Evidence for God’s existence

Ok there are three types of evidence or proof:

1.      Mathematical

2.      Scientific

3.      Personal

I’ll deal with all of these in turn, and try and keep it brief, so if you think I’ve not covered anything in enough detail or that due to lack of detail I’m trying to bluff my way though this then please tell me and I’ll write something on that topic that is a lot more detailed.

So then number one, mathematical....

Ok, there isn’t a formula or anything (well not to my knowledge) proving God, this is because with current pure maths, it can only prove something within its domain, and God is out of this world and so not within the mathematical domain, so maths can neither prove nor disprove God with a formula.

So we move onto statistics, which might I say is the most boring part of maths ever, all you do is number crunch, but might I add those numbers are facts and can’t be argued with.

Here is one case:

Researchers in California started out with about 400 patients recovering from heart problems. Half the patients received prayer (from a distance), the other half didn’t. Nobody in either group was told there was any praying going on.

According to Dr. Dale Matthews, a professor at Georgetown Medical School, those patients who were the targets of prayer had half as many complications and they had a lower rate of congestive heart failure than the patients who were not prayed for.

So in number form:

400 patients, 200 being prayed for, 200 thought not to be.

A 50% decrease in problems occurred, which in my opinion is quite a big difference.

Here are two more examples, but I don’t have the exact figures for them so I won’t spend too much time on them.

1.      Lincolnshire police are using prayer to stop crime, and I hear it’s working!

2.      Also remember World War 2? Well we were losing the air battle but then the country was called to pray and the tides turned, hmm interesting thought, WWII won though prayer.

Well now onto science...

Well where do I start this could go on for ages and you would all get board so I’ll just cover a few key points, well one actually, evolution. To start with if you have a Christian friend that tells you that evolution and Christianity walk side by side there wrong! Now I’m not saying that science and Christianity don’t go together, because they do, and I’m going to use science to disprove evolution...yes that’s right I’m going to use science to back up Christianity.

So evolution where to start, well the age of the earth; if the earth is thousands of years old like the bible says then evolution couldn’t happen and you would need a God to make life in that space of time, but if it is millions/billions of years then evolution happened and the bible isn’t correct and so there doesn’t need to be a God.

So why do we think the world is millions/billions of years old? As far as I know it’s mainly down to radiocarbon dating, so I’ll deal with this one.

Did you know that carbon dating can only actually date things that are thousands of years old!? This is due to the fact that carbon dating compares the amount of non- radioactive carbon (carbon 12 - 12C) to radioactive carbon (carbon 14 - 14C), there is science behind it but I won’t go into it. But basically once something dies the ratio between ¹⁴C/¹²C gets smaller and so we have a clock that starts ticking when something dies. But if something ages past something like 50,000 years old, should theoretically have no detectable 14C left, and so can’t possibly give you millions of years let alone billions!

Here are 14 reasons why there is a young earth:

1.      Galaxies wind themselves up too fast.

2.      Too few supernova[1] remnants.

3.      Comets disintegrate too quickly.

4.      Not enough mud on the sea floor.

5.      Not enough sodium in the sea.

6.      The earth’s magnetic field is decaying too fast.

7.      Many strata[2] are too tightly bent.

8.      Biological material decays too fast.

9.      Fossil radioactivity[3]  shortens geologic “ages” to a few years.

10. Too much helium in minerals.

11. Too much carbon 14 in deep geologic strata.

12. Not enough Stone Age skeletons.

13. Agriculture is too recent.

14. History is too short.

As you can see there’s a list of reasons why the earth is younger than what some of the scientists say.

Finally we come to Personal…

Ok we’ve covered math’s and science, but did they really “prove” God, well they might stir thoughts about whether there is a God or not, but if you ask me for me to truly believe in a God I would need to have had an experienced Him for myself, here’s how J. John puts it:

“You can’t prove God by math’s or science it is emotional like a kiss, a kiss can be described as the approach of 2 pairs of lips with a reciprocal transition of microbes and CO₂,now if someone said that to their girlfriend they would give them a slap”

And to be honest who could blame them, a kiss is emotional and trying to explain it using science or math’s just degrades it, and makes it seem like a passionless action.

The same is with God, trying to explain God or prove him though science and math’s makes him look like a load of statistics or the result of the young earth. Whereas the fact is God is love(1John 4:8), and as far as I know love is an emotion and so can’t be explained or proved by math’s and science, although they can help, you need to experience it for yourself to truly believe.

If your sat there and are not sure whether God is real or not just say this simple prayer, I mean it’s in your head no one’s going to know, and it might just change your life for the better!!!

“Dear Lord, I don’t know if you exist, but if you do show me that you do.”

Now don’t expect immediate results because God doesn’t work in our time he works in His, but He will answer.

If your sat there think WOW! God is real and I want to experience him and let him into my life then pray a prayer like this one:

“Dear Lord, I know I have done wrong, and thank you that Jesus died on the cross for my sins, please may you forgive me and come into my life.”

See neither of those prayers will take very long to pray, and if you prayed the second one then I would advise you tell someone and ask them what to do next, if there is no one to ask, then my advice would be get yourself a bible and read it, and pray.

Thanks for hanging in there

God Bless

Dave

Acknowledgments:

 This was proof read by: Ashley, charlotte sweetman

http://www.youmeworks.com/sendablessing.html - fact about hospital statistics

http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2002/carbon_dating.asp - carbon dating

http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/4005.asp - 14 reasons for young earth