I entered my Ethics class at the University of Akron. Day one we had to get something out of the way. We needed to get God out of this discussion. After all, what does God know about Morals? Here was their excuse to get God out of the Ethics discussions:
1. There are so many denominations. If people can’t agree on God then he doesn’t exist.
2. There are universal truths (like don’t murder). Did God invent these truths, or did he just relay them?
3. There are no hard facts that God exists. You can run an experiment in a lab and prove God.
No we don’t want to put our faith into something we can’t see. Yes God is all around. To start this podcast we first have to start where everything starts: God.
If I walked through the forest and found a watch, would I go, “Wow this dirt has turned into a watch! – Amazing!” No, I’d go, “Someone lost their watch.” It’s obvious that somenoe created this watch. It didn’t evolve over billions of years from a frog. It’s to integrated. It’s too intelligent. Even after billions of years, a watch did not evolve from a frog.
OK, I know this is dumb. There are birds who have had their beaks evolve over time. However, they are still BIRDS.
If we evolved from a big bang, and energy and matter just landed here and we arose from a bunch of goo, I say the complexity is to great. Christians look at God’s designs and praise the creator. They put their faith in someone they can’t see, but they can see a reflection of his mighty hand in his creations. A non believer puts their faith in time. How did this happen? Their answer is time. Over time everything “just happened.”
For today, let’s just look at a few things. Let’s cover how the planet got here. Let’s go back to the beginning.
Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Science wants to prove that you can create life by chance. One widely used example of how life could have formed by natural processes is the Miller-Urey experiment, performed in the early 1950s.
Miller’s objective was not to create life but to simulate how life’s basic building structures (amino acids) might have formed in the early earth. In the experiment, Miller attempted to simulate the early atmosphere of earth by using certain gases, which he thought might produce organic compounds necessary for life. Since the gases he included (water, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen) do not react with each other under natural conditions, he generated electrical currents to simulate some form of energy input (such as lightning) that was needed to drive the chemical reactions. The result was production of amino acids. Many textbooks promote this experiment as the first step in explaining how life could have originated. But there is more to this experiment than what is commonly represented in textbooks.
In the experiment, Miller was attempting to illustrate how life’s building blocks (amino acids) could have formed by natural processes. However, throughout the experiment Miller relied on years of intelligent research in chemistry. He purposely chose which gases to include and which to exclude. Next, he had to isolate the biochemicals (amino acids) from the environment he had created them in because it would have destroyed them. No such system would have existed on the so-called primitive earth. It appears Miller used intelligent design throughout the experiment rather than chance processes.
The Earth…its size is perfect. The Earth’s size and corresponding gravity holds a thin layer of mostly nitrogen and oxygen gases, only extending about 50 miles above the Earth’s surface. If Earth were smaller, an atmosphere would be impossible, like the planet Mercury. If Earth were larger,...
