Proofs of God
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Moral
• Not all things permissible (Sartre)• Objective yardstick (Aquinas)
- The World, Moses, Jesus vs Relativism
• Obligations exceed law (Adams)– Set in the conscience (Rom 2:15) – Constrain us (2 Thes 2:7)
“You find out more about God from the Moral Law than
from the universe in general just as you find out more
about a man by listening to his conversation than by
looking at his house.”
Design
Was the Ferrari designed? How do we
know? If we see another copy, will we
confirm a designer and maker?
Paley analogical model
A watch is found on an uninhabited planet
Design• Empirical – male & female, water, immunity, bacteria, DNA
• Fine-tuning – solar constant/proximity, orbits, rotation, expansion
• Irreducible complexity - clotting, eye (absurd), flagella (40 parts)
• Designed is simple. Evolved is complex, with many exceptions
1: 10130 = odds of universe forming
How long would they take to
reproduce the works of
Shakespeare?
Cosmological1000 monkeys randomly type
10600 - Years to Hamlet
1080 - Atoms in Universe
1:15bn - To type
“banana”
1 rule - Sonnet in
372x
4 rules - Universe
Cosmological
• Cause (Kalam) – whatever exists has cause to exist – universe exists
• Can something come from nothing? (Lane-Craig)- 1st cause is personal, exceeds effect (Aristotle, Plato)
• Thermodynamics predicts an external cause, a beginning- All point north, to a start. Infinity illogical. Besides, it gets dark.