Alphin C. Tom

Today I introduce to you one of the most powerful science presentations I have ever heard.    I listened to Hugh Ross give this presentation on a tape while I was driving down Interstate 88 in Chicago one night.  As I listened, light bulbs were firing off in my head all over the place.    So what's the big deal about this?  Here's what you'll discover as you listen: -The delicate balance of vast forces in the universe, necessary for life to exist -Why planet earth is so extremely special in its ability to support life -The very measurement of the entire universe in all its magnificence, made possible only within the last 15 years -A fascinating place where science and theology come together in perfect agreement    Now there's one more thing I want to tell you about this talk: It was recorded in 1994.    Now why would I give you something called "New Scientific Evidence" if ...

See this blog I just posted, that you're reading right now?  This blog post is proof of the existence of God.    Yeah, I know, that sounds crazy.  But I'm not asking you to believe anything just yet, until you see the evidence for yourself.  All I ask is that you refrain from disbelieving while I show you my proof.  It only takes a minute to convey, but it speaks to one of the most important questions of all time.    So how is this post proof of the existence of God?    This post you're reading contains letters, words and sentences.  It contains a message that means something. As long as you can read English, you can understand what I'm saying.     You can do all kinds of things with this blog.  You can read it on your computer screen.  You can print it out on your printer.  You can read it out loud to a friend who's in the same room as you are.  You can call your friend a...

In your kitchen cabinet, you've probably got a spray bottle with an adjustable nozzle.  If you twist the nozzle one way, it sprays a fine mist into the air.  You twist the nozzle the other way, it squirts a jet of water in a straight line.  You turn that nozzle to the exact position you want so you can wash a mirror, clean up a spill, or whatever.    If the universe had expanded a little faster, the matter would have sprayed out into space like fine mist from a water bottle - so fast that a gazillion particles of dust would speed into infinity and never even form a single star.    If the universe had expanded just a little slower, the material would have dribbled out like big drops of water, then collapsed back where it came from by the force of gravity.    A little too fast, and you get a meaningless spray of fine dust.  A little too slow, and the...

The Big Bang theory was totally rejected at first. But those who supported it had predicted that the ignition of the Big Bang would have left behind a sort of 'hot flash' of radiation.    If a big black wood stove produces heat that you can feel, then in a similar manner, the Big Bang should produce its own kind of heat that would echo throughout the universe.    In 1965, without looking for it, two physicists at Bell Labs in New Jersey found it.  At first, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were bothered because, while trying to refine the world's most sensitive radio antenna, they couldn't eliminate a bothersome source of noise. They picked up this noise everywhere they pointed the antenna.    At first they thought it was bird droppings.  The antenna was so sensitive it could pick up the heat of bird droppings (which certainly are warm when they're brand new) but even after cleaning it off, th...

100 years ago, Albert Einstein published three papers that rocked the world.  These papers proved the existence of the atom, introduced the theory of relativity, and described quantum mechanics.    Pretty good debut for a 26 year old scientist, huh?    His equations for relativity indicated that the universe was expanding.  This bothered him, because if it was expanding, it must have had a beginning and a beginner. Since neither of these appealed to him, Einstein introduced a 'fudge factor' that ensured a 'steady state' universe, one that had no beginning or end.    But in 1929, Edwin Hubble showed that the furthest galaxies were fleeing away from each other, just as the Big Bang model predicted.  So in 1931, Einstein embraced what would later be known as the Big Bang theory, saying, "This is the most beautiful and satisfactory explanation of creation to which I have ever listened....