How wonderful, vast, and stunning are the heavens and the earth? How is the universe governed? What laws does it obey, and where do those laws come from? Explore what the bible says about these marvels.
Contents: Natural Laws, Building Blocks, A Habitable Planet, DNA, Plants, Sun, Solar System, Stars, Backyard Variety.
Rating 5+ 20 min.
Evidence:
Natural Laws – Where did they come from? Laws of Logic, Laws of Mathematics, Laws of Physics, Laws of Chemistry, Laws of Biology. All these Laws work together. Why should there be laws at all?
Building Blocks – Everything in the universe is made up of about 90 kinds of atoms, which can combine into millions of substances. Carbon is the most common element. Change it just a little and we would not have life.
Water’s unusual properties makes it unique. Water expands as it freezes unlike other chemicals. Freezing creates ice which floats, thus protecting life by insulating in the water from the cold so that water can support life even in freezing temperatures. Change water just a little and life would be impossible.
Habitable Planet – Earth is ideally placed in the galaxie to limit radiation which otherwise could end life.
Earth is the right distance from the sun, not too hot or not too cold for life.
The earth’s tilt is ideal to regulate heat.
Earth’s mass is big enough to hold on to needed gasses supporting life, but not too big to hold on to poisonous gasses that would destroy life.
The amount of water is unique to earth.
The moon creates tides which prevents oceans from stagnating. It has an electromagnetic field that protects the earth from harmful radiation.
The Language of DNA – is recognizable as from a source of intelligence. It is far too complex to have just happened by chance.
Plants – Plants convert the sun’s energy into energy usable by life. This process is extremely complex.
Plants produce oxygen needed to sustain life, slow erosion, hold moisture, provide food, and more.
The Sun – Spins too slowly (once every 24 days) to have formed from evolution. It is well balance with earth to sustain life.
Solar System – Each sphere is unique in size, color, composition, and matches the biblical descriptions long before the invention of modern telescopes.
Comets are formations of ice crystals and each time they pass by another celestial body they give off moisture. The comets we observe are relatively new.
The Stars – Our Milky Way galaxy is estimated to contain over 100 billion stars, but it is like a grain of sand compared to the estimated 100 billion galaxies in the known universe. In the days when one could only see about 3000 thousand stars in the sky at night, the Bible records that there are as many stars in the skies as there are grains of sand on the shores.
Scientists don’t really know how many stars there are, but there are estimates that the number of stars is around 10 21st power; whereas mathematical estimates of grains of sand on the earth’s seashores are estimated to be 10 25th power. Perhaps some day the two numbers will meet.
Backyard Variety – The variety in living things in our own backyards defies evolution. At present rates of change, there simply is not enough time even with millions of years to account for these variations.
The variety in bacteria have been found in even the earliest fossils, suggesting that life did not start by changes to simple celled organisms. In fact, the evidence of God creating both male and female after their own kind as described in the Bible is exactly what we observe today.
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