9 Ways God Winks at The Wise Men of This Age, Providing Proof of His Existence and His Divine Nature
By Chris Parker January 2004
“And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men every where to repent.” Acts 17:30 AKJV
The non-scientific community and the public might be surprised at how much the advancement of science in many areas of research has pointed towards the existence of God.
That’s the opposite of what many in the media and in materialistic science have tried to promote. Scientific advances in the areas of cosmology, evolutionary theory and DNA have served to clearly show the unreasonableness of materialistic notions of a blind, designer-free materialistic universe.
Science continues to promote macro-evolution as a viable theory that explains the great variety of life on this planet even though it has failed to show how the first life could have been formed. The big-bang theory for the creation of the universe violates the first law of physics and cosmologists admit that up to 96% of the matter and energy needed to have made their hypothetical model work is “missing”.
Dark matter and energy have been missing for nearly a century.’
In a 2021 New York Times article entitled “A Guide to Finding Faith”, August 2021, columnist Ross Douthat argues that there are “important ways in which the progress of science and the experience of modernity have strengthened the reasons to entertain the idea of God”.
Douthat goes on to say that : “The great project of modern physics, for instance, has led to speculation about the multiverse in part because it has repeatedly confirmed the strange fittedness of our universe to human life.
If science has discredited certain specific ideas about how God structured the natural world, it has also made the mathematical beauty of physical laws, as well as their seeming calibration for the emergence of life, much clearer to us than they were to people 500 years ago.”
The multiverse or string theory postulates an infinite number of universes outside of our own with perhaps wildly different physical laws, existing alongside this universe. Proponents of the theory hypothesize that it is merely a coincidence and/or dumb luck that our universe appears to have been designed to support life.
This theory is desperate, completely ad hoc, demolishes "common sense" and demolishes the meaning of the word "universe".
In speaking about the fine-tuned-ness of our universe with precise tuning of gravity, electromagnetism, the cosmological constant, weak and strong nuclear forces and other constants, English astronomer Fred Hoyle, a former Atheist said ““A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics”.
God Himself says that man should be aware of His power and sovereignty and Divine nature based on observations of the universe itself.
Romans 1 “The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”
Following are 9 Ways God Winks at The Wise Men of This Age
1)Conservation of Matter and Energy: The 1st Law of Physics
As early as 1850, Rudolf Clausius made the first explicit statement regarding this thermodynamic principle known colloquially as the conservation of matter and energy. It seems like common sense even to us that don’t labor in science, that matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed.
Knowledge that the universe is a closed system in which matter and energy in totality can be changed in form but in totality could not be increased or decreased, leads to only one conclusion, that somehow the universe was created ex-nihilo, from nothing in contravention of the very first law of physics.
In short, a miracle is necessary to explain the existence of the universe. Scientifically, there is no explanation for it.
Is it: “in the Beginning God created the heavens and the earth” as described in Genesis or is it; “in the beginning there was nothing-which exploded”!?
2)Entropy: the 2nd Law of Physics—A System once set in place gradually winds down and stops unless new energy is added to the System.
Science has suggested that the beginning of the universe was billions of years ago while scripture suggests a beginning less than 10 thousand years ago.
However, both science and the Bible agree that the universe will come to an end.
Heat Death of the Universe due to Entropy: “The 'heat-death' of the universe is when the universe has reached a state of maximum entropy. This happens when all available energy (such as from a hot source) has moved to places of less energy (such as a colder source).
Once this has happened, no more work can be extracted from the universe. Since heat ceases to flow, no more work can be acquired from heat transfer. This same kind of equilibrium state will also happen with all other forms of energy (mechanical, electrical, etc.). Since no more work can be extracted from the universe at that point, it is effectively dead, especially for the purposes of humankind.” PhysLink.com
2 Peter “the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare”.
And God winked.
3)The Huge Discontinuity Between Living and Non-Living Systems
A number of scientists specializing in the origin of life research and associated fields have claimed for many decades that they are close to creating simple living organisms.
The “primordial soup” and other theories about the origin of life have been recently ruled out for various reasons, often by scientists working on competing theories.
Origin of life research approaches began as early as in the 1920s as scientists felt at the time it might be relatively easy to prove what their theories of abiogenesis suggested must be true.
Biogenesis, life from life does not have to be proven as it is the only way we know that life can begin.
Abiogenesis means life from non-life which is something that has never been seen. 100 years from Aleksandr Oparin’s description of the research into abiogenesis in 1924 little progress has been made.
Scripture informs us that God breathed life into living creatures and science does not have that kind of divine creative ability.
Michael Denton, PhD, a molecular biologist is an evolutionist but a critic of Darwinism. He gave the following quote in his book; “Evolution, a Theory in Crisis”.
The Disappointing Promise of Molecular Biology for the Theory of Evolution: "Instead of revealing a multitude of transitional forms through which the evolution of the cell might have occurred, molecular biology has served only to emphasize the enormity of the gap.
We now know not only of the existence of a break between the living and non-living world, but also that it represents the most dramatic and fundamental of all the discontinuities of nature. Between a living cell and the most highly ordered non-biological system, such as a crystal or a snowflake, there is a chasm as vast and absolute as it is possible to conceive….
Molecular biology has also shown that the basic design of the cell system is essentially the same in all living systems on earth from bacteria to mammals. In all organisms the roles of DNA, mRNA and protein are identical.
The meaning of the genetic code is also virtually identical in all cells. The size, structure and component design of the protein synthetic machinery is practically the same in all cells. In terms of the basic biochemical design, therefore no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any other system, nor is there the slightest empirical hint of an evolutionary sequence among all the incredibly diverse cells on earth.
For those who hoped that molecular biology might bridge the gulf between chemistry and biochemistry, the revelation was profoundly disappointing.”
4)DNA; A Language That God Placed in The Cells of Every Living Creature.
This language is used by proteins following the strict instructions in the DNA code to build living creatures. The knowledge carried by DNA is a priori-it had to come first.
No evolutionary scheme can account for the information that had to exist before the life it directs could have existed.
“There is a language, a language similar to human languages, which is embedded in every living thing, and it gives very intricate instructions to the cell concerning, reproduction, cell growth, formation, the exact timing of these processes and everything else concerning the cell. This language uses a four-letter alphabet containing the letters, adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T).
It is proof that someone with infinitely higher technical ability than us is responsible for implanting a DNA message into the cell of everything alive in the universe which says "Hello, I am your Creator". Yet many biologists (if aware) and other scientists who are blinded by science, and their A Priori adherence to naturalistic explanations of creation have decided that all this information has come about by natural means, i.e., that it evolved completely by accident!
This is entirely opposite to the experience true science, not obscured by the "religious" faith and zeal of materialists, has observed. "Complex" artifacts of this type are artifacts of intelligence.” S8int.com
“If unwound and tied together, the strands of DNA in one cell would stretch almost six feet but would be only 50 trillionths of an inch wide. If all the DNA in your body was put end to end, it would reach to the sun and back over 600 times (100 trillion times six feet divided by 92 million miles).” PBS
A set of DNA from everyone who ever lived would take up a space smaller than an aspirin.
Recent DNA Shockwave
A gene survey published in 2018 by Mark Stoeckle from The Rockefeller University in New York and David Thaler at the University of Basel in Switzerland, indicates that the genetic diversity of the planet's 7.6 billion people, 500 million house sparrows, or 100,000 sandpipers "is about the same”.
“Further, the survey’s most startling result, perhaps, is that nine out of 10 species on Earth today, including humans, came into being 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.”
"This conclusion is very surprising, and I fought against it as hard as I could," Thaler told AFP.
Of course, as low as these numbers are for evolutionary theories, Christians believe that the timeline for life on earth is much shorter than that and that the discrepancy is due to a faulty evolutionary dating system.
So called “Junk DNA” is no more as scientists discovered that the so-called non-coding regions in DNA, which inspired derision among some scientists who wondered why a Creator would place such regions inside DNA instructions were clarified when it was discovered that it was only the ignorance of science that made those regions appear to be junk.
Now scientists are discovering important functions for “non-coding DNA.
And the God of heaven winked.
https://youtu.be/CBeCxKzYiIA?si=ocUKEjZGW0LC6xTq
5)The Tiny Planet Earth at The Center of The Universe and the “Axis of Evil”.
500 years ago, everyone Knew that the earth (the world) was at the center of the universe and that in our geocentric universe the sun revolved around the earth.
This is what science itself took for granted. An earth-centric system made sense given the text in Genesis describing the creation of the universe and how the planet earth and man were the center of God’s creation and at that time many men of science were believers.
In the early 1500s, Copernicus proposed a heliocentric model of the solar system that had the earth and the planets orbiting the sun, codified in his book “De Revolutionibus Orbium” Coelestium (On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres).
Copernicus was inspired to create his model to try to deal with the apparent retrograde (reverse) orbits of certain planets during each year.
One hundred years later, Galileo, Kepler and Newton helped popularize the system with additional research and writings and since that time, science has been certain that we live in a heliocentric system.
This is a result that the Roman Catholic church and other religious authorities opposed because it was believed that such a system would impact religious belief. As it turned out believers tended to move forward with their lives and their faith just as before.
Galileo Was Wrong Though-The Axis of Evil
In the last three decades various space agencies have sent up probes into space to measure something science calls the cosmic microwave background which is claimed to be an “echo of the big bang”.
Early probes and each successive probe thereafter have shown an unexpected anomaly in the way the background was oriented along the plane of the earth.
Scientists have dubbed this confounding and stubborn anomaly the “axis of evil” due to its implications on current scientific beliefs of a heliocentric system.
“Around 2004, NASA discovered the EARTH was the CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE. This is the most profound discovery in the entire history of science, why haven’t you heard of it?
Lawrence Krauss, PhD is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at Arizona State and arguably the loudest spokesperson for Atheism on the planet.
He states -
“But when you look at CMB map, you also see that the structure that is observed, is in fact, in a weird way, correlated with the plane of the earth around the sun. Is this Copernicus coming back to haunt us? That's crazy. We're looking out at the whole universe.
There's no way there should be a correlation of structure with our motion of the earth around the sun — the plane of the earth around the sun — the ecliptic. That would say we are truly the center of the universe.””
John Smith on Quora
"Why characteristics of the CMB should relate to our solar system is not understood. ... I was explicitly told not to say anything about God in this talk "which I've just violated," Efstathiou said half-jokingly.
George Efstathiou, Ph.D. is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge and director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology.
“Then More and More data produced the same results. From the rotation of galaxies to cosmic expansion everything points in one direction. If only we knew why.”
And God winked.
This anomaly, and its implications were the subject of a 2024 independent Film entitled “The Principle, produced by Rick Delano and Robert Sungenis.
https://youtu.be/htV8WTyo4rw
6)An Anthropic Universe: The Fine Tuning of The Universe for Life.
“The Anthropic principle, in cosmology, any consideration of the structure of the universe, the values of the constants of nature, or the laws of nature that has a bearing upon the existence of life.
Clearly, humanity’s very existence shows that the current structure of the universe and the values taken by the constants of nature permit life to exist. Indeed, it appears that many features of the universe that are necessary for the evolution and persistence of life are the results of unusual coincidences between different values of the constants of nature—quantities such as the mass of the electron, the strength of gravity, or the lifetime of the neutron.
The significance, if any, of these coincidences is not understood.
What is understood is that, if these quantities were slightly altered, then no form of complexity or life could exist in the universe. At present, it is not known why the constants of nature take their observed values.” Source: The Encyclopedia Britannica
7)The Total Solar Eclipse
“Since total solar eclipses are so rare and unusual, it’s tempting to think of them as random coincidences of nature. But they’re nothing of the sort. In reality, they follow a complex pattern of physical and mathematical rules that makes it possible to predict their occurrence years in advance, as people have been doing since ancient times.
This pattern depends on the sun, moon and earth having exactly the right size, composition, relative distance, and motion with respect to each other. If there were any variation in any of these properties, total eclipses as we know them would never occur.
These physical properties of the earth, moon and sun are part of a larger, vastly more complex pattern of cosmic variables, all of which must be precisely as they are for life on earth to exist. The odds of them all falling into place by pure chance are, in a word, astronomical.
Taken together, they offer powerful evidence of what scientists call universal fine tuning. Far from being the product of random processes, the cosmos is as its name implies: a created order designed by the unfathomable wisdom of a Creator God. The rare celestial convergence of a total eclipse is a potent reminder of this reality.” Subby Szterszky
Non-believers argue against the conclusion that predictable solar eclipses are evidence of design by a Creator by suggesting that it’s merely a coincidence in time and that billions of years ago the earth and the moon would have been in a different orbit relative to each other so that in the distant future this relationship will again be out of alignment.
They have assumed that their theories concerning the age of the earth and the universe and used their certainty about that age to counter the Creator Argument.
The Incredible "Creation Inch."
According to Cornell University’s “Ask an Astronomer” and other sources, the moon is moving away from the earth at a rate of approximately 1.5 inches per year. Among the various impacts of this occurrence, is that the earth’s rotation is imperceptibly slowing, and days are becoming milliseconds longer.
The average distance between the earth and the moon is 238,855 miles. This means that the size of the incredible creation inch (1.5 inches :0)) is unimportant and too small to notice.
In 6,000 years, an annual movement away from earth would only amount to 9,000 inches, or 750 feet. That kind of insignificant movement would no doubt have very little impact on the tides, for example.
But let’s see, there are those who say that the earth is much older than 6,000 years. In 1 million years, at the current rate of departure, the moon would move away approximately 1.5 million inches, which is 125,000 feet or 23.67 miles.
23.67 miles would seem to be not trivial, but still nothing really to worry about. moving the average distance from the earth to the moon out to 238,878.67 miles.
In a billion years, those 1.5 inches a year would move the moon out 23,674.24 miles which is beginning to sound serious. The impact of a moon 23,674 miles further from earth than where it had initially “settled” or been placed in orbit would be enormous.
But how old does science say that the earth is? Approximately 4.5 billion years old. That’s old!
The incredible creation inch says that in that time, the moon would have moved away from the earth 106,534.09 miles!
The incredible creation inch implies that the moon earth system is way younger than 4.5 billion years. Perhaps something on the order of 10,000 years or less is called for, even if you think 1.5 inches a year is too high.
8) The Complex, Irreducibly Complex Protein Formed Robot Machines Inside of Living Cells
“A molecular machine, according to an article in the journal Accounts of Chemical Research, is “an assemblage of parts that transmit forces, motion, or energy from one to another in a predetermined manner.”
A 2004 article in Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering asserted that “these machines are generally more efficient than their macroscale counterparts,” further noting that “countless such machines exist in nature.”
Indeed, a single research project in 2006 reported the discovery of over 250 new molecular machines in yeast alone!
Molecular machines have posed a stark challenge to those who seek to understand them in Darwinian terms as the products of an undirected process.
In his 1996 book Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, biochemist Michael Behe explained the surprising discovery that life is based upon machines:
"Shortly after 1950 science advanced to the point where it could determine the shapes and properties of a few of the molecules that make up living organisms. Slowly, painstakingly, the structures of more and more biological molecules were elucidated, and the way they work inferred from countless experiments.
The cumulative results show with piercing clarity that life is based on machines — machines made of molecules!
Molecular machines haul cargo from one place in the cell to another along “highways” made of other molecules, while still others act as cables, ropes, and pulleys to hold the cell in shape. Machines turn cellular switches on and off, sometimes killing the cell or causing it to grow. Solar-powered machines capture the energy of photons and store it in chemicals.
Electrical machines allow current to flow through nerves.
Manufacturing machines build other molecular machines, as well as themselves. Cells swim using machines, copy themselves with machinery, ingest food with machinery.
In short, highly sophisticated molecular machines control every cellular process. Thus, the details of life are finely calibrated and the machinery of life enormously complex." Behe
Behe then posed the question, “Can all of life be fit into Darwin’s theory of evolution?” and answered:
“The complexity of life’s foundation has paralyzed science’s attempt to account for it; molecular machines raise an as-yet impenetrable barrier to Darwinism’s universal reach.” CASEY LUSKIN, PHD, SCIENCE. Intelligentdesign.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XMKRLwYAqg
9). The Sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham in Genesis 22
In Genesis 22, Abraham, designated by God to be the father of many nations was instructed by God to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. Isaac was born to Abraham at the age of 100 years old.
God tested Abraham by instructing him to sacrifice Isaac as a burnt offering in the mountains in the region of Moriah. Early the next morning, Abraham in obedience, loaded his donkey and set out with Isaac for the region of Moriah. It was three days distant. As they prepared and collected the elements for the burnt offering including the wood for the fire, Isaac asked him about the lamb for the sacrifice.
Abraham answered that the “The Lord will provide”.
Abraham bound Isaac to the top of the wood and took out his knife, fully prepared to make Isaac the sacrifice.
At that point the “Angel of the Lord” spoke to him from Heaven saying” “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.” Gen 22
1,800 to two thousand years later, Jesus Christ went to the cross. God did not intervene to save His son as He had done for Abraham and Isaac.
Because God did not intervene and prevent it, the Lord Jesus Christ became our sacrifice for sins, and he was the ultimate answer to Isaac’s question: “where is the lamb for the offering”?
“Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perishes, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.” Isaiah 29
Amen.
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