THE EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD PART 2

1. THE EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD PART 2

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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.”

7. 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.

8. 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.' "

9. In 150 BC Hipparchus estimated that there was less than 3000 stars. Three centuries later Ptolemy counted 1,056. 10000000000000000000000000000 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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,

13. Cosmic egg

14. 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).

15. 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;

16. “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”

17. 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?

18. Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork.