So we went to Lincoln School on Sunday night. We played sardines and just hung out. It was really fun, and the most amazing thing happened. At one point after playing a round of sardines we were swinging and I decided to just leave and go sit in the field and watch the stars. I started timing to see how long it would be for my friends to follow and then just watched the stars…..oh and started praying. In under 30 seconds I saw a shooting star. Now you might think I’m crazy, but I think that it wasn’t just a coincidence. Then again do you think anything is really a coincidence? Like the earth. Our world? Our universe?

An Oxford physicist Roger Penrose once was talking about a parameter of our universe called the “original phase-space volume” just this one parameter he said would require fine-tuning to an accuracy of one part in 10 billion times itself one hundred and twenty three times. Penrose said later that it would be impossible to write down that number in full. Because it would have more zeroes than the number of elementary particles in the whole universe. Now that’s just ONE parameter, and there are more. So can you really say that it’s just a coincidence that the universe came together? In the book I’m currently reading puts it like this.

Let’s say we were to go to another planet, say Mars and find a enclosed biosphere. Now this biosphere has multiple dials, buttons and switches. So you find this and all the dials are set randomly, but to contain life the have to be set just right, every single one of them. Let’s say that you leave without touching them and a year later you come back, but this time you look at the dials and you see they have all been changed. Not just changed but changed so that every single one of them is at just the right setting. What would you think? Would you think that they had just coincidently been set to that, or would you think that an Alien life form had come and set it. Or something/someone had set it. Coincidence? I think not. Now apply this to the real universe with way more settings, dials, parameters, etc. Can you say it’s a coincidence, that it just sprung up out of no-where? Evolution? The big bang? I doubt it. In fact I know it’s not true.

There is in Intelligent Designer and his name is Jesus Christ. He died for everyones sins, and then his disciples died for this belief. They believed him and most of them died for it. Would you die for something you didn’t believe? They did and they believed the Bible including Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth” Coincidence? I think not.