Tuesday's Notes
Tuesday Night Worship
Speaker:
Walter Nusbaum
Worship Leader: Maple Street
Key Passage: Romans 1:18-20
"Does God Exist?"
I.
Design Argument
-Nature alone does not produce specified and complex
designs
-For instance, nature and erosion did noot create Mount Rushmore;
a higher and intelligent thing did (man)
II.
Complex Information Argument
-or Information Probability Argument
-Nature alone does not produce specifiedd and complex information
-For instance, one strand of DNA containns 120 VOLUMES of
information
III.
First Cause Argument
-Whatever exists has a cause OR every effect has a cause
-For instance, the universe had a beginnning (Christian and
secular scientists agree)--therefore, it must have a cause
-NEGATIVE INFINITY
-If the universe has always existed, you cannot count up to
today because you can't ever start
-Whatever caused the universe MUST be ann uncaused Thing
IV.
Moral Argument
-If God doesn't exist, there are no moral absolutes
-It is impossible to live without any mooral absolutes
-For instance, a student at a college atttends a science class in
which the prof is a Christian. The grade for the class rides on a
20-page paper that the students have all semester to write. This
student writes his on the "fact" that there are no
moral absolutes. The prof grades the student's paper and hands it
back as an 'F'. The student becomes very angry and asks why the
prof did that. The prof stated that because the report was in a
blue folder and he didn't like blue, he felt like giving it an
'F'. The student proceeded to explain how that isn't fair. The
prof pointed out that the student has just disproved his own
paper in justifying why he shouldn't have received an 'F'. The
prof made the student rewrite the paper for a grade.
You cannot
prove a universal negative.
-For you to say that you are sure that tthere is no God, that is
to say that you know everything. To know everything is to be
omniscent, making you God. Therefore, your primary state is
incorrect anyway. But you are not God.
-It is easier to prove that something ISS than to prove that it
ISN'T--you only have to know ONE thing to know that that thing
exists...you have to know EVERYTHING to know that something does
not exist