Father God, thank you again for bringing us here this morning. Thank you for an opportunity to, again, to study your word and to see the encouragement that is found in it, like we see in 1 Thessalonians. And Father, we do lift up the Wrigley family to you this morning and ask that you would comfort them with these same words, Father, that they would recognize that even though Jenny is not with us now, we will grieve her loss, that we can celebrate that she is with her Savior today. And Father, we ask that you would give us eyes to see this morning as we continue to study in apologetics. And Father, we pray all this in Jesus' precious name. All right, so. Jenny would want us to keep on trucking through this. This was one of her favorite topics was apologetics too. I spent a lot of time talking about teaching with Jenny. And so let's dive into this. So we're continuing our study of apologetics in accordance with 1st Peter 3.15 where he says this, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for the reason for the hope that is in you. yet do it with gentleness and respect. And so we're in that vein continuing to look at how we as Christians need to share the hope we have and defend our faith. And so we're looking at the existence of God. This is one of the big issues that we have today. People think that reality is only what is in nature and they don't look at the spiritual world at all. They don't recognize that there is a creator. And so we have reasons that we can say that we reject that because it's not true. And so we saw that there are three classical arguments for the existence of God. That is the creation argument, the design argument, and the morality argument. And we've talked last week about creation. This week we're going to take a look at design and the morality argument. And so we saw in our creation argument that much of the science of cosmology points toward a beginning of our universe, that it didn't just exist forever. That's what they believed for almost 1900 years since Christ. And even before then, they were talking about the eternalness of our universe. And of course, we're now seeing in the Bible, of course, was the first to say, in the beginning, God created. But we're seeing much of the scientific evidence as we get these more and more powerful telescopes and we look at Einstein's theories and we see that those theories have been good by the validity of the evidence that we're seeing and we're starting to recognize that the universe had a beginning. And if there's a beginning, anything that begins must have had a beginner. There's got to be a cause to it. You just don't pop into existence, right? So this morning, we're going to look at the design and morality discussion or arguments. So what you'll find today in a lot of the propagandized information that's out there, a lot of it's against Christianity, they want you to believe that our planet's ordinary, that you are ordinary. You're nothing more than a grown-up germ. Our planet's a common planet. We live around, we circle around a common sun. that there's nothing unique about our position in the universe. Matter of fact, Sagan said, we should easily be able to find millions of species like us throughout our universe. Matter of fact, he's the one that created the SETI project, which is the Search for Terrestrial Life Outside of America. As a matter of fact, he said, let's point our big beams of information out into this world where we're going to find these millions of organisms like us. Now, there's a little problem there. It takes 22,000 years for our message to reach whatever planet he was thinking that we were going to find. So we're going to talk about the enormity of the universe here, but just wrap that in mind. We're going at the speed of sound. 22,000 years later, our little message we sent out is going to hit whatever planet he was trying to think that there was going to be people living on. And so basically what they're saying is, if you have water, it's kind of like soup. How do you make soup? Put some stuff in there, add water, boom, we have life. That's what the world wants you to believe. That's what evolution teaches. That's what most of the universities are still barfing this stuff out. But what's interesting is, over the last 20 or 30 years, you're seeing that this idea of design, and the more we understand about our universe, it doesn't look that way. It really isn't ordinary. It's extraordinary. Matter of fact, science today shows a mind boggling convergence of extraordinary coincidences that make intelligent life possible on earth and concluding that this can't possibly be an accident. You know, and so we're going to talk about this is fine tuning. points toward a designer. And we're going to look at just some of the fine-tuning. Again, the two books that I've looked at are The Case for a Creator, very easy to read, and I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist. Those are very good books if you're interested in diving. That's why I took most of this information. So Patrick Gwynn, who was a scientist, he said this. He said, all the seemingly arbitrary and unrelated constants in physics have one strange thing in common. These are precisely the values that you need if you want to have a universe capable of producing life. And we're gonna look at some of those. All right, so let's move ahead here. So what is the design argument, so to speak? All right, so the formula argument looks like this. All designs imply a designer. Second premise is there is great design in our universe. Wherever we look, we see design. So therefore, we can conclude that there must be a great designer of our universe. I think when we look at this this morning, you're going to see that there is great design in our universe. I'm only going to cover little pieces of this thing. But I hope at the end of this, that you walk out of here with some awe in your mind about who we are and where we live and how awesome this God was that created this universe. And the things that we're going to see are very interesting to me. You know, as an engineer, I kind of get off on this kind of stuff, geek out on it. All right, so let's look. So let's look at the support for the design. There's much evidence to support our argument that the universe was designed. So it started many, many, many, many decades and centuries ago, but William Haley was an archdeacon at Carlisle. He insisted that if you found a watch in an empty field, this was in the 1700s, he said this, one would rightly conclude that it had a watchmaker because of the obvious design. So again, you're out in the woods, you find a watch, you pick it up, and you look at its obvious design, and you go, there must have been a watchmaker to make this. And so this is called Paley's watch argument for design and for the creation. So our universe displays incredible design. And so we see that as we just look out. And we also see that much of the design seems to be done in a way that supports human life. And so about 50 years ago, before a lot of these discoveries started to come out and be well known, the theory seemed to dominate the discussions about Darwinian theory of the origin of life. We're going to talk more about that next week. But it was postulated that life was the outcome of essentially random mechanisms operating over eons of time. And today we see that all the seemingly arbitrary and unrelated constants in physics actually point to something else. They point to what it looks like is this idea that where we live looks like it was designed to support life. This is known as what's called the anthropic principle. Anthropic meaning man. It looks like for whatever reason, when we look at our universe, that it was designed with us in mind. And so let's take a look at some of these things and see what we're talking about. So let's look at this scientific support for design. So first one we're going to look at, let's just talk about what we're doing right now. We're breathing, right? So we're breathing air, okay? Do you guys know what the composition of air is? As a submariner, I know all about the composition of air and how bad it can be when it's not right. And so we used to have this thing in the submarine. I was not a smoker. 90% of the people on a submarine were smokers. And so to get back at them, I would allow the oxygen content in the submarine to go to its lowest level. And so what that meant was when they tried to burn their cigarettes, they had to really suck on them hard. And so that was my get back. So anyway, so speaking of oxygen, the oxygen content is about 21% in our atmosphere. And so, well, what if we just increased it to, let's say, maybe 5% more, made it like above 25%? What would happen? It'd be uncontrolled fire. We would burn this place down like you'd never believe. Just a little 5% increase, burn it down. And what if we had less? What if we went to 15%? This is where you get the COVID fun. You can't breathe. We would all die. 15%, not enough oxygen to support life. So these are just minor little tweaks we have here. So the oxygen contents of a big deal, right? Just oxygen alone. So now let's take a look at like gravity. Now gravity is one of these constants in the world. They like, well, what if God just made it like something different than it is just a little different. How about one to the 10 to the 40th difference? Like that's, that's just a little bitty micro change to gravity. It's just, you know, 9.8 meters per second, right? Meters per second squared. That's gravity, that's gravitational constant. We're gonna change that by .000 to the 40th amount. Okay, so you wouldn't even notice it. It's statistically zero, but we change it just a little bit. We change this idea of gravity. And we say, we're just gonna tweak it just ever so slightly. All right, so what's gonna happen now? Well, first of all, the sun's not going to exist because it has to be so perfect in order for out of the creation of the stars when the universe was expanding, again back to Einstein's theory, this massive event, that the acceleration and things of what's caused by the gravity, they're moving apart, things want to attract, remember your laws of physics, two things have opposite, they have attractions toward each other. If we changed our gravitational constant just a little bit, we would have a big problem. The sun wouldn't exist, the moon would probably crash into the earth or shear off into space by itself. Remember, what's holding the moon around us? Why does the moon go around us? Because we got gravity, right? So we have this big, heavy Earth, and we have this little moon, and it goes around us. We'll talk about why that's important here in a second. We go around the sun, right? What's keeping us from shearing off into space? Gravity is, because the sun's so much bigger than we are. Why are all the galaxies in spiral shapes? That's gravity. As the movement goes, we collect ourselves into this spiral shape. And so these orbits that we see are all due to gravity. If you change it just a little bit, bad things start happening. So gravity is one of these constants that's so precise that if you do it wrong, you have all sorts of, if you do change that number just a little bit, life doesn't exist. Universe don't exist. Stars don't exist. Things start really getting bad. So no life. Well, this goes to this thing called the expansion rate of the universe. The universe is expanding. And again, if we change that rate just a little bit, the universe will stop and collapse back on itself. If you make it a little faster than it is right now, stars don't form, galaxies don't form, Earth has nothing to go around the sun. And so you just change that expansion rate just ever so slightly to the 40th degree, and you don't have a universe. You can see the spirally shape of the Milky Way, kind of cool. All right, so what about this one? Here's an interesting thing. Think of Jupiter, big, fat planet, right? Biggest planet we got. What happens if I took Jupiter out of its position in the orbit? What would happen to the Earth? If I just said, you know, Jupiter, no big deal, ordinary planet, we're just gonna get rid of that. We would look like the moon. Why? Jupiter is a massive planet. Okay, there's us compared to Jupiter. Jupiter is super big, super heavy. It acts as a giant vacuum. So as space debris flies into our orbit and around our sun, This thing sucks up all that extra stuff. It's like, ah, we need that, that's not gonna hit the Earth, boom, boom, so it's pulling stuff. Our moon does a similar thing, by the way. Our moon is our second line of defense for things that are flying through space to hit us. Remember, how fast are we going? We're traveling through space how fast? 67,000 miles an hour. That's how fast we're rocketing around the sun. So if we hit something, it's pretty catastrophic. So we want the things that are out there that we might hit to be sucked up by this guy. So Jupiter is the great cosmic vacuum. Take it out, we're in big trouble. And it's out there to protect us. It's further away from the sun than us, and it acts as a vacuum to gather all these bad things that might whack into us. And our moon's the second backup. Now let's talk about our Earth and its rotation rate. By the way, how fast is the surface of the Earth going? Right now, we're rolling around an axis. How fast are we going? 1,000 miles an hour. That's about how fast you're going. So not only are we going 67,000 miles an hour around the sun, but the rotation of the Earth is about 1,000 miles an hour at the equator. So we're a little bit less than that. So what are we doing? Earth's rotation rate. So if we slow this, now remember, it takes how long to go around, one orbit is how long? 24 hours, right? So what if we slowed it down just a little? So what's gonna happen now? We're gonna burn up. You think summer's hot here in Mississippi. Slow us down just a little bit, and no life exists on Earth. What happens if you speed us up? What if we were faster? What if we rotated in 12 hours? you would have wild storms. The temperature changes would be so drastic and so quick. Remember, this is how things work. Temperature changes, that creates fronts. We had a front go through last night, different temperatures, wind moves. Imagine that wind being about a thousand times more than that. That's what we would have if we were a little bit slower. So you can see these extreme weather patterns. It's for us to live on this earth the way we do with reasonable weather patterns, the rotation speed of the earth is very important to us. Too slow, you're gonna burn up. Too fast, the weather patterns would be devastating. All right, how about this one? Do you know we're tilted? Going back to physics, we're tilted. Now that means relative to our center, we're tilted about 23 and a half degrees. Why is that important? Now we're tilted in relationship to our path that we take around the sun. We're tilted a little bit. What if we were straight up associated with the sun? No seasons. Matter of fact, back to those nasty weather patterns I was telling you about. So we're tilted in a unique way. If we're tilted too much, what happens? Wild weather patterns again. Not tilted at all, we burn up. No seasons at all. Seasons bring the way God's designed the universe or our world. Without seasons, you don't have plants, you don't have things. We would be a big desert. We'd be Mars. Okay, so this rotation rate and then this tilting of our axis is super important for us to live. All right, if we're not tilted, that 23 and a half degrees, that's perfect. It's just right, just right for human life. Change it a little bit, no more humans, no more life, period. Okay, so let's keep going. Right. Yeah? Oh, by the way, does the moon rotate? It's kind of weird, just a fun fact. The moon does not rotate. The moon rotates around us like this, and we're always looking at the same face of the moon. It's not rotating. That's weird. OK, it's the end of the world. Here we go. Axis is changing. Okay. All right, so let's go to the next one. So you got to love our moon, okay? So we got science fiction movies out there that take the moon away. No, you take the moon away, you take life away. We're dead without the moon. So the moon does some really cool stuff. The moon, without our moon, our axis of rotation would not be constant or stable. The moon is like a big stabilizer for us. So it's rotating around us and it's stabilizing us. So we stay on that perfect axis that we want. It also stabilizes our speed of how fast we rotate. Take away the moon, Sky's the limit of how fast we're going to rotate, and we've already talked about that. You're dead. Take away the moon, you're dead. So what else does the moon do? Moon does some really cool stuff with our oceans. As a sailor, tides are important to me. Otherwise, I leave my submarine on the ground when I come into port, so we've got to pay attention to that. But what do the tides do? What are they doing? What's going on with that water washing up on that beach? Everybody loves to sit on the beach. We're all like, yeah, this is cool. We're on the beach. The waves are going in and out. The water's being cleaned all the time by these tides, these tidal shifts. And so we're seeing this movement of water that is going back and forth. And all through the planet, it's being pulled as it moves around the Earth. And that cleans our water. Without it, our water would be toxic. So let's see here. We'll go to another one here. So our planet appears to be just the right size. So we also look at the size of our Earth, or the moon size we're talking about. Go back, let's talk about moon size. If the moon is smaller, it doesn't do the things it should. If it's bigger, it smashes into us. Okay, it's just right in its position. What other cool thing did we discover about the moon that allows us to discover things about the sun? the eclipses. Isn't it neat that God created the moon such that when it blocks out the sun it's perfect? If it was further away, the sun's ring would be too much, too much close. We can't see the sun at all. We learned a lot during solar eclipses because we can look at the sun and see the outline of it, and the moon is a perfect way to do that. So it's just another cool thing about the size of this thing. But too big smashes into us, too small flies off. And again, we saw what happens when we don't have the moon. So the moon's another one of these cool design features. Without it, we're in big trouble. So the scientific, you know, these movies that show the moon being gone, yeah, you're dead. All right, so let's look at the Earth's size. This is interesting too. So we just happen to be big enough to support life. If we're any bigger, let's say we were bigger, let's say we're twice this size, what would happen? Well, you'd have no land mass. We're small enough that the tectonic plates are not smooshed down and flattened out. They actually are allowed to raise up and make cool mountains and landmass where we live. We're not fish, nor were we ever fish. So with the size of the Earth is really important. If it's too big, gravity is too much, we can't live here. What if it's too small? Well, now you've got the opposite problem. Now remember, is the Earth solid? Nope. We've got a molten mass of lava in most of this planet. If we are too small, we lose the heat too great, and we become a solid mass like Mars. Mars is a very cold place. It's just enough of the heat getting out to make it so we can live here. If you make it too small, we lose all the heat. Also, if we're too small, what happens to the atmosphere? Okay, we're a weird planet. You know that like 50 miles up, that's the atmosphere. That's all we got. What keeps the atmosphere here? We have a molten planet that creates magnetic fields on the top and the bottom of it, and those magnetic fields hold our atmosphere. We lose that. In other words, we're not molten in the middle. then we're dead. Because what happens to the atmosphere? It's gone. Can't live with the atmosphere, big thing. Another fun fact about atmosphere, how opaque our atmosphere is, is very important. So what happens if it was just a little more cloudy? We're going to freeze. What if it's just a little more clear? You can burn up. So we have a perfect setup here, the way this thing works. And it looks like it's perfect to support life. And so we're seeing these really cool things. All right, so here's another one. So we travel around the sun in almost a perfect circle. Why is that important? What if it was just a little bit oblong? Wild weather patterns again. we would freeze, we would burn up. So because it's almost perfectly circular, and we're tilted in such a way, we have all these cool things that happen. The sun's radiation and heat to us is pretty constant. So if we were more oblong, when we got out here, we're freezing. And then when we go zooming by too close, we're burning up. So remember, how fast are we going? 67,000 miles. I want to get that in your head. How fast is a bullet? How fast is a bullet? 3,000 feet per second. Yep, yep, right. So it's about in that range. So 3,000 miles an hour-ish kind of thing for a bullet. We're going way faster than a bullet. Way faster. Matter of fact, if you were sitting there in space in your spaceship, and you're just sitting there, and you're waiting for the Earth to come by, you probably wouldn't notice it, other than you blink and go, what was that? Well, that was the Earth going by at 67,000 miles an hour. All right, so just keep that in mind. Are you cold? Oh, hang on. Husband thing. All right, so now let's go back to this. Okay, so we know about the Earth and the rotation around the sun, super important. All right, I'm going to briefly talk about this next one. We're going to go from out here to cells. All right, so The complexity of a cell, now I'm going to set the stage here. So these are recent discoveries in microbiology over the past several decades have shown that the cell is not a globulin or a gelatin blob that Darwin postulated it was. That it's actually an extremely complex system of machines that are actually inside the cell designed to perform specific life-giving functions. Okay, without any one of these little machines inside this cell, the cell would fail to function and life would not be possible. This is known as the principle of irreducible complexity. It was introduced by a scientist named Michael Behe. I'll get more into that next week when we talk a little bit about his book, Darwin's Black Box. But even in the small things like our cells, we see design and complexity. that, by the way, can't happen through Darwinian evolution. It's kind of like the mousetrap. If I take a mousetrap and I take any one of the things off the mousetrap, the spring, it ceases to function as a mousetrap. So a mousetrap can't evolve. It can't start as a wooden thing and say, I'm going to kill mice. No, it's not. And then it adds something and says, well, look, now I have the spring. I still can't kill mice. Okay, it has to all be together at once. So this is this concept of irreducible complexity, and we see this inside a cell, a life cell. All right, so here's our conclusion. So modern science supports this watchmaker argument for design. So the astrophysicist Robert Jastrow, again, he's the one that came up with the analogy we talked about last week. You know, you have these scientists that are trying to discover how life came and how things are, and they start with the idea that there's no God, and they climb the mountain of ignorance, and who's sitting at the top waiting for them? The theologians. Because God has already spoken into this. God has already told us. He's left His fingerprints, and He told us in His Word, He created this. He's the one that made the design. And so we see that in the support. So when we're talking to people who deny the existence of God, we do have, science actually is in our favor in most of these cases, if they're willing to listen and if their eyes are open. Jim, there's this tension between scientifically minded people It said, we don't like science, but we should love science because it's discovering those things that God has created. Fellow engineer. Yeah. Discover what he's made. Yeah. We can enjoy his beauty and delight in his creativity. Yeah, every time I study these things, I'm blown away by the builder and designer that God is. He's made an enormous, well, we'll talk about that, but the universe is designed. It's hard to deny. Well, you have to suspend your reality to do it. Okay, so now let's go from scientific discussion to what we call the introduction to the morality argument. Got the Ten Commandments over there. So what's this argument? This argument says moral laws imply a moral law giver, okay? And so there is an objective moral law that's out there that came out of something beyond us. And because of that, there is a moral lawgiver that is outside of us, and that moral lawgiver would be God. And so let's just talk real briefly about this. I'm not going to go into tons of detail, but it'll give you just a general idea of what we're talking about. So you remember in our Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson is appealing to a creator to do what? give you rights, right, and he's calling these truths self-evident. Why does he say that? You know, remember this guy, this guy grew up in the you know, in the dawn of the Enlightenment period, and he understood that there was a spiritual world and a natural world, and there's arguments whether he was a Christian, but still he understood that there was something that was out there that he knew in himself and he saw in all of society, that we have this certain rights and wrongs, you know, in our conscience. Anyone who's raised a child knows, this child knows right and wrong. They know it, they just won't do it. the right part. So you're like, okay, every society has similar sets of laws in it as well. If I go over to certain places in other countries, I see that murder is wrong there. Stealing is wrong there. Lying is wrong there. And in most cases, up until recently, adultery was wrong. And so you see all of these, where did these things come from? Matter of fact, Friedrich Nietzsche, you remember in our study of philosophy, He was very concerned about the fact that when we jettison God, when we say God is dead, that we better be ready to deal with the issue of ethics and morality in the fact that now if it's no longer external and it's no longer controlling us, then what does control us? Power. There's no right or wrong anymore. It's all about power. If I want that, I take it. If my country needs your oil, I can invade your country and take it. If I don't like you, I don't like your ideologies, I just, I shut you up. So power becomes the issue instead of what we ought to do. So moral laws don't necessarily tell us what we, what we, they prescribe. not what is, but what we ought to do, right? So moral laws are known by observing what men do, and they tell us what men ought to do, whether they're doing them or not. So in other words, moral laws are the standard of what you ought to do. And so this is important for us to understand, because we're living in a world right now where truth, especially moral truth, is jettisoned. There is none. So now we're seeing very odd and dangerous political ideologies that are showing up that are more concerned about power than truth. And so that's why propaganda in the communist countries is so important. Any tyranny, form of tyranny of political allegiance to each other deals with some form of propaganda to control the narrative so they can control you for power. So we can see why this is super important and why when we deny God we end up in a moralist, ethicless, power-based society, and we don't like that. That's not where Western civilization became great. Remember the law was over the king, not the king over the law. Okay, so we got to keep that in mind. So we have this idea of a moral lawgiver. We all understand that human beings have certain rights and that they understand this. And we see this in Romans 2, 12 through 15. So let me read that to you. So this is Paul writing in Romans. He says, for all have sinned. Now, what I want you to pick up on here is he's recognizing that all men whether they've been given the Ten Commandments or not, understand that there is a moral law. It's written on their hearts. So there's a lot of words in the beginning here as he sets it up, but that's where I want you to focus, that written on your heart part. And he describes it as the Gentiles understanding this. So he's having this idea of everybody's, you know, sinned. So he says this, for all have sinned without the law, who will also perish without the law. For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. And all those that have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. What he's trying to say there is, even if you don't have the Ten Commandments, there's still a law. It's there. That's for the Gentiles. So listen, he builds on. He says, for it's not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. For when the Gentiles who do not have the law, the commandments, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. What he's saying is they know what the law is, even though they haven't been given to it. And then he says this, and this is the point I want you to get across. He says, they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse and even excuse them. What he's saying there is God's law is written on everybody's heart. And where did it come from? Nietzsche recognized it, all the great philosophers recognized it. Why do I have a right or wrong in my heart? Why do I feel shame when I do things that are wrong? Even a little child knows before you tell him. They know that those things are wrong. It's written on their hearts. God's left that on your heart. Again, that's his fingerprint on you that says, I'm the creator. I gave you that law. All right. So because there's a moral law, a moral law giver is God. Again, this is another argument when you're talking to somebody who says they don't believe in God. You say, what's the basis of law then? Where do we get it? And then how do we decide? And they will quickly go down the path of power, which it'll always get down to. And you're like, wow, that's a terrible world to live in. All right, so what are our conclusions? It's interesting to note that we have these three classical arguments for the existence of God stem from the idea of what's called causality. If something's made to begin or is designed or if there's such thing as morality, then we conclude that they were caused and therefore there is a causer or a creator. Additionally, we see this in Acts where Paul goes to the Athenians and he's talking to them and they even had a monument to the unknown God. And he said, let me introduce you to the known God. And that's kind of our function too. We too introduce the non-believer to the real creator that our arguments for the existence of God are supporting. So it's interesting to note that each of these arguments demonstrates a different attribute about God. So think about it. When we talk about creation, we talk about design. The cosmological argument shows that God is infinitely powerful. The teleological argument, that's the design argument, reveals that he's intelligent. The moral argument demonstrates that he is moral. Remember Romans 1 said, the truth about me is known. My characteristics are shown in the creation. We see three of them right there. So we serve an awesome God who created an awesome universe that points us back to him. Psalm 19 says, the heavens declare the glory of God, the skies proclaim the work of his hands. So let me give you a perspective. Okay, so this is my last geek out thing we're gonna do this morning. All right, there are billions and billions of stars in the universe. That's hard to grapple handle, billions is a tough number. Okay, so we got billions of stars in our own galaxy and there's billions of galaxies. and they have billions of stars. So it's billions and billions of billions, right? So let's just put that as something, if we took all of the sand in all the beaches and all the deserts and we put them in a big pile, that's about how many stars there are. Every little bit grain of sand is gonna be a star in our analogy, okay? Now, I'm going to put you in a rocket ship, and I'm going to take you from one of those grains of sand to the next one, and we're going to have you travel at, let's say, five miles a second. It's pretty fast, okay? So we're going to go about 15,000 miles an hour. We're going to go about five miles a second, and I'm going to send you to the next grain of sand. How long would it take you to go from one star grain of sand to the next one at five miles a second? about 200,000 years. So just get an idea of the enormity of the universe. And this is why when you look at things like in Psalm 103 it says this, we have an enormous universe and it should make us look up in awe. In Psalm 103 11 says, for as high as the heavens are above the earth. Think about that statement in light of our 200,000 mile or 200,000 year trip at five miles a second, just to get to the next star. And there's billions of stars in this universe is so big. Think about what that means for as high as the heavens are above the earth. So great is his love for those who revere him. What an amazing statement for him to make. Not only is he awesome, but the psalmist is saying, that's how big his love is for you. That's how important Christ was, that he came and died, paid the price for your sin, so that we can then be basically restored in fellowship to that awesome God. What a fantastic universe that we live in. It's not ordinary. We live in an extraordinary place created, looks like, especially for us by a God that loves us as high as the heavens are above the earth. Any thoughts? Mind-blowing. Remember, 67,000 miles an hour. That's how fast we're going. I love to tell my grandkids that. Do you think God created infinite universes that could show us how infinite he really could be? Possible. No evidence for that. That's the multiverse. That's where most man-centered ideology, when they run into the facts, then start creating their own myths. Multiverse is one of them, but could he sure is there evidence that map does the Bible speak to it now? So anyway, all right. So next week we do one of my favorite things. We're gonna go after mr. Darwin Is God really dead I don't think so All right. Let's close in prayer father. God. Thank you again that you have left your fingerprints everywhere. I Father, you declare that you exist, and then you show us your fingerprints on what you created, including our hearts. And Father, we're just so grateful for that. We're grateful for Christ. We're grateful that you love us so much that you would sacrifice your son so that we can be returned to you in fellowship. And Father, again, we're just so grateful for this. We're grateful for the hope that we have. And Father, we're grateful that our sister Jenny's with you now. And we pray this in Christ's name. Amen.