Argument For the Existence of God, Cosmological and Teleological

1. GENESIS
What do you think of when you think of Genesis?

2. THE FIVE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL
QUESTIONS IN LIFE
1. Origin:Where did we come from?
2. Identity:Who are we?
3. Meaning:Why are we here?
4. Morality: How should we live?
5. Destiny:Where are we going?
Geisler, Norman L.;Turek, Frank (2004-03-12). I Don't Have Enough Faith to
Be an Atheist (Foreword by David Limbaugh) (Kindle Locations 284-288).
Crossway. Kindle Edition.

3. BIG IDEAS FROM GENESIS LAST
WEEK
God is our source
We were made for Relationships,
Vulnerable, open, without duplicity and without brokenness or
breach
God is the Boss
God had set up Roles or Boundaries between him and us.

4. BIG IDEAS FROM GENESIS LAST
WEEK
Gods Role was to be in Control, Our roles was to yield to God’s
Control of the world and to control our selves.
Gods Role was to be the source, our role was to depend on the
source
God is the Judge of Life, we were to experience life.
God Made the rules,We were to obey them

5. GENESIS ALSO SAYS
God created everything from nothing
He Ordered it and designed it all
What does science say about this?
Why do we study this today, how does this help you?
It tells us about who God is
It helps us share the gospel with confidence
It helps us defend against heresy

6. IRRITATING FACTS
In 1916 most of the scientists believed in a static universe.A universe
that was always there and will always be there, unchanging.
Einstein Developed his Theory of General Relativity and in it
developed equations that indicated that the universe was expanding
from a single point. So he added a “fudge factor” to show the universe
was static.
In 1919 Arthur Eddington conducted an experiment proving the
General theory of relativity. He wrote:“Philosophically, the notion of a
beginning of the present order of nature is repugnant to me… I
should like to find a genuine loophole.”

7. IRRITATING FACTS
In 1927 William Hubble discovered a red shift from every
observable galaxy which proved the Universe was expanding
from a single point in the distant past.
After visiting with Hubble, Einstein said that he wanted “To know
how God created the world. I am not interested in this or that
phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to
know His thought, the rest are details.”

8. THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
1. Psalm 19,“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies
proclaim the work of his hands.”
2. “‘ To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?’ says the
Holy One” (40: 25).The answer is in the next verse:“Lift your
eyes and look to the heavens” (v. 26).
3. Isaiah goes on to say that God knows all of heaven’s stars by
name!

9. THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
JOB 38
Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.
“Where were you when I laid
the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand
Who marked off its
dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring
line across it?
On what were its footings
set,
or who laid its
cornerstone—
while the morning stars sang
together
and all the angels[a]
shouted for joy?

10. THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
1. Everything that had a beginning had a cause.
2. The Universe had a beginning
3. Therefore the Universe had a cause.

11. THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
EVERYTHINGTHAT HAD A BEGINNING HAD A CAUSE.
Premise 1 is based on the “Law of Causality” the foundation of all
of science.
Science is the study of causes.
If there is one thing we have observed about the universe, it’s
that things don’t happen without a cause.
If the Universe had a beginning then there must have been a
cause

12. S.U.R.G.ETHE EVIDENCETHERE
WAS A BEGINNING
The universe has a beginning
The universe has an end.

13. S.U.R.G.E
S- Second Law of Thermodynamics
The Universe has a finite amount of energy and it is running
out of it.
Entropy says that nature tends to bring things to disorder. If we
are becoming more disordered, where did the original order
come from?
Because we have limited order and energy, then if the universe
was eternal then we would be out of both.Therefore it had a
beginning.

14. S.U.R.G.E
U - The Universe is Expanding and therefore we can predict going back into time
until the universe shrinks into nothing.
Before the Big Bang there was nothing.There was not time, nor space or matter.
The universe did not come from existing matter, there was none. It was created
from nothing.
It did not occur in a point in time because there was no time.
It did not occur in space because space only exists inside of the Universe.
As the Universe expands, it is not expanding into space but expanding space
itself.
The cause of this Universe exists outside of Time, space and matter.
The cause of our Universe is therefore eternal because you need time to have a
beginning and an end.

15. S.U.R.G.E
R- Radiation from the Big Bang
In 1965 Penzias and Wilson discovered that everywhere they looked in the
Universe there was a low level of Radiation. It appeared to be everywhere.
In 1948 Scientist predicted that this Radiation would exist if there was a
Big Bang
No explanation other than the Big Bang has been found for the fireball radiation.
The clincher, which has convinced almost the last DoubtingThomas, is that the
radiation discovered by Penzias andWilson has exactly the pattern of
wavelengths expected for the light and heat produced in a great explosion.
Supporters of the steady state theory have tried desperately to find an
alternative explanation, but they have failed.At the present time, the Big Bang
theory has no competitors.

17. S.U.R.G.E
R- Great Galaxy Seeds
in 1989 NASA Launched COBE to see if there were (as predicted)
variances in temperature, where matter could coalesce and begin
forming Galaxies
The Ripples were found but what was amazing was their precision.
The ripples show that the explosion and expansion was precisely
tweaked to cause just enough matter to congregate but keep the
Universe from collapsing back on itself.
The ripples are so exact (down to one part in one hundred thousand)
that Smoot, the project leader, called them the “machining marks from
the creation of the universe” and the “fingerprints of the maker.”

19. S.U.R.G.E
E- Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
It demands an absolute beginning for time, space, and matter.
It shows that time, space, and matter are co-relative.That is, they are
interdependent— you can’t have one without the others.
“Now we see how the astronomical evidence leads to a biblical view of the
origin of the world.The details differ, but the essential elements in the
astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same: the chain of
events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite
moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.”
“God and the Astronomers” Written by Robert Jastrow,Astronomer,
Founder of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Head of Mount
Wilson home of Edwin Hubble’s discoveries.Agnostic

20. S.U.R.G.E
E- Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
“Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they
have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of
creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living
thing in this cosmos and on the earth.And they have found that all this happened
as a product of forces they cannot hope to discover. . . .That there are what I or
anyone would call supernatural forces at work is now, I think, a scientifically
proven fact.”
The Big Bang was the beginning point for the entire physical universe.Time, space,
and matter came into existence at that point.There was no natural world or
natural law prior to the Big Bang. Since a cause cannot come after its effect,
natural forces cannot account for the Big Bang.Therefore, there must be
something outside of nature to do the job.That’s exactly what the word
supernatural means.

21. COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
There are only two possibilities for anything that exists:
1) it has always existed and is therefore uncaused
2) it had a beginning and was caused by something else
According to the overwhelming evidence, the universe had a
beginning, so it must be caused by something else— by
something outside itself.

22. COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
Characteristics of the First Cause based on the evidence we’ve discussed
Self-existent, timeless, non-spatial, and immaterial (since the First Cause
created time, space, and matter, the First Cause must be outside of
time, space, and matter). In other words, he is without limits, or infinite
Unimaginably powerful, to create the entire universe out of nothing;
Supremely intelligent, to design the universe with such incredible
precision
Personal, in order to choose to convert a state of nothingness into the
time-space-material universe (an impersonal force has no ability to
make choices).

23. TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
Roman 1:20
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his
eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being
understood from what has been made, so that people are
without excuse.

24. TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
Every Design had a designer
The universe has a highly complex design.
Therefore, the universe had a Designer

25. TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
ANTHROPIC CONSTANTS
Oxygen Levels
Atmospheric Transparency
Moon Earth Gravitational
Constant
Carbon Dioxide Level
Gravity
Centrifugal Force
ConstantVelocity of Light
WaterVapor Levels
Jupiters Size and current
orbit
Thickness of earth’s crust
Rate of Rotation of earth
23 degree tilt of the earth
Lightning rate
Seismic activity

26. TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
There are 122 Constants in all.
There are assumed 10 to the 22nd power planets
There is a one in 10 to 138th power chance that a planet would
have all 122 constants.
There are only 10 to 70th power atoms in the universe.

27. TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
You don’t need anyone to tell you that something beautifully
designed requires a designer. It’s practically self-evident.
Nevertheless, let’s state the argument formally again:
1. Every design had a designer.
2.As verified by the Anthropic Principle, we know beyond a
reasonable doubt that the universe is designed.
3.Therefore, the universe had a Designer.
There’s no plausible explanation for the Anthropic Principle other
than a Cosmic Designer.

28. THE BIGGER ARGUMENT
5. Miracles confirm a message from God
6.The New Testament is historically reliable.
Early testimony, Eyewitness testimony,
Uninvented (authentic) testimony,
Eyewitnesses who were not deceived
7. Jesus claimed to be God.
8. Jesus’ claim to be God was miraculously
confirmed by:
His fulfillment of many prophecies about
himself; His sinless life and miraculous
deeds; His prediction and accomplishment
of his resurrection.
9.Therefore, Jesus is God.
1.Truth about reality is knowable.
2.The opposite of true is false.
3. It is true that the theistic God exists.
This is evidenced by the:
a. Beginning of the universe
(Cosmological Argument)
b. Design of the universe
(Teleological Argument/ Anthropic
Principle)
c. Design of life (Teleological Argument)
d. Moral Law (Moral Argument)

29. REFLECTION
Based on this information, how do you see God different?
How different from us is God?
How similar are we to God?
When given the opportunity to help others to believe in God,
how would you proceed?
What have you seen be effective in helping others come to a
saving knowledge of God?