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[ Young Earth ] Do you believe in God? A different approach to the subject...

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Do you believe in God? A different approach to the subject...

I read an article today by Carl Johnson, Pastor, A Christ Walk Church. Now, I don't know much about this guy at all, have only read three of the articles on his website hosted on MB-Soft.com I don't even know what MB-Soft is, but I did like the way he presented things. There's a lot of resources there and it seems that Paston Johnson has quite the background. He talks about Advanced Physics, about Dinosaurs, about a variety of Social Subject, about Scientific Subjects, Public Service and God.

Here's a clip from one page of this rather large website:

Public Services Home Page


Do You Believe in God?
A common question, but one that often results in frustration and confusion and arguments! Consider an entirely different approach to the matter!

This does not matter whether a person has any "deep understanding" or any understanding whatever regarding the precise text of Genesis, or of any religious subjects! This approach is "non-religious" completely.

It is a "challenge!"

It involves a sequence of logical exercises, and YOUR logic and YOUR interpretation of any and all facts.

I first give you an assignment to compose a simple one-page "history of sports". I give you the names of 14 common and popular sports: Baseball, football, soccer, tennis, golf, basketball, rugby, cricket, field hockey, ice hockey, archery, gymnastics, track and field, and wrestling. You are to write a brief history where the beginnings of those sports are put in the correct historical order. Easy? Prove it! Prove to me that you can generate a correct sequence of the 14 sports on a piece of paper, WITHOUT any usage of any textbooks, encyclopedias, the Internet, or any other resources.

PAUSE ... while you complete your assignment.

Now we can examine the statistics involved to see how likely it was that you succeeded in accomplishing that goal.

Which sport do you think was first? You start out with 14 choices to pick from. Then, which was second? You have 13 left to pick from, so you already have 14 * 13 or 182 different possible storylines for just the first two sports!

It turns out that you have a total of 14!, what is called 14-factorial possible sequences to choose from. That number happens to be 87,178,291,200 possible sequences. So you have quite a chore ahead of you, and you must realize that, without the added help of a computer or an encyclopedia, the chance that you get the sequence exactly right is not likely to be much better than one in 80 billion!

Yes, we recognize that you can make certain GUESSES to eliminate a few of the possibilities. But think about the situation was where all those sports began far, far, long ago, where it might have been harder to rule out many possibilities.

Read more of this article at:
http://mb-soft.com/public3/god.html

The essay continues to explain that there are some very specific events described in the Book of Genesis and relates what we have learned during our assignment above to the problems faced by the author of the first book of the bible. It's a good read and clicking around the website gives lots of opportunities to read things that we've wondered about since childhood.

Cordially,
Sparrowhawke

PS - I've not read enough of this author to be able to confirm or deny his belief regarding Young Earth, but have read enough to know that he is a very prolific writer, expresses himself well and does believe in God.
 
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