The Reality Check of Cause and Effect

Christopher Merola 6-5-16

Law of Cause and Effect (causality):

Every material effect must have a cause!

Something caused this…

Theism: A spaceless, timeless, immaterial,

powerful, moral, personal, intelligent Being is the

cause of reality.

Atheism: No God exists. All that exists is

materialism; atoms, molecules.

So much of reality is immaterial: love, justice, compassion, ethics, morality, music, imagination,

truth, spirituality, natural law, etc.

• So much of reality is immaterial – not made of matter

• Not natural - but supernatural!

• Theism better explains reality.

1. No One Created Something

Out Of Nothing – Atheism

2. Someone Created Something Out Of Nothing -- Theism

Frank Turek – Science Confirms Biblical Creation True

IF THE UNIVERSE HAD A BEGINNING…

3 Arguments for God as Creator:

Cosmological: The Universe Had a Beginning Teleological: The Universe Was Designed Moral: The Moral Law

“With the proof now in place, cosmologists can no longer hide behind the possibility of a past-eternal universe. There is now no escape, they have to face the problem of a cosmic beginning.”

“Almost everyone now believes that the universe, and time itself, had a beginning at the Big Bang.”

Physicist Paul Davies

Arizona State University

“The big bang represents the creation event; the creation not only of all the matter and energy in the universe, but also of spacetime itself.”

Robert Jastrow, founder of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies

"Now we see how the astronomical evidence supports the Biblical view of the origin of the world…the essential elements in the astronomical and Biblical accounts of Genesis are the same."

Jastrow continued… "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 mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."

Frank Turek – Precision of Universe Proves Design

INCREDIBLE PRECISION

“If the expansion rate of the universe was different by one part in a thousand, million, million a second after the big bang, the universe would have collapsed back on itself or never developed galaxies.”

DISCOVERED THE RADIATION AFTERGLOW: “Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, one with the very delicate balance needed to provide exactly the right conditions required to permit life, and one which has an underlying, one might say ‘supernatural,’ plan.”

Frank Turek –Design Obvious But Atheists Claim Luck

Atheists Have No such luck! Law of Cause and Effect (causality): Every material effect must have a cause!

The God Question… “If everything had to have a beginning, why does God have no beginning?” The law of cause and effect states that every material effect must have a cause. God is not material or natural, but supernatural; not bound by nature or natural law. God is outside of nature, space, time, matter and energy.

Frank Turek – Dawkins Hypocrisy and Blame Shift on Design

“Professing to be wise they became fools.” (Romans 1:22) -Quantum Leap Theory -Desert in Oregon

Cause and Effect – Making Atheists Head Explode