THE BEGINNING OF SCIENCE
DID THE BIBLE PREDICT SCIENCE? • Sermon • Submitted
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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. 4
Lexham Theological Wordbook בָּרָא
בָּרָא (bārāʾ). vb. to create. Used only of God creating, never of humans making things.
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
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.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. 5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
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
24 “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
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.
WMAP SCIENCE TEAM/NASA
So what’s eternal inflation?
Here’s where the concept of inflation runs into problems of its own. Physicists deeply dislike the idea that inflation would stop suddenly, for no particular reason. They’d much rather have a mechanism that explains what drove inflation and then caused it to stop. That’s why they assume some sort of quantum field drove it, before petering out. The idea is that the field starts out in an only approximately stable, higher-energy “false vacuum” state in which space stretches exponentially. It then relaxes to its true lowest energy state, in which space expands much more slowly.
The scenario works a little too well, however. The exponentially expanding false vacuum produces more and more of itself, so there’s ever more space expanding at an incredibly fast rate. Our universe is a patch that has undergone the transition to the low-energy true vacuum state. But such transitions should happen randomly, so there should be lot of other universes, too. In fact, the process should produce an ever-increasing amount of space that’s growing at an exponential rate, peppered with an infinite number “pocket universes” growing more slowly.
Is that a problem?
It depends on whom you ask. At the most basic level, the existence of all these other universes wouldn’t affect our universe. They’re just too far away to have any connection with ours. On the other hand, the notion of eternal inflation and a multiverse may thwart cosmologists’ entire enterprise of explaining why the universe is the way it is, Hertog says. Things like the values of certain key physical constants could vary randomly among the pocket universes, he says, which would render moot any effort to explain why they have the values they do in our universe. They would be set by random chance, Hertog says, and that’s not very satisfying.
The earliest innovators in modern science looked to God as the reason they expected to discover the secrets of the universe.
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