“Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the
devil's schemes.” Ephesians 6:11
Those
of you who have followed me for some time know that I am involved in a ministry
called RDOF (Rational Defence of Faith) with an awesome man, Daryl
Youngblood. In this ministry Daryl
provides very practical information for the debate between Atheism and
Christianity from a scientific point of view.
His father was a scientist, and Daryl is steep in knowledge and wisdom
in the scientific field.
Today,
I’d like to share an excerpt from one of Daryl’s RDOF events, title “Fine
Tuning from Nothing”.
(the following is a transcript from his event © RDOF, 2017 )
Nothing: A Pronoun denoting the absence of anything
In my many years of doing this, I have found that many people who say that scientific evidence disproves the existence of God, don’t actually know the evidence. … Many times they don’t know the deep scientific evidence which makes up the basis for their belief, (yet they still believe it) and so it’s more of an emotional foundation rather than a logical foundation. This happens all the time in conversations that I have with people. So, what we’re going to do is look at some of the evidence here. We’re going to look at the fundamental forces of the universe.
Recently, scientists have found that the fundamental forces of the universe are perfectly set, or fine tuned to allow human life. They are tuned to an exactness that defies comprehension. Scientists call this, rightly, fine tuning of the universe. The values of these forces are tuned so precisely, that if you change them by even an infinitesimal amount, you would not exist. There are many of these (forces).
One example is gravity, or the gravitational constant. If the value of gravity changed by even 1 part in 10 sextillion quintillion human life would be impossible. Folks, that’s 1 with 40 zero’s after it [10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000]. To explain how incredibly small 1 part in sextillion-quintillion is, imagine all the grains of sand on a beach, now imagine all the grains of sand in all the beaches in all the world. Ok, that’s about a quintillion grains of sand. Now, take that number and multiply it by 10 sextillion. Now, wrap your head around that amount of grains of sand.
In this analogy, if all of these grains of sand represented the value of gravity, how many grains of sand would you have to add or subtract in order for human life to be impossible? {dramatic pause} ONE. That’s how precisely gravity alone has to be set in order for you to exist and be here tonight. The chance, obviously, the chance that gravity would be set this precisely by accident or by chance alone would be less of a chance of you winning the lottery every second in human history. And, it’s not just gravity.
There are many other forces that have to be fine tuned in just this way. When you add them all up, the chances of this happening randomly or accidentally are so logically impossible that it just makes your mind boggle. They are so astronomical that it really does make it logically impossible. … So the question is how could the forces of the universe be this fine tuned by just chance. This demands an explanation, it demands an explanation.
Well, atheist scientists have an explanation for this. They have an explanation that they say has ruled out God. Do you know what it is? The multiverse, anybody heard of that? Let me explain a multiverse to you. They say that instead of a creator being responsible for the fine tuning of the universe, that instead our universe is just one in an infinite number of parallel universes going on right now just as real as ours. And, in these universes every possible event of any kind is being played out, every possible event of any kind has occurred. That means there’s one where I’m a wrestler named Dominant; there’s one where Pastor Reggie is a metal rock star {laughter}… Every possible of any kind has been played out in one of these universes.
This is the logic, so they say that, by chance somewhere in one of these vast number of universes, our finely tuned universe just popped into existence. That is the current explanation for the fine tuning of the universe. If you’re here tonight and you believe that scientific evidence disproves a designer of the fine tuning of the universe, here’s your evidence. This is the current presiding explanation. Atheist theoretical physicist, Sean Carroll, believes “An infinite number of universes is more plausible than God.” “…each potential state does not cease to exist…each potential state creates a new universe and is real in that new universe.” “Carroll states that he believes that the number of alternate universes actually existing is actually infinite.” (Evolution News, Aug 2, 2017) That is how they explain away the fine tuning of gravity and all the other constants. That’s the way they explain it. There are an infinite number of universes where every possible event has occurred, we just happen to live in the one where this series of events occurred. Is that enough for you?
There is a philosophical problem though that rears it’s ugly head here. If anything is possible in these universes, than it’s quite possible that we’re in a universe where God exists. So the logic shoots itself in the foot.
I am so blessed to be a part of Daryl’s ministry and teaching. I learn from him every time I get the opportunity to meet. I hope you don’t mind my sharing this one excerpt from his teaching, because I find it so valuable and practical in my daily walk. The bible tells us to put on the armor of God and prepare for the battles each and every day. This is just one of the many battles we are fighting in today’s world, and I am using RDOF as one of my many weapons. I believe it could provide value in your walk as well. If you’d like to look into Daryl’s latest, follow RDOF on Facebook or find his videos on WWW.VIMEO.COM . I hope you have the opportunity to check out his teachings.
(the following is a transcript from his event © RDOF, 2017 )
Nothing: A Pronoun denoting the absence of anything
In my many years of doing this, I have found that many people who say that scientific evidence disproves the existence of God, don’t actually know the evidence. … Many times they don’t know the deep scientific evidence which makes up the basis for their belief, (yet they still believe it) and so it’s more of an emotional foundation rather than a logical foundation. This happens all the time in conversations that I have with people. So, what we’re going to do is look at some of the evidence here. We’re going to look at the fundamental forces of the universe.
Recently, scientists have found that the fundamental forces of the universe are perfectly set, or fine tuned to allow human life. They are tuned to an exactness that defies comprehension. Scientists call this, rightly, fine tuning of the universe. The values of these forces are tuned so precisely, that if you change them by even an infinitesimal amount, you would not exist. There are many of these (forces).
One example is gravity, or the gravitational constant. If the value of gravity changed by even 1 part in 10 sextillion quintillion human life would be impossible. Folks, that’s 1 with 40 zero’s after it [10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000]. To explain how incredibly small 1 part in sextillion-quintillion is, imagine all the grains of sand on a beach, now imagine all the grains of sand in all the beaches in all the world. Ok, that’s about a quintillion grains of sand. Now, take that number and multiply it by 10 sextillion. Now, wrap your head around that amount of grains of sand.
In this analogy, if all of these grains of sand represented the value of gravity, how many grains of sand would you have to add or subtract in order for human life to be impossible? {dramatic pause} ONE. That’s how precisely gravity alone has to be set in order for you to exist and be here tonight. The chance, obviously, the chance that gravity would be set this precisely by accident or by chance alone would be less of a chance of you winning the lottery every second in human history. And, it’s not just gravity.
There are many other forces that have to be fine tuned in just this way. When you add them all up, the chances of this happening randomly or accidentally are so logically impossible that it just makes your mind boggle. They are so astronomical that it really does make it logically impossible. … So the question is how could the forces of the universe be this fine tuned by just chance. This demands an explanation, it demands an explanation.
Well, atheist scientists have an explanation for this. They have an explanation that they say has ruled out God. Do you know what it is? The multiverse, anybody heard of that? Let me explain a multiverse to you. They say that instead of a creator being responsible for the fine tuning of the universe, that instead our universe is just one in an infinite number of parallel universes going on right now just as real as ours. And, in these universes every possible event of any kind is being played out, every possible event of any kind has occurred. That means there’s one where I’m a wrestler named Dominant; there’s one where Pastor Reggie is a metal rock star {laughter}… Every possible of any kind has been played out in one of these universes.
This is the logic, so they say that, by chance somewhere in one of these vast number of universes, our finely tuned universe just popped into existence. That is the current explanation for the fine tuning of the universe. If you’re here tonight and you believe that scientific evidence disproves a designer of the fine tuning of the universe, here’s your evidence. This is the current presiding explanation. Atheist theoretical physicist, Sean Carroll, believes “An infinite number of universes is more plausible than God.” “…each potential state does not cease to exist…each potential state creates a new universe and is real in that new universe.” “Carroll states that he believes that the number of alternate universes actually existing is actually infinite.” (Evolution News, Aug 2, 2017) That is how they explain away the fine tuning of gravity and all the other constants. That’s the way they explain it. There are an infinite number of universes where every possible event has occurred, we just happen to live in the one where this series of events occurred. Is that enough for you?
There is a philosophical problem though that rears it’s ugly head here. If anything is possible in these universes, than it’s quite possible that we’re in a universe where God exists. So the logic shoots itself in the foot.
I am so blessed to be a part of Daryl’s ministry and teaching. I learn from him every time I get the opportunity to meet. I hope you don’t mind my sharing this one excerpt from his teaching, because I find it so valuable and practical in my daily walk. The bible tells us to put on the armor of God and prepare for the battles each and every day. This is just one of the many battles we are fighting in today’s world, and I am using RDOF as one of my many weapons. I believe it could provide value in your walk as well. If you’d like to look into Daryl’s latest, follow RDOF on Facebook or find his videos on WWW.VIMEO.COM . I hope you have the opportunity to check out his teachings.
Be Blessed,
Rich
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