• The leap of faith
  • Romans 1:19-20
  • Exhibit A: The universe
    • Cosmic microwave radiation background of the universe
    • The universe contains over 170 billion galaxies
    • Galaxies contain 10 million to 100 trillion stars
    • Estimated total of 70 sextillion (7*1022) stars
    • The law of cause and effect
      • For every event there must be a cause sufficient to account for it.
    • God, the universe creator
      • Only a being of infinite power could bring such a universe into existence. Genesis 1:1; Psalms 19:1; Isaiah 40:25-26
      • Only a force which is itself eternal could be a sufficient first cause.
        • Something must start everything. Revelation 1:8; 22:13
      • Only a force of nature could bring it about.
  • Exhibit B: The laws of physics
    • The 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics
      • Nothing new is being made.
      • Everything is moving toward a disordered state.
    • No natural cause can account for the existence of the universe.
    • All energy progresses to a more disorderly state, thus the universe cannot always have existed.
    • Psalms 102:25-27
  • Exhibit C: The fine tuning of the forces of nature
    • Genesis 1:1-3
    • Isaiah 45:19 – God created the universe to be orderly.
    • Physical values finely tuned to incredible precision
      • Electron to proton ratio
      • Electromagnetism to gravity ratio
      • Must be correct to 1 in 1*1018