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THE EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
PART 2
The Earth has a protective blanket known as the
atmosphere. It is composed of 78% nitrogen,
21% oxygen, and .03% of carbon dioxide. The
rest is made up of water vapors and other gases.
•Our atmosphere scatters light
waves to cause them to be
more evenly distributed.
•It captures solar heat so that
it does not escape too rapidly,
which helps regulate our
temperatures.
•As mentioned in our last lesson, the ozone layer
helps protect us from harmful UV rays from the sun.
•It also causes falling objects like meteors to burn up
before they hit the earth. Without the friction caused
by our atmosphere, we would get hit with these
meteors every day.
•The upper part of our atmosphere contains ions
which makes it possible for us to have radio
communication.
Our atmosphere has 5
layers. The
stratosphere layer is a
30 mile stretch where
there is no weather so
our jets will fly in this
layer to avoid any of
the weather made
below it.
In the early 1800’s two scientist, John Adams in
Great Britain, and Jean Leverrier in France,
working independently, had noticed strange
behavior in the orbital movements of the planet
Uranus. They surmised that perhaps the
gravitational pull of some unknown planet was
affecting Uranus.
Working strictly on paper using mathematical
calculations, each man, unaware of the other’s
work, predicted where the invisible planet should
be. In 1846, Johann Galle of the Berlin
Observatory made a search for the hidden body.
He discovered it less than one degree from the
predicted location.
One unbelieving scientist, Dr. Edward Friedkin, a
physicist, has confessed:
“It is hard for me to believe that everything out
there is just an accident … it seems likely to me
that this particular universe we have is a
consequence of something which I would call
intelligent.”
Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything
beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in
their hearts, except that no one can find out the
work that God does from beginning to end.
The Innumerability of the Stars (Jer. 33:22; Gen.
22:17).
Jeremiah 33:22 'As the host of heaven cannot be
numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so
will I multiply the descendants of David My
servant and the Levites who minister to Me.' "
In 150 BC Hipparchus estimated that there was
less than 3000 stars. Three centuries later
Ptolemy counted 1,056.
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Psalm 147:4 He counts the number of the stars;
He calls them all by name. 5 Great is our Lord,
and mighty in power; His understanding is
infinite.
1 Corinthians 15:41 There is one glory of the sun,
another glory of the moon, and another glory of
the stars; for one star differs from another star in
glory.
Genesis 1:14 Then God said,
"Let there be lights in the
firmament of the heavens to
divide the day from the night;
and let them be for signs and
seasons, and for days and
years; 15 "and let them be for
lights in the firmament of the
heavens to give light on the
earth"; and it was so. 16 Then
God made two great lights:
the greater light to rule the
day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the
stars also. 17 God set them in the firmament of the
heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and to rule over the
day and over the night, and to divide the light from the
darkness. And God saw that it was good.
Psalm 89:35 Once for all
I have sworn by my
holiness; I will not lie to
David. 36 His offspring
shall endure forever, his
throne as long as the
sun before me. 37 Like
the moon it shall be
established forever, a
faithful witness in the
skies.
Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world
His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even His
eternal power and Godhead, so that they are
without excuse,
Cosmic egg
If the universe started with an explosion, one
would expect that all matter-energy should have
been propelled radially from the explosion
center—consistent with the principle of angular
momentum. It would not be expected that the
universe would be characterized by the curving
and orbiting motions that are commonly
observed, e.g., the revolution of our earth around
the sun (cf. Morris 1984, 150).
Isaiah 40:22 It is he who sits above the circle of
the earth, and its inhabitants are like
grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like
a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell
in;
“The ancient Greeks and Romans were the most advanced
peoples in their time, yet they believed that the earth was
held in place by poles or by the neck of Atlas. Others
believed that Atlas had the earth on his shoulders. Some
said that the earth floated on water and should one go too
far out on the sea he would surely perish”
Job 9:8 who alone
stretched out the
heavens and
trampled the
waves of the sea;
9 who made the
Bear and Orion,
the Pleiades and
the chambers of
the south;
Job 38:31 "Can you bind the chains of the
Pleiades or loose the cords of Orion?
Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God;
And the firmament shows His handiwork.