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Amazing Facts

Joe Crews

God of Creation

All clocks and watches in the world are kept accurate by the fantastic precision of moving stars and planets.

Astronomers agree that the length of a day has not varied by 1 thousandth of a second in the last 1000 years.

Could these unvarying stars have anything to do with human destiny?

Hello, this is Joe Cruz in the Amazing Facts broadcast, Facts Which Affect You.

You know the science of astronomy has produced some of the most incredible information about the heavenly bodies in space.

By means of powerful new telescopes, the edge of infinity is being pushed farther and farther beyond the range of our natural sight.

There is absolutely no limits to the universe according to the conclusions of space computers.

The deeper men probe into the sky, the more extensive and mysterious the stars and planets seem to be.

The most fascinating fact about astronomy is the uncanny accuracy of the movement of those unnumbered worlds, suns, moons, and stars.

We set our watches by them today, just as men have reckoned time by them in every age of the past.

Scientists assure us that not 1 1 thousandth of a second of time has been lost in a thousand years.

Now this suggests that some mighty intelligence is controlling the course of these gigantic stars and their systems.

Few of us can realize that they hurtle in their orbits at fantastic speeds, yet with never a collision with the billions of others out there in space.

We go to sleep peacefully tonight with no fear concerning the safety of our solar system.

Why do we not worry about 1 of those countless stars slipping out of place and disrupting the universe?

There is only 1 answer to that, and even the professed atheists must admit it.

We know there is a God who controls with perfect precision the worlds He created.

Today I want to take just 1 aspect of the wonderful character of God for our study, His omnipotence.

If God is anything, He is the greatest power in the universe.

The atheist alone would dare to lift his voice in denial.

But, friends, I believe that We can even compel the unbeliever today to admit that there is a God who possesses all power.

I answer, by proving the miracle of creation.

Today I want to take just 1 scientific proof because I know it is there.

Now I was not present, of course, when the world was made.

I didn't see it, and neither did you or anybody else.

The things I am going to say cannot be placed in the test tube of the laboratory, but they are so reasonable that only an unreasonable man could persist in saying that God did not create the world.

1 thing we can't deny, the marvelous world is here and its intricate operation is still successful after millenniums of time have passed by.

Who caused that first proton or neutron or molecule or atom to spring into existence.

It could not have formed without some originating power.

Oh, I know there are lots of theories in circulation.

I've studied with interest the fantastic imaginings of so-called scientists who describe the details of a creation which they classify as being over a hundred million years ago.

They paint a picture of gases in motion, of swirling hot elements solidifying into planets, moons, and stars.

Listen, friends, I have never read about the origin of those gases, have you?

No scientist has yet explained where those molecules and atoms came from.

And what about the order of things in our solar system today?

Suppose matter could spring into being by itself, a property that even science doesn't attribute to it.

Could it arrange itself in the unbelievable orderly universe that we see around us?

Watch that fiery ball of the sun sink into the west.

That giant atomic power plant is the center about which the earth swings at a distance of more than 90 million miles.

We travel around this solar racetrack at a speed of over 1, 100 miles per minute.

Men talk about traveling at the speed of sound, but the fact is that we're all flying over the earth 70 times the speed of sound right now as we journey around the sun.

Now, what keeps the earth, traveling 1, 140 miles per minute, from flying off into space and colliding.

Take a piece of string, tie it to a spool, whirl it around over your head in a circle, and then let it go.

Now what kind of string would it take to hold the earth on a path around the sun?

You see, the total attraction between the earth and the sun equals the breaking strain of a steel rod 3, 000 miles in diameter, believe it or not.

And that rod is 90 million miles long when it comes to the earth swinging around the sun.

There is omnipotence so vast that we can't comprehend it.

Have you ever heard of a man making an atom?

Oh, no, we have only heard of men splitting the atom.

It would be folly to talk of making a sun, a star, or a planet.

Man has been able to place a few satellites a few hundred miles up in the air to encircle the earth, but listen, so many vast worlds are up there in space that man can't even count them.

If you want to feel small and insignificant, go out on some clear night and try to count those stars.

Is it an accident that they move so orderly and precisely in their path?

Is it an accident that we can set our watches to the fraction of a second by the movements of heavenly bodies?

Is there a man so blind as to say there is no God with omnipotent power behind it all?

If it is an accident, it is a mighty lucky accident.

Suppose it was larger and nearer than it now is.

Then our tides would be raised to overflow the earth.

If the moon was smaller and farther away, then the tides would be worthless.

Suppose the earth turned faster on its axis.

Our days and nights would be shortened, and the regions at the equator would be covered with sea.

If the motion was slower than it is now, the sea would cover the temperate zones.

But the moon is just the right size, and the earth rotates at just the right speed, making the earth fruitful and happy.

Friends, if there is no God, this is the most wonderful and incredible and favorable thing that I have ever heard of.

It reminds me of a man who saw a turning shaft coming out of a wall.

He marveled at that steel rod which was capable of turning by itself but never realizing that there was a motor beyond that wall which generated the power.

Even Napoleon, the great general, could not tolerate his soldiers debating on the existence of God.

He pointed to the stars and asked how they came into existence.

Psalms 33, 6, and 9 says, "...by the word of the LORD were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

For he spake, and it was done, he commanded, and it stood fast." Why The fact is, friends, He started something out of nothing.

He spoke the world into existence out of space.

He's so powerful that He simply spoke the world into existence.

Now read something else in the Bible we can all agree with.

Isaiah 45, 18, 18 For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth, and made it.

He hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited.

I am the Lord, and there is none else." So this says that God made the world to be inhabited.

It was a beautiful perfect world that He made, not the earth we see today.

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