Seven Scientific Proofs of God's Existence

Okay, so the message today is part two of a topic that I covered two weeks ago. And so I'd like to conclude and like to go over first the four scientific proofs for the existence of God. And I use the term proofs with great care because that requires a very high bar to do that. And also these are proofs from science, from our world. And I wish I would have known many of these in my youth. It would have strengthened my faith, but they just were not available. They had not discovered many of these until the last 20 or 30 years. And so I'd like to just go over the first scientific proofs. The first one is that the universe has a beginning. In other words, it had a start. And so you can conclude that there was a time when the universe didn't exist. When something starts, it has a point that it can begin. Before that, it didn't exist. And so something greater than the universe had to create it. What creates something is always greater than what is created. And so the universe can't create itself. And it has to be something superior to bring it about. The second proof that we covered is the fine-tuning of the universe. Scientists have discovered there are around 31 independent laws, or what they call constants, in the universe, all calibrated to the nth degree. And these are all independent laws, but they mesh together like a fine Swiss watch to give precise time, talking about something much better than any Rolex watches out there.

Back in Tucson, they have what they call the biosphere 2, which is this big dome-like structure with seven different habitats. Again, I mentioned it at the first time, and they've got this control room with all of these dials, because they've got an area that looks like Antarctica, and with the penguins, and all these other creatures, and they've got to keep the temperature very low, and the humidity. You have all kinds of other conditions, and you have a desert, so you have to raise the temperature and lower the humidity. And so all of these dials have to be just finely tuned for each one of those. Well, in the same way, the universe is finely tuned. They have examined every one of these dials, and they are automatically set at the right place for us to be able to have life, for things to be orderly. It took a great mind to do this. Then, thirdly, we covered the origin of life.

Scientists have discovered that information is the basis for life. Now, back when I was in high school, we studied about what made up life, and we came up with certain conditions that you had to have some type of input and output of energy to keep it. But you know what? Nobody knew about information being in there until, finally, they discovered the importance of information. It's like a computer. It cannot work until you have the software loaded into it. It's the same way. With life, you need all of this software, this coded program, to make things run. And what they have found is that wherever there is information, there is intelligence. You have to conceive of information. It's a code. It's mathematical. It needs to be placed in the right way. And you can't just, over eons of time, come up with the right numbers.

For instance, a rock cannot produce information. You might pour water on the thing and stir it and break it, whatever, for millions of years. And that thing is never going to give you any information, because information requires design. It needs to be a logical sequence. A rock doesn't have logic.

Information has to be mathematically precise. And in ourselves, it actually has in-house editors to make sure that the right code is in its place. It actually goes through and examines. So you have to have a backup, a master copy, to be able to check everything. And it actually does correct and insert the right letters, or else we would have a lot more mutations that would damage the cells. And then the fourth proof was the machine technology inside the cell. You might remember the five-minute film that we had about how in the cell they've got these molecular machines. And they're actually these nano robots that go down tracks that are formed. And you can see them. They've got two legs and a tail that anchors them as they move along. And if you actually multiply their size to what would be a vehicle, it would go faster than 60 miles an hour. I mean, these things are zipping inside the cells, and they're all molecular trucks. They're carrying things. They know how to attach. They know how to deliver it to different places. And you remember it was aw struck when you see these things happening. Actually, you have about 80 billion cells in your body that dies every day. Thankfully, we have these molecular machines made out of proteins that build up approximately 80 billion cells to replace them. We're constantly replacing them.

So again, we have about 100,000, according to the calculations, different types of proteins that make up our bodies, that construct so much of it. And so now we'll go to the fifth proof. This is the first one that we're going to cover today.

And I call it The Origin of the Species.

You know, Darwin never did answer what his title said. His book was The Origin of the Species, and he talked about the variation of the species, but he never said where did it originate. He never covered that, so it was a false title. Many scientists have taken Darwin, you know, to account for this, that he said the origin, and he never did cover that. All he did was about how the variations of the species, how they go, but where did they come from? So he explained the survival of the species, but he never explained the arrival of the species.

And so here, as proofs of the existence of God, you have two different answers about how living things could have been created and how they developed. And one is what you get in the biology books. They give you one side of the story. They say evolution brought all of these about, and the 10 million different species that we have on earth, very chan- I mean, you're talking about plants, animals, every kind of creature, and they say all of that just by chance and circumstances and natural selection and mutation, we can get all of these 10 million species to appear.

The problem is that if that was right, then as Darwin thought, that at first there would have been appearing these first little, very simple forms of life, and then eventually they become more complex, and then they branch out, and everything is united by a common ancestor, that you can trace all of these forms of life back to the original one. There's many problems with this one, but the principal one is that if you go to the fossil record, at the beginning of what we talk about life as we know it, at the beginning of the fossil record, you have 23 of the 33 main forms of life that appear at this very beginning strata. So it's not one little thing. You're talking about 23 of the 31 or the 33, rather, yeah, 33 body types. Now, when you talk about body types, don't confuse the size or the complexity. You're talking about the structural part of it. So as an analogy, you can use the different means of transportation that men have created. And so you have cars as one of the means. It started out with carts and then put a motor on it and moved it around. That's one structure. I don't care if you have a Ferrari. It's still the same structure. It's got four wheels. You carry things in it. It's got axles and all of this. So that is one structural type. The second structural type would be a boat. Now, a car is designed to go on land. A boat is designed to go on the water. So you have a whole different design. And, of course, you can say, oh, there's so much complexity. Yet you can have one of these ocean liners. And then you can have a rowboat that still has the same structure. What is it? It floats. What is it about a car? The wheels push it across the land. Have you ever tried to use a car and go into the water? Not going to be very good as a boat. It sinks. And then another form of transportation is an airplane. And then you can have a tiny little airplane. You can have a model airplane. And then you can have a 747. But you see, they all have the same structural type. And what you find in what they call the Cambrian level, which is the first level of what we call modern life, you have 23 of these structures that appear, body types. And that's not what Darwin and the evolutionists predicted. They said, oh, this would eventually, from one, you would eventually branch. And then you'd finally get to other body types. But they're all kind of related. No, no, these are all, they pop up at the same time. 23 of the 33 main body types. And those others either came a little bit before or a little after. And they're insignificant in comparison to all these main body types. As a matter of fact, our body type appears in that first level, the Cambrian. We are called the chordates. You know, that because we have that motor cord, which is the spinal cord, that this is one of the things that distinguishes us, you know, from sponges or oysters or anything else. But everything that has that spinal cord, that's the structure. That's made to have a skeleton and everything else in it. So, Darwin got it wrong.

They cannot explain how in a very short geologic period of time, all of these main body types, which are independent of each other, appear in the fossil record.

So, going into the proof, you know, either you have a design through evolution or you have a design by God and the designer, an intelligent sort. These are the only two. And this one about evolution is being undermined more and more. So, I just mentioned the four fatal flaws that evolution has shown to have. First of all, what I mentioned, animals and plants begin with the main types appearing at the beginning and not at the end of the fossil record.

Now, again, you have plant forms which are more aquatic than they get to the land, but they got the structure. You see, they got the chlorobasts, chloroplasts, which are producing chlorophyll. That's one of the key things about plants. Secondly, there are no real transitional or intermediate fossils discovered. Darwin said there would be innumerable, just full, shock-full in the geologic record. You'd find all of these transitional species. You know, you'd see a dog slowly turning into, you know, a bear, and you would eventually be able to trace it as it evolves or mutates into something else.

You don't find, you know, a fourth of one species turning into another or half. Where are all of those missing links, if this was true? Also, number three, complex body organs need all the main parts intact for them to function. It's not a step-by-step process. All of these are put together, and once it's ready, it turns on and it works. It doesn't start halfway with, you know, peac-cogs going this way and that, and eventually evolving piece by piece.

No, you have to have all the same have all the main pieces together. Nobody assembles, you know, half an engine and just says, okay, here's the best model we have.

You know, it only has half of the pistons and we got half of the valves and we got everything half at that, but we hope this eventually, you know, will grow more pistons and valves, and then finally it's going to really be a good vehicle. See, half of an evolved eye doesn't mean that it works. If you just got half of the attachments and half of the pieces, it doesn't work. That's where evolution is saying, well, half is better than none. No, sir. You have to have everything connected for it to work properly. And then the fourth fatal flaw, evolution cannot explain the origin or how information can be created and programmed without an intelligent agent.

I mean, here you have a code that is transmitted and it's received by a receiver, a receptor. And so it's like somebody sending a telegraph to someone else. See, you have somebody has to set it up and then you transmit it and then somebody else has to take it and it has to be all understandable. So evolution doesn't have sender and receiver. As Job says in Job 12, 7 through 9 in the Good News Bible, it says, even birds and animals have much they could teach you.

Ask the creatures of earth and sea for their wisdom. All of them know that the Lord's hand made them. See, study all of these. You'll see it couldn't just come by chance and all of these accidental coincidences. In Psalm 139 verse 14, David says, I will praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are your works.

He didn't say evolution could make some a human body like that. And that my soul knows very well. He was sure about that. Now we go to the sixth scientific proof. And that is the remarkable miracle that is the earth. So much has to be just right for it to have life. Back in 1966, the scientist Carl Sagan had a TV program, Cosmos. How many saw that series? How many saw that? I did too. Oh yeah, it was a big thing. It was really more like science fiction.

He really brought it. But he believed that we would find life out there. And he said that for a planet to have life, it has to have two conditions. The right kind of a star and a planet at the right distance from the star. Now, a little over half a century later, as Eric Metaxas, a science writer, mentioned, he says more than 200 known parameters are necessary for a planet to support life. You know, it went from two to 200. In other words, from Carl Sagan's day, a hundred times more conditions are necessary. Now it's not as common as he thought.

Every single one of these conditions must be perfectly met, or the whole thing falls apart. That's Eric Metaxas. So you need the right galaxy to be on the right star, the right distance, the right orbit, the right tilt of the Earth, the right size of a moon to be able to have the right tides that sweep the ocean, pull it back and forth, keep it all oxygenated. Without the moon, this would be just one big swamp of the oceans. You need the right ingredients, you know, water in abundance, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, the right mixture of plants and animals, because plants give off oxygen, human beings give off carbon dioxide and all of these animals. And so carbon dioxide is plant food, whereas plants give us the oxygen we need. Now if you didn't have one of the two, you would run out. You have to have the right atmosphere, the right metals, the right soil. Like it tells us in Isaiah 45 verse 18. This is in the easy reading version.

The Lord is God. He made the skies and the earth. He put the earth in its place. He did not want the earth to be empty when he made it. He created it to be lived on. I am the Lord. There is no other God. God made the earth habitable. But it took a lot of work to produce it. We shouldn't take it for granted. It's one of the great proofs because of all the scientific evidence that has come out. And the last proof, which is going to be surprising. You might not have it as a proof, but it certainly gets my attention.

The mathematical basis for the universe. The mathematical basis for the universe.

The universe follows orderly laws that can be described in mathematical terms. The famous astronomer of the 20th century, Sir James Jeans, said, The universe looks more and more like a great thought of a mathematician rather than a machine. He said, like a great thought rather than a great machine. But he was thinking, but he was thinking. And the context was mathematician, like a great mathematician. First of all, did the master copy the blueprint?

The problem, again, with evolution is it can't do math. It is based on chance or random movements, but math requires an intelligent agent who can prepare a mathematical blueprint before getting things going. This is why when you study the present universe, you can trace back the laws to mathematical rules. Why? Because it was conceived with those mathematical rules. This is called reverse engineering. You can take a car, you can take it apart, you can study how it all comes together. You can do the same thing with the universe. You can see how it's all based on mathematical calculations. Albert Einstein remarked, the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. He just marveled. How can something this great and complex, and you can understand how it works? He meant that this could be understood by mathematical equations.

Then, in the 1920s, scientists discovered the laws that govern the subatomic world. The tiny microcosm that has very different rules than our macro world. These laws that govern the subatomic world makes possible for free will to function. Antoine Soares, a Swiss quantum physicist, suggested that quantum physics follows from free will. In other words, quantum physics is a logical conclusion if you have free will. Of course, I don't have time to get into all the details, but what we have learned is the universe is not just determined by matter and energy. Experiments show that an observer can alter the nature of particles. It can become a wave or a particle depending on if you observe it or not. It changes because there's an observer or not. This is why when Einstein came across this, he said, this is spooky action. This is something very strange. He couldn't figure it out. We can determine what is the reality of our lives by the choices we make.

The whole subatomic world is there waiting to see what turns into reality. It's like having multiple doors that you have to choose which one to go through. Once you choose, all the other ones close, they're no longer the potential reality. You choose eventually where you end up in this life. Nobody does that for you. In Colossians chapter 1 and verse 17 in the New Living Bible, it says about Christ, He existed before anything else, and He holds all creation together. So there is an intersection between the spiritual and the physical realm.

It's not just all physics. There is a spiritual underpinning, and this quantum world has to do with things that we, through our free will, determine what becomes the reality.

In Deuteronomy chapter 30 verse 15 through 20, this is what God tells every human being. The easy reading version says, today I have given you a choice between life and death. Success and disaster. I command you today to love the Lord your God. I command you to follow Him and to obey His commands, laws, and rules. Then you will live. Goes on to say, today I am giving you a choice of two ways, and I ask heaven and earth to be witnesses of your choice. You can choose life or death. The first choice will bring a blessing. The other choice will bring a curse. This is why you eventually reap what you sow. It might take a long time, but you set in motion things that are going to later influence your life. That's why God says, if you choose the right way, choose following me, then all of these other consequences God will bring to good, to fruition. He goes on to say, so choose life. Then you and your children will live. You must love the Lord your God and obey Him. Never leave Him because He is your life, and He will give you a long life in the land that He, the Lord, promised to give to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. So, briefly, we have seen seven scientific proofs from our physical universe. All point to the existence of God. It would be foolish not to ignore, or rather, it would be foolish to ignore all of this mounting evidence. If you want to go into more details, I recommend a book by Douglas L. E. L. L. It's called Counting to God, which has many of these details. I wanted to share with you this cutting-edge science, especially for those youths that are here. There's so much more evidence today than there ever was. There is no excuse not to believe that a creator exists. As Hebrews 11.6 says, I'll read it in the Passion Translation, it says, and without faith, living within us, it would be impossible to please God. We need to have faith. For we come to God in faith, knowing that He is real and that He rewards the faith of those who give all their passion and strength into seeking Him. Boy, He blesses a person that really follows Him with all his heart. So I hope we can all say, as Paul told Timothy in 2 Timothy 1, verse 12, For I know in whom I have believed.