But First, A Little Bit About Me
• Don Johnson
• Resident of New Haven, CT for 4+ years, before that most of my adult life
in Southern California.
• BA in Math, minor in physics, but have long ago forgotten what I learned.
• A “software developer” for close to 40 years, with most of that developing
software for automated warehouses and the “Top Gun” combat aircrew
training systems.
• An atheist/evolutionist from roughly age 20 to age 36 when I became a
Christian.
• Struggled much with this strange new idea of “In the beginning God
created the heavens and the Earth.”
• “ …the “Big Bang” was an inevitable consequence of the laws of
physics.” Stephen Hawking
• “ … tiny quantum fluctuations in the very early universe became
the seeds from which galaxies, stars, and ultimately human life
emerged” Stephen Hawking
• “Creation … , really does amount to something complicated
springing spontaneously into existence”. Richard Dawkins
• If you look at the universe and study the universe, what you find is
that there is no evidence that we need anything other than the
laws of physics and the other laws of science to explain everything
we see. There's absolutely no evidence that we need any
supernatural hand of god. -- Lawrence Krauss, World-Renowned Physicist
• This is the thinking common in the culture
today, and is being taught to the younger
generations.
Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss are
among the worlds foremost evolutionary scientists. They are
atheists, and are among the most visible and ardent proponents
of Darwinian evolution and atheism in todays culture.
But is it true?
And Why Does It Matter?
Lets Look At The
Laws of Physics
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Newton’s Three Laws of Motion:
“Law” of Gravity:
Conservation of Mass-Energy:
Conservation of Momentum:
Laws of Thermodynamics:
Electrostatic Laws:
Invariance of the Speed of Light:
And Ask Yourself
a Few Questions
• Do these laws explain a method, a mechanism
or a formula for producing a universe?
or
• Do these laws describe an already existent
universe?
Now Lets Look At the
Various Constants We
Find In The Universe
Constants in the category ” Universal
constants “
characteristic impedance of vacuum
electric constant
magnetic constant
Newtonian constant of gravitation
Newtonian constant of gravitation over h-bar c
Planck constant
Planck constant in eV s
Planck constant over 2 pi
Planck constant over 2 pi in eV s
Planck constant over 2 pi times c in MeV fm
Planck length
Planck mass
Planck mass energy equivalent in GeV
Planck temperature
Planck time
speed of light in vacuum
Constants in the category ”
Electromagnetic constants “
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Bohr magneton
Bohr magneton in eV/T
Bohr magneton in Hz/T
Bohr magneton in inverse meters per tesla
Bohr magneton in K/T
conductance quantum
elementary charge
elementary charge over h
inverse of conductance quantum
Josephson constant
magnetic flux quantum
nuclear magneton
nuclear magneton in eV/T
nuclear magneton in inverse meters per tesla
nuclear magneton in K/T
nuclear magneton in MHz/T
von Klitzing constant
Constants in the category ” Atomic
and
nuclear
constants
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alpha particle mass
alpha particle mass energy equivalent
alpha particle mass energy equivalent in MeV
alpha particle mass in u
alpha particle molar mass
alpha particle-electron mass ratio
alpha particle-proton mass ratio
Bohr radius
classical electron radius
Compton wavelength
Compton wavelength over 2 pi
deuteron g factor
deuteron magnetic moment
deuteron magnetic moment to Bohr magneton ratio
deuteron magnetic moment to nuclear magneton ratio
deuteron mass
deuteron mass energy equivalent
deuteron mass energy equivalent in MeV
deuteron mass in u
Just a Sampling … You Don’t Have to
Understand It
Constants in the category ” Atomic
and nuclear constants “ (continued)
deuteron molar mass
deuteron rms charge radius
deuteron-electron magnetic moment ratio
deuteron-electron mass ratio
deuteron-neutron magnetic moment ratio
deuteron-proton magnetic moment ratio
deuteron-proton mass ratio
electron charge to mass quotient
electron g factor
electron gyromagnetic ratio
electron gyromagnetic ratio over 2 pi
electron magnetic moment
electron magnetic moment anomaly
electron magnetic moment to Bohr magneton ratio
Constants in the category ” Atomic
and nuclear constants “ (continued)
electron magnetic moment to nuclear magneton ratio
electron mass
electron mass energy equivalent
electron mass energy equivalent in MeV
electron mass in u
electron molar mass
electron to alpha particle mass ratio
electron to shielded helion magnetic moment ratio
electron to shielded proton magnetic moment ratio
electron-deuteron magnetic moment ratio
electron-deuteron mass ratio
electron-helion mass ratio
electron-muon magnetic moment ratio
electron-muon mass ratio
Constants in the category ” Atomic
and nuclear constants “ (continued)
electron-neutron magnetic moment ratio
electron-neutron mass ratio
electron-proton magnetic moment ratio
electron-proton mass ratio
electron-tau mass ratio
electron-triton mass ratio
Fermi coupling constant
fine-structure constant
Hartree energy
Hartree energy in eV
helion g factor
helion magnetic moment
helion magnetic moment to Bohr magneton ratio
helion magnetic moment to nuclear magneton ratio
helion mass
helion mass energy equivalent
helion mass energy equivalent in MeV
Another Sampling … Again, You Don’t
Have to Understand It
Constants in the category ” Atomic
and nuclear constants “ (continued)
helion mass in u
helion molar mass
helion-electron mass ratio
helion-proton mass ratio
inverse fine-structure constant
muon Compton wavelength
muon Compton wavelength over 2 pi
muon g factor
muon magnetic moment
muon magnetic moment anomaly
muon magnetic moment to Bohr magneton ratio
muon magnetic moment to nuclear magneton ratio
muon mass
muon mass energy equivalent
muon mass energy equivalent in MeV
muon mass in u
muon molar mass
muon-electron mass ratio
muon-neutron mass ratio
muon-proton magnetic moment ratio
muon-proton mass ratio
muon-tau mass ratio
Constants in the category ” Atomic
and nuclear constants “ (continued)
neutron Compton wavelength
neutron Compton wavelength over 2 pi
neutron g factor
neutron gyromagnetic ratio
neutron gyromagnetic ratio over 2 pi
neutron magnetic moment
neutron magnetic moment to Bohr magneton ratio
neutron magnetic moment to nuclear magneton ratio
neutron mass
neutron mass energy equivalent
neutron mass energy equivalent in MeV
neutron mass in u
neutron molar mass
neutron to shielded proton magnetic moment ratio
neutron-electron magnetic moment ratio
Constants in the category ” Atomic
and nuclear constants “ (continued)
neutron-electron mass ratio
neutron-muon mass ratio
neutron-proton magnetic moment ratio
neutron-proton mass difference
neutron-proton mass difference energy equivalent
neutron-proton mass difference energy equivalent in MeV
neutron-proton mass difference in u
neutron-proton mass ratio
neutron-tau mass ratio
proton charge to mass quotient
proton Compton wavelength
proton Compton wavelength over 2 pi
proton g factor
proton gyromagnetic ratio
proton gyromagnetic ratio over 2 pi
proton magnetic moment
proton magnetic moment to Bohr magneton ratio
proton magnetic moment to nuclear magneton ratio
proton magnetic shielding correction
proton mass
proton mass energy equivalent
proton mass energy equivalent in MeV
proton mass in u
Constants in the category ” Atomic
and nuclear constants “ (continued)
proton molar mass
proton rms charge radius
proton-electron mass ratio
proton-muon mass ratio
proton-neutron magnetic moment ratio
proton-neutron mass ratio
proton-tau mass ratio
quantum of circulation
quantum of circulation times 2
Rydberg constant
Rydberg constant times c in Hz
Rydberg constant times hc in eV
Rydberg constant times hc in J
shielded helion gyromagnetic ratio
shielded helion gyromagnetic ratio over 2 pi
shielded helion magnetic moment
shielded helion magnetic moment to Bohr magneton ratio
Constants in the category ” Atomic
and nuclear constants “ (continued)
shielded helion magnetic moment to nuclear magneton ratio
shielded helion to proton magnetic moment ratio
shielded helion to shielded proton magnetic moment ratio
shielded proton gyromagnetic ratio
shielded proton gyromagnetic ratio over 2 pi
shielded proton magnetic moment
shielded proton magnetic moment to Bohr magneton ratio
shielded proton magnetic moment to nuclear magneton ratio
tau Compton wavelength
tau Compton wavelength over 2 pi
tau mass
tau mass energy equivalent
tau mass energy equivalent in MeV
tau mass in u
tau molar mass
tau-electron mass ratio
tau-muon mass ratio
tau-neutron mass ratio
tau-proton mass ratio
Constants in the category ” Atomic
and nuclear constants “ (continued)
Thomson cross section
triton g factor
triton magnetic moment
triton magnetic moment to Bohr magneton ratio
triton magnetic moment to nuclear magneton ratio
triton mass
triton mass energy equivalent
triton mass energy equivalent in MeV
triton mass in u
triton molar mass
triton-electron mass ratio
triton-proton mass ratio
weak mixing angle
Constants in the category ” Physicochemical constants “
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atomic mass constant
atomic mass constant energy equivalent
atomic mass constant energy equivalent in MeV
Avogadro constant
Boltzmann constant
Boltzmann constant in eV/K
Boltzmann constant in Hz/K
Boltzmann constant in inverse meters per kelvin
Faraday constant
first radiation constant
first radiation constant for spectral radiance
Loschmidt constant (273.15 K, 100 kPa)
Loschmidt constant (273.15 K, 101.325 kPa)
molar gas constant
molar Planck constant
molar Planck constant times c
molar volume of ideal gas (273.15 K, 100 kPa)
molar volume of ideal gas (273.15 K, 101.325 kPa)
Sackur-Tetrode constant (1 K, 100 kPa)
Sackur-Tetrode constant (1 K, 101.325 kPa)
second radiation constant
Stefan-Boltzmann constant
Wien frequency displacement law constant
Wien wavelength displacement law constant
So science has identified something on the order of 230 constants
relevant to our known universe.
And it is claimed that these constants and laws are finely tuned such
that even a small change in any of them would make life as we know it
impossible.
Again the questions.
• Do these constants explain a method, a mechanism or a formula
that would cause a universe to come into existence?
or
• Do these constants describe and constrain an already existent
universe?
Machines in Our Cells
• Now take a look at some of the Molecular
Machines in our cells that Scientists Have
Argued Show Irreducible Complexity. For
brevity’s sake I have listed only the names of
the machines, but have left a few descriptions
to whet your appetite (Note: Not all of the
items listed exist in human cells, nor do they
exist in all cells). My thanks to Casey Luskin of
Discovery Institute for this list.
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1. Bacterial Flagellum:
2. Eukaryotic Cilium:
4. Blood clotting cascade:
5. Ribosome:
6. Antibodies and the Adaptive Immune System:
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II. Additional Molecular Machines
7. Spliceosome:
8. F0F1 ATP Synthase:
9. Bacteriorhdopsin: 10. Myosin:
11. Kinesin Motor:
12. Tim/Tom Systems:
13. Calcium Pump:
• 14. Cytochrome C Oxidase:
15. Proteosome: The proteosome is a large molecular machine whose
parts must be must be carefully assembled in a particular order. For
example, the 26S proteosome has 33 distinct subunits which enable it to
perform its function to degrade and destroy proteins that have been
misfolded in the cell or otherwise tagged for destruction.50 One paper
suggested that a particular eukaryotic proteasome “is the core complex of
an energy-dependent protein degradation machinery that equals the
protein synthesis machinery in its complexity.”51
16. Cohesin:
17. Condensin:
18. ClpX:
19. Immunological Synapse: .56
20. Glideosome:
21. Kex2:
22. Hsp70:
23. Hsp60:
24. Protein Kinase C:
• 25. SecYEG PreProtein Translocation Channel: 26. Hemoglobin:
27. T4 DNA Packaging Motor:
28. Smc5/Smc6:
29. Cytplasmic Dynein: Cytplasmic dynein is a machine involved with
cargo transport and movement cell that functions like a motor with a
“power stroke.”70 In particular, it transports nuclei in fungi and neurons in
mammalian brains.71
30. Mitotic Spindle Machine:
31. DNA Polymerase:
32. RNA Polymerase: Like its DNA polymerase counterpart, the function of
the RNA polymerase is to create a messenger RNA strand from a DNA
template strand. Called “a huge factory with many moving parts,”78 it is a
“directional machine and, indeed, as a molecular motor” where it
functions “as a dynamic, fluctuating, molecular motor capable of
producing force and torque.”79
33. Kinetochore:
• 34. MRX Complex:
35. Apoptosome / Caspase:
36. Type III Secretory System:
37. Type II Secretion Apparatus:
38. Helicase/Topoisomerase Machine: The helicase and topoisomerase
machines work together to properly unwrap or unzip DNA prior to
transcription of DNA into mRNA or DNA replication.90 Topoisomerase
performs this function by cutting one DNA strand and then holding on to
the other while the cut strand unwinds.91
39. RNA degradasome:
40. Photosynthetic system: The processes that plants use to convert light
into chemical energy a type of molecular machines.95 For example,
photosystem 1 contains over three dozen proteins and many chlorophyll
and other molecules which convert light energy into useful energy in the
cell. “Antenna” molecules help increase the amount of light absorbed.96
Many complex molecules are necessary for this pathway to function
properly.
Now Compare Two Accounts of
Creation
• “ … tiny quantum fluctuations in the very early universe
became the seeds from which galaxies, stars, and ultimately
human life emerged”
• “In the Beginning God created the heavens and the Earth”
Quantum fluctuation is the temporary appearance of energetic particles out of
nothing, as allowed by the Uncertainty Principle.
• “… pairs appear, lead a brief existence, and then annihilate
one another …?”
 This … this is what created the universe, galaxies, stars, planets and the
myriads of life forms on our own earth?
 This … this is what ultimately created human creativity and intellect? Music?
Literature? Architecture? Art? Culture? Family? the scientific method?
 Pairs appear … and then annihilate one another? Does this process lend itself
to the creation of the enormous and dense information contained in the DNA
molecule?
Does this seem to you to be a strong argument for
evolution as the cause of all things … seen and unseen?
Or Does This Make More Sense?
Psalm 19
For the director of music. A psalm of David.
The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.
In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.
It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
like a champion rejoicing to run his course.
It rises at one end of the heavens
and makes its circuit to the other;
nothing is deprived of its warmth.
• My Own 35+ years of developing complex software on multiple
connected systems tells me that complex and interrelated systems
do not occur by chance … no matter the time frame.
Aircraft Computers
GPS
Tracking Pod Computers
Dozens of programmed computers containing
hundreds or thousands of micro-circuits; each
designed manufactured and tested;
individually and as a system.
Yet nowhere near as complex as you or I.
Display & Debriefing
Computers
Range communications
systems
So Which Is It?
Or This? The God Hypotheses
The first verse of the Bible identifies who God is. He is
the Creator, not an idea, not a moral standard, etc.; He
is the Creator. All of Scripture agrees and supports that
point. The Bible begins that way, and continues on
through the Psalms (Psalm 19:1 says, ‘The heavens
declare the glory of God and the firmament shows His
handiwork.’) the epistles (Colossians 1:16-17), and the
last book of the Bible (Revelation 4:11 says, ‘Thou are
worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power:
for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure
they are and were created.’). Thus the concept of literal
creation identifies the Creator.
Donald Chittick, Ph.D
Creationist Physical Chemist (USA)
http://creation.com/what-is-biblical-creation-and-why-is-it-important
The second point is that creation identifies man. Man is
not just a body, a stack of chemicals, as it were, which
arrived by natural processes. Yes, man does have a
body, but he also has a mind and a spirit (Genesis 1:2627 says, ‘And God said, Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over
the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God
created man in his own image, in the image of God
created he him; male and female created he them.’).
Man is in the personality image of the Creator.
Donald Chittick, Ph.D
Creationist Physical Chemist (USA)
http://creation.com/what-is-biblical-creation-and-why-is-it-important
The third point is that creation is the basis of the
Gospel. Man was created perfect, but in Genesis
3 we have the account of the Fall. Man was
tempted to substitute his own autonomous truth
standard for the Creator’s absolute. Up until the
Fall, the Creator’s Word was the test and
standard for truth. The Creator said, ‘Don’t eat
this fruit.’
Donald Chittick, Ph.D
Creationist Physical Chemist (USA)
http://creation.com/what-is-biblical-creation-and-why-is-it-important
You may believe in the Biblical Creation as the answer to “why are we here?”
Or
You may believe in Darwinian Evolution as the answer to “why are we here?”
BUT
If you have kids or grandkids in a public high school, they are learning Darwinian
Evolution.
• In their coursework.
• From teachers.
• From their friends.
• From the media.
Even if they go to church.
And they are learning it as truth!
You may believe in the Biblical Creation as the answer to “why are we here?”
Or
You may believe in Darwinian Evolution as the answer to “why are we here?”
BUT
If you have kids or grandkids in a public university, they are learning Darwinian
Evolution.
• In their coursework.
Waiting line for
• From professors and teachers.
Hawking event at
• From their friends and peers.
Caltech
• From the media.
Even if they go to church.
And they are learning it as truth, and will not hear a clear presentation of
evidence that counters evolution!
If they have a Biblical/Creationist world view they will be denigrated by
professors and peers.
You should not be surprised when they reject a Biblical/Creationist world view
you thought they held, and you should not be surprised when they reject your
values and instead adopt “the values of a week ago last Thursday”.
Atheism is much like locking yourself in a cave with no windows, but a door.
Inside the cave there is a strong and long standing taboo about that door: Do
not go near that door! Do not open that door, even just a crack!
The type of science that an atheist (mis)uses searches in all of the corners of
the cave looking for God (or god if you prefer) and not finding him concludes
that there is no such thing since he … it …them can’t be found in the cave.
Then one day a brave soul decides to open the door to see what is outside.
Outside of the cave he finds many wonderful, mysterious and interesting
things, and then proceeds to seek and discover more about them and who
might have created these things. He seeks answers more fully in ways …
spiritual (i.e. the Bible) … in reflective thought … and by science …in
examining the created things he has discovered outside of the cave.
Since God exists beyond time and space, He will never be discovered or
proved using scientific methods.
Dare to open the door and see what lies beyond; you may be amazed at what
you find.
Don Johnson — September 2012
But is it true?
Discussion
An explanation of the Creation or Evolution of everything there is must satisfy:
* The original creation of the universe
* The creation of all physical laws & constants
* The creation of life from non-life
* The creation of mind and thought
Some References
I have gathered up some information on Creation/Intelligent
Design/Evolution/Atheism here for your convenience.
http://whomadegod.org/
http://www.uncommondescent.com/
http://www.icr.org/
http://www.discovery.org/
http://www.answersingenesis.org/
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/
http://sciencebasedlife.wordpress.com/
Some good preaching by Louie Giglio
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Some References
And some of my own thoughts on the matter
http://ayearningforpublius.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/creation-vs-evolution-revisited/
http://ayearningforpublius.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/professional-evolutionists-they-arenot-all-that-smart/
http://ayearningforpublius.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/did-the-universe-create-itself/
http://ayearningforpublius.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/speeding-up-the-radioactive-decay-ofan-isotope/
http://ayearningforpublius.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/marco-rubio-and-the-age-of-the-earth/
http://ayearningforpublius.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/atheism/
http://ayearningforpublius.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/the-origins-of-the-universe-simple-orcomplex-your-choice-part-1/
http://ayearningforpublius.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/the-origins-of-the-universe-simple-orcomplex-part-2-the-problem-of-massively-complex-synchronicity/
http://ayearningforpublius.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/darwin-and-baseball/
http://ayearningforpublius.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/the-4-universe/
Thanks For Your Kind Attention
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