God Exists

Good and EvilNo dodge, if evil can be recognized as absolute rather than relative, it necessitates a moral Creator who set a standard to good and evil in the universe. Ultimately, I argue that atheism and humanism by reducing the worth of humanity to that of animals introduce, by definition, inhumane concepts such as eugenics that devalue human life. For, as the Declaration of Independence states, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." To quote Jefferson again, "Whereas, Almighty God hath created the mind free; That all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and therefore are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being Lord, both of body and mind yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do;" To quote James Madison, "This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable, because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated by their own minds cannot follow the dictates of other men: It is unalienable also, because what is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society. Before any man can be considerd as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governour of the Universe: And if a member of Civil Society, do it with a saving of his allegiance to the Universal Sovereign. We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man’s right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance."The common theme of both founders is that men have inalienable rights only because such rights are given to them by God. As Madison aptly puts it, "Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governour of the universe." There is no way to recognize intrinsic worth in our fellow man without accepting that it is implanted in them by a Creator. Thus, those who do not recognize God will inevitably devalue the rights of others. You cannot believe in "unalienable" or absolute rights for men without believing in an absolute standard of good or evil, and thus a Creator who sets that standard. To believe that Hitler or other immoral historical figures were truly committing evil, rather than just doing what was right for them, and thus to believe evil exists while having a conscience, one must believe evil exists absolutely, which necessitates a moral Lawgiver.Existence of MatterThe Zero-Energy universe theory is part of the recent Inflation Theory developed around 1980 and according to NASA originated as a way of addressing three serious weaknesses in Big Bang theory; specifically the flatness problem, horizon problem, and monopole problem, so that the theory can explain the facts which contradicted it in its previous form.http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov...http://www.astrosociety.org...It should of course be noted the theory was only devised as a way of addressing evidence which contradicted Big Bang theory to massage the facts into existing theory, and is quite recent, yet to withstand scrutiny. It could well be disproven like previous attempts such as Steady State, Cosmic Hesitation, and an Oscillating Universe. As detailed by Hugh Ross in "The Fingerprint of God" a steady succession of atheistic theories have fallen by the wayside over the past two centuries attempting to explain a purely naturalistic beginning to the universe. So is additional energy required for a universe? The structure and scope of the universe did not and could not begin until the Big Bang occurred, and thus cannot explain how the Big Bang itself began. In other words, a Zero-Energy universe can be explained as something existing because of the Big Bang, but not originating before it. Ultimately current theory is insufficient to explain our current model of the universe. We discovered in the 1990s that the universe doesn't meet the qualifications it should if conventional thinking about its structure is correct, nor is the structure even remotely what it should be. Expansion of the universe was supposed to be slowing down, but observations showed that instead it was actually speeding up. Roughly 95% of the universe consists of hypothetical unexplained constructs referred to as 'Dark Energy' and 'Dark Matter.' As NASA concludes, a likely possibility is that the very theory of gravity which predicted the universe's slowing and the speed of light in space used to estimate the universe's age is itself incorrect: "More is unknown than is known. We know how much dark energy there is because we know how it affects the Universe's expansion. Other than that, it is a complete mystery. But it is an important mystery. It turns out that roughly 68% of the Universe is dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 27%. The rest - everything on Earth, everything ever observed with all of our instruments, all normal matter - adds up to less than 5% of the Universe... A last possibility is that Einstein's theory of gravity is not correct. That would not only affect the expansion of the Universe, but it would also affect the way that normal matter in galaxies and clusters of galaxies behaved. This fact would provide a way to decide if the solution to the dark energy problem is a new gravity theory or not: we could observe how galaxies come together in clusters. But if it does turn out that a new theory of gravity is needed, what kind of theory would it be? How could it correctly describe the motion of the bodies in the Solar System, as Einstein's theory is known to do, and still give us the different prediction for the Universe that we need?" http://science.nasa.gov... Ultimately conventional scientific thinking has thus far been unable to explain why 95% of the universe is the way it is, or even where it is, and why its expansion is accelerating rather than slowing down. The existence of matter does not make sense per a purely naturalistic universe.Nietzsche's Prophecy Nietzsche didn't just predict WWII, but specific details like Joseph Mengele's torture of the Jewish people in his reference to Caiaphas; too specific for mere coincidence.Opponent ArgumentsThe Argument From Evil Due to space shortage I will address this only briefly, I have addressed it more fully at my website: http://www.bereawiki.com... Essentially, this rests upon three false assumptions which do not apply to the Biblical God:(1) That God is all-knowing regarding the future which would contradict Mt. 13:28, Ps. 14:2, and Ez. 18:31, and generally how God is portrayed by the Bible in general.(2) God created or helped create evil contrary to Gen. 1 which says God made all things good with Satan gaining control over mankind through sin (Heb. 2:14-15) as well as control of the world. (2 Cor. 4:4; Jn. 12:31) Biblically God made things God and the devil planted evil against God's will (Mt. 13:28), the devil is the "god of this world." (2 Cor. 4:4; Mt. 4:8-10)(3) Evil is unlinked to humanity. By asking why evil exists one actually asks why God doesn't destroy them, for humanity with Satan is the source of evil Biblically. Argument from Temporal Minds This rests upon argument from ignorance making several potentially false conclusions, that "temporal duration is required for processing" and "mental processing is required for a functioning mind" which can be argued only by denying spirit in man, arguing naturalism to begin with.