Why should
there be such doubt—such confusion—about
the existence of God? For thousands of
years, people have debated whether God
exists. Most conclude that it cannot be
proven—one way or the other. It is
surmised that the correct answer lies in
the area of abstract philosophy and the
metaphysical.
Others become
agnostics, asserting that they
“don’t know” if God exists. Those who
do accept God’s existence often
do so passively, merely because they
were taught it from childhood. Some do
not even care. Such people probably
cannot be moved from their apathy.
Atheists have
concluded that God does not
exist. These people represent a special
category that God describes as, “The
fool has said in his heart, There
is no God” (Psalm
14:1). This scripture is repeated in
Psalm 53:1. What follows will
explain why God calls atheists
“fools.”
Over
thirty-seven years ago, I learned of
absolute proof that God exists. My
studies lasted 2 1/2 years. I came to
realize that I did not have to accept
His existence “on faith.” Since that
time, science has learned much more and
the “case” for God’s existence has
become far stronger than at any time in
history. This article presents numerous
absolute, immutable proofs that God
does exist. After reading it, you
will never again doubt the answer to
this greatest of questions! Some proofs
will amaze you. Others will inspire you.
Still others will surprise or even
excite you. All of them will fascinate
you with their simplicity. We will first
examine some traditional proofs and then
consider material that rests on the
cutting edge of scientific
understanding, before returning to
established proofs. You will learn from
biology, astronomy, chemistry and
mathematics.
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There is an
all-important question that is
inseparable from the question of God’s
existence. The question of whether life
on earth exists, because of blind, dumb
luck and chance, through evolution, or
because of special creation by a Supreme
Being, cannot be avoided in studying the
existence of God.
Did all life
on earth evolve over millions of years,
as evolutionists assert—or did an
all-powerful God author it at creation?
Most people assume evolution is
true, just as those who believe in God
assume His existence. I also
studied this question—evolution vs.
creation—in depth, during the same
period that I sought to prove God’s
existence.
I learned that
it takes far more “faith” to believe in
the intellectually chic and fashionable
evolutionary myth, than it does
to believe in the existence of God. In
fact, I learned that evolution is
based entirely on faith, because no
facts or proof have ever been found to
support it! (We have prepared a thorough
and most inspiring, 33-page,
magazine-sized brochure, Evolution –
Facts, Fallacies and Implications.
Those who read this powerful publication
will never again doubt the scientific
case for Creation!)
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Faith does
play a role in the life of a Christian.
For the person who truly wants to seek
God and learn to please Him, notice:
“But without
faith it is impossible to please Him:
for he that comes to God must
believe that He is, and that He is
a rewarder of them that diligently seek
Him” (Hebrews
11:6). Faith is vital to a
Christian. In fact, without it, no one
can please God. Notice, this verse says
that those seeking God “must
believe that He is.” A deep
belief in God, who “rewards” all who
“diligently seek Him,” requires
proof of
His existence. After proof has been
established, then—and only then—can
one have faith—absolute
confidence—that
what he does is being recorded in God’s
mind, to be remembered when he receives
his reward. If you are uncertain that
God exists, because proof of that
existence has not been firmly
established, then, under fire, your
faith will wane or disappear.
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The apostle
Paul wrote, “For though there be that
are called gods, whether in heaven or in
earth, (as there be gods many, and
lords many,) but to us there is but
one God, the Father, of
whom are all things…howbeit
there is not in every man that knowledge”
(I
Corinthians 8:5-7).
The religions
of this world have created many gods of
wood, stone and other material. Others
exist only in the minds of men. The
ancient Greeks alone served 30,000
gods and modern Hindus worship 5
million gods! Truly, there are, and
have always been, “gods many,
and lords many.” Yet, the God
of the Bible created all the materials
that men use to design their own gods.
But, as Paul said, “there is not in
every man that knowledge.”
Such
unnecessary ignorance and confusion!
The God of the
Bible has shown the way to peace,
happiness and abundant life for all
people willing to study His
Instruction Book. Doing this would rid
mankind of the confusion and evils that
encompass this world. But, it is not our
purpose here to prove that the God of
the Bible is the one true God of
creation. (Read our booklet Bible
Authority...Can It Be Proven?)
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Be willing to
examine science. As we reason, do not
suppose or hope. Stand
on indisputable facts. We will
see facts from a broad array of
different kinds of science. They will
demonstrate that an all-powerful Supreme
Being, of infinite intelligence,
carefully provided more than sufficient
proof to remove all doubt that He
exists.
The Bible is
God’s instruction to mankind. He expects
all who are willing to read the Bible,
to “Prove all things; hold fast
that which is good” (I
Thessalonians 5:21). Surely this
God would not then expect us to
assume His existence, while
instructing us to prove everything
else from His Word!
Before
beginning this study, remember,
assumptions do not count! Neither
do superstitious myths or traditions
based on ignorance! What can be known
from science? Only accept facts.
Think rationally and clearly. Then
accept what can be proven!
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You probably
have a watch. Without it, you would be
lost in a world that demands that people
“be on time.”
Some watches
are more accurate than others. How
accurate is yours? How long
before it loses a second? When
this happens, you adjust it by reckoning
from a more accurate source. That
source, whatever it is, is also
imperfect and has to be regularly
updated, though not as often, to be in
accord with the Master Clock of the
United States at the Naval Observatory
in Washington, D.C.
For many
years, until 1967, Naval Observatory
astronomers “observed” the motion of the
earth, in relation to the heavens, to
accurately measure time. All clocks in
this country were set in relation to
these very precise measurements. It
was God who made this Master Clock of
the Universe! He set the heavens in
motion and mankind learned how to use
its wonderful accuracy. As marvelous as
this Great Clock is, the story does not
end here.
In 1967,
scientists built an “Atomic Clock.” It
uses Cesium 133 atoms because they
oscillate (vibrate) at the rate of
9,192,631,770 times per second. This
produces accuracy within
one second
every 30 million years!
Wouldn’t you love a watch that accurate?
Cesium 133 atoms never vary a single
vibration. They are
steady—constant—reliable—and cannot be
an accident of nature that just
“happens” to always turn out exactly the
same. God had to design the complexity
and reliability of these atoms. No
honest mind can believe otherwise. Men
merely learned how to capture what God
designed, for use in time measurement.
Again, the story continues.
Doubters,
consider this!
Scientists in
Boulder, Colorado, at the National
Institute of Standards and Technology,
have built an optical clock
that is even more accurate.
How? By measuring time with light.
Time is now measured in what are called
femtoseconds—or a
million-billionth of a second. These
clocks use mercury ions at their “heart”
to count the number of times they
vibrate in a second.
Optical
frequencies regularly oscillate at one
million-billion (1,000,000,000,000,000—one
quadrillion) times per second. By
using lasers and “cooled down” mercury
ions, scientists have harnessed God’s
precision to better measure time.
Optical clocks only slip by
one second
every 30 BILLION
years!
This is 1,000 times more
accurate than atomic clocks!
All human
watchmakers use extraordinary precision
in their work. Quartz watches
measure time by counting the exact
number of oscillations of a quartz
crystal through use of a digital
counter. Digital clocks use the
oscillations of quartz crystals or power
lines (60 cycles per second in the
United States), but may also count
through use of digital counters.
Grandfather clocks use the swing of
a pendulum, once every second and
recorded by metal gears inside the
clock, to keep time.
As with the
movement of the heavens, men have
learned to capture the reliability of
Cesium 133 atoms and the movement of
cooled mercury ions to count time. Their
number of oscillations per second
never varies. Could this perfect
order be the product of an accident?
In summary,
only with great time and effort, the
finest watchmakers in the world can, at
best, devise several kinds of
relatively imprecise clocks. Can
any honest, fair-minded person then
believe that the three highly
precise clocks—the heavens, atomic
and optical clocks—came about by
accident? In other words, are we to
believe that while very sophisticated,
humanly devised watches
required the effort and ingenuity of
skilled, intelligent men to create them,
clocks of far greater sophistication,
precision and design developed on
their own? How utterly ridiculous!
You have seen
absolute proof
that only the “Greatest Watchmaker”
could have devised these “greatest
watches.”
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What is the
truth of modern science regarding the
origin of all matter in the universe? Do
scientists tell us that it has
always existed? Or have they
determined that there was a moment in
time in which all matter came into
existence? The answer to the second
question is, yes! But what is the
proof that this is true?
The
First Law of
Thermodynamics is stated as
follows: Matter and energy can be
neither created nor destroyed. There are
no natural processes that can alter
either matter or energy in this way.
This means that there is no new
matter or energy coming into existence
and there is no new matter or
energy passing out of existence. All who
state that the universe came into
existence from nothing violate
the first law of thermodynamics, which
was established by the very scientific
community who now seem willing to ignore
it. In summary, this law plainly
demonstrates that the universe, and all
matter and energy within it, must have
had a divine origin—a specific moment in
which it was created by someone who was
all-powerful.
With the
coming of the Atomic Age, beginning with
the discovery of radium in 1898 by
Madame Curie, came the knowledge that
all radioactive elements continually
give off radiation. Consider! Uranium
has an atomic weight of 238.0. As it
decomposes, it releases a helium atom
three times. Each helium atom has a
weight of 4. With the new weight of
226.0, uranium becomes radium. Radium
continues to give off additional atoms
until eventually the end product becomes
the heavy inert element called lead.
This takes a tremendous amount of time.
While the process of uranium turning
into radium is very long, the radium
turns into lead in 1,590 years.
What are we
saying? There was a point in time when
the uranium could not have existed,
because it always breaks down in a
highly systematic, controlled way. It is
not stable like lead or other elements.
It breaks down. This means there was a
specific moment in time when all
radioactive elements came into
existence. Remember, all of
them—uranium, radium, thorium, radon,
polonium, francium, protactinium and
others—have not existed forever. This
represents absolute proof that
matter came into existence or, in
other words, matter has not always
existed!
This flies
directly in the face of evolutionary
thought—that everything gradually
evolved into something else. Here is the
problem. You cannot have something
slowly come into existence from
nothing! Matter could not have come
into existence by itself. No rational
person could believe that the entire
universe—including all of the
radioactive elements that prove there
was a specific time of
beginning—gradually came into existence
BY ITSELF!
Through your
own efforts, try to build
something—anything—from nothing.
Even with your creative power engaged in
the effort, you would never be able to
do it. You will not be able—in a hundred
lifetimes of trying—to produce a single
thing from
nothing! Then, can any doubter
believe that everything in the
entirety of the universe, in all of
its exquisite detail, came into
existence completely by itself? Be
honest. Accept facts. This is proof that
the existing natural realm demands the
existence of a Great Creator!
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The
Second Law of
Thermodynamics is best summarized
by saying that everything moves toward
disorder—or a condition known
as entropy. This bears some
explanation and we will consider several
examples.
Remember that
evolutionists teach that everything is
constantly evolving into a higher and
more complex order. In other words, they
believe things continue to get better
and better instead of worse and worse.
If water being
heated on a stove is at 150 degrees
Fahrenheit, and the burner is turned
off, the temperature will drop instead
of rise. It will move toward colder
rather than hotter. If a ball is placed
on a hill, it will always roll downhill
and not uphill. Energy used to perform
any particular task changes from usable
energy to unusable in the performing of
that task. It will always go from a
higher energy level to a lower energy
level—where less and less energy is
available for use.
When applied
to the universe, the second law of
thermodynamics indicates that the
universe is winding down—moving toward
disorder or entropy—not
winding up or moving toward more perfect
order and structure. In short, the
entire universe is
winding down!
Even
evolutionists admit that the theory of
evolution and the second law of
thermodynamics are completely
incompatible with each other. Consider:
“Regarding the second law of
thermodynamics (universally accepted
scientific law which states that all
things left to themselves will tend to
run down) or the law of entropy, it is
observed, ‘It would hardly be possible
to conceive of two more completely
opposite principles than this principle
of entropy increase and the principle of
evolution. Each is precisely the
converse of the other. As (Aldous)
Huxley defined it, evolution involves a
continual increase of order, of
organization, of size, of complexity. It
seems axiomatic that both cannot
possibly be true. But there is no
question whatever that the second law of
thermodynamics is true’” (Morris, Henry
M., The Twilight of Evolution,
Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1967, p.
35).
Like a top or
a yo-yo, the universe must have been
“wound up.” Since the universe is
constantly winding down, the second law
of thermodynamics looms before us in the
form of a great question: Who wound
it up? The only plausible answer is
God!
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We have
established that creation demands a
Creator. The next few paragraphs
introduce some amazing scientific proofs
of creation.
The theory of
evolution is shot full of
inconsistencies. Evolutionists have
seized on many theories, within the
overall theory of evolution, in
an attempt to explain the origins of
plants, animals, the heavens and the
earth.
Over and over,
these “theorists” try to explain how
life evolved from inanimate material
into more complex life forms until it
reached the pinnacle—human beings.
Yet, as one
geologist wrote, “It must be significant
that nearly all the evolutionary stories
I learned as student…have been debunked”
(Dr. Derek V. Ager, Dept. of Geology,
Imperial College, London, The Nature
of the Fossil Record, Proceedings of the
Geological Assoc., Vol. 87, 1976,
pp. 1132-1133).
Perhaps the
biggest reason that so many theories
within the overall theory of evolution
collapse is because they contain
terrible logic requiring great leaps in
faith to believe. Here is one example of
a “debunked” theory: “Many evolutionists
have tried to argue that humans are 99%
similar chemically to apes and blood
precipitation tests do indicate that the
chimpanzee is people’s closest relative.
Yet regarding this we must observe the
following: ‘Milk chemistry indicates
that the donkey is man’s closest
relative.’ ‘Cholesterol level tests
indicate that the garter snake is man’s
closest relative.’ ‘Tear enzyme
chemistry indicates that the chicken is
man’s closest relative.’ ‘On the basis
of another type of blood chemistry test,
the butter bean is man’s closest
relative’” (Morris, Henry M., The
Twilight of Evolution, Grand
Rapids: Baker Book House, 1967).
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Everyone has
witnessed explosions. Have you ever seen
one that was orderly? Or one that
created a watch or a clock? Or one that
produced a single thing of exquisite
design—instead of the certain result of
chaos and destruction? If you threw a
million hand grenades, you would see
them produce chaos and destruction a
million times! There would never be an
exception.
Consider the
following quotes, involving the
likelihood of an explosion creating the
entire natural realm of life all around
us on earth—let alone the beautiful
magnificence and order seen no matter
how far one looks out into space.
Dr. B. G.
Ranganathan said, “…the probability of
life originating from accident is
comparable to the unabridged dictionary
resulting from an explosion in a
printing shop” (Origins?, p.
15). And this only speaks to the
likelihood of any life at all,
rather than the most highly complex
forms such as large animals or human
beings—let alone all the different kinds
of life that exist today.
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