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This week we look at how evolution is sold to us using a narrative that doesn't always match reality as we get ready to start the journey from lifelessness to life. 

“So far as I can understand, his chief occupation in life was knocking his wife about…I have never happened to come upon the evidence for the idea; and I do not know on what primitive diaries or prehistoric divorce reports it is founded.”  G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man, 1925 Page 21  

“He produces his little bone, or little collection of bones, and deduces the most marvelous things from it.  He found in Java a piece of a skull, seeming by its contour to be smaller than the human.  Somewhere near it he found an upright thighbone and in the same scattered fashion some teeth that were not human…If they all form part of one creature, which is doubtful, our conception of the creature would be almost equally doubtful.  But the effect on popular science was to produce a complete and even complex figure, finished down to the last details of hair and habits.  He was given a name as if he were an ordinary historical character.  People talked of Pithecanthropus as of Pitt or Fox or Napoleon.  Popular histories published portraits of him like the portraits of Charles the First or George the Fourth…A detailed drawing was reproduced, carefully shaded, to show that the very hairs of his head were all numbered.  No uninformed person looking at its carefully lined face and wistful eyes would imagine for a moment that this was the portrait of a thighbone, or of a few teeth and a fragment of a cranium.”  G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man, 1925 Page 36

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This week we take a look at what the term evolution really means.  What is the difference between micro and macro evolution.  Don’t forget that God loves you!

“Life is one of the strangest phenomena known.  In my opinion it shows that the universe is capable of almost anything.  Yet it amazes me that we know so much about how the universe began many billions of years ago, but we have yet to discover how life itself began.  The most likely explanation is probably that we are an accident.  Just by chance, some molecules bumped into each other at random, until finally one formed that could copy itself.  Then began the slow process of evolution that led to all the extraordinary diversity of life on earth.  Life seems to be simply what matter does given the right conditions and enough time.” (Hawking, Into the Universe with Sephen Hawking:The Story of Everything, 2011)  

“As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected.  From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.”  Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859, Page 6

“Owing to this struggle, variations, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if they be in any degree profitable to the individuals of a species, in their infinitely complex relations to other organic beings and to their physical conditions of life, will tend to the preservation of such individuals, and will generally be inherited by the offspring…I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to, man’s power of selection.”  Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859, Page 61

“It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity; but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets?” Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859, p. 77

“In living bodies, variation will cause the slight alterations, generation will multiply them almost infinitely, and natural selection will pick out with unerring skill each improvement.” (Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859, p. 176)

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Before we start the journey from lifelessness to us, it warrants asking the question: Does your worldview work with all that we've seen?  Rather than leaning on luck, perhaps the time has come to give God a chance to win your heart!

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This week we look at the true meaning of Christmas.  Here’s a hint…God’s great love for you!!

John 3:16 NKJV “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.” 

Ephesians 1:3-4,7,10 NKJV “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…[7] In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace… [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.”

“But supposing God became a man – suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God’s nature in one person – then that person could help us.  He could surrender His will, and suffer and die, because He was man; and He could do it perfectly because He was God.  You and I can go through this process only if God does it in us; but God can do it only if He becomes man.”  C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, 1952

 Matthew 20:28 NKJV, “just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

Luke 2:1-20 NKJV, “And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. [2] This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. [3] So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city. [4] Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, [5] to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. [6] So it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered. [7] And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. [8] Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. [9] And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. [10] Then the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. [11] For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord [12] And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger." [13] And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: [14] "Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!" [15] So it was, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds said to one another, "Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us." [16] And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in a manger. [17] Now when they had seen Him, they made widely known the saying which was told them concerning this Child. [18] And all those who heard it marveled at those things which were told them by the shepherds. [19] But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. [20] Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told them.”

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On today’s podcast we wrap up the journey of so many months going from the beginning point of the universe to our little blue planet.  The fingerprint of intelligence come into view clearly as we look at all 44 of these factors that have stacked one on top of another to help make our little planet so friendly to life.

The major parts of our journey and the deal breakers:

1.      The initial conditions of the early universe from the first to second generation of stars (3 items)

2.      Our very special Milky Way Galaxy (6 items)

3.      Our Solar System’s formation and configuration (Newton’s Delima - 7 items)

·        Solar System’s move from interior to exterior

·        All the steps needed to get the final orbit of the planets

4.      Our special Moon (7 items)

·        Lunar impact for both planets

·        The perfect exchange of materials

5.      Our Sun (5 items)

6.      Earth’s perfect zones (7 items)

7.      Earth’s special conditions (9 items)

“Though these bodies may, indeed, persevere in their orbits by the mere laws of gravity, yet they could by no means have at first derived the regular position of the orbits themselves from those laws…[Thus] this most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.”  Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687

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This week we finally reach Earth to see if there are any special things about Earth that make it well suited for life that seem to be more than just “lucky”.  Perhaps we are starting to see more clearly the fingerprint of God coming into view.

“The near-ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared spectra – the light most useful to life and sight – are a razor-thin sliver of the universe’s natural, electromagnetic emissions: about one part in 1025.  That is much smaller than one star out of all the stars in the entire visible universe: about 1022.  As it happens, our atmosphere strikes a nearly perfect balance, transmitting most of the radiation that is useful for life while blocking most of the lethal energy.”  The Privileged Planet, Gonzales & Richards, 2004

“Suppose a prolonged period of large volcanic eruptions rapidly increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.  Through the greenhouse effect, the upsurge in carbon dioxide would raise the global temperature.  The higher temperature and carbon dioxide level, would in turn, speed up chemical weathering, and thus the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.  Eventually, the carbon dioxide and temperature would return to their pre-eruption levels.” The Privileged Planet, Gonzales & Richards, 2004

“Many elements besides carbon also exist in highly atypical abundances on Earth.  These unusual quantities result from the solar system’s unique birth and the extraordinary transformations during its youth.  The 32 elements that are essential for the existence of advanced life and for sustaining advanced civilization are present on Earth in especially atypical abundances.”  Improbable Planet, Huge Ross, 2016

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Our search this week takes us to the many overlapping zones that come into play when we look at all of the competing Habitable Zones for life to exist on Earth.  It sure looks like the fingerprint of intelligent design taking hold showing us the care and attention of a loving Creator.

Here are the zones:
1.The Liquid Water Zone
2.The Tidal Locking Zone
3.Ultraviolet Zone
4.Photosynthesis Zone
5.Ozone Layer Zone
6.Rotation Rate Zone
7.Obliquity Zone


Special thanks to Dr. Hugh Ross’ book Improbable Planet (2016) who discusses so many of these issues  at length and does a far better job than I ever could.

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This week we take a look at yet another amazing cooincidence in how friendly to life our sun happens to be.  Is it possible that our life friendly sun could instead be the product of an intelligent designer?  God loves you!!

Recommended Reading:
Strobel, Lee (2004) The Case for a Creator. Zondervan
Lewis, G. F., & Barnes, L. A. (2016) A Fortunate Universe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Ross, Hugh (2016). Improbable Planet. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books
Meyer, Stephen (2021) The Return of the God Hypothesis. HarperOne
Gonzales, G., & Richards, J. W. (2004). The Privileged Planet. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing


“Lucky for us, the sun is 865,000 miles in diameter, just the right size to burn consistently for a very long time, 8 billion years, long enough to allow the next development to take place.  Life!” (Hawking, Into the Universe with Sephen Hawking:The Story of Everything, 2011)


“The amount of time a star spends in the main sequence hinges on its mass.  Stars with twice the Sun’s mass only spend about a billion years in it, while those with half its mass last about 100 million years.”  Gonzales and Richards, The Privileged Planet, 2004 pg 132  

“Life can’t use just any type of light from any type of star.  Our sun, as it turns out, is near the optimum for any plausible kind of chemical life.”  Gonzales and Richards, The Privileged Planet, 2004 pg 68  

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This week we celebrate Moms and the incredible sacrifices they make for their children and their families.  As we do so we are reminded of God's great love for us and the sacrifice he made for us all!

Thank you Moms!!

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As we continue to keep score of how our little blue planet came to be, we look at one of the most unlikely events to ever happen.  Did the crash of two planets create the life friendly planet we have today and the moon that helps us in so many ways?  A crash?  Really?  Or could it be the hand of a loving Creator?  Lets get to it!