God Really Exists. Really! Series

And there is a theological reason they do so.

ILLUS: Back in 1987, the National Academy of Sciences rejected "Creation science” as science in a Louisiana "Creation" case arguing: "it fails to display the most basic characteristic of science: …reliance upon naturalistic explanations."

In other words, they rejected Creation as scientific because God would be involved.

In their mind, Creation could not have a Creator because that would require something beyond a natural explanation for why the world existed. It would require a SUPER-natural explanation.

And so they rejected God on that theological basis.

But down thru the ages, scientists, who didn’t entirely embrace atheistism, recognized God’s hand in creation

• Stephen Hawking, one of today’s foremost theoretical physicist said: “The odds against a universe like ours emerging out of something like the big bang are enormous. . . I think clearly there are religious implications whenever you start to discuss the origins of the universe. There must be religious overtones.”

• Buckminster Fuller (a renowned inventor who is best known for creating geodesic domes and served as the inspiration for “bucky bulls”) declared: “When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

(In other words – if the solution WAS beautiful – it had to be right. If it “fit together” like it belonged then it obviously was designed to be that way).

• In his book on Albert Einstein, author Walter Isaacson told of a dinner party in Berlin where everybody assumed Einstein was an atheist and he said, “No, I have a deep feeling of faith, a deep religiosity that comes from my appreciation of the way the Lord made the universe”, and everybody was stunned.

He said he was like a child walking into a library, and you see the books and you know somebody must have written them, and you see them ordered and you know somebody must have ordered them, and there’s a sense of awe that’s manifest in that, where you kind of understand that there’s an order underlying everything and the more you appreciate it, the more humble you become in the fact of it…

Isaacson continued: “In some ways, (Einstein’s) belief in God, that God had created an orderly universe, informed his science. He believed that underlying everything, there are laws.”

Just the uniqueness of our world declares… shouts out… that we have a benevolent creator

A preacher named Joseph Rogers put together the following list (sermoncentral.com, a sermon on Psalm 19):

• If the earth were 1 degree closer to the sun, we’d fry!

o If we were 1 degree further, we’d freeze!

• If the moon was any closer or larger, the tides would destroy the coast lines.

o If any smaller/further away -oceans would die from a lack of nutrient movement

• If our distance from Jupiter were any greater, asteroids and comets would pepper the earth.

o If we were any closer our orbit would become unstable.

• If earth’s surface gravity was any stronger, it would retain too much ammonia and methane and we couldn’t breath.