Gulliver's Travel - Vol 5. The Maple Leaf Story

Science & God #2

Time is not a friend, no friend of mine, as friends we're out of time.

Feeling slightly overwhelmed and out of pace. Perhaps symptoms of having too many things that are yet to be accomplished, while still having more things planned, but all the time having tomorrow slip into yesterday. Time disappears into a blackhole of the past. Exams are nearing, however studying is not. Preparation of ending my time here is pending, but I'm still in denial that it is the end. Frustration sets in.

However, the last few days at Whistler and Grouse Mountain have been very positive experiences in every respect, especially in terms of the snowboarding and also the people who I went up with. Everytime I turn my head around on the chairlift to take a gaze of the surroundings, my heart stops momentarily as my eyes are overwhelmed by an optical overload of the hugeness, immensity and beauty of God's creation. It's something that needs to be seen to be believed.




So continuing on with the previous subject of creation, here's a bit more from Lee Strobel's book, The Case for a Creator, which I found interesting and helpful. Currently, there is a lot of thought going around that the universe, our world and our existence just happened by chance. Yeh, we got lucky. All the extraordinarily detailed fine tunings in regards to the laws of nature that sustain life just so happened to be the way that they are by pure chance (the chance being about 1 in a hundred million trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion, also analogous to 1 electron in the entire known universe). It's kinda like saying if I went snowboarding at Whistler and I came across a pile of rocks near the top of the mountain that were arranged in a random pattern which so happened to spell out "Welcome to Whislter Lemuel, have a good one on the slopes today". One explanation or hypthesis would be that the rocks just so happened to be arranged in that perfect configuration due to a rock slide that occured earlier on...or an earthquake, or some other perturbance. You can't rule it out...there IS a probability that it could happen, perhaps quite a minute one, but nonetheless a chance that it could happen. However, another explanation, perhaps more logical would be that my friend Ben went up ahead of me and arranged those rocks in a particular way to spell out a message for me.

The explanation seems kinda obvious in this case to whether the message was arranged by chance or by Ben. Why is this obvious? Well, because the probability of something like that happening by chance is so low that it is negligible and therefore it is a reasonable assumption to say that my friend Ben arranged it. Likewise, it is extraordinarily improbable that the fine tuning of the laws of nature which govern the way the world, the solar system and the universe operates happened by shear chance...a random selection. However, it is not at all improbable that this precision behind these laws of nature was the work of an intelligent Designer. All we need to do is look around us before we quickly realise and see fingerprints of God over everything. Just think, if the world's orbit wobbled 60km closer or further away from the sun, our world will become inhabitable. It would either be too hot or too cold. 60kms. On the scale of the world that is nothing. That's like travelling from Hornsby to the city and back.

"The fine tuning itself can't tell us whether God is personal or not. We have to find out in other ways. But it does help us conclude he exists, that he created the world, and that therefore the universe has a purpose. He has made it very carefully and quite precisely as a habitat for intelligent life"
Lee Strobel; a concluding remark at the end of a paragraph.

posted by Lemdog @ 7:33 PM