Seeking Proof Finding Grace

On this week’s episode we prepare to pick back up after the creation of the universe and the fine tuning of the universe with a look at whether or not the Copernican Principle holds water.  Spoiler alert!  God’s love is stronger and a better explanation of how we got here.   “In its modest form, the Copernican Principle states that we should assume that there’s nothing special or exceptional about...

We wrap up our Christmas story study for the month of December this week looking at a last few objections and conspiracy theories related to the Christmas story.  Please don’t let any of this stand in the way of finding God’s great love for you!!   Luke 2, “And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This census first too...

You are the most valuable thing in the entire universe.  Because God loves you so much He gave the greatest Christmas gift of all 2,000 years ago, His Son Jesus. New King James translation of the Bible, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1982 Ephesians 1 and Luke chapter 2 “But supposing God became a man – suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God’s nature in one person – t...

This week we look at the two different narratives of the Christmas story and find out that they compliment each other quite well.  In the end, the Christmas story is all about how much God loves you!   Bauckham, R. (2017). Jesus and the Eyewitnesses. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.   New King James translation of the Bible, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1982 Luke chapters 1-2 and Matt...

This week we take a look at some of the more outlandish Christmas conspiracy theories that have gained followers on the internet.  Once we get through all the noise, we can get that much closer to the truth: God loves you!   “The works of our Savior were always present, for they were true: those who were healed, those who rose from the dead, those who were not only seen in the act of being healed...

In a slight change of plans for the month of December, we are going to spend the next month looking at God’s great love for us through the Christmas story.  This week we will look at what makes the Christmas story and Christianity so different from anything else.   “It might be suggested, in a somewhat violent image, that nothing had happened in that fold or crack in the great grey hills except th...

God loves you so much.  This podcast we just pause the journey for a moment for all of us to say thanks!   Psalm 136, “1 Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!  For His mercy endures forever…4 To Him who alone does great wonders, for His mercy endures forever; 5 To Him who by wisdom made the heavens, for His mercy endures forever…”   Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th...

On this episode we wrap up our journey and determine the best answer for how the universe could be so finely tuned for life.  God’s intimate plan for you is on display.  He loves you!   “The [anthropic-design argument] and what it points to is of such an order of certainty that in any other sphere of science, it would be regarded as settled.  To insist otherwise is like insisting that Shakespeare...

This week we look at a practical example of a finely tuned event from a Discover Channel show featuring Stephen Hawking, and perhaps expand on it just a bit.  Don't ever forget God's great love for you! Discovery Channel, Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking: The Story of Everything, 2011

This week we take a look to see if the multiverse can save naturalism from the impossible mathematical problem posed by fine tuning in the universe.  Fine tuning is another fingerprint of a Creator who loves you!   Problems with the multiverse: 1.      Where did the universal generator come from 2.      Fine tuning of the universal generator to get around fine tuning? 3.      Energy to feed the un...

On this episode we look at the scope of the problem that Fine Tuning poses to naturalistic theory.  Do we see the Creator’s fingerprint clearly showing?  Don’t forget God loves you!   Gonzales, G., & Richards, J. W. (2004). The Privileged Planet. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing   “Beginning in the 1960’s, physicists unveiled a universe apparently fine- tuned for the possibility of human lif...

This week we pause for a moment and ask the question, when does the evidence become so great that we take a step back and decide whether or not we need to change directions?  Along the way we look at Roger Penrose's discovery of the original phase-space volume that required fine tuning to the level of one part in 10,000,000,000^123.  That's ten billion to the 123 power.  Should something...

This week we move on from the Cosmological Argument to the Teleological Argument, or the Fine Tuning Argument.  In the first part of this episode we take a look at how this argument originated with Fred Hoyle’s discovery of where the carbon came from in the universe.  By the way, God loves you!    Strobel, L. (2004). The Case for a Creator. Zondervan Craig, W. L. (2008). Reasonable Faith. Wheaton,...

On this week’s episode we look at what the Anthropic Principle does and does not tell us.  Can it really explain how we got here, or just that we are here?  Don’t ever forget how much God loves you!   “The anthropic answer, in its most general form, is that we could only be discussing the question in the kind of universe that was capable producing us.  Our existence therefore determines that the f...

After wrapping up our discussion on how the universe came into existence, this week we take a step back and pause before the next leg of our journey; to examine the universe around us.

This week we wrap up the first step of our journey by answering the question, what is the most likely cause for the existence of the universe.  Spoiler Alert!  As we start to see God’s fingerprint come more into view, I hope you will remember how much God loves you! “For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream.  He has scaled the mountains o...

This week we look at the available evidence to determine if the universe can be past eternal.  Five factors will drive our analysis: 1. Is an actual infinite possible? 2. Einstein's General Theory of Relativity leading us back to the singularity 3. The discovery of the background radiation from the Big Bang 4. 2nd Law of Thermodynamics 5. Borde, Guth, Vilenkin Theorem Will this lead us back t...

This week we make a brief stop on our journey to look at the question of infinites.  What do we know about infinity and can actual infinites exist in the real world outside of mathematics?  BTW, God's love for you is the only actual infinite in the universe.

This week we look to see if Stephen Hawking’s philosophical ideas rise to the same level as his scientific work.  Do the philosophical conclusions of a scientist speak on behalf of science?  Can Stephen Hawking come up with a way to rule God out of bounds and produce everything from nothing?  Um…no.  By the way, God loves you!      “Naturalism, in contrast, is not agnostic.  Rather, it is the clai...

This week is a special message for all the dads out there as we celebrate Father’s Day and look at our Heavenly Father’s relationship with us.  God loves you!   Eph 1 - 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy an...

On this week’s episode we look at the question whether everything could have just popped into existence from nothing.  Is this really possible or is there some bending of the rules going on?  How far will we go to avoid God’s great love?    “The intended subtext, of course, is that one will be scientific only to the extent that one is nonreligious.  To be “religious,” in the narrow sense intended...

This week we look at the first option of how the universe came into existence by examining the Kalam Cosmological Argument and the evidence that we have on the table.  Is it possible that God's great love for us led Him to create everything we see around us? Isaiah 42:5 NKJV [5] Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread forth the earth and that which c...

As we look back at the beginning of the universe we need to address the question, "What is the singularity?"  Wouldn't it be amazing if at the beginning of the universe we found a God who loved us so very much He created everything we see around us just for the chance to have a relationship with us?  This is where that journey begins! https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metap...

On this week’s episode, we talk about how Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity helped to launch us back to a beginning point of the universe in 1915 when many thought the universe had existed for all eternity.  Even when we rewind the universe back to the beginning we find God’s great love for us. “philosophically, the notion of a beginning to the present order of Nature is repugnant.” ...

This week we look at the question of the question of the age of the Universe and the Earth?  Does the Bible really say the Earth and the Universe are only 6,000 years old?  What is the important issue to really focus on here (other than how much God loves you)?    John 10:9 NKJV [9] I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.    Revelation 12:3...