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This week we wrap up the first step of our journey by answering the question, what is the most likely cause for the existence of the universe.  Spoiler Alert!  As we start to see God’s fingerprint come more into view, I hope you will remember how much God loves you!

“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream.  He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”  Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers, 1978

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This week we look at the available evidence to determine if the universe can be past eternal.  Five factors will drive our analysis:

1. Is an actual infinite possible?
2. Einstein's General Theory of Relativity leading us back to the singularity
3. The discovery of the background radiation from the Big Bang
4. 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
5. Borde, Guth, Vilenkin Theorem

Will this lead us back to the conclusion that a Creator was responsible for the existence of our universe or that the universe could have existed forever?

Don't ever forget how much God loves you!

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This week we make a brief stop on our journey to look at the question of infinites.  What do we know about infinity and can actual infinites exist in the real world outside of mathematics?  BTW, God's love for you is the only actual infinite in the universe.

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This week we look to see if Stephen Hawking’s philosophical ideas rise to the same level as his scientific work.  Do the philosophical conclusions of a scientist speak on behalf of science?  Can Stephen Hawking come up with a way to rule God out of bounds and produce everything from nothing?  Um…no.  By the way, God loves you!  

“Naturalism, in contrast, is not agnostic.  Rather, it is the claim that there is nothing that explains the ultimate laws of nature…Theism’s rival is naturalism, not science, and theism offers and explanation where naturalism offers none.  If naturalism turns out to be more likely than theism, it will be because theism unwisely tried to explain the unexplainable, not because naturalism offered a better, or indeed any, explanation of the ultimate laws of nature.  And certainly not because of any scientific theory.”  Lewis and Barnes, A Fortunate Universe, 2016

“The role played by time at the beginning of the Universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a grand designer and revealing how the Universe created itself.”  Stephen Hawking’s Grand Design: Did God Create the Universe?, Discovery Channel, 2011

“They tell us that here too, time itself must come to a stop.   You can’t get to a time before the Big Bang because there was no before the Big Bang.  We have finally found something that doesn’t have a cause, because there was no time for a cause to exist in.  For me this means there is no possibility of a creator because there is no time for a creator to have existed.  Since time itself began at the moment of the Big Bang, it was an event that couldn’t have been caused or created by anyone or anything.  So science has given us the answer that we set out to discover.”  Stephen Hawking’s Grand Design: Did God Create the Universe?, Discovery Channel, 2011

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This week is a special message for all the dads out there as we celebrate Father’s Day and look at our Heavenly Father’s relationship with us.  God loves you!

Eph 1 - 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, 9 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, 10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him.   (The Holy Bible, New King James Version, 1982)

John 3 - 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.   (The Holy Bible, New King James Version, 1982)

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On this week’s episode we look at the question whether everything could have just popped into existence from nothing.  Is this really possible or is there some bending of the rules going on?  How far will we go to avoid God’s great love?

 “The intended subtext, of course, is that one will be scientific only to the extent that one is nonreligious.  To be “religious,” in the narrow sense intended here, is to believe that there is something unique, special, or intentional about our existence and the existence of the cosmos.  “Science” here has a special definition as well.  Rather than a search for the truth (scientia means knowledge) about nature – based on the evidence, systematic study, and the like – science becomes applied naturalism: the conviction that the material world is all there is, and that chance and impersonal natural law alone explain, indeed must explain, its existence.”  Gonzales and Richards, The Privileged Planet, 2004

“Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.  Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.”  Hawking, The Grand Design, 2010

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This week we look at the first option of how the universe came into existence by examining the Kalam Cosmological Argument and the evidence that we have on the table.  Is it possible that God's great love for us led Him to create everything we see around us?

Isaiah 42:5 NKJV
[5] Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it, Who gives breath to the people on it, And spirit to those who walk on it:

Colossians 1:16 NKJV
[16] For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.

Kalam Cosmological Argument:
1. Whatever begins to exist as a cause. 
2. The universe began to exist. 
3. Therefore the universe as a cause.

“A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.”  Pg 136, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, 2006

“And the higher the improbability, the more implausible intelligent design becomes.  Seen clearly, intelligent design will turn out to be a redoubling of the problem.  Once again, this is because the designer himself (/herself/itself) immediately raises the bigger problem of his own origin.  Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as a Dutchman’s Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman’s Pipe.”  Pg 146, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, 2006

John 3:16 NKJV
[16] For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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As we look back at the beginning of the universe we need to address the question, "What is the singularity?"  Wouldn't it be amazing if at the beginning of the universe we found a God who loved us so very much He created everything we see around us just for the chance to have a relationship with us?  This is where that journey begins!

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metaphysics

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On this week’s episode, we talk about how Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity helped to launch us back to a beginning point of the universe in 1915 when many thought the universe had existed for all eternity.  Even when we rewind the universe back to the beginning we find God’s great love for us.


“philosophically, the notion of a beginning to the present order of Nature is repugnant.”  Arthur Eddington, The End of the World: From the Standpoint of Mathematical Physics, Nature 127 (1931) pg 447  Edington is the one who proved Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity in 1919.


Recommended Reading:

Lewis, G. F., & Barnes, L. A. (2016). A Fortunate Universe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press


Meyer, Stephen (2021), Return of the God Hypothesis, New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers


Craig, W. L. (2008). Reasonable Faith. Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway

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This week we look at the question of the question of the age of the Universe and the Earth?  Does the Bible really say the Earth and the Universe are only 6,000 years old?  What is the important issue to really focus on here (other than how much God loves you)?

 John 10:9 NKJV

[9] I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

Revelation 12:3-6 NKJV

[3] And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. [4] His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born. [5] She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne. [6] Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

Job 38:6-7 [6] To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone, [7] When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Genesis 1: [1] In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  [2] The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. [3] Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. [4] And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. [5] God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.

 Genesis 1:2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.