Big Questions: Looking to God’s Word for Answers
“…always being ready to make a defense…” I Peter 3:15

Has Science Made God Unnecessary? Psalm 8

1. Existence as a Pointer to God: God as the self-sufficient, eternal first cause.
2. Beauty as a Pointer to God: God as creator of joy.
3. Expanse as a Pointer to God: God as powerfully incomprehensible.
4. Complexity as a Pointer to God: God as infinitely wise.
5. Order as a Pointer to God: God as author of purpose.

Conclusion: There is sufficient and overwhelming evidence in nature and logic to support the Divine origin and purpose of the universe. Therefore, all sin is an act of temporary atheism for it denies the omniscience of God or the power of God or the righteousness of God.

 ¹O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens! ²From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength because of Your adversaries, To make the enemy and the revengeful cease. ³When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained; ⁴What is man that You take thought of him, and the son of man that You care for him? ⁵Yet You have made him a little lower than God, and You crown him with glory and majesty! ⁶You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, ⁷All sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, ⁸The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, whatever passes through the paths of the seas. ⁹O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth!

1. Scripture Reading

• Brief thank you for your help with the trip to Mexico
• Slide (pic)
• We are really seeing some growth in the pastors as a group
• We are also beginning to see some signs of strategic planning for the planting of churches in unreached areas
• My dream as that we can partner with this group and get some new churches in unreached areas
• In Mexico, there is a need for hundreds of small, neighborhood churches as driving to church is not an option for so many
• Unlike DFW where you can drive to a mega church by going 20-30 miles from your home with no real personal cost, that is not the case in Mexico
• So we need to training young men to plant churches, we need to train young men and women to serve in those churches
• Read Psalm 8 (Slides)

1. Background (Title Slide – Slide 1)

• The relationship of humanity to God is quite striking
• God left enormous evidence of His existence
• Read Psalm 8:1 (Slide 2)
• God is so enormous that the psalmist wonders why God would even consider humans
• Read Psalm 8:3-4 (Slide 3)
• He also left the rule over the earth into the hands of humans
• Read Psalm 8:5-6 (Slide 3)
• A truth that baffles the psalmist, “why would God do that?” given how big the universe is
• When scientists and philosophers use their God given talents to rule over the earth in such a way as to destroy belief in the God who made them, there is great tragedy and irony to this

1. 1. Does the Big Bang explain the origin of the universe without reference to God?

• Radio interview with scientist and the four forces in the universe
• Strong and weak forces, electromagnetic forces, gravitational forces and the unification theory at the big bang with infinite energy (heat)
• “There are many explanations to that.” “Give me one.” “Well there are many possibilities to that but I don’t want to discuss that.”
• Chance plus time is the primary tool of the materialist
• The universe is so massive, so complex, that it is presenting the materialist with some real challenges
• “We can no longer accept the concept of spontaneous generation. Now we must speak of gradual spontaneous generation.” As if extra time will cause something to appear out of nothing.
• Albert Einstein said that the greatest force in the universe is compound interest
• More relevant, Einstein said, “God does not play dice.”
• Even if the big bang accurately explains the origin of the universe, there is still no explanation of who let the fuse

1. 2. Does scientific understanding of the cell explain the origin of life without reference to God?

• The human genome project took 13 years, some very high end computers, and thousands of researchers to map out all the proteins in DNA
• Strung together in a chain of 3 billion nucleotides of 4 molecules each come together to make one single strand of DNA in one single cell in your body
• There are over 50 trillion cells in the human body
• The inability to create a living cell despite all our knowledge
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1. 3. Does Darwinism give sufficient explanation of the development of life without reference to God?

• Correction last week about Watson and Crick, they are both atheists and Watson himself has made some extremely racist remarks about Africa
• Crick has suggested that aliens brought life here
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1. 4. Does the fossil record explain the development of species?

• Steve Jay Gould B

1. 5. Are all scientific minds in agreement about evolution?

• Clip from expelled
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1. Conclusion (Blank slide – Slide 9)