ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY 5

                                             ONE HEARTBEAT      AWAY     5

 Mark Cahill's 
 book


Many people don't believe that a God  created the universe because they can't imagine a being that is eternal. Surely God must have had a beginning, they think. Where did He come from?  Who made Him?  If they don't have satisfactory answers, then they refuse
 to believe.

I find it interesting that, before coming up with the "big bang "  theory, scientists believed that the earth was eternal.  

They couldn't explain how it came into being by itself, so they claimed that it simply always was - it had no beginning.

Scientists now proclaim that the universe began with a big bang. But that provides more questions than it does answers. There had to be something to go "bang."  

Where did the matter come from?   What energy force caused the bang?  What was the catalyst that set the matter into motion to form the universe?  How could order have come from disorder?

Think about that. If you believe that matter existed for all eternity , and it had the ability to spontaneously start up the universe, and it was powerful and intelligent enough to put our immense universe together with order and precision and beauty - haven't you just defined God? 

He is not as difficult to believe in as you may have thought. You might not understand Him, but that's no reason to believe that He doesn't exist.  

As I came home late one
 evening I turned on the 
TV and I saw the David
 Letterman show was on. His guest was an 80 year old scientist from England, who had just won the Nobel prize. I love the British accent, so I was drawn to listen to the conversation. 

The scientist made the statement, "David we have reached the point in science where we know for a fact that there was a beginning to this universe. " 

Letterman suddenly straightened up in his chair and looked with surprise at his guest . He said, "Wait a minute, Wait just a minute, if we know that there is a beginning to this universe, doesn't that imply ..."

How would you have finished that sentence if you were speaking?  Some people might say "...doesn't that imply that there is an end to the universe?" 
But Letterman continued, "... doesn't that imply that there must be a Beginner to this universe? "  As you can see, our mind logically leads us to conclude that if there was a beginning there must be a Beginner to this universe - someone to set it all in motion.  

The scientist's response was amazing. He stared at the floor for a moment, then looked at Letterman and replied, "That is a place we don't like to go in science. " 

 What an incredible admission!  He was stating that, because he was a scientist, he didn't want to even think about it.  We can choose to turn off our logic in our search for truth as we journey through life, but I don't think it is a very wise thing to do. Like Letterman, we know intuitively  that beginnings require Beginners.

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