Heeren - Show Me God: What the Message From Space Is Telling Us About God

What Are These "Wonders"?

E VERYONE HAS HEARD of the "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World," known for thousands of years as the greatest works of humankind. But even the pyramid of Cheops and the hanging gardens of Babylon lose their grandeur when compared with the timeless wonders you are about to find in this series. The seven greatest wonders that any human has ever contemplated are especially remarkable in light of discoveries made during the 20th and 21st centuries. Here is Day Star's list of the seven most impressive wonders of all time, and here is how we have incorporated them into four books:

Volume I (Cosmic Origins):

1. The wonder of the origin of the universe

2. The wonder of the universe's fine tuning

Volume II (Life's Origin and The Natural Record):

3. The wonder of how life began

4. The wonder of how each life form emerged

5. The wonder of humanity

Volume III (Life's Origin and Revelation):

6. The wonder of credible ancient creation accounts among the myths

Volume IV (The Origin of Revelation):

7. The wonder of a unique line of authenticity among spiritual beliefs

It turns out that science raises questions that science can't answer. Perhaps our world has been too quick to outgrow the advice of Francis Bacon, the father of the scientific method, who wrote:

No one should maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's Word or in the book of God's works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both.

We can't understand the universe in any clear way without the supernatural.

Allan Sandage, astronomer

The scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation .... His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist

The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron....The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life.

Stephen Hawking, theoretical physicist

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.

Sir Fred Hoyle, astrophysicist

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

Robert Jastrow, astronomer

To Patty,
an independent spirit

SHOW ME GOD
Day Star Publications / Olathe, KS

Revised 2004 Edition

Copyright 2004 by Fred Heeren

First Edition: Copyright 1995 by Fred Heeren
All rights reserved.

Revised Edition, Fifth Printing 2000

2nd Revised Edition, Seventh Printing2004

3rd Revised Edition, Kindle Edition 2012

No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without permission from the publisher, with two exceptions: the handout on pages 394397 may be reproduced, and brief quotations may be used in critical articles or reviews.

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION.
Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

Cover by Vogeney PhotoDesign. Page design by Kenneth Romin.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Heeren, Fred, 1953

Show me God: what the message from space is telling us about God / Fred Heeren

p. cm.(series title: Wonders; v. 1)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN: 978-1-885849-52-6

1. Apologetics. 2. Cosmology. 3. Creation. 4. Religion and science. 5. Bible and science. 6. Life on other planets.

1. Title. II. Series: Heeren, Fred, 1953- Wonders that witness; v 1.

BT1102.H34 1997

261.5'5dc21

976547
CIP

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AUTHOR'S NOTE

S OME PEOPLE find it easy to believe everything written in their favored sacred book. Others say it is a great strain to believe any book in which almost every page contains supernatural elements. I for one find it very difficult to believe in something if I can't see it or hear it or smell it or trip over it.

I have never seen the laws of physics suspended, and I have seen enough hoaxes to doubt the claims of any who say they have. Because such miracles are completely outside of my experience (and frauds are an everyday occurrence), I find it quite a task to believe that any miracle ever happened in the past.

Yet, here we are, living proof that somehow, sometime in the past, everything must have come out of nothingand there is just no natural way for such a thing to occur. And it turns out that physicists are saying that the universe has been very precisely "fine-tuned" to make life possible. This puts me in a bit of a dilemma. Here I am, disbelieving in miracles while the whole universe is apparently an indescribably enormous miracle.

How does the skeptic resolve such a dilemma? Is it resolvable? In the pages ahead, the reader will be the judge of this and many issues that, once thought through, must ultimately require every honest, thinking person to decide between two ways of living.

NOTE ON THE 2012 KINDLE EDITION

T HIS 2012 KINDLE EDITION of Show Me God is updated with new scientific findings that affect everyone's philosophizing about God. New findings include the discovery of many more exoplanets (planets belonging to other solar systems), the importance of dark energy, evidence for our universe's energy/density "flatness," new observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the resulting theoretical future of our expanding universe, multiple universe conjectures, and NASA's new plans for finding habitable planets.

Hercules cluster of galaxies.