God's Existence Proved in 5 Minutes

[Humble_Disciple]

In this video, Torah scholar and physicist Dr. Gerald Schroeder demonstrates the existence of God:

Please note that Dr. Schroeder does this entirely by appealing to the laws of physics.

 

[The Barbarian]

"There's nothing I hate worse than a bad argument for something I believe to be true."

Forgot who said it, but it's a good one.

 

[fred tacky]

Albert Einstein said: "Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced a Spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe; a Spirit vastly superior to man."

Note: Einstein started his career as an atheist (as is visible in his earlier writings) but ended his career as a theist after seeing intelligent design in nature.

Isaac Newton: "This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from thee counsel and dominion of an Intelligent and Powerful Being."

Louis Pasteur: "The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator."

Theoretical Physicist Michio Kaku: “I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an Intelligence...To me it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a Universal Intelligence and not by chance.”

 

[fred tacky]

DNA proves God's existence ("We are His masterpiece." Apostle Paul)

1) Our DNA contains a massive set of instructions to build our body - putting each molecule in its proper location to build each cell and putting each cell in its proper location to build the body. Do instructions write themselves? Never.
("The information content of a single cell has been established as around 1012 bits, comparable to about a hundred million pages of the Encyclopedia Britannica." - Carl Sagan)

2) While manmade software is written as an electronic binary digital code, our DNA is written as a molecular quaternary digital code. Do digital codes write themselves? Never.
("DNA is like a computer program, but far far more advanced than any software we've ever created" - Bill Gates)

3) Each cell contains hi-tech miniature organs (organelles - nucleus, golgi bodies, mitochondria, chloroplasts, etc.) - none of which are found elsewhere except INSIDE a LIVING cell - hence no natural explanation for their existence.

4) Who can write a massive, very complex set of instructions and then place them into every cell of our body? This hyper-intellect is who we will face on Judgment Day, and He will expose all of our secret sins: "....the day is coming when God, through Christ Jesus, will judge everyone’s secrets..."

 

[fred tacky]

The reason why scientists and others claim natural laws were enough to create the universe without God is because they do not want God:

This is why atheists become atheists, by Atheist Thomas Nagel:

"I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn’t just that I don’t believe in God and, naturally, hope that I’m right in my belief. It’s that I hope there is no God! I don’t want there to be a God; I don’t want the universe to be like that."

Well, there you go. Amen to an honest assessment of one's own inner motives.

 

[The Barbarian]

DNA proves God's existence ("We are His masterpiece." Apostle Paul)

You're selling God short. He didn't spend any time or thought "designing" DNA. He merely spoke into existence a universe in which such wonders good develop according to the nature He created.

Way more awesome than the little "space alien" designer of the IDers.

 

[coffee4u]

The reason why scientists and others claim natural laws were enough to create the universe without God is because they do not want God:

This is why atheists become atheists, by Atheist Thomas Nagel:

"I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn’t just that I don’t believe in God and, naturally, hope that I’m right in my belief. It’s that I hope there is no God! I don’t want there to be a God; I don’t want the universe to be like that."

Well, there you go. Amen to an honest assessment of one's own inner motives.

Different atheists hold to different positions just like Christians do. Some believe their is no God and that is just how things are. Others i have heard say nobody can know (what I thought was an agnostic but they say they are an atheist)
For many it seems like naturalism is their defacto God since the way they talk is like nature itself holds the power.

That particular atheist sounds more like he isn't so sure and we all know why, because if God is real he or she will then be held accountable to Him. He would then have to discover what it is God wants from him and he doesn't want that.

 

[sfs]

Albert Einstein said: "Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced a Spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe; a Spirit vastly superior to man."

Note: Einstein started his career as an atheist (as is visible in his earlier writings) but ended his career as a theist after seeing intelligent design in nature.

What Einstein actually believed:
"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. .... For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions."

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."

Note that both statements came in 1954, the year before his death. Einstein was not a theist.

 

[The Barbarian]

Note that both statements came in 1954, the year before his death. Einstein was not a theist.

He once remarked that his beliefs came closest to the ideas of Spinoza.

 

[SilverBear]

DNA proves God's existence ("We are His masterpiece." Apostle Paul)

1) Our DNA contains a massive set of instructions to build our body - putting each molecule in its proper location to build each cell and putting each cell in its proper location to build the body. Do instructions write themselves? Never.
("The information content of a single cell has been established as around 1012 bits, comparable to about a hundred million pages of the Encyclopedia Britannica." - Carl Sagan)

2) While manmade software is written as an electronic binary digital code, our DNA is written as a molecular quaternary digital code. Do digital codes write themselves? Never.
("DNA is like a computer program, but far far more advanced than any software we've ever created" - Bill Gates)

3) Each cell contains hi-tech miniature organs (organelles - nucleus, golgi bodies, mitochondria, chloroplasts, etc.) - none of which are found elsewhere except INSIDE a LIVING cell - hence no natural explanation for their existence.

4) Who can write a massive, very complex set of instructions and then place them into every cell of our body? This hyper-intellect is who we will face on Judgment Day, and He will expose all of our secret sins: "....the day is coming when God, through Christ Jesus, will judge everyone’s secrets..."

then one would think God would have done a better job at designing our DNA. UP to 90% of human DNA does nothing. Junk DNA that is useless, garbled nucleotide sequences that aren't functional in terms of encoding proteins that spur all the important chemical reactions going off inside our bodies.

 

[The Barbarian]

then one would think God would have done a better job at designing our DNA. UP to 90% of human DNA does nothing. Junk DNA that is useless, garbled nucleotide sequences that aren't functional in terms of encoding proteins that spur all the important chemical reactions going off inside our bodies.

Some non-coding DNA does have some functions, while others like the busted vitamin C gene do nothing at all. However, it has recently been learned that this "junk DNA" can sometimes mutate and form useful new genes. It used to be thought that almost all new genes were by duplication and mutation. Turns out, non-coding DNA is sometimes the source of those genes.

 

[sfs]

1) Our DNA contains a massive set of instructions to build our body - putting each molecule in its proper location to build each cell and putting each cell in its proper location to build the body.

That's not an accurate description of what DNA does. DNA tells cells what proteins to produce and when to produce them, based on conditions in and around the cell. Those proteins, expressed in the right time and place, assemble into self-organizing systems that go on to build the body. The DNA does not at all give instructions about where each cell should go. Which is a good thing, because that kind of system would be extremely brittle, whereas the actual system can handle a wide variety of conditions and still produce a viable organism. The same flexibility, incidentally, allows the organism to evolve from generation to generation.

Do instructions write themselves? Never.

Sure they do. We can see new DNA instructions evolving in real time, e.g. new transcription factor binding sites, which are the simplest form of DNA instruction, can pop up readily as DNA mutates. You can also look at computer programs that write their own instructions via the same process of mutation and selection.

While manmade software is written as an electronic binary digital code, our DNA is written as a molecular quaternary digital code. Do digital codes write themselves?

DNA isn't really a code -- it lacks the kind of abstraction that human codes embody. It's a molecule that does things, and yes, it evolves.

Each cell contains hi-tech miniature organs (organelles - nucleus, golgi bodies, mitochondria, chloroplasts, etc.) - none of which are found elsewhere except INSIDE a LIVING cell - hence no natural explanation for their existence.

I don't understand this argument. Where else would you expect to find the components of cells apart from within cells? In any case, two of the components you listed -- chloroplasts and mitochondria -- are clearly related to free-living organisms. The ancestors of the organelles started out as symbiotic organisms living within cells and only later became incorporated as parts of the cell. We can tell that because these two organelles have their own DNA and we can compare it to living single-celled organisms. The ancestor of the chloroplast was a cyanobacterium, while the mitochondrion was an alphaproteobacterium.

Who can write a massive, very complex set of instructions and then place them into every cell of our body? This hyper-intellect is who we will face on Judgment Day, and He will expose all of our secret sins: "....the day is coming when God, through Christ Jesus, will judge everyone’s secrets..."

Leaving the preaching aside... Do you think the same creator wrote the instructions in the SARS-CoV-2 genome? Or the Ebola genome?