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On another note, I've been reading about theories about the big bang, different dimensions, black holes and the existence of God. So far, everything points towards there being a God, or supernatural being who created the universe. I'm not gonna talk about specific religions, but rather, the whole God concept.
People thought the universe was static, unmoving. The theory was that if the universe is infinitely old and large, there would be an infinite number of chances for life to exist. Imagine throwing a dice with ten trillion sides infinite amount of times. Eventually you'll hit the side called "Life". Now we know it is expanding, planets are moving further apart. It is not static. What does that mean? Simply, that the universe was once clumped together. Hence, the big bang theory. Plus many other evidence, one of them being the left over radiation detected everywhere in our galaxy, confirming a huge explosion. But that's too scientific for me to explain.
So. What does the Big bang mean? It means that once the universe was never here. Thus it had to be created. The big bang was its cause, but who created the big bang? Agent X. Who's Agent X? I believe it's God. But then, since we went so far back to the beginning of he universe, let's ask: Who created God? When did he/it come into being? The answer is simple. He was always there. If he created the universe, he created the laws of the universe. Time. It never existed before the universe was created. That means he created time, long with all the other physics equations and whatnots. So a God which created time is not confined to time. He doesn't need to have a beginning. Not that hard to grasp eh?
"Both John Chapter One and Colossians Chapter One make that claim about God; He has no beginning, no end and He is not created. The Bible is the only Holy book that makes that statement about God." But let's not go into religion, back on topic.
Let's talk about somemore reasons why I believe God created us.
Electromagnetism- Unless the force electromagnetism takes on a particular value, molecules won't happen. Take the nucleus of an atom. There's an electron orbiting it. If the force electromagnetism is too weak, the electron will not orbit the nucleus. No electrons orbiting nucleus= No molecules= No life.
Strong Nuclear force- Protons and neutrons are held together in the nucleus of an atom by the strong nuclear force, which is the strongest of the four forces of physics.
If the nuclear force is too strong, the protons and neutrons in the universe will find themselves stuck to other protons and neutrons, which means we have a universe devoid of Hydrogen.No Hydrogen= No life.
On the other hand, if the nuclear force is too weak, all we will have is Hydrogen. Life can't exist with only hydrogen. 0.03 stonger, no life. 0.06 weaker, no life.
Gravity- It is necessary for the universe to be electrically neutral. The numbers of the positively charged particles must be equivalent to the numbers of negatively charged particles or else electromagnetism will dominate gravity, and stars, galaxies and planets will never form. If they don't form, then clearly life is impossible.
The numbers of electrons must equal the numbers of protons to better than one part of 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10 to the 37 th power). That is one chance in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10 to the 37 th power).To say all that happened by chance is kinda ridiculous.
I'm just gonna copy paste this whole chunk here coz I don't think it needs me to paraphrase it.
"The right star is needed. We can't have a star any bigger than our Sun. The bigger the star, the more rapidly and erratically it burns its fuel. Our Sun is just small enough to keep a stable enough flame for a sufficient period of time to make life possible. If it were any bigger, we couldn't have life on planet Earth. If it were any smaller, we'd be in trouble, too.
Smaller stars are even more stable than our star, the Sun, but they don't burn as hot. In order to keep our planet at the right temperature necessary to sustain life, we'd have to bring the planet closer to the star.
Tidal Forces
The physicists in the audience realize that when you bring a planet closer to its star, the tidal interaction between the star and the planet goes up to the inverse fourth power to the distance separating them. For those of you who are not physicists, that means that all you have to do is bring that planet ever so much closer to the star, and the tidal forces could be strong enough to break the rotational period.
That's what happened to Mercury and Venus. Those planets are too close to the Sun; so close that their rotational periods have been broken, from several hours to several months.
Earth is just barely far enough away to avoid that breaking. We have a rotation period of once every 24 hours. If we wait much longer, it will be every 26 or 28 hours, because the Earth's rotation rate is slowing down.
Going back in history, we can measure the time when the Earth was rotating every 20 hours. When the Earth was rotating once every 20 hours, human life was not possible. If it rotates once every 28 hours, human life will not be possible. It can only happen at 24 hours.
Speed of Earth's Rotation
If the planet rotates too quickly, you get too many tornadoes and hurricanes. If it rotates too slowly, it gets too cold at night and too hot during the day. We don't want it to be 170 degrees during the day, nor do we want it to be below –100 at night, because that's not ideal for life.
We don't want lots of hurricanes and tornadoes, either. What we currently have is an ideal situation, and God plays this. He created us here at the ideal time.
We need the right Earth. If the Earth is too massive, it retains a bunch of gases such as Ammonia, Methane, Hydrogen and Helium in its atmosphere. These gases are not acceptable for life, at least, not for advanced life. But if it's not massive enough, it won't retain water. For life to exist on planet Earth, we need a huge amount of water, but we don't need a lot of ammonia and methane.
Remember high school chemistry? Methane's molecular weight 16, ammonia's molecular weight 17, water's molecular weight is 18. God so designed planet Earth that we keep lots of the 18, but we don't keep any of the 16 or the 17. The incredible fine-tuning of the physical characteristics of Earth is necessary for that.
Jupiter Necessary, too
We even have to have the right Jupiter. We wrote about this in our Facts and Faith newsletter a few issues back, but it was also discovered by American astrophysicists just this past year. Unless you have a very massive planet like Jupiter, five times more distant from the star than the planet that has life, life will not exist on that planet.
It takes a super massive planet like Jupiter, located where it is, to act as a shield, guarding the Earth from comic collisions. We don't want a comet colliding with Earth every week. Thanks to Jupiter, that doesn't happen.
What these astrophysicists discovered in their models of planetary formation was that it's a very rare star system indeed that produces a planet as massive as Jupiter, in the right location, to act as such a shield.
We Even Need the Right Moon
The Earth's moon system is that of a small planet being orbited by a huge, single moon. That huge, single moon has the effect of stabilizing the rotation axis of planet Earth to 23½ degrees. That's the ideal tilt for life on planet Earth.
The axis on planet Mars moves through a tilt from zero to 60 degrees and flips back and forth. If that were to happen on Earth, life would be impossible. Thanks to the Moon, it's held stable at 23 ½ degrees.
Just as with the universe, in the case of the solar system, we can attach numbers to these. In this case, I've chosen to be extremely conservative in my estimates. I would feel justified in sticking a few zeros between the decimal point and the one. I would feel justified in making this 20 percent, 10 percent, for example, and on down the line.
We Even Need the Right Number of Earthquakes
I've got so many characteristics here, and I let the Californians know that you have to have the right number of earthquakes. Not too many, not too few, or life is not possible. I share them with my wife, who doesn't like earthquakes, but I just tell her that when you feel a good jolt, that's when you have to thank God for his perfect providence."
All this has been taken from http://www.cosmicfingerprints.com/audio/newevidence.htm
Check it out if you've got the time.
And yes, this might be my longest post yet.
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