Cosmic Fingerprints
These are the emails for the Cosmic Fingerprints:
Where did the Universe come from?
Part 1: Einstein’s Big Blunder
Ian,
100 years ago, Albert Einstein published three papers that rocked the world. These papers proved the existence of the atom, introduced the theory of relativity, and described quantum mechanics.
Pretty good debut for a 26 year old scientist, huh?
His equations for relativity indicated that the universe was expanding. This bothered him, because if it was expanding, it must have had a beginning and a beginner. Since neither of these appealed to him, Einstein introduced a ‘fudge factor’ that ensured a ‘steady state’ universe, one that had no beginning or end.
But in 1929, Edwin Hubble showed that the furthest galaxies were fleeing away from each other, just as the Big Bang model predicted. So in 1931, Einstein embraced what would later be known as the Big Bang theory, saying, “This is the most beautiful and satisfactory explanation of creation to which I have ever listened.” He referred to the ‘fudge factor’ to achieve a steady-state universe as the biggest blunder of his career.
As I’ll explain during the next couple of days, Einstein’s theories have been thoroughly proved and
verified by experiments and measurements. But there’s an even more important implication of Einstein’s discovery. Not only does the universe have a beginning, but time itself, our own dimension of cause and effect, began with the Big Bang.That’s right — time itself does not exist before then. The very line of time begins with that creation event. Matter, energy, time and space were created in an instant by an intelligence outside of space and time.
About this intelligence, Albert Einstein wrote in his book “The World As I See It” that the harmony of natural law “Reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.”
He went on to write, “Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced
that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe–a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in
the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.”Pretty significant statement, wouldn’t you say?
Stay tuned for tomorrow’s installment: ”Bird Droppings on my Telescope.”
Respectfully Submitted,
Perry Marshall
Part 2: “Bird Droppings on my Telescope”
Ian,
The Big Bang theory was totally rejected at first. But those who supported it had predicted that the ignition of the Big Bang would have left behind a sort of ‘hot flash’ of radiation.
If a big black wood stove produces heat that you can feel, then in a similar manner, the Big Bang should produce its own kind of heat that would echo throughout the universe.
In 1965, without looking for it, two physicists at Bell Labs in New Jersey found it. At first, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were bothered because, while trying to refine the world’s most sensitive radio antenna, they couldn’t eliminate a bothersome source of noise. They picked up this noise everywhere they pointed the antenna.
At first they thought it was bird droppings. The antenna was so sensitive it could pick up the heat
of bird droppings (which certainly are warm when they’re brand new) but even after cleaning it off, they still picked up this noise.This noise had actually been predicted in detail by other astronomers, and after a year of checking
and re-checking the data, they arrived at a conclusion: This crazy Big Bang theory really was correct.In an interview, Penzias was asked why there was so much resistance to the Big Bang theory.
He said, “Most physicists would rather attempt to describe the universe in ways which require no explanation. And since science can’t *explain* anything – it can only *describe* things – that’s perfectly sensible. If you have a universe which has always been there, you don’t explain it, right?
“Somebody asks you, ‘How come all the secretaries in your company are women?’ You can say, ‘Well, it’s always been that way.’ That’s a way of not having to explain it. So in the same way, theories which don’t require explanation tend to be the ones accepted by science, which is perfectly acceptable and the best way to make science work.”
But on the older theory that the universe was eternal, he explains: “It turned out to be so ugly that people dismissed it. What we find – the simplest theory – is a creation out of nothing, the appearance out of nothing of the universe.”
Penzias and his partner, Robert Wilson, won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of this radiation. The Big Bang theory is now one of the most thoroughly validated theories in all of science.
Robert Wilson was asked by journalist Fred Heeren if the Big Bang indicated a creator.
Wilson said, “Certainly there was something that set it all off. Certainly, if you are religious, I can’t think of a better theory of the origin of the universe to match with Genesis.”
Stay tuned for tomorrow’s installment: “Why the Big Bang was the most precisely planned event in
all of history.”Sincerely,
Perry Marshall
For further reading:
“A Day Without Yesterday” – Albert Einstein, Georges Lemaitre and the Big Banghttp://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=PLxs7&m=pUv034T8wTjn&b=u8j4uIOt8a4Gqa3imVYn_w
Part 3: Why the Big Bang was the most precisely planned event in all of history
Ian,
In your kitchen cabinet, you’ve probably got a spray bottle with an adjustable nozzle. If you twist the nozzle one way, it sprays a fine mist into the air. You twist the nozzle the other way, it squirts a jet of water in a straight line. You turn that nozzle to the exact position you want so you can wash a mirror, clean up a spill, or whatever.
If the universe had expanded a little faster, the matter would have sprayed out into space like fine
mist from a water bottle – so fast that a gazillion particles of dust would speed into infinity and never even form a single star.If the universe had expanded just a little slower, the material would have dribbled out like big drops of water, then collapsed back where it came from by the force of gravity.
A little too fast, and you get a meaningless spray of fine dust. A little too slow, and the whole
universe collapses back into one big black hole.The surprising thing is just how narrow the difference is. To strike the perfect balance between too fast and too slow, the force, something that physicists call “the Dark Energy Term” had to be accurate to one part in ten with 120 zeros.
If you wrote this as a decimal, the number would look like this:
0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000001In their paper “Disturbing Implications of a Cosmological Constant” two atheist scientists from Stanford University stated that the existence of this dark energy term would have required a miracle… “An unknown agent” intervened in cosmic history “for reasons of its own.”
Just for comparison, the best human engineering example is the Gravity Wave Telescope, which was built with a precision of 23 zeros. The Designer, the ‘external agent’ that caused our universe must possess an intellect, knowledge, creativity and power trillions and trillions of times greater than we humans have.
Absolutely amazing.
Now a person who doesn’t believe in God has to find some way to explain this. One of the more common explanations seems to be “There was an infinite number of universes, so it was inevitable that things would have turned out right in at least one of them.”
The “infinite universes” theory is truly an amazing theory. Just think about it, if there is an infinite number of universes, then absolutely everything is not only possible… It’s actually happened!
It means that somewhere, in some dimension, there is a universe where the Chicago Cubs won the World Series last year. There’s a universe where Jimmy Hoffa doesn’t get cement shoes; instead he marries Joan Rivers and becomes President of the United States. There’s even a universe where Elvis kicks his drug habit and still resides at Graceland and sings at concerts. Imagine the possibilities!
I might sound like I’m joking, but actually I’m dead serious. To believe an infinite number of universes made life possible by random chance is to believe everything else I just said, too.
Some people believe in God with a capital G.
And some folks believe in Chance with a Capital C.
Tomorrow’s installment: “If you can read this email, I can prove to you that God exists.” Sound a little bold? Tune in tomorrow – same time, same station.
Respectfully Submitted,
Perry Marshall
Part 4: “If you can read this sentence, I can prove to you that God exists”
Ian,
See this email I just sent you, that you’re reading right now? This email is proof of the existence of God.
Yeah, I know, that sounds crazy. But I’m not asking you to believe anything just yet, until you see the evidence for yourself. All I ask is that you refrain from disbelieving while I show you my proof. It only takes a minute to convey, but it speaks to one of the most important questions of all time.
So how is this email proof of the existence of God?:
This email you’re reading contains letters, words and sentences. It contains a message that means something. As long as you can read English, you can understand what I’m saying.
You can do all kinds of things with this email. You can read it on your computer screen. You can print it out on your printer. You can read it out loud to a friend who’s in the same room as you are. You can call your friend and read it to her over the telephone. You can save it as a Microsoft WORD document. You can forward it to someone via email, or you can post it on a website.
Regardless of how you copy it or where you send it, the information remains the same. My email contains a message. It contains information in the form of language. The message is independent of the medium it is sent in.
Messages are not matter, even though they can be carried by matter (like printing this email on a piece of paper).
Messages are not energy even though they can be carried by energy (like the sound of my voice.)
Messages are immaterial. Information is itself a unique kind of entity. It can be stored and transmitted and copied in many forms, but the meaning still stays the same.
Messages can be in English, French or Chinese. Or Morse Code. Or mating calls of birds. Or the Internet. Or radio or television. Or computer programs or architect blueprints or stone carvings. Every cell in your body contains a message encoded in DNA, representing a complete plan for you.
OK, so what does this have to do with God?
It’s very simple. Messages, languages, and coded information ONLY come from a mind. A mind that
agrees on an alphabet and a meaning of words and sentences. A mind that expresses both desire and
intent.Whether I use the simplest possible explanation, such as the one I’m giving you here, or if we analyze
language with advanced mathematics and engineering communication theory, we can say this with total confidence:“Messages, languages and coded information never, ever come from anything else besides a mind. No one has ever produced a single example of a message that did not come from a mind.”
Nature can create fascinating patterns – snowflakes, sand dunes, crystals, stalagmites and stalactites. Tornados and turbulence and cloud formations.
But non-living things cannot create language. They *cannot* create codes. Rocks cannot think and they cannot talk. And they cannot create information.
It is believed by some that life on planet earth arose accidentally from the “primordial soup,” the early ocean which produced enzymes and eventually RNA, DNA, and primitive cells.
But there is still a problem with this theory: It fails to answer the question, ‘Where did the information come from?’
DNA is not merely a molecule. Nor is it simply a “pattern.” Yes, it contains chemicals and proteins, but those chemicals are arranged to form an intricate language, in the exact same way that English and Chinese and HTML are languages.
DNA has a four-letter alphabet, and structures very similar to words, sentences and paragraphs. With very precise instructions and systems that check for errors and correct them.
To the person who says that life arose naturally, you need only ask: “Where did the information come from? Show me just ONE example of a language that didn’t come from a mind.”
As simple as this question is, I’ve personally presented it in public presentations and Internet discussion forums for more than two years. I’ve addressed more than fifty thousand people, including hostile, skeptical audiences who insist that life arose without the assistance of God.
But to a person, none of them have ever been able to explain where the information came from. This riddle is “So simple any child can understand; so complex, no atheist can solve.”
You can hear or read my full presentation on this topic at http://www.cosmicfingerprints.com/ifyoucanreadthis.htm
Watch it on video:
http://www.perrymarshallspeaks.com/
For a high-school level, layman’s version, go here:
http://www.cosmicfingerprints.com/information.htm
Matter and energy have to come from somewhere. Everyone can agree on that. But information has to come from somewhere, too! Information is separate entity, fully on par with matter and energy. And information can only come from a mind. If books and poems and TV shows come from human intelligence, then all living things inevitably came from a superintelligence.
Every word you hear, every sentence you speak, every dog that barks, every song you sing, every email you read, every packet of information that zings across the Internet, is proof of the existence of God. Because information and language always originate in a mind.
In the beginning were words and language.
In the Beginning was Information.
When we consider the mystery of life – where it came from and how this miracle is possible – do we not at the same time ask the question where it is going, and what its purpose is?
Respectfully Submitted,
Perry Marshall
Further reading:
-”If you can read this, I can prove God exists” – listen to my full presentation or read the Executive Summary here:
http://cosmicfingerprints.com/ifyoucanreadthis.htm
-The Atheist’s Riddle: Members of Infidels, the world’s largest atheist discussion board attempt to solve it (for well over a year now!), without success:
-http://cosmicfingerprints.com/iidb.htm-”OK, so then who made God?” and other questions about information and origins:
http://cosmicfingerprints.com/infotheoryqa.htm
P.S.: Preview of tomorrow: You get to listen in on one of the most fascinating science lectures I’ve ever had the privilege of hearing. A presentation in which hard science and faith fuse together in a fascinating tour of this magnificently engineered universe that is our home.
Where Did the Universe Come From? Part 5
Ian,
Today I introduce to you one of the most powerful science presentations I have ever heard.
I listened to Hugh Ross give this presentation on a tape while I was driving down Interstate 88 in Chicago one night. As I listened, light bulbs were firing off in my head all over the place.
So what’s the big deal about this? Here’s what you’ll discover as you listen:
-The delicate balance of vast forces in the universe, necessary for life to exist
-Why planet earth is so extremely special in its ability to support life
-The very measurement of the entire universe in all its magnificence, made possible only within the last 15 years
-A fascinating place where science and theology come together in perfect agreement
Now there’s one more thing I want to tell you about this talk: It was recorded in 1994.
Now why would I give you something called “New Scientific Evidence” if it’s 11 years old?
Here’s why: Because unlike most things 11 years old–with only a couple of exceptions, the information Hugh Ross shares here has been shown to be even *more* accurate today than it was back then.
One of the hallmarks of a successful scientific model is that it holds up for years and even decades, even while scholars debate it. I’ve been following Dr. Ross and his work, and virtually every fact he discusses here has been further strengthened and validated by all the physics and astronomy discoveries in the years since.
On this link you’ll find both the audio recording and the printed transcript. You can read it online, print it out, listen on your computer, burn it to a CD, or download this to your MP3 player. Go here now:
http://www.CosmicFingerprints.com/audio/newevidence.htm
Enjoy.
Perry Marshall
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“why i believe in God ” there are 365 prophecies spoken of in the old testament.that was told 500 to 4000 years before they happened. No man or human can fore tell events before thay happen. Every one came true in the new testament . I marked them all old and new. Isa. 53 there are 47 in one chapter. You can look them up on google “365 Messeantic prophecies ” there are ten pages of them.as you scroll down to the bottom “took me 5 days to mark them in my bible.
= E L S= in the =Equidistant Letter Sequence = every 50th letter in Genesis and Exodus spell out the TORAH OR law. The same thing in Deuteronomy and Numbers except is spelled backwards .. Same for Leviticus except it is every seventh letter spells YAHWEH . Thats why the bible says never change any thing. So you see the bible is not just a bunch of words. bible Code Even though the church sitting on seven hills has thrown out the first 11 chapters of the bible by their own admission. i have the news paper clipping . now you come down to Daniel 7 and it fore tells how to know who the little horn power is. That is the antichrist daniel 7:24_25 there are 8 indentifying marks that have already fallen true. says the same thing in Revelation 12-13 . now you come down to matthew 24 there are 17 prophecies of Christ soon coming of which16 have already been fullfilled. the ten commandments are still binding even though several Sunday churches have thrown them out. God has never changed the day of worship spoken of 129 times in the o/t and 59times in the new testament , only the creator can make that change and he didn’t. Need i say more. again look up under google “bible prophecy truth ” may God be with you in your study of his rich blessing and sacrifice for your redemption. now it up to you to follow up. BOB
Your ELS is suspect since the Bible was originally written in Hebrew, then Greek, then centuries later many different English translations. And with enough characters I’m sure you could find the phrase “God loves Hitler” in the bible somehow. The Bible was written by men with a desire to explain the world and promote social cohesion.
What happened God if He fall ia a black hole?
Your story made me dream…thank u so much god bless you
About Universe anyone cannot say anything it is big no of possibilities
there will be need to make a lot of Discovery”s & Research.
Thanks Perry, you are the man!
If the anciant writtings of genesis 1 is the origin of the entire dispute of E vs. C. Then, A Firmament is the resolve. It is the visible verification that declares the truth of God’s testament, His hands work. Our inability to clearly see the firmament however, is the dilemma to our unity. It has been lost in translation and we have fallen away to the origin of the universe as if it is the proclamation of His account.
The statement of faith is God of the universe, meaning; He created the universe in X amount of days. But not according to the source of the entire dispute, that has become the great debate and a public display of controversy, speculation and confusion that ‘truth’ would not be the author of.
Consider this; regardless of ‘how’ the origin of the universe became; whether it evolved or whether a God created it, either way, it only evolved to a huge formless and void mass of rock, suspended in space, covered entirely with water, from which the documented record of the account begins…
Therefore, the true question is this: What are we believing a God to have made, relevant to our existence here on this planet He called the ‘dry’ earth? It can’t be the universe…
Because until or unless a firmament was made in the midst of the waters (an alleged mystery) this huge mass of rock would STILL be formless and void, suspended in space under water and furthermore, in a state or condition that was impossible to sustain life as we know it here on this planet to date, thereby rendering mans history nonexistent.
Anything prior to this divide is irrelevant to the possibility of mans inhabitance. Nor is there any such record to testify of anything prior to this formless and void condition of the planet or the universe…
The firmament is the visible verification that declares the beginning of the creation of the heaven and the earth; not the universe.
This is just a brief intro of what this information has to reveal, that was stumbled across at firmament-theresolve.com
Thank you for your time.
Dushun
50 years ago the “Big Bang” wasnt even a theory,
and scientists who promote this theory now,
cant tell us “What “exploded,why or how”
interesting how in the Bible God says “Let there be Light” which is pretty much a big bang.
yet God said it 6000 years ago,
and man says something familiar 50 years, ago
hmmmm wonder who is plagiarizing who ?
Man doesnt understand %96 of the “KNOWN” universe,
yet professes to know where,why and how the universes and humans came about,seriously arrogant.
God Knows %100 of the “KNOWN” and “UNKNOWN” universe,he created it. !!!
God Bless
Todd