The Case Of Faith Part1

Whoa whoa whoa, looks like there's a debate going on in our cbox. Well, I'll share with you what I know about the truth about God.

- only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist -

God is a hidden God. You have to make an effort of faith to find him.God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can find him.

"He is not far from anyone of us." - Acts17:27

What do you want?
The bible says that if you seek God with all your heart, then you will surely find him. Surely find him. It's the person who wants to know God that God reveals Himself to.
And if a person doesn't want to know God - Well, God has created the world and the human mind in such a way that he doesn't have to.

"Almost everyone now believes that the universe, and time itself, had a begining at the Big Bang." - Stephen Hawking
Now, this poses a major problem for skeptics. As Anthony Kenny of Oxford Univesity says, "A proponent of the Big Bang theory, at lease if he is an atheist, must believe that the...universe came from nothing and by nothing."
Eminent scientist Sir Arthur Eddington wrote:

"The begining seems to present insuperable difficulties unless we agree to look at it as frankly supernatural."

Did this come into existence spontaneously and without any help from any creator?

Stephen Hawking calculated that the rate of the universe's expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, the universe would have collapsed into a fireball.

British physicist P.C.W Davies has concluded the odds against the initial conditions being suitable for the formation of stars - a necessary for planets and thus life - is a one followed by at least a thousand billion billion zeroes.

Nobel Prize-winner Sir Francis Crick said,

"The origin of life appears to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to be satisfied to get it going"

Even so, scientists have tried to come up with creative theories to try to explain how
biopolymers(such as proteins) became assembled with only the right building blocks
(amino acids) and only the correct isomers (left-handed amino acids) joined with
only the correct sequence.

With the discovery of background radiation in 1965, the Big Bang theory came to dominate in cosmology. The bad news for evolution was that this meant the earth was probably less than five billion years old.

"Actually, it's not as long as you think. And not only was the time too short,
but the mathematical odds of assembling a living organism are so astronomical
that nobody still believes that random chance accounts for the origin of life.
Even if you optimized the conditions, it wouldn't work. If you took all the
carbon in the universe and put it on the face of the earth,allowed it to chemically
react at the most rapid rate possible, and left it for a billion years, the odds of
creating just one functional protein molecule would be one chance in
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Fredrick Hoyle put it colourfully when he said that this scenario is about as likely as
a tornado whirling through a junkyard and accidentally assembling a fully functional Boeing 747.

"In other words, the odds for all practical purposes are zero. That's why even though
some people who aren't educated in this field still believe life emerged by chance, scientists simply don't believe it anymore."

To be continued...

Adapted from Lee Strobel's The Case For Faith