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Life Did Not Begin by Itself
Earth's First 3 Days
Moses Foresaw Three Discoveries
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First Discovery
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Mass and Weight of Energy
Transformations and Materialization
Different Kinds of Rays and Materialization in Empty Space
Was Energy the Source of Material
Second Discovery
Third Discovery
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The First Light
Separating Light from Darknessali
Early Ideas about the Beginning
>
Ancient Myths and Modern Cosmology
An Up-to-Date Ancient Cosmology
The Confirmation
A Challenging Question
Cycles of Darkness and Light
>
A Criterion for Observing the Passing of a Day
An Ancient Criterion
Teaching Children
The Idea the Word “Day” Expresses
>
A Day, Not “The First Day”
Not “Literal, 24-Hour Days”
How Long Did the First Three Days Last?
The Earth’s Rotation and the First Two Days
The Duration of the First Day
The First Three Cycles of Darkness and Light
Was There a Beginning?
>
The Objectivity of Science
An Uncreated, Unchanging Universe
Evidence for a Beginning
>
Elements in the Stars
Natural Radiation from Space
Stars Consume Their Fuel
Cosmology and Relativity
Gravity, Inertia, and Planetary Stability
Missing Mass and Galactic Instability
Gravitational Instability of the Universe
>
The Cosmological Constant
Physical Determinism
A Fully Deterministic Universe
Physical Predestination and Creation
Quantum Indeterminacy or Uncertainty
Uncertainty and Predestination
Einstein versus Bohr
Logical Positivists are Still Waiting
Philosophy versus Science
Limits of Physical Predestination
Crucial Intervention as Life Appeared
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God Created the Heavens and the Earth
God Created Plant Life
God Created Marine and Avian Life
God Created Animals More Than Once
God Created Humans, Male and Female
New Heavens and a New Earth
First Evening: Energy and Particles
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The Energy of Particles
The Energy of Different Kinds of Rays
>
The Most Energetic Rays
Only X- or Gamma-Rays Make Particles
Natural Particle Production
>
The First Particles
Simulating the Process
Particles from Darkness
Darkness in the Bible
>
The First Evening
Why Darkness Comes First
Isaiah’s Insight on Darkness and Light
First Morning—Simple Elements
>
The End of Particle Production
>
Doppler Shift, Expansion, and Cooling
The Beginning of Nucleosynthesis
Four Forces
>
Electromagnetic Forces and Gravity
The Strong Nuclear Force
The Weak Nuclear Force
Forces Present in Empty Space
Nucleosynthesis
>
The First Elements
The First Halt in Nuclei Production
Insufficient Complexity
The First Light
>
The Immediate Cause of the First Light
Forming the Light
Light Shining out of Darkness
The Confirmation of Darkness and Light
Second Evening—Expansion
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The Expanding Universe
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The Giant Atom that Exploded
Expansion, Not a “Big Bang” Explosion
Expansion Preserves Order
Expanding Now But Later What?
>
Expanding but Uncreated
The Cyclic Universe
Always Expanding but Never Beginning
Continuous Creation
Objections to Continuous Creation
The Cyclic Version of Continuous Creation
Can New Physics Recycle the Universe?
Accelerating Expansion
No Big Crunch and No New Physical Laws
The Expanding Universe Prevails
Second Morning—Heavy Elements
>
Heat and Light Make Heavy Elements
>
Differences in Stellar Composition
Nuclear Binding Energy
Energy from Fusion and Fission
>
The Proton-Proton Reaction
Instability Releases Energy
Nuclear Stability
Different Kinds of Fission
Making the Rest of the Elements
Burning Helium and Heavier Elements
Third Evening—A Dusty Yellow Star
>
Supernovas Begin the Third Evening
Extraterrestrial Water
Lighting the Sun’s Fire
The Carbon to Oxygen Reaction
The Darkness of the Third Evening
Third Morning—The Earth Forms
>
The Search for a Planet Suitable for Life
Conditions at the Very Beginning
>
Creation from Nothing
Can We Create Energy?
>
God Works to Create Energy
The Work Necessary to Create the Universe
Denial of Creation
The Simplest Explanation
Creation in a Singularity
>
Can We Investigate the Instant of Creation?
The First Light Has Fluctuations
The Next Three Days
>
The Duration of a Usual Day
Structure in the Genesis Narrative
>
Examples of Parallelism
Parallel Structure in the Creation Narrative
Day Four
>
Verb Tenses and Sequences
Creating, Forming, and Making
Not All Stars Formed on the Fourth Day
Against Idolatry and Astrology
When Did the Stars and Sun Start to Shine?
Signs and Animals
Signs and People
What Is the Origin of the Universe?
Appendix A
Appendix B
Design or Luck?
Creative Design
>
Darwin and Adaptive Variation
>
Finches and Form Adaptation
Adaptive Behavior and Structure
Intelligence and Autonomy
Biological Structure and Reproduction
Adapting the Form of Robots
The Origin of Adaptive Form Variation
Darwin’s Idea Extrapolated to Darwinism
>
The Development of the Sciences
Contrasting Darwinism and Thermodynamics
Darwinism Today
The Limits of Automatic Design
Why Aren’t All Darwinists Rich?
>
Early Attempts to Automate Design
Automatic Design: Artificial and Natural
>
The Automatic Lens-Design Program
Company Top Secret
Comparing Evolution and Lens Design
My Colleagues’ Reaction
Conclusion: Darwinism Doesn’t Work
>
Can Design Be Automatic?
Darwinism and “Automatic” Design
How Far Can Small Steps Take Us?
>
Most Journeys Require Big Steps
Small Improvements Are Merely Engineering
Guidelines for Personal Creativity
The Vastness of Hyperspace
Primordial Alphabet Soup
>
Wide Coding Overcomes Noise
DNA is a Natural Language
Common Ancestry
Accepted Words Span the Space
Creative Design
Engineering Design
A Challenge for Darwinists
Thermodynamics, Information, and Creation
>
The First Law of Thermodynamics
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Confusion about Entropy
>
Entropy
Perpetual Motion
Information
Measuring Order
Entropy, Probability, and Information
Multiplying Probability and Adding Entropy
Probability and Information
Structure, Design, Intelligence, and Creativity
>
Structure and Breakdown, Death and Decay
Perfection and Beauty
Earth-Sun Thermodynamics
>
Entropy Produced in the Sun and Stars
Decreases and Compensating Increases
A Simple Example of a Thermodynamic Process
The Example Applied to the Sun and Earth
Another Error about Thermodynamics
A Darwinist Argument about Thermodynamics
Sunlight and the Earth’s Temperature
What Makes Sunlight Suitable?
The Night Sky Is Dark
>
Olbers’ Paradox
A Black Forest and the Stars
Seeing to the Far Limit of the Universe
The Limit of the Known Universe
Ordinary Darkness
A Planet Suitable for Life
>
A Host Galaxy Rich with Dust
A Galactic Location among New Stars
A Solitary Parent Star
A Star of the Right Size
A Star of the Right Color
A Bright Sun in a Dark Sky
Circular Orbits
A Court of Planets
A Nearly Spherical Planet
Moderate Orbital Inclination
A Large Satellite
The Right Temperature
The Right Size for Just Enough Atmosphere
A Molten Core
Various Kinds of Rocks
Abundant Water, Not Other Liquids
The Right Balance between Gases
Surface Soil and Dissolved Gases
Tranquil Conditions
The Thermodynamics of Life
>
Living Organisms and Heat Engines
The Thermodynamics of Life without Sunlight
Entropy, Thermodynamics and Prigogine
Darwinism and Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics and the Universe
>
The Universe and Information Theory
>
Increasing Entropy and the End of the Universe
Formless and Dark but Energetic and Orderly
Entropy and Penrose
Creative Agencies and Their Characteristics
Thermodynamic Prerequisites for Creation
Agency or Agent
Complex Order, Life, Intelligence
>
Random Action and Complexity
Does Matter Organize Itself?
Complexity Can Be Specified
Information and Physical Laws
Did Our Life Begin Elsewhere?
Discovering Alien Life Will Change Nothing
Creative Design Suits the Universe for Life
The Quest Continues
Appendix for Primordial Alphabet Soup
Creationism that Scientists Can Accept
About
Contact
CYCLES OF DARKNES
S AND LIGHT
In this chapter we will discuss what the word "day" means. How do we define the word "day"? How do we know when a "day" has passed?
A Criterion for Observing the Passing of a Day
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Home
Life Did Not Begin by Itself
Earth's First 3 Days
Moses Foresaw Three Discoveries
>
First Discovery
>
Mass and Weight of Energy
Transformations and Materialization
Different Kinds of Rays and Materialization in Empty Space
Was Energy the Source of Material
Second Discovery
Third Discovery
>
The First Light
Separating Light from Darknessali
Early Ideas about the Beginning
>
Ancient Myths and Modern Cosmology
An Up-to-Date Ancient Cosmology
The Confirmation
A Challenging Question
Cycles of Darkness and Light
>
A Criterion for Observing the Passing of a Day
An Ancient Criterion
Teaching Children
The Idea the Word “Day” Expresses
>
A Day, Not “The First Day”
Not “Literal, 24-Hour Days”
How Long Did the First Three Days Last?
The Earth’s Rotation and the First Two Days
The Duration of the First Day
The First Three Cycles of Darkness and Light
Was There a Beginning?
>
The Objectivity of Science
An Uncreated, Unchanging Universe
Evidence for a Beginning
>
Elements in the Stars
Natural Radiation from Space
Stars Consume Their Fuel
Cosmology and Relativity
Gravity, Inertia, and Planetary Stability
Missing Mass and Galactic Instability
Gravitational Instability of the Universe
>
The Cosmological Constant
Physical Determinism
A Fully Deterministic Universe
Physical Predestination and Creation
Quantum Indeterminacy or Uncertainty
Uncertainty and Predestination
Einstein versus Bohr
Logical Positivists are Still Waiting
Philosophy versus Science
Limits of Physical Predestination
Crucial Intervention as Life Appeared
>
God Created the Heavens and the Earth
God Created Plant Life
God Created Marine and Avian Life
God Created Animals More Than Once
God Created Humans, Male and Female
New Heavens and a New Earth
First Evening: Energy and Particles
>
The Energy of Particles
The Energy of Different Kinds of Rays
>
The Most Energetic Rays
Only X- or Gamma-Rays Make Particles
Natural Particle Production
>
The First Particles
Simulating the Process
Particles from Darkness
Darkness in the Bible
>
The First Evening
Why Darkness Comes First
Isaiah’s Insight on Darkness and Light
First Morning—Simple Elements
>
The End of Particle Production
>
Doppler Shift, Expansion, and Cooling
The Beginning of Nucleosynthesis
Four Forces
>
Electromagnetic Forces and Gravity
The Strong Nuclear Force
The Weak Nuclear Force
Forces Present in Empty Space
Nucleosynthesis
>
The First Elements
The First Halt in Nuclei Production
Insufficient Complexity
The First Light
>
The Immediate Cause of the First Light
Forming the Light
Light Shining out of Darkness
The Confirmation of Darkness and Light
Second Evening—Expansion
>
The Expanding Universe
>
The Giant Atom that Exploded
Expansion, Not a “Big Bang” Explosion
Expansion Preserves Order
Expanding Now But Later What?
>
Expanding but Uncreated
The Cyclic Universe
Always Expanding but Never Beginning
Continuous Creation
Objections to Continuous Creation
The Cyclic Version of Continuous Creation
Can New Physics Recycle the Universe?
Accelerating Expansion
No Big Crunch and No New Physical Laws
The Expanding Universe Prevails
Second Morning—Heavy Elements
>
Heat and Light Make Heavy Elements
>
Differences in Stellar Composition
Nuclear Binding Energy
Energy from Fusion and Fission
>
The Proton-Proton Reaction
Instability Releases Energy
Nuclear Stability
Different Kinds of Fission
Making the Rest of the Elements
Burning Helium and Heavier Elements
Third Evening—A Dusty Yellow Star
>
Supernovas Begin the Third Evening
Extraterrestrial Water
Lighting the Sun’s Fire
The Carbon to Oxygen Reaction
The Darkness of the Third Evening
Third Morning—The Earth Forms
>
The Search for a Planet Suitable for Life
Conditions at the Very Beginning
>
Creation from Nothing
Can We Create Energy?
>
God Works to Create Energy
The Work Necessary to Create the Universe
Denial of Creation
The Simplest Explanation
Creation in a Singularity
>
Can We Investigate the Instant of Creation?
The First Light Has Fluctuations
The Next Three Days
>
The Duration of a Usual Day
Structure in the Genesis Narrative
>
Examples of Parallelism
Parallel Structure in the Creation Narrative
Day Four
>
Verb Tenses and Sequences
Creating, Forming, and Making
Not All Stars Formed on the Fourth Day
Against Idolatry and Astrology
When Did the Stars and Sun Start to Shine?
Signs and Animals
Signs and People
What Is the Origin of the Universe?
Appendix A
Appendix B
Design or Luck?
Creative Design
>
Darwin and Adaptive Variation
>
Finches and Form Adaptation
Adaptive Behavior and Structure
Intelligence and Autonomy
Biological Structure and Reproduction
Adapting the Form of Robots
The Origin of Adaptive Form Variation
Darwin’s Idea Extrapolated to Darwinism
>
The Development of the Sciences
Contrasting Darwinism and Thermodynamics
Darwinism Today
The Limits of Automatic Design
Why Aren’t All Darwinists Rich?
>
Early Attempts to Automate Design
Automatic Design: Artificial and Natural
>
The Automatic Lens-Design Program
Company Top Secret
Comparing Evolution and Lens Design
My Colleagues’ Reaction
Conclusion: Darwinism Doesn’t Work
>
Can Design Be Automatic?
Darwinism and “Automatic” Design
How Far Can Small Steps Take Us?
>
Most Journeys Require Big Steps
Small Improvements Are Merely Engineering
Guidelines for Personal Creativity
The Vastness of Hyperspace
Primordial Alphabet Soup
>
Wide Coding Overcomes Noise
DNA is a Natural Language
Common Ancestry
Accepted Words Span the Space
Creative Design
Engineering Design
A Challenge for Darwinists
Thermodynamics, Information, and Creation
>
The First Law of Thermodynamics
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Confusion about Entropy
>
Entropy
Perpetual Motion
Information
Measuring Order
Entropy, Probability, and Information
Multiplying Probability and Adding Entropy
Probability and Information
Structure, Design, Intelligence, and Creativity
>
Structure and Breakdown, Death and Decay
Perfection and Beauty
Earth-Sun Thermodynamics
>
Entropy Produced in the Sun and Stars
Decreases and Compensating Increases
A Simple Example of a Thermodynamic Process
The Example Applied to the Sun and Earth
Another Error about Thermodynamics
A Darwinist Argument about Thermodynamics
Sunlight and the Earth’s Temperature
What Makes Sunlight Suitable?
The Night Sky Is Dark
>
Olbers’ Paradox
A Black Forest and the Stars
Seeing to the Far Limit of the Universe
The Limit of the Known Universe
Ordinary Darkness
A Planet Suitable for Life
>
A Host Galaxy Rich with Dust
A Galactic Location among New Stars
A Solitary Parent Star
A Star of the Right Size
A Star of the Right Color
A Bright Sun in a Dark Sky
Circular Orbits
A Court of Planets
A Nearly Spherical Planet
Moderate Orbital Inclination
A Large Satellite
The Right Temperature
The Right Size for Just Enough Atmosphere
A Molten Core
Various Kinds of Rocks
Abundant Water, Not Other Liquids
The Right Balance between Gases
Surface Soil and Dissolved Gases
Tranquil Conditions
The Thermodynamics of Life
>
Living Organisms and Heat Engines
The Thermodynamics of Life without Sunlight
Entropy, Thermodynamics and Prigogine
Darwinism and Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics and the Universe
>
The Universe and Information Theory
>
Increasing Entropy and the End of the Universe
Formless and Dark but Energetic and Orderly
Entropy and Penrose
Creative Agencies and Their Characteristics
Thermodynamic Prerequisites for Creation
Agency or Agent
Complex Order, Life, Intelligence
>
Random Action and Complexity
Does Matter Organize Itself?
Complexity Can Be Specified
Information and Physical Laws
Did Our Life Begin Elsewhere?
Discovering Alien Life Will Change Nothing
Creative Design Suits the Universe for Life
The Quest Continues
Appendix for Primordial Alphabet Soup
Creationism that Scientists Can Accept
About
Contact
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