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Turtles all the way down illustration.

Stephen Hawking

Well what is it?

We are promoting VBS this year today as well as camps.

The camp theme will be science.

One of the goals of Christians should

The Bible: The Universe had a beginning.

Science until fairly recently: Matter or the Universe always existed.

Carl Sagan when he pontificated believed the universe oscillated, expanding and contracting like a yo-yo when he made this statement.

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.

Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation as if a distant memory, of falling from a height.

We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

Cosmos (1980)p.

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בָּרָא (bārāʾ).

vb. to create.

Used only of God creating, never of humans making things.

I.

The Universe is a Continuum.

The Bible taught the undergirding principles of physics in just 10 words.

In the beginning (Time), God created (bara) the Heavens (space) and the earth (matter).

Now how many people could read tons of scientific literature and not be sure where we came from, what the universe is or how we came to be?

How many of you would believe that you would not get a clear or concise picture of the universe if you read just 5 or 10 of these scientists?

Yes you are right!

But God said it all in 10 words, they take 200-500 pages to state that they are not totally sure what is out there.

You can be educated beyond your intelligence.

If you only had matter and no space, WHERE would you put it?

If you had matter and space but no time, when would you put it?

Einstein said, “The reason time exists is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”

There is no mechanical reason time moves in one direction.

Just think about that for a moment or two.

It is not just the physical laws of the universe that had to be tuned exactly, but also some metaphysical things as well such as moving time in one direction rather than cyclical or randomly.

a. Common Evolutionary Theory postulates that we go from simple states to more complex states that build upon each other.

b.

All THREE aspects of the continuum must be there simultaneously and instantly for the universe to EXIST.

There is no room for turtles upon turtles there!

This is where that age old question that we think is just a child’s musing comes into deep water.

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Well what came first Time, Space or Matter?

If all we are is simply just some mathematical accident and and a random grouping of atoms and molecules, than how could we even trust our own reason?

It would simply

The modern atheists want to claim that they have removed God.

But that would be akin to saying, I own a Tesla, who needs Ian Musk, Henry Ford, Ben Franklin, Nikolia Tesla or Thomas Edison.

They never existed because I can show you my Electric Car!

II.

Why do Scientists who embrace Christianity accept the core principle of the Big Bang Theory?

Why do atheistic materialist scientists as well as progressives struggle against the discovery that the Universe had a beginning?

a.

The Big Bang Leads to this logical and spiritual conclusion from physics:

Things do not come into existence uncaused.

The universe came into existence

Therefore the universe must have a cause

Whatever this cause, it had to exist outside of space and time i.e. spaceless, immaterial, eternal.

5.It had to be all powerful and all knowing

It had to be all powerful and all knowing.

Abstractions (like numbers or forms) do not create things.

Only a personal and intelligent being that is not bound by time, space or material can exist eternally and cause things.

Someone might argue that spiritual or metaphysical things cannot influence material things.

Well then you would need to explain to me emotions like love, patience, empathy and anger.

You would need to explain away the good, the beautiful and the true that drive artists to paint landscapes, designers who make stylish clothes, musicians who compose and sequence sounds and instruments together.

If we are simply meatballs rolling around a curved planet how would we trust our reason, science, and morals if we were just a series of randomly placed atoms and molecules that happen to believe we exist and think?

b.

Theology and the Sciences used to be united in UNIVERSITIES.

The sciences were devoted to a practical explanation of things.

The Humanities and Theology were devoted to the Personal explanation of life.

Before you know it you have your self something resembling a God.

Now the only two outs the atheist has to that argument is either positing a eternal universe or holding to the idea that things can come into existence uncaused.

Now if the first has been dis-proven by science and the idea of things coming into existence uncaused akin to believing in magic.

Where did God come from?

First

Where did God come from?

God is eternal spirit

He is not bound by Time, Space and Matter.

Before 1927 scientists believed the Universe always existed.

Similar to many pagan beliefs and

In 1927, the Belgian Catholic priest Georges Lemaître proposed an expanding model for the universe to explain the observed redshifts of spiral nebulae, and calculated the Hubble law.

He based his theory on the work of Einstein and De Sitter, and independently derived Friedmann's equations for an expanding universe.

Isn’t the size of the universe a problem?

Well, how do scientists account for the age of the universe?

Light speed and the distance of the universe.

They believe that all the laws that govern our universe were not in place until a few moments after the Big Bang.

(bārāʾ).

vb. to create.

Used only of God creating, never of humans making things.

Now Stephen Hawking one of those who gets used as a battering ram against believing in intelligent design and the Bible wrote a paper

Cosmic inflation is a monumental growth spurt that supposedly stretched the infant universe during the first tiniest fraction of a second.

Dreamed up in 1979 by American theorist Alan Guth, inflation holds that just after the big bang, space stretched exponentially, doubling the size of the universe again and again at least 60 times over before slowing dramatically.

Why would cosmologists believe in something so bizarre?

Inflation solves a major puzzle: Why is the universe so uniform?

For example, space is filled radiation lingering from the big bang, the cosmic microwave background (CMB).

It has almost exactly the same temperature everywhere in the sky.

That’s odd, as widely separated points seem at first glance to be too far apart for any influence to reach from one to the other over the 13.8 billion years the universe has been around.

Inflation solves that puzzle by implying that all the points in the sky started out close enough to interact, and then were stretched far apart.

Is that all inflation does?

Ironically, inflation also does a great job of explaining why the universe isn’t completely uniform.

Obviously, space is studded with galaxies.

According to the theory, inflation stretched infinitesimal quantum fluctuations in those first moments to extragalactic size.

The fluctuations then produced variations in the dense soup of fundamental particles that seeded the formation of the galaxies.

Inflation predicts a particular spectrum of longer and shorter fluctuations.

Strikingly, studies of the CMB and the galaxies confirm that distribution.

📷Cosmic inflation posits that the infant universe underwent a mind-boggling growth spurt, instantly stretching subatomic ripples to the cosmic scale.