AJ's Blog | Theology, Politics, Culture: Astronauts and Asteroids

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Astronauts and Asteroids

Say that five times fast.

I just read an article in the news about NASA considering sending astronauts to an asteroid. The old-school astronauts say it would be more beneficial to go to the moon again. Maybe. An asteroid mission seems pretty daring to me.

One of the main lines of the article (I can't remember the wording exactly) said we may learn something important that can protect us from asteroids later. Maybe. It continued to say something about us doing better than the dinosaurs.

I can see the conference now: A broad-shouldered man in a blue suit, front pockets shining from hard-earned flashy medals, is walking alongside a long table and says, "Men, we are sending you to an asteroid. You may die. You may never see your families again. But we might learn something important. Something that might save humankind. Men, we are going to outsmart the dino's."

That's right. Barney is going down.

Okay, you're right, that was dumb. But the point is whoever wrote that article might want to research his dinosaur history. Because evolutionists have no clue what happened to the dinosaurs. Asteroids? Please. A kindergartner probably came up with that one.

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CUMULATIVE CASE FOR A CREATOR SUMMARIZED
• Premise #1 - Whatever begins to exist must have a cause. Premise #2 - The universe began to exist. The conclusion logically and inescapably follows: the universe has a cause.
• The initial conditions of the universe, given in the big bang theory itself, must have been incredibly fine tuned beyond comprehension. This is either due to chance, natural law, or design. It is too incomprehensible to be explained by natural law, or chance; therefore, the best explanation is design.
• If objective moral values exist, then God exists. Objective moral values--morals that are legal and binding whether anyone believes in them or not. Objective moral values do exist (we know this intuitively); therefore God exists.
• After Jesus died on the cross, three facts remained: the empty tomb, the appearances of Jesus after the resurrection, and the disciples belief that Jesus had risen from the dead. Contemporary scholarship agrees on these three facts; every attempt to explain these facts away have been completely disregarded.
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