PNPI Winter School Cultural Program

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PNPI Winter School Cultural Program
Why this Physicist Believes inGod, Jesus, and
the Bible

• Repino, Russia
• 20 February 2001

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Hill Roberts Huntsville Alabama

• Chief Scientist
• SRS Technologies
• stg.srs.com

Director Lord I Believe lordibelieve.org
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Research ProgramsApplied Physics
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Why this Physicist Believes inGod, Jesus, and
the Bible

• - Or -
• Why I Am Not a Proper Atheist

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What is your opinion on the worldwide scarcity
of meat?

• American
• What is scarcity ?
• Rwandan homeless
• What is meat ?
• Chinese laborer
• What is your opinion ?
• Tibetian monk
• What is is ?

What is your opinion about God?
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Reasons to Believe

• A Christian is to be prepared to give others
  reasons for his hope, with an attitude of
  gentleness and respect. Peter (1Peter
  315)
• My Reasons to Believe
• Feeds my sense of wonder in nature
• I am not alone in belief many scientists
  believe
• Answers the four big questions of Life
• The Bible encourages my belief by its truth
• Ultimate Reason Jesus Resurrection

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Wonder

• Nature appears to have been designed by an
  Intelligent Designer
• Examples
• Nuclear Standard Model
• Biochemical Design
• Cosmological Design
• Genetic Design

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Hafnium-178
Design accuracy gt 1 part in 1012
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Biochemical Subcellular Design
Complexity Directly Analogous to a Modern Factory
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What is it?Natural or Designed?
Stator
Rotor
Rotating Output Shaft
Bearings
Phased force field
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from Michael Behes Darwins Black Box
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Cellular Biochemical Design Accuracy

• Fred Hoyle
• Chandra Wickramasinghe
• 1 part in 10 40,000

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Ancient Fossil Complexity
Trilobyte Incredible Complexity tri-lobed
bilateral symmetry anterior - posterial
form multi-segmented thorax advanced gill
structure advanced mouth multi-jointed
legs stereo vision optical phased array
eye Index fossil for Cambrian Found in first
animal fossil layer! Sudden Appearance in Fossil
Record Not gradual as predicted by neo-Darwinism
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Cosmological Expansion Design
Singularity Beginning
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COBE Cosmic Orbiting Background Experiment 3K
Microwave background radiance variation
1992 confirmation of hot big bang model 1 part
in 1015
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Expansion rate Precision Balancing 1 part in
1060 (latest 110120)
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Existence of Carbon

• Only stellar nuclear fusion temperatures are high
  enough to activate the resonance
• still low yield
• To have enough carbon anywhere for life requires
  the entire universe as it is
• - this big
• - this massive
• - this old

• 3 He --gt 1 carbon
• Getting 3 He atoms together at once at right
  energy is a very unlikely event
• Only works because a unique resonance in
  beryllium holds two He atoms together long
  enough to react with a 3rd

Just Right
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Terrestrial Fine Tuning
Freeman Dyson, SciAm, 1978

• Right Galaxy
• Right place in Galaxy
• Right type star
• Right distance from star
• Proper mass
• Proper spin
• Proper tilt
• Proper magnetic field

1 in 100 1 in 150 1 in 1000 1 in 10 1 in 10 1 in
10 1 in 10 1 in 10
Probability? 1 1,500,000,000,000
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Stephen Hawking
The universe and laws of nature appear very
finely adjusted...One can take this either as
evidence of divine purpose in Creation and the
choice of the laws of science, or as support for
the strong anthropic principle.
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DNA language of life
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U
C
G
A
U
Phe Phe Leu Leu
Cys Cys Stop Trp
Ser Ser Ser Ser
Tyr Tyr Stop Stop
Genetic Code for the 20 Amino Acids
Leu Leu Leu Leu
His His Glt Glt
Arg Arg Arg Arg
Pro Pro Pro Pro
C
Ile Ile Ile Start (Met)
Asn Asn Lys Lys
Thr Thr Thr Thr
Ser Ser Arg Arg
A
Val Val Val Val
Asp Asp Glu Glu
Ala Ala Ala Ala
Gly Gly Gly Gly
G
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DNA Information System

• 6 billion bits
• Triply degenerate code
• 35,000 genes
• Code for 100,000 proteins
• Multiple reading frame data compression

• Data storage
• Redundancy
• Transcription
• Translation
• Proof reading
• Error correction
• Self Duplication

The DNA language analogy requires a Designer
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Because I am not alone
Biochemist
Veritas Forums
Nobel Laureate
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High Energy Physicist
Information Theorist
Mathematical Physicist
Neurologist Nobel L.
Physicist
Astro- Physicist
Biochemist
Astro- Physicist
MD, biology
Physicist
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Science Writer
Astro- Physicist
Relativity Physicist
Relativity Physicist
Philosophers Scientists
Information Theorist
Biochemists
Physicist
Geneticists
MD, biology
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Because Jesus Way Answers Our Big Questions

• From where have I come? Origins
• Why am I here? Purpose
• How shall I live? Morals
• Where am I going? Hope

Materialism and Naturalism answers by
accident, no purpose, no standards, no hope
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Because of Bible Truths
Creation Events of Genesis singular beginning
space-time, energy initially formless and
uninhabitable first essence energy (light) early
earth watery surface crustal formation
(land) first life is plantlike (seas first, then
land) early atmosphere probably translucent fish,
birds, mammals, man biogenesis life from life of
like kind cradle of civilization between Egypt
Sumer Archeological findings substantiates Bible
history
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Hittites (2 Kg 7)
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Davids Kingdom?
- Real !!!
Found at Dan!
DVDTEB House of David Kingdom!
1993, Biran Naveh
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Kings Jehu Omri - Real
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Prophecy of Cyrus -- Happened!
Isaiah (700 BC) prophesied that Jews would be
restored and Jerusalem would be rebuilt by Lords
appointed named Cyrus. Is 4428
This cylinder records the decree of Cyrus, King
of Medes-Persians, who released the captives of
Babylon and supported rebuilding Temples in their
homelands, 536 BC, about 160 yrs later.
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- Ultimate Reason to Believe -Jesus
Resurrection
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• Hume - great claims require great proof
• Popper - any true theory must be falsifiable

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