Thursday, December 19, 2019

Short Animated Videos Proving that God Exists

God and mathematics

What good is Christianity?

Did Jesus rise from the dead? - Part one: The facts

Did Jesus rise from the dead? - Part two: The explanation

Who is Jesus?

Who did Jesus think he was?

How Can Jesus Be the Only Way?

The Problem of Those Who Have Never Heard of Christ

What of Those Who Died Before Christ? (Not animated)

The fine-tuning of the Universe

What is the probability of a functional protein existing by chance? (Not animated)

Origin: Probability of a single protein forming by chance

Can Atheists be "Good" Without God? (from time 0:13) (Not animated)
Can We Be Good Without God? Dr. William Lane Craig (Not animated)

Atheists Trying to Have Their Cake and Eat It Too on Morality (Not animated)

Suffering and evil: The logical problem

Suffering and evil: The probability version

The Kalam Cosmological Argument - Part 1: Scientific
The Kalam Cosmological Argument - Part 2: Philosophical

The ontological argument
I Changed My Mind on the Ontological Argument (Not animated)

Leibniz' Contingency Argument

Is there meaning to life?

The four great discoveries of modern science that prove God exists (Not animated)

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The Christmas Star

The Christmas star is described in Mat 2:1–12. See as background: Herod and the Magi: Political Intrigue, Mass Murder, and the Birth of Jesus | Matthew 2:1-23.
  • Jesus was born in Bethlehem (Mat 2:1).
    The place was prophesied (Micah 5:2, John 7:42).
  • Wise men came from the east and asked for the born king of the Jews
    (Mat 2:1–2). They were probably from Persia. They were respected scholars with great knowledge in astronomy. In the ancient world, astronomy was about the movement of celestial bodies. At that time,
    some scholars even had the knowledge to predict eclipses.
  • The wise men believed that the star indicated on a born king of the Jews. They might be familiar with the Old Testament. Balaam's fourth prophecy (Num (4 Mos) 24:17) mentions that a star will come out of Jacob (Israel). The Jews had been refugees in Babylon (Persia) 500 years earlier,
    where Daniel held a high position. The book of Daniel (Dan 9:25) may have been familiar, which gave them the time when Messiah would appear, see 5) The 69 Weeks in the Book of Daniel in When Did Jesus Die and when Was He Born? They may therefore believe that the rising of the star at that time indicated the birth of Messiah in Israel.
  • The wise men first went to Jerusalem (Mat 2:1) (it's very close to
    Bethlehem), where they asked for the newborn king (Mat 2:2). They received the answer that Messiah would be born in Bethlehem (Mat 2:3–8).
  • Herod the Great and the Jews didn't know about the star (Mat 2:7), so it was probably not brighter than other stars. It was only unique in such
    a way that experienced astronomers like the wise men could notice it.
  • Herod killed all the male children in Bethlehem and that region that were two years old or younger, according to the time he had learned from the wise men (Mat 2:16), see time 1:09–8:00 in How a non-Jewish family ruled in Israel for nearly a century and made it into the Bible forever!
    The wise men probably came from a place in Persia, 650 miles (~1000 km) east of Jerusalem. After they saw the star, it probably took a number
    of months before they got to Jerusalem. Jesus was brought to the temple in Jerusalem when he was at least 41 days old according to the law, where they sacrificed two turtledoves or two pigeons because they were poor
    (Luk 2:22–24, Lev (3 Mos) 12:2–4, 6, 8). This indicates that they hadn't yet received the gold from the wise men. Herod was a very cruel man
    and probably wanted a significant margin when he killed all male children up to two years of age. The shepherds met Jesus when he was just born
    (Luk 2:8–20), but the wise men came a number of months later to the house where Jesus was (Mat 2:11). See When was Jesus born?
    in When Did Jesus Die and when Was He Born?
  • The wise men saw the star on at least two occasions. First in Persia 
    when they went to Jerusalem, and the second time when it showed them the place in Bethlehem where Jesus was. The star then moved and led
    the wise men to the house where Jesus was, where it stayed (Mat 2:9),
    see time 27:23–29:28 in Matthew 2 – Called a Nazarene. 
    They knew it was in Bethlehem, but the star showed them
    the house in Bethlehem where Jesus was.
In the ancient world, stars meant all celestial bodies including planets and comets.
A popular explanation is that the star was a triple conjunction of Jupiter and Regulus. But it isn't a star, and the wise men were probably familiar with the conjunction 
of celestial bodies. And the triple conjunction occurred after Herod died. Later
there was another conjunction between Jupiter and Venus, also after Herod died.

The wise men saw the star on at least two occasions, over a period of several months. The second time the star moved to the place where Jesus was where it stopped (Mat 2:9). There is no natural celestial body that acts in such a way. 

The conclusion is that the star was a supernatural manifestation of God's power. 

Why did the wise men go west? A natural star rises in the east and sets in the west, but it appears this one rose in the west. This strange behavior brought it to
the attention of the wise men, trained in astronomy. That explains why only the wise men noticed it. It didn't have to be brighter than any other star. It explains Balaam's fourth prophecy (Num (4 Mos) 24:17). This star rose from Israel, west of Persia.

Also see these videos that describe the danger of following signs in the sky:
To summarize:
  1. The star was a supernatural manifestation of God's power.
  2. It wasn't brighter than other stars.
  3. It rose over the place where Jesus was.
  4. It took a number of months for the wise men to come to Jesus' place.
  5. The star rose in the west as seen from Persia.
  6. The star moved and stopped over the house where Jesus was. 
See also Some stories in the Gospels at the end of The Four Gospels.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Evidence for a Young Earth

Content:

  • Background
  • Astronomical Evidence for a Young Earth
  • Human History Corresponds to a Young Age
  • Radiometric Dating and the Age of the Earth
  • Biological Evidence for a Young Earth
  • Geological Evidence for a Young Earth
  • The Distant Starlight Problem

Background

    People who believe in an old Earth and an old universe, estimates the Earth
    to be 4.5 billion years old and the universe     to be 13.8 billions years. 

    However, the Bible indicates that the Earth and the universe are young, 
    roughly less than 10,000 years old,
    see time 5:14–7:52 in Bible Q & A With Pastor Paul │ August 2023. 

    Quite a difference. Who is right? Charles Darwin got it wrong,
    1. Time 7:13  –  8:22: Wrong about God.
    2. Time 8:23  –12:33: Wrong about Science.
    3. Time 12:34–17:47: Wrong about Geology.
    4. Time 17:48–23:41: Wrong about the Fossil record.
    5. Time 23:42–30:42: Wrong about the Tree of Life.
    6. Time 30:53–36:55: Wrong about the Nature of Life.
    7. Time 37:05–47:48: Wrong about Natural Selection.
    8. Time 48:03–52:13: The result of Darwin's teachings.
    For background, see also the following videos:

    Astronomical Evidence for a Young Earth

    1. The existence of comets with relative short orbital periods around the Sun, such as Halley's Comet (with a lifetime of less than 20,000 years),
      is consistent with the age of our solar system being less than 10,000 years.
      Comets are made of icy material that is constantly being depleted, 
      such as solar wind and radiation that blast the material into space.
      A typical comet can't therefore last more than 100,000 years.
      But we can still see such comets. Secular astronomers explain this
      as comets originating in the Oort cloud, which has never been observed. 
      There is no evidence for that. S      ee these times in these videos:
    2. Jupiter emits twice as much energy as it receives from the Sun.
      Such a process can't continue for billions of years. Jupiter still
      has an internal heat, it hasn't cooled. The problem is the grater for Neptune, which emits 2.6 times as much as it receives from the Sun.
      How can it still have an internal heat if it's billions of years old?
      These planets have no radioactive elements that can give heat.
    3. Jupiter has a huge magnetic field. It's too high for life.
      Also Uranus and Neptune have magnetic fields. They shouldn't have such strong magnetic fields if they were billions of years old.
    4. At least small celestial bodies should have cooled,
      see time 14:03–21:42 in Spike Psarris - Thermodynamics Confirms Creation.
    5. The Moon now moves 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) away from Earth once a year.
      Going back at most 1.4 billion years, the Moon would touch the Earth,
      which of course isn't possible, but can be seen as an upper limit.
      The secular view is that Earth and Moon are 4.5 billion years old,
      which then isn't possible, see Where Did the Moon Come from?
    6. An old sun would have much less energy compared to when it was young,
      see the short video Faint Young Sun Paradox. It describes the apparent contradiction between observations of liquid water early in Earth's history
      and the expectation that the Sun's output would be only 70% as intense
      in that epoch as it is in the modern epoch, if the Sun is 4.5 billion years old. This means that the Sun should have become 40% brighter (0.7x1.4=0.98) since it formed and 25% brighter since life appeared on Earth. 25% means
      a temperature increase of 16–18°C. Since the current average temperature
      is 15°C, the Earth should then have had a temperature of -2°C when life appeared. This isn't a paradox for a young Earth less than 10,000 years old.
    7. Spiral galaxies rotate faster closer to the center. It's known how fast their arms rotate, so it's possible to test it in computer simulations. The secular view
      is that the spiral galaxies are 10 billion years old. If the spiral galaxies are
      only a few hundred million years old, it shouldn't be possible to see the arms
      of the galaxies any longer. See more of this at time 21:06–23:35
      in PhD Christian Scientist Exposes the HUGE Faults in Cosmic Evolution.

      All spiral galaxies also appear to be in mature states in the observable universe, see Explanation Model in The Big-Bang Model Revealed.
    8. The galaxies contain many blue stars. They expand their fuel quickly.
      The hottest blue stars can't last tens of millions of years. The secular explanation is that these blue stars have formed recently from a nebula collapse. The problem with that explanation is that the gravity in a nebula 
      is much lower than the gas pressure that wants to expand the gas.
      A blue star is the hardest star to make. Astronomers haven't seen a star form      ,
      s      ee these times in these videos: 

    Human History Corresponds to a Young Age

    1. Secular dating indicates the origin of agriculture around 10,000 years ago.
      At the same time, the same chronology says that modern man
      has probably existed for 200,000 years. If so, someone would surely
      have started sowing seeds of plants earlier to produce food.
    2. Lack of evidence for extraterrestrial civilizations 
      elsewhere in our Milky Way galaxy, see The Fermi Paradox.
    3. Mitochondria and Y-chromosome speak for a young origin of man,
      see The Origin of Man. It shows that t      he breakdown of the human genome
      due to the large number of deleterious mutations in each generation
      is consistent with an origin of only thousands of years ago. This has been confirmed by realistic population genetic modeling, which shows
      that the human genome is young, on the order of thousands of years.

    Radiometric Dating and the Age of the Earth

    1. Radiocarbon dating (C-14 dating) is a method of determining the age
      of an object containing organic matter by using the properties of C-14.
      The older a sample is, the less C-14 should be detected. The half-life
      of C-14 (the period of time after which half of a given sample has decayed)
      is only about 5730 years. The oldest dates that can be measured
      by this process are about 70,000 years. After that time there is too little 
      C-14 left to measure. This means that if there is a significant amount
      of C-14 left in a material, it must be much younger than 70,000 years.

      S      ignificant amounts of C-14 have been detected in all organic materials measured with the C-14 dating method, even in bones from dinosaurs, see Dinosaurs and the Bible. C-14 has been found in fossils all the way
      back to the Cambrian period estimated by evolutionists to be about
      600 million years old, but must then be less than 70,000 years old.
    2. C-14 in coal, oil, and fossil wood speaks for an age of thousands of years
      and clearly contradicts millions of years. Experiments show that oil and coal can be formed quickly by pressure and heat, see How fast can oil form?

      There is C-14 inside diamonds. The secular estimated that age of diamonds
      is more than three billion years. When John Baumgardner sent a diamond
      to a laboratory for C-14 dating, the report gave an age of about 58,000 years. 
    3. Dating a rock with different radiometric dating should give
      approximately the same date if they are reliable. They don't give that.
      They always give different dates. Even when using the same method,
      the wrong date is received, as the following examples show:
      • When dating lava from the 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens 
        using the K-Ar dating method, incorrect values were given,
        see Errors in the Radiometric Dating Methods.
      • When dating volcanic material in Sunset Crater, Arizona,
        known to be 900 years old, it was dated using
        the K-Ar dating method to be 210,000 – 230,000 years old.
      • When C-14 dating was applied to date wood found in lava in Australia, it gave the measured date 45,000 years. Another lab using the K-Ar dating method got the date 44 million years for the lava part. They should have been given the same date for both cases.
      • In 1801 there was an eruption in the volcano Hualalai in Hawaii. Three samples were dated a few years ago using K-Ar dating:
        1. 0 million years old.
        2. 12 million years old.
        3. 21 million years old.
      • An artificial copper bell was found in carbon 
        dated to be 300 million years old.
    4. Regarding C-14 dating, see these times in these videos:

    Biological Evidence for a Young Earth

    1. DNA is found in "ancient" fossils. DNA extracted from bacteria believed 
      to be 425 million years old, can't possibly be that old because DNA 
      can be preserved for thousands of years at most because of chemical reasons.
    2. Many fossil bones "dated" to many millions of years are barely or not at all fossilized. This contradicts the general view of the great age of the Earth.
      The record is held by tubes of sea brush worms, "dated" to 550 million years, which are soft, elastic, and originally composed of organic compounds.
    3. Hundreds of living fossils such as jellyfish, graptolites, broom fins, stromatolites, wollemitals. That several hundreds of species could remain unchanged, even up to billions of years in the case of stromatolites,
      speaks against the reality of millions and billions of years.

    Geological Evidence for a Young Earth

    1. The Earth has a magnetic field based on electrical current. Electrical current decreases over time. The magnetic field is therefore exponential decaying
      with a half-life of 1611 ±10 years. It's an exponential decline with fluctuations,
      especially during and after the Flood, as shown by historical measurements and consistent with the hypothesis of a continuous decline since creation.
      This suggests an age of the Earth of only thousands of years. 

      If you go back in time 6000 years, it becomes 20 times stronger,
      which is good for life. If you go back in time 50,000 years, it will be
      56 billion times stronger, and no life is then possible. If you go back
      60,000 years, the magnetic field becomes stronger than a neutron star.
    2. It doesn't take millions of years to form stalactites or stalagmites. These
      are found formed rapidly under bridges, man-made caves, and basements.
    3. An aircraft landed in Greenland during World War II and were retrieved 
      46 years later. It was then buried with 250 feet (75 m) of snow.
      It's possible to get deep snow very quickly.
    4. It doesn't take millions of years to form fossils. There are several examples
      of fossils formed in just a few months, weeks, days, and even hours,
      see the video Evolutionists, You’ve Been Caught Lying About Fossils.
      See also The Flood at the Time of Noah.

    The Distant Starlight Problem


    A question that often comes up is how we can see far away stars if the universe
    is young, if it takes millions of years for light to reach Earth. It's called:
    "The distant starlight problem". We know the speed of light, but it's the average
    of the two-way speed of light: from me to a distant object and then back to me. 
    It's impossible to measure the one-way speed of light,
    physicists have tried to do it for hundred of years without success. 

    It's permitted according to the laws of nature to choose another convention:
    It's allowed to choose the Anisotropic Synchrony Convention (ASC) 
    that the speed of light from me is half the average speed of light
    and that the light back to me     is instantaneous. 

    This gives the same average speed of light. All the law of physics work for that convention. That means everything I see in the sky is when it happens.
    It's believed that the Bible is written according to that convention 
    (Gen 1:14–19).     When God created the stars, the light from the stars immediately reached the Earth according to that convention. 

    See ASC explained and why it's impossible to measure one-way speed of light:
    There is a distinction between Anisotropic Synchrony Model (ASM) and ASC.
    ASM is developed by Dr. Jason Lisle and is the convention the Bible is using:
    What they saw was when it happened (if the light went directly towards them).     
    God created the universe in mature state during the creation week.

    This doesn't mean that the light from every existing, not hidden star is visible
    just by magnifying the image enough    , see the Lyman-break galaxy. See it explained at time 17:21–19:38 in Session 5 - Dr. Jason Lisle: James Webb Telescope.

    See faulty attempts to falsify ASM explained during these times in the video 
    DISTANT STARLIGHT | AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. JASON LISLE    :
    • Time    55:09–   56:41 (slow clock transport). 
    • Time 1:01:24–1:02:56 (measurement and time dilation). 
    • Time 1:12:35–1:15:03 (bent light).
    • Time 1:17:20–1:20:15 (Maxwell's equations and the speed of light).
    • Time 1:28:52–1:30:34 (light in substance).
    • Time 1:31:06–1:32:24 (bent light).
    • Time 1:33:05–1:36:03 (redshift and time dilation).
    • Time 1:36:44–1:38:12 (different coordinate systems).
    • Time 1:39:47–1:41:14 (God is using ASM).
    • Time 1:42:14–1:44:36 (Earth is special).
    • Time 1:46:55–1:48:05 (stars forming).
    • Time 1:48:54–1:53:39 (different coordinate systems).
    • Time 1:57:34–1:59:02 (Big Bang).
    • Time 1:59:16–2:00:22 (Summary).
    That the light in one direction can come instantaneously can be an explanation
    for the behavior of Quantum Entanglement, see these times in the videos:
    There are other explanations to "The distant starlight problem". For example; God may have used a supernatural mechanism during creation week and allowed the current laws of nature to begin operating on the seventh day of creation week or after creation week. See the suggestion of Dasha (mature creation) explained at: 
    However, some of other proposed explanations aren't plausible, 
    see time     59:21–1:05:09 in "Astronomy Reveals Creation" with Dr. Jason Lisle.

    The Big Bang model has a similar light travel problem, 
    the so-called Horizon Problem, see     time 24:29–27:43
    in     Did the James Webb Space Telescope Disprove the Big Bang? 
    See then also Scientific Problems with the Big-Bang Model

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    Thursday, December 12, 2019

    What is Information?

    God has created in us the ability to recognize design when we see it.
    Where there is design, there must be a designer. If we see our names written
    in the sand on a beach, we intuitively understand that they have come
    from some intelligence, and not from nature by chance. The reason is
    that they contain information. Original     information always come
    from some intelligence, from a mind, never from nature by chance.
    Information can be copied, but originally it comes from an intelligent mind.
    See t    ime 0:49–3:11 in This Proof of Biblical Creation Is IRREFUTABLE.

    Even secular atheist scientists say that their "seems" to be design in the universe, but "they know it isn't". They deny the truth (Rom 1:20). 

    Those searching for life in space seek information. If they find real information 
    originally from space they believe that they have found intelligent life in space.
    Then they     don't think it came from nature by chance. See The Fermi Paradox.

     Mathematical laws are conceptual, universal, immutable, use unexceptionable entities, they derive from the mind of God and therefore reflect his nature,
    see Math in the Bible.

    All point mutations that have been studied at the molecular level are found
    to reduce the genetic information and not to increase it. Not even one mutation
    has been observed that adds some information to the genome. 
    See time 3:07–5:10 in This Proof of Biblical Creation Is IRREFUTABLE.

     What about the genetic code stored on DNA molecules? 
    It contains the most advanced information on Earth. Does it come
    from nature by chance or from some intelligence. Logically, it must come
    from an intelligent mind, from a creator, from God, see time 3:59–8:15
    in the video Math And The Bible. For more on the complexity of DNA,
    see Animated Videos Showing the Complexity of DNA.

    A law contains information and requires a legislator. Natural laws, such as gravity which describes how the celestial bodies move, do they come from nature 
    by chance or from some intelligent lawgiver?     Logically, they must come from an intelligent mind. Laws containing information can't come from nature by chance.

    Students learn the following at school:
    • That life has begun with lightning passing through a certain type
      of atmosphere and thus producing chemical substances called
      amino acids. (That t      hey are building blocks for the proteins,
      which are the most important constituents of the cell, is however correct).
    • That the amino acids were eventually concentrated in the sea and that they formed an ecological soup, where they were linked together
      to form proteins. They would then somehow come together with DNA 
      (or maybe RNA) to form the first single cell. 
    • That this is possible because of millions and billions of years. 

    Is this true or are they deceived? The following shows that they are deceived:
    1. Proteins, made up of hundreds of "left-handed" amino acids 
      in specific orders,       are the essential building blocks of a cell.
    2. Amino acids aren't concentrated in the sea, they are dissolved there.
    3. The amino acids would have been so heavily contaminated by other substances that it would have prevented them from forming proteins.
    4. Even pure amino acids (made by intelligent organic chemists) can't form
      proteins under natural conditions. Instead, it's the other way around, the proteins are broken down into amino acids.
    5. Amino acids consist of equal parts "right-handed" and "left-handed" 
      amino acids. Living matter only uses "left-handed" amino acids,       see
      time 34:37–35:59 in       Spike Psarris - Thermodynamics Confirms Creation.
    6. Even if pure and only "left-handed" amino acids had linked together,
      they hadn't done so in the correct order to make a protein.
      In living matter, the order is encoded in DNA, and is read
      by a complex machinery, which requires proteins to already be present.
      In order to create new proteins, we must already have proteins.
    7. DNA and its building blocks, the nucleotides, don't form spontaneously.

    With this in mind, scientists have begun to recognize that proteins can't form
    in an organic soup. Instead, they propose that the original macromolecules
    were composed of RNA, which later catalyzed the production of proteins. 
    However, this is also wrong. Neither RNA nor DNA is formed outside of living cells.

    In order for a protein to perform its function in the cell, each protein 
    must be folded into its own complex and three-dimensional shape.
    Any change in the protein's shape dramatically alters its function.
    The slightest change in the folding process
    can turn a useful protein into a disease carrier. 

    Chaperones (which are themselves proteins) are essential for the folding
    of many proteins. The chaperones have other chaperones for there own folding.
    So how did the first chaperones fold without existing chaperones?

    How does a protein find the special position in the cell where it fits?
    The answer is that newly made proteins contain strings of amino acids
    which direct the various proteins to their correct locations in the cell. 

     The cell must also have the right amount of each protein. One of the most important methods of turning protein production on and off is the use of regulatory sequences in DNA. It's these DNA areas that have the task of telling the cell when
    the production of various proteins should start and stop. But DNA alone
    can't turn protein production on and off. It cooperates with specialized
    regulatory proteins, each of which fits into its specific region of regulatory DNA. A regulatory protein folds precisely in such a way that it fits exactly in the DNA
    where it's supposed to act. Together they form a switch.
    Neither the control sequences in the DNA, nor the control proteins,
    function without each other. Both must have arrived at perfect coordination
    by the time production of the first protein needed to be turned on or off.

    This makes it impossible to imagine that it's possible to get new non-destructive information through random mutations so that new animal forms are created, 
    see this explained (from time 22 minutes) in Stephen Meyer: Darwin’s Doubt.

    This shows some of the information and complexity of creating just a single protein. Seeing this, it's obvious that it requires an intelligent creator. Much more
    than a name written in the sand on a beach requires an intelligent mind. See:

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