If God wants to love us, he wants to have willing children who want to do it on their own.

They're not being forced or obligated. It would be a terrible thing for me if my life was such that my four daughters in another type of world were obligated to love me. That would not be something satisfying for me. It is something that they voluntarily do and is not forced upon them. It is something that is born within them and it is a free will that expresses it. It's the same thing with the relationship between us and God.

In Matthew 6, we're finishing up Matthew 6 verse 25. It says, It says, It says, For they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. He cares about such little creatures, whether they get fed. Have you seen a lot of areas where all the birds are starving? It's very rare, right?

Even in the wintertime, they all come out later in the spring. Why? Because God did not want to create a world where everything is dying off. No, He created and He cares for even these little birds. He goes on and says, In other words, let's do our part, but let's not have that anxious worry where people just get into a depressive mode and they can't operate because they're always worried.

Well, I don't know if I can pay my bills. I don't know if I can buy some clothing or whatever. Yes, we should do our part, but don't let that control your life. God is there. Go to Him. Talk with Him. Ask Him about your needs because He cares. He says, Therefore, do not worry, saying, What shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or what shall we wear?

For after all these things the Gentiles, those that don't know God, they seek. For your Heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. And so again, looking toward that kingdom. Yes, we have to dress. Yes, we have to be concerned about physical things, but we are first entering into that kingdom of God, having that relationship, that family relationship that was mentioned. And that He is our Father now.

He cares for us. Don't sell Him short is what He basically brought up. And then in the next chapter, Matthew 7, verse 7, it says, Don't forget to ask God for things. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, it will be open. Or what man is there among you, who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone. Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent.

If you, then, being evil, because we have that human nature, which God does not have, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father, who is in heaven, give good things to those who ask Him? And so, as you can see, there's a lot that we can learn about what science is discovering today, and it helps and it supports why we believe in the God of the Bible.

It was very profitable to go to that Intelligent Design Conference. I feel honored to have gone, and it drew one closer to God, and I hope that will affect and be the result of everyone here listening to this.