Q&A: Veritas 2020 #34 The Universe is Finely Tuned for Life (36:44)

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  1. What are some things we can sense with our physical senses that remind us that the universe has an awesome Creator, Designer, Artist, Engineer?
    Stars on a moonless night away from light pollution. Sunrises and Sunsets. Thunderstorms.
  2. How did secularists react to these awesome things?
    They convinced themselves they could explain them without God. They claimed it only “appeared to be” designed
  3. Why are so few scientists who understand creation found on faculties of colleges and universities?
    Secularist faculties have control and generally hire only other faculty members who will agree with them
  4. To what did Isaac Newton compare himself that illustrates his understanding of the vastness and glory of the universe?
    A child playing on the seashore of a vast ocean
  5. How did Charles Darwin further confuse the issue?
    By trying to explain life without God in “Origin of Species”
  6. What did God do to allow men to see more of His amazing creation?
    Allowed Leon Foucault to discover how to silver mirrors so men could build bigger and more powerful telescopes and by allowing molecular biologists to begin to understand life on a molecular level
  7. How many stars are in our Milky Way?
    ~100 billion
  8. How long does it take an average star to produce enough energy to power a major city for a year?
    One billionth of a second
  9. How many galaxies are in the known universe?
    100 Billion to 1 Trillion
  10. What problem does the existence of spiral galaxies cause cosmologists?
    They rotate faster near their cores. Over Billions of years they should be twisted beyond recognition
  11. What is amazing about the earth’s location in our galaxy?
    It’s located away from the deadly radiation that are given off in parts of our galaxy. It’s located away from brilliant light so that the universe can be observed.
  12. How did God stabilize our climate so that life can exist?
    He tilted it on its axis to a precise degree
  13. How did God provide for the oceans to be oxygenated so that life could exist on earth?
    He placed the moon in exactly the right place and gave it precisely the correct mass to control tides perfectly.
  14. What is the significance of the size and distance of the moon from earth compared to the size and distance of the sun from earth?
    The sun is 400 times farther away and 400 times larger. This allows perfect total eclipses during which scientists can learn more about the universe.
  15. How did God make sure it would not be too hot or too cold for life on earth?
    He placed it at exactly the right distance from the sun
  16. What is the significance of God placing the giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn outside the earth’s orbit?
    Their strong gravitational tend to pull space debris away from earth’s orbit and prevents collisions
  17. How did God arrange for photosynthesis to occur on earth?
    He made the sun the exact right color
  18. What is the significance of God’s choice for the gravitational constant?
    If it were weaker, stars and planets could not hold together. If it were stronger, they would burn up.
  19. What is the significance of God’s choice for the electromagnetic constant?
    If it were slightly different, chemical bonds could not occur. 
  20. What is the significance of God’s choice for the strong nuclear force constant?
    If it were different, elements necessary for life couldn’t exist. They would fall apart.
  21. What is the significance of God’s choice for the weak nuclear force constant?
    If it were slightly different, stars could not form.
  22. How did God engineer the universe so that it would not collapse in on itself or fly apart?
    He precisely engineered the cosmological constant
  23. How fine tuned does the cosmological constant have to be to keep the universe stabilized?
    To one part in 10 to the 120th power.
  24. Approximately how many atoms are there in the entire universe?
    10 to the 80th power
  25. Why has God let us discover these things?
    So we could see clearly that it had to have been designed and engineered with incredible precision. So that there can be no excuse for trying to explain the universe without Him.
  26. What does God call people who try to ignore these things and try to pretend He doesn’t exist?
    Fools
  27. What did the British Astrophysicist, Dr Paul Davies conclude about all these things?
    “It seems as though Somebody has fine-tuned nature’s numbers to make the Universe….The impression of design is overwhelming”
  28. What did NASA astronomer, Dr. John O’Keefe conclude?
    “It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.”
  29. What did Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Arno Penzias conclude?
    “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 conditions required to permit life, and one which has an underlying (one might say ‘supernatural’) plan.”