The delusion, THERE IS NO GOD is different from the other delusions we will consider in that it specifically denies either the existence of the holy trinity (God the Father, His Son Jesus, and their Holy Spirit), or if they exist at all, are seen as some unidentified benign force, disinterested influence, ethereal essence, impersonal power, or unexplainable presence operating somewhere in space.  This delusion was crafted by Satan, the enemy of all mankind, to entrap and ensnare in opposition to the plan of redemption. It fits in perfectly with non-christian lifestyles, goals, and aspirations. And This denial of a supreme being allows a lifestyle that is guilt free.

    Without God, or Satan, there is no good or evil. Thus there is no moral law, which is a reflection of God's character, and without law there can be no sin, no guilt, no judgment to face. If there is no sin, there is no need for a plan of salvation to save us from the penalty of sin, which is death. Law is the standard whereby people are judged, but if there is no law, then there is no judge (God), no judgment, no intercessor (Christ), no punishment, no end of the world, no Heaven to gain, no hell to shun. This describes perfectly the existential experience - "people unique and isolated in a hostile or indifferent universe. It regards human existence as unexplainable, and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's acts." (Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary).  This teaches that human existence is one of just being. Its adherents believe that they are subject only to the laws of nature and its whims. There is only this life to live, with no hope beyond the grave. Life centers around the present, and encourages men to "eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die." (1 Cor. 15:32)

    This is a "survival-of- the-fittest" mentality - do what you have to do to survive, for you alone are responsible for controlling your environment and your own destiny. There is no place in this person's thinking for a titanic struggle between supernatural forces of good and evil over the souls of men. To believe in the Bible is to believe that there is a God, and that this being of infinite power also spoke into existence the unnumbered galaxies, inhabited planets, quasars, stars, star clusters, and countless island universes, stretching out endlessly into infinite space. All created from infinity past, present and future. To believe the Bible is to believe that there are supernatural forces, both good and evil at work in the world, and that supernatural beings are in control of these forces. The Bible teaches that God is behind all the good, and Satan is behind all the evil. This has been described as the great controversy between Christ (who is the Creator God incarnate), and Satan the usurper who would be like God.

    The Bible describes how Satan, who was once Lucifer, the mightiest of the heavenly angels, fell from his high and holy state through pride and jealousy, wanting to be like God. He was able to convince one third of the angels to side with him. There was a rebellion in heaven, and a war ensued in which Satan and his angels were cast out, down to this earth which had been newly created by Jesus the Creator. With this turn of events, it was necessary for God to institute the plan of salvation, which before this time was only in the mind of God, to fully explain the conflict.

    Thus it is that from the time of his fall, Satan, because of jealousy, has attempted to denigrate God, to put down His infinite powers and to cast dispersion upon His power, character and His work. Using craftiness and his superior wiles, this usurper has from the beginning been able to get man to rebel against God, to disbelieve in divine fiat, to compartmentalize the incomprehensible power of an infinite Creator, who not only had the power to instantly speak into existence all things and who created Lucifer himself, all the
angels, and man whom the Bible says was created in the image of God. Satan's plan from the beginning has been to focus attention upon himself, to get others to look to him as the god to be worshipped, to make the God of heaven and the universe a non-entity. He desired to be like the most high God, to usurp his authority, to elevate himself to God's level or higher if possible. Thus it was that Satan devised this delusion that there is no God, to dethrone God in the eyes of mankind. Associated with this belief are three others that are closely related:

    2) GOD, ALTHOUGH NOT A PERSON, IS SOME ENTITY, COSMIC FORCE, OR POWER in the universe that is in control. This entity, or force, if it thinks at all, is not interested in the affairs of men and in fact seems to often work against us. This force is perceived to govern and control the forces of nature, acting impulsively upon whim, and is unpredictable, non- thinking, and unsympathetic to the problems of human beings. This concept also embraces the existential philosophy of eat, drink, and be merry. There is no room in this belief for a loving Heavenly Father who lovingly cares and watches over all His creation, one who knows every sparrow that falls, and even the number of hairs on our head, as Scripture tells us. Thus in this belief there is no room for a "personal Savior" in whom "we live and move and have our being." (Acts 17:28) This God if He exists has been portrayed by Satan as a vindictive, vengeful being, waiting to pounce upon His subjects, imbued with the very attributes and character of Satan himself.

    3) GOD IS NATURE ITSELF: This ancient belief, called Pantheism, asserts that the CREATED IS THE CREATOR. This belief which is held by those in the New Age Movement and the far eastern religions, states, "We are gods; we are the creator. We have the power within our minds to create and control the world we live in." They call it the "Christ Consciousness."

    To them this means that we have the power within ourselves to save ourselves and evolve from one state of consciousness to another. By calling the created the creator, they deny the person and being of a supreme God. We will delay responding to this delusion until later in this book, for a thread of New Age thinking permeates, and is closely connected to several of the other delusions which attack other spiritual truths -- denial of God, of sin, of judgment, etc.

    Each delusion shares a common thread - a mixing of truth and error. Each builds on the error of the other, and supports and authenticates the other. Their author is the father of lies. Because of this common thread, overlapping subject matter is inevitable, but this works to our advantage, for Biblical certainties against one delusion also stands as proof against the others.

    4) THE UNIVERSE EVOLVED WITHOUT DIVINE FIAT:  Evolution versus a fiat creation is a denial of the existence or need of heavenly Creator (Jesus), or a Heavenly Father. Evolution has entrapped not only those who have no spiritual or Christian roots, but also many who claim to be Christian or followers of the way. It is surprising how many sincere Christians believe this unbiblically inspired falsehood.

    Both concepts number 3 and 4 are not so subtle entrapments that have lured not just a few Christian's into believing a perversion of the nature of God and His role in the cosmos. Through these delusions God is boxed in by unholy perceptions of who He is, and how He works. In so doing, God is denied His rightful place in the creative process, His role as Creator of the universe is challenged, limiting Him to a lesser part. Even His very Word which created the  universe is brought into question. "Theistic Evolution" is the term used to describe one of those unholy perceptions accepted as a plausible answer by some mainline conservative and "avante guard" individuals, to explain evolution in the context of the Bible account of creation.

    Theistic evolution allows for a creation of the world by God, which took eons of time instead of six literal 24 hour days. But it is impossible for a Christian to make this kind of compromise without attacking the authenticity and validity of God's Word. To do this casts doubt and dispersion upon God and His Word, saying in effect God did not mean what He said, or said what He means, that He cannot be trusted to have told the truth, that the Genesis account is flawed. If "theistic evolution" is true, then God is not who He says He is, and His very existence is brought into question and faith in God's Word (the Holy Scripture) is destroyed.

Battle Lines Drawn:

    No matter how Genesis, the first Chapter in the Bible, is explained to fit an evolutionary theory about how this planet evolved or came into existence, Scripture is clear about what happened. But the enemy out to destroy God's reputation and denigrate Him in the eyes of mankind, has clouded man's mind, filling it with lies designed to deceive and destroy the soul. Since the inception of evolution by Charles Darwin in the mid-1800's, the unholy mind of the evolutionist has been turned toward discrediting the Biblical account of a literal creation week of seven days duration.

    The Genesis account of creation has been under constant attack by the enemy to undermine man's belief and his worship of an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent Creator.  Darwin's theory, when first proposed, was eagerly grasped by agnostics and infidels alike as a way to explain the origin of the cosmos and the earth.

    The only thing that has evolved is their theory which pits a fiat creation by an almighty God against a slowly evolving cosmos taking millions and billions of years. Life is described as beginning from some primordial soup which somehow began with the formation of a single cell, evolving through a process of natural selection to its present state of development. Thus the universe and man is ever evolving toward some higher state of existence. However,
believers in this theory of an evolving world have never been able to produce any "links" between the various identities, since all still produce "after their kind" (Gen 1:21), except in cases of artificial intervention by man or Satan.

    This is a very convenient way to deny what 6,000 years of sin has done to planet earth and its inhabitants. The Bible says that such a time of trouble such as this world has never seen is approaching. Soon God will come, in fact already is to pour out His wrath upon this wicked world. This planet is not evolving toward some better utopian society, but rather toward self-destruction.  The exact opposite of what Satan would have men believe.

    He has very successfully used this delusion to turn man's attention away from the tragic consequences of 6,000 years of sin, and what it has wrought upon planet earth. There is considerable evidence to support the Christian's view of the creation of life on planet earth, spoken into being, solely by the Word of God in six literal 24-hour days. For anyone who wants to believe, there is more than ample evidence. We recognize that for those who want to believe, no explanation is necessary, but for those who do not want to believe, no
explanation is possible.

    EVOLUTION IS THE CONCEPT OF TIME -- how long it took for the universe and planet earth to come into existence. About the creation of the earth, the Bible is most clear.

What Is A Day In Creation?:

    "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light DAY. and the darkness he called NIGHT.  AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE FIRST DAY." (Gen 1:1-5)

    The Bible says that the earth was created in 6 days, and describes each of these days as MARKED BY AN EVENING AND MORNING, which periods still exist. This limits the time it took God to create the earth to six literal 12 hour day and 12 hour night periods. On the seventh the Bible says that God rested (finished creation) and created the Sabbath day for a day of rest for man. A man who works continually seven days a week, eventually breaks down physically
from overwork, just like machinery which is used continually. The creation of the Sabbath day of rest, a day of renewal, of communion with heaven, was most important to the well being of mankind. Since creation, THIS WEEKLY CYCLE HAS NEVER BEEN BROKEN. Furthermore, there is no other plausible explanation for the weekly cycle other than the creation week. It is the only time cycle not based upon the movement of some celestial body (sun, moon, planets or stars). The EVENING AND MORNING daily cycle and the seven day week is perhaps the greatest argument against evolutionary time.

EVIDENCE CONTINUALLY COVERED AND HUSHED UP:

    Evolutionists, from the beginning, tried to keep evidence that would damage their cause from surfacing, evidence showing their theory was not based upon fact, but on conjecture and supposition. As early as the mid-1800's, one or two giant skeletons of humans were reportedly unearthed that proved to them that humans before the flood were more than twice as large as today's humans (upwards of 16 feet tall). Other geological evidence has been, and is continually being uncovered that further disproves evolution, evidence purposefully kept out
of sight. This unscientific practice has not changed over the years.

    The evolutionary scientist still attempts to keep information which is damaging to their cause from receiving public attention. Zeal to push upon the unsuspecting public false theories and ideas about the origin of the universe and the world is amazing. Cloaked in a scientific expertise and definitions, these ideas are made to sound reasonable and plausible.

    To their credit, a few well known evolutionary scientists admit that there is more evidence supporting the creation account of this earth's origin than supports evolution. They are aware their theories do not hold up under the weight of evidence, and are vulnerable to examination. They well know that large unexplainable gaps exist in their theories for which they do not have answers.

    But most evolutionary scientists are only interested in evidence supporting their cause, and have shown a reluctance about accepting any contradictory geological evidence which could show their ideas and theories to be false. Most will not buck the mores of their select groups.

    One reason for this mind set is because they have reached the point of no return in pushing their agenda. To turn back to the truth would be an admission that they were wrong, and would damage their cause irreparably. The repercussions of such an admission would be enormous to a world which is now totally geared toward believing evolution is a proven fact.

    It is beyond the scope of this Monograph to get into fine points of this controversy which of necessity centers around the geology of the earth, paleoanthropology and biology. Good books have been written and evidence amassed which readily supports the Biblical account of creation and the flood, and refutes the prevailing ideas of evolution espoused by the media and press today. A few examples will suffice to introduce the reader to the vast wealth of
material that is available about this subject. (Reference to "in depth" material at the end of this chapter is provided for those who desire to explore this topic further.)

THE BEDROCK OF EVOLUTION:

    The bedrock or base upon which evolution stands or falls is the UNIFORMITARIAN  PRINCIPLE. It is the glue that holds all the pieces in the evolutionary mosaic together. This principle assumes a constant decay rate of radioactive material, and is an integral part of the evolutionary premise that all physical laws have remained unchanged throughout the history of the universe. This principle is supported by carbon-14 dating methods, hence they assume that it took millions of years for life to develop from a single cell which evolved out of a primordial soup. What is not recognized is that carbon-14's rate of decay has changed and has not always been the same as it now is. There are two reasons for this, 1) the flood and its after effects upon the earth, 2) atmospheric conditions that existed on the earth before the flood.

GOD COUNTERMOVES EVOLUTION:

    About the same time the theory of evolution arrived upon the scene in the mid 1800's, God made a countermove. Inspired scientists have, over the years, been led to the kind of indisputable hard physical evidence needed to counter evolution. Not a few of these men have, as a result of their findings, been converted from atheism and agnosticism to Christianity, and some have even established an intimate, personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. This evidence has been accumulating for many years. Each bit of evidence has
chipped away at the theory of evolution. For sure God is not dead, and has made provision for truth to be found by all who are willing to search for it. Truth can be found in five places: The universe without and within, geology, nature, mathematics, and the Bible. We will examine each briefly.

WITNESS OF A UNIVERSE WITHOUT AND WITHIN:

    A Master Design Evident: It is impossible for the human mind to comprehend the ability of a fiat God to instantly speak into existence not only this earth, but the whole of the universe which extends without end or goes in every direction forever. Everywhere in the vast infinite universe of both inner and outer space there is evidence of a master plan or blueprint designed by an incomprehensible mastermind. Nowhere is this plan more evident than when
comparing the INFINITE VASTNESS of space with the INFINITE SMALLNESS contained within the world of the atom.

BEHOLD THE HEAVENS:

    "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork." (Ps. 19:1) It is in the infinity of space that we behold God's infinite powers, His perfect creation, the perfect timing of countless celestial bodies, galaxies, star clusters, and island universes, each with their unnumbered world's moving in their assigned orbits around their center. These in turn move among other systems, all in perfect timing and obviously according to some preordained master plan and intelligent, infinite guiding force. Countless solar systems with their planets and respective moons, circle around their center a sun.

     These suns or solar systems in turn circle within their island universes, comprised of unnumbered billions and billions of suns, stars, moons, planets, novas, super novas, black holes, quasars, asteroids, etc. Island universes or galaxies appear to center around one central point in the universe, which some believe is God's dwelling place. All systems move in perfect harmony with the other. Each in their respective orbit, circling around their center, at their preordained speed.

    No evolutionary process can ever explain how this kind of system could have evolved by random chance. Only an omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent being, with an incomprehensible, unfathomable mind could have ever created the universe.

BEHOLD THE ATOM:

From The Cosmos To The Atom:

    As it is with the universe, so it is with the world of the atom. As in space, each atom is comprised of a central point which is the nucleus of the atom. Around this nucleus circle electrons protons, neutrons and other atomic particles moving in perfect order and timing, an exact pattern of what is found in space.

    It is impossible for human mind to comprehend how God on one hand could create something so vast as the universe, and the other hand create something so infinitely small, yet so infinitely perfect as the atom. What is even more unfathomable is the vast energy contained within the nucleus of the infinitely small atom, which holds together its various components.  As a side note: Unfortunately, through the genius and inspiration of Satan (but at God's allowance) man learned how to release this unfathomable energy that holds the atom together.

    Although there have been benefits gained from using this power, they have been far outweighed by the harm done. Through ignorance and carelessness, man is polluting and contaminating the earth with deadly nuclear radiation which threatens to destroy the whole planet.  Presently most nations large and small can be seen grasping for the power of the atom. Without this power at their disposal they feel vulnerable to attack from other hostile and
radical nations. They feel that with the bomb as a deterrent, they might at least have a remote chance of survival. People everywhere feel, and rightly so, that this world is sitting on a nuclear powder keg which is about ready to blow.

    The United States and other nations are desperately trying to contain this terrible genie of destruction. But as more nations both small and great gain access to "the bomb," containment will be impossible. It is only a matter of time until some radical nation will make the fatal mistake of using this power upon another country. The button will be pushed, and the whole world will become involved in the long dreaded and talked about nuclear holocaust which will contaminate and destroy the planet and its inhabitants (See Ezekiel 39).

    Will this be the war to end all wars, the final Biblical battle of Armageddon? Many people believe that it will. The awesome, stupendous power contained within the atom alone should be enough to cause man to consider its Creator. In comparing the atom with the universe and space, the question is raised of how any mortal man, smaller than the smallest part of an atom in comparison to this earth, which in turn is as a speck of cosmic dust in God's vast
universe, could ever think to box in this kind of a God to conform to his unholy thoughts? Yet he has tried, relegating and denigrating God to fit into his puny notions and ambitions.

THE WITNESS OF THE COSMOS:

    Since the late 1920's and early 1930's, a powerful idea surfaced about the origin of the universe that, if true would change man's concept of space forever, and which if correct would support the theory that the cosmos had an origin and was not a static universe but one that had a cataclysmic beginning and was ever expanding both in time and space.

    Scientists of cosmology, who study the cosmos, space, or the universe, were divided by two groups of thought.

The Static View:

    From the time when man first began to study and observe the universe and its visible celestial bodies, when the heavens could only be viewed, with the naked eye, the universe
appeared to be STATIC. The stars and planets always appeared in the same spot in the heavens at the same time in earth's year. From earliest times planetariums of stone were erected to view the stars as they passed across stones placed in the ground. The pyramids were built always facing one direction, oriented toward a fixed star.

The Expanding View:

    From the time of Galileo when he invented and used the first telescope, understanding began to very gradually change with the ever increasing findings about the universe. What man began to see was that there was movement out in space and that dynamic things were happening that were stupendous events.

    With the invention of giant optical and radio telescopes, and space exploring satellites, and sophisticated measuring devices, man's concepts and ideas about space expanded with the increase of knowledge, which brings us to the present time.  The current line of reason about the cosmos or the universe is 1) IT IS FINITE, that is, HAD AN ORIGIN, a beginning, or was CREATED. This event is labeled the "Big Bang," and 2) IT IS AN EVER EXPANDING UNIVERSE IN BOTH TIME AND SPACE.

    It appears that new galaxies or islands of star clusters are ever forming, and the means whereby this is taking place can now be observed. Especially is this so with the giant new Hubble telescope located in space, as startling images of a dynamic space are being received. Eighteen years ago a young man George Smoot entered the field of cosmology with a burning desire to prove, if possible, the "big bang" theory to be truth. After years of heartbreak, trial, error and disappointment, George was finally successful in reaching his goal and wrote a book describing his experience and what he found.

    He has amassed solid scientific proof which supports the idea that the universe is dynamic and ever expanding, and more important that it is the creation of a fiat super mind with incomprehensible power defined as God, who created matter, time and space from nothing. Beyond this, the findings indicate clearly the method which God used to create the cosmos, how stars and the heavenly bodies are formed, and when in time this whole process began.Furthermore, this creative process has an order and timing that eliminates any possibility that this expansive process of the universe just happened by random chance as atheistic minds would like to believe.

    The following ideas and illustrations about the cosmos and its origin were taken from Smoot's book Wrinkles In Time, written by him and Keay Davidson. His search for truth is a prime example of how God was leading in the quest for knowledge and understanding about His universe. This revealed knowledge is just another piece of the puzzle about God which He appears to be using to prove His existence and vindicate His Word. George's experience shows how an honest scientist with an open mind, seeking for truth and understanding will
find it.

ORIGIN OF THE COSMOS:

    Cosmology is defined as 'the science of the universe.'... No study has excited more interest and conjecture than that of the universe, the cosmos, or outer space. Beginning twenty-five hindered years ago the ancient Greeks organized their observations of the world into cosmological models. One model eventually reigned supreme due to its pleasing beauty. The Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy corrected it to account for celestial observations and it was the standard cosmological model for another fifteen hundred years. (pp 2,3)

    "Over the past four centuries a series of astronomical observations and experiments has radically altered our view of the universe. Just as Aristotle's geocentric universe was replaced by the heliocentric universe of Copernicus, Copernicus's universe was soon replaced by Newton's, and Newton's eventually by Einstein's. We currently live in Einstein's universe,
but this worldview may also someday become inadequate. One of the themes of this book, and of the history of science, is that no theory is sacrosanct. As we expand our powers of observation through technology and experimental ingenuity, we must modify our theories to fit what we see.

    "When I took up cosmology in 1970, a change was taking place in the science. In the past, astronomy and particle physics had independently pursued fundamental questions about nature. But by 1970, a union of these two disciplines had begun to occur. This union of the study of the incomprehensibly large (astronomy) and the unbelievably small (particle
physics) promises to move human curiosity closer to answering the ultimate questions. Indeed, it is already delivering on that promise, as experiment and theory allow us to look back toward the slimmest imaginable margin of time, some 10 to the 42nd seconds (that is, one millionth of an trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second) after what we believe to be the origin of the universe.

    "The scope of cosmology begins at that moment and encompasses the subsequent evolution of our cosmos, which grew from being the tiniest fraction of the size of a proton
(one of the elementary particles from which all know matter is made) to an essentially endless expanse. This theory of an expanding cosmos is popularly known as the "BIG BANG." To cosmologists, the big bang is a powerful theory that has dominated the science for past three decades. As words imply, the theory envisages the universe's beginning with a mighty
eruption. Unlike a conventional explosion, however, the big bang did not move into existing space; IT CREATED SPACE AS IT EXPANDED (AND CONTINUES TO DO SO) [emphasis added]. The big bang was the cataclysmic creation of matter and space. To understand the conditions that allowed the big bang to occur, we must abandon our commonsense notion of matter and energy and time and space as separate. The universe at the moment of creation existed under very different conditions and probably operated according to different laws than it does today. Reality in cosmology sometimes evades or comprehension.

    "Big band cosmology holds that the universe is expanding and evolving. When one looks back in time, the universe is more dense and hotter and its contents younger. At the very beginning, there are only seeds. CHRISTOPHER SLYE...  "Though the pedigree of big bang cosmology reaches back to an idea developed between 1927 and 1933 by Georges-Henri Lemaitre, a Belgian priest, it wasn't until 1964 that the theory emerged as the dominant
explanation of how the universe came to be the way it is." (pp 8-9)

    "Science has moved from the Greeks' four basic elements to the modern view of a world made of atoms. At low temperatures these atoms combine to form a very complex and complicated structures. As temperature increases, the higher random heat energy breaks the linked atoms apart into simpler and more symmetric pieces. For example a solid snowflake melts into water, a liquid, which vaporizes into steam, a gas composed of individual molecules of H2 O. At higher temperatures the molecules split apart into individual atoms of oxygen and hydrogen. At a still higher temperature the electrons are stripped from the atoms.
Scientists had found that atoms were actually simpler than they looked--they were made of electrons in a cloud around a tiny dense nucleus and that nucleus was composed just of protons and neutrons. The number of protons determined the number of electrons in the stomic cloud and thus the chemical properties of the atom. The electrons on the outside of the atomic cloud were the handles by which atoms could join together to make substances. The electrons were clearly simple-very lightweight, point like particles, all identical, and carrying a single unit of electric charge. This made a wonderfully simple picture: All of matter is made by combining in different ways just three simple particles, the electron, proton, and neutron. These composites, in turn, combine to make even more complex structures. Unfortunately nuclear physicists found out that the proton and neutron are not simple, like the electron. In high-energy collisions, new particles were being discovered by the handful. The force holding the neutrons and protons in the nucleus (the strong nuclear force) turned out to be not nearly as neat and simple as the electrical force holding electrons to atoms, or the gravity holding us on the Earth. At high energies, physics seemed to have turned messy. The strong force was very complicated. This was a reversal of the pattern that made physics so beautiful and
fundamental. Ideally, physics should reduce the number of things that are separate and that have to be remembered and explained. Instead, the interactions were now more complicated and there was a plethora of particles with no known use.

    "This also gave me pause about the big bang model. If elemental nuclei were so hard to understand, how could anyone hope to understand Georges-Henri Lemaitre's primordial atom with its nucleus as big as the Solar System? At nuclear densities the universe would be very
complicated. How could we find out how the universe began?" (pp 14-15)

    "This perceived problem gave impetus to George to find and answer. He was fortunately asked to work with Professor David Frisch, who recruited him to work with his group for his senior thesis project. They had set up a detector at the big accelerator at Brookhaven National
Laboratory on Long Island and had gathered reams of data showing the debris resulting from collisions of the accelerator's high energy protons with deuterium nuclei in the detector. In this debris were traces of many unstable particles traveling nearly at the speed of light. The results of this data showed that 'all the extra particles the scientists had found were simply unstable combinations of quarks that quickly split into more stable combinations.' (p 16)

    It showed that "at higher energies, things get less complicated and more symmetric. This made the big band look more tractable. Things became simpler and easier the closer one got to the beginning of the universe. It was now easy for me to imagine everything in the universe
compressed into a region smaller than a proton. When one reaches Lemaitre's primordial nucleus, just keep pushing. The protons and neutrons dissolve into a soup of quarks. If the quarks are really point like, or at least very, very tiny, then it is no problem to push them into a region the size of a proton. With a great many quarks packed together, they resist less than when there are only three in the volume of a proton. This compression does, however, require an unimaginably high temperature." (p 16,17)

    This concept was the breakthrough in George's thinking that he needed to press ahead with his research. He was quick to recognize that the origin of cosmos was probably the creation of a fiat God, rather than  state of just being, and that time and space were interwoven, meaning that there had to have been a beginning point. In 1993, an annual meeting was held in Boston by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. "In a session called "The Theological Significance of Big Bang Cosmology," scientists and theologians sought connections between the fundamental science of the big bang, as described by current theory, and the Christian story of creation" (p 17)

    It was agreed upon that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing. "...As science, the big bang is a powerful theory for explaining the origin and the evolution of the universe...." (pp 17,18)

    In 1938, a researcher Carl Friedrich von Weizsaker after concluding that the interior of the Sun and other stars wasn’t hot enough to fuse light elements into an abundance of heavier elements, suggested that a super hot primordial "fireball' might have been involved in the creation of the universe. He conceived of a fireball as big as the Milky Way--perhaps even
as give as the whole cosmos. A fireball of this size, would, he conjectured would fly apart, ejecting matter into space that we now see as the receding galaxies. He theorized that that matter would include heavy elements "baked" in the intense heat (4 million degrees), elements that eventually condensed into celestial objects such as the earth, sun, and moon.

    The thought was that this intense heat of a created star would fuse lighter elements such as hydrogen into an abundance of heavier elements. But it was argued that no such heat was available in space. Eddington, wrote in his book Stars and Atoms, "I am aware that many critics consider the conditions in the stars not sufficiently extreme to bring about the
transmutation--the stars are not hot enough. The critics lay themselves open to an obvious retort, we tell them to go and find a hotter place." (pp 60-64)

    In that year two American radio astronomers discovered what appeared to be the dim afterglow of the ancient cataclysmic event. That afterglow, an all pervasive hum of radiation with a temperature equivalent of a little more that 3 degrees Kelvin (three degrees above absolute zero), is known as cosmic background radiation, and it provides us with a faded
snapshot of the universe as it was some three hundred thousand years after the big bang. It is within the background radiation that my colleagues and I hoped to discover our wrinkles in time, the Holy Grail of cosmology.

    One of the greatest challenges to the big bang theory has been to explain how matter is distributed through the ever-expanding space of the cosmos. It is possible to imagine that all matter would have been scattered evenly through space, making the universe a homogeneous cloud of gas, with an average density of about one hydrogen atom every ten cubic meters.... Had the universe today, some 15 billion years after it formed, been a virtually unending cloud of gas, the night sky would be unrelentingly black, and we would not be here to observe it. However, we know from our every existence that something (God) in the evolution of the universe caused matter to condense, to form stars and planets--and, ultimately, life (not just life on Earth but, with a probability approaching 100 percent, on millions of other planets, too, including some in our own Milky Way).

    Again, it is possible to imagine that stars, like our own Sun with its orbiting planets, could have been distributed evenly throughout the universe, a uniform cloud of countless billions of points of light in the night sky. But, again, we know from our own experience that that is not the case. Our sun is but one of a hundred million similar stars in a huge, disk- shaped, rotating spiral galaxy, the Milky Way, seen as a wispy band across the night sky. To all intents and purposes, all stars are members of such galaxies. Matter is therefore dumped together not only as stars gut also as collections of stars, or galaxies.

    Again, it is possible to imagine that all galaxies, once they had formed from the condensation of matter into a community of stars, could have been distributed evenly throughout the universe, a uniform cloud of blurred spirals in the night sky. A major discovery of recent cosmology is that this, too, is not the case. Galaxies are often collected together, not only as clusters of thousands of galaxies, but as even larger entities known as super clusters, and structures larger yet, some many millions of light-years in extent. In other words, matter in the universe is highly structured. A useful image of the universe is a foam composed of soap bubbles, in which the walls of the bubbles represent concentrations of galaxies and their
interiors represent vast empty volumes of space.

    But the structure and formation of visible matter is only part of the onundrum for the modern cosmologist. Go out tonight and, if you are blessed with a clear sky and little extraneous light, look deep into the heavens. If you use binoculars or a telescope you will see a night skyablaze, such as Galileo saw it four centuries ago, holding millions of stars and galaxies, the stuff of creation. This is what we usually think of when we talk about the universe. However, it is what you are not seeing that is of increasing importance to theorists. If modern cosmology is correct, the shining stars in the dark night sky represent LESS THAN 1 PERCENT OF THE STUFF OF CREATION (emphasis added). Most matter CREATED during the big bang may be completely alien to us: invisible to our eyes and quite beyond our physical experience."

    Wrinkles In Time, George Smoot, Chapter One, In the Beginning, pages 8-12.  Smoot continues the narrative by explaining that this is a "giant cosmological puzzle which relates to the central search of cosmology for the past three decades. The discovery in 1964 of cosmic background radiation appeared to confirm the reality of the big bang. But it left unanswered a key issue: How did the big bang lead to the formation of stars, galaxies, galactic clusters, and so on, by the condensation of the stuff of creation? If the big bang happened, clues to the formation of the structures we see in today's universe should be evident in the earliest
remnants of the fury of creation. The clues should be evident in the cosmic background radiation.

    Discoveries of the background radiation from all regions of the universe looked uniform, a picture showing a smooth fabric of space and energy. But in order for structures to condense from the products of the big bang, the smooth fabric must have borne tiny wrinkles, fluctuations in temperature caused by areas of higher density. According to the big bang
theory, matter (familiar and unfamiliar) could have condensed and subsequently formed galactic structures in such areas through gravity. These wrinkles--we can also call them cosmic seeds, from which the galaxies grew--must have been present, otherwise modern cosmology, and specifically the big bang theory, would be in serious trouble." Ibid, pp 12-14.

    Because of this puzzle, Smoot felt called to look for these "wrinkles" or variations in fabric of space which would prove the big bang theory of the instantaneous creation of the universe. This endeavor would take him 17 years to the point where he and his colleagues would eventually by the use of a satellite find these wrinkles, thus proving the hypothesis of "big bang" correct.

IMPLICATIONS ENORMOUS:

    The implications were enormous for the creationists, for once having proved by the laws of nuclear physics (God's natural laws regulating matter and space), that the universe had a beginning, the cosmologist was then forced to answer the question of who or what started this big bang. Newton recognized and admitted that a divine power must be necessary to ensure that stars "would continue in that posture [spaced at equal distances] without motion for ever (the law of gravity and the attraction of one body toward another)." This of course was a very unpopular idea with the scientists of his day. As the data was compiled from space, Smoot concluded there was only one possible explanation for the beginning or origin of the universe.

    Only an intelligent, powerful fiat mind could have created this universe, and that what has been found through their scientific research and exploration, undeniably confirms this hypothesis, and that there is no other answer that can adequately explain the order and
structure of the cosmos. A universe created by random chance could never have happened without an overlying intelligent controlling power, which of course could only be a fiat being, God the Creator. If one accepts that the universe we see had its beginnings 15 billion years ago, and was created by the Word of God, and is an ever expanding universe from its initial creation, then of necessity heaven, or God's dwelling place had to be somewhere else, perhaps in another universe. If this is so, then could there not be other clusters of universes,
a system of universes? It is utterly impossible for the human mind to grasp or understand concepts of this magnitude and vastness. But then, it is not necessary for us to do so, for the only point which God would have us mindful of is that He is LOVE, that He is our Creator, and that there is no limit to His creative power and abilities. Most important of all is that He send His only begotten Son the Creator to earth to die for our sins, so that we might someday, if faithful, live for eternity in God's eternal universe and presence.

CREATION EVIDENCES MUSEUM:

    Carl Baugh, director of the Creation Evidences Museum in Glenrose, Texas (see book and video list at the end of this chapter) has found archeological evidence that consistently explodes evolutionary theories, such as large human footprints imbedded in those of a dinosaur track, obviously made at the same time. They have done much scientific work which has uncovered evidence to support a worldwide flood theory. They have been able to show how the atmospheric condition of the world before the flood was such that, as judged by today's standards, everything was of giant proportions as can be seen in the same fossil remains.

THE DISCOVERY OF NOAH'S ARK:

    The recent discovery of Noah's ark, under the direction of Ron Wyatt, Biblical archeologist who has found many other astounding biblical archeological finds, has gotten the attention of many people around the world. The scientific data gathered from this site and the petrified remains cannot be refuted. The 20/20 telecast had complete coverage of the event which happened in Turkey, the country which contains the mountains of Ararat. The Turkish
government recently dedicated this site as a national park and built a road and visitors viewing center.

Ark Not Where People Have Thought:

    For years many people have believed that the ark was lodged in a glacier, high up on the side of Mt. Ararat. Many reported sighting have been claimed but never backed up with hard evidence. This idea about where the ark of Noah was, has recently been proven false by the discovery of the remains of the ark.  The Bible is clear about where the ark came to rest. "And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the MOUNTAINS of Ararat." (Gen 5:4) The Bible states that the ark came to rest on "THE MOUNTAINS" (plural) of Ararat, and not on the highest peak of those mountains called Mt. Ararat. Experts have assumed and believed that the mountain called Ararat was the only place the ark could have settled because it was the highest mountain in that region and therefore the first place to have exposed land when the waters
receded.

    The Bible says that after the waters began to recede, that Noah sent out a raven and a dove to see if they could find land. After 47 days, the dove returned with an olive branch in her mouth. We know that the olive tree is not a high altitude tree; therefore the ark had to have come to rest much lower down than on the top of Mt. Ararat.

    Another fact precludes the ark coming to rest on Mt. Ararat, and that is the number of volcanic eruptions that have taken place on that mountain which drastically altered its surface. One of those was like the mount Saint Helens eruption in Washington state, where the whole side of the mountain was blown out. The ark could not have survived this kind of activity. It would have been blown to pieces and destroyed. Like evolution, this theory is another example of how preconceived ideas and teachings lead to false conclusions.

    Dr. Bill Shea, an MD and archaeologist from the Biblical Research Institute in Silver Spring, MD, made the comment that, in his opinion, if the "ark-shaped object" had been found on Mt. Ararat, he felt sure that it "would have been heralded far and wide as the site where the Ark had come to rest."  The remains of the ark are located at around 5,000 feet, "upon the mountains of Ararat," on a spot upon which occurred a mudflow of lava down an alluvial
plain, in which the ark was engulfed and carried to its present location at a lower
level.

    Findings indicate that a 120 x 40 feet section of the bottom of the boat was ripped away, impaled by a large limestone outcropping as the rest of the boat was carried sideways down to its present resting place. It's length of 515 feet is consistent with the Biblical account which Moses (under inspiration) wrote. Having been raised in Egypt, he used the Egyptian cubit of 20.6 inches.

Preflood Metal Production:

    Of great interest was a massive amount of strange looking "rock" found in this section of the bottom of the boat. This was very similar to "rock" he had found just below the broken off section. Ron Wyatt theorized that this rock was ballast material placed in the hull of the Ark, and when that portion of the bottom was ripped off, a large amount of ballast spilled out. Samples were taken to a chemist with Reynolds Aluminum and examined. He said without
qualification that it was metal production tailings or slag rock left over from smelting ore. One sample contained over 84% manganese. Another contained high concentrations of aluminum and yet other modules contained over 70% titanium, a metal which is the strongest and lightest of all metals, today used extensively in aircraft and space hardware. This is very interesting, for the process by which titanium could be produced as a metal has only been known since 1936. The Bible says in Genesis 4:22 "And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah."

An Ancient Stele:

    Above the area where this section of the boat was found was an ancient "stele" (A stone column with pictures engraved on it.) This stele contained numerous inscriptions in what looked like 3 different forms of writing. One segment of it was particularly legible. This was a scene depicting the unique ridge just above the site of the stele, and a mountain in the
background. In the foreground was a ship with 8 faces in it, and 2 ravens (one flying above the ship and one above the mountain.) The rest of the inscription featured several animals. But the importance of this stele was that the shape of the boat was almost identical to aerial photos of the boat shaped object. The 8 faces within the boat needed little explanation. But most importantly to Ron, this stele was just beyond the site where Ron had found the 120 X 40 foot section he believed to be a portion of the bottom of the ship. It appeared that the stele was marking the location of the original landfall of the ark.

Anchor stones From The Ark:

    Also of interest is what was found in the surrounding countryside. Scattered all around the area are huge anchor stones with holes in the top for placing rope through, which probably was used to help stabilize the boat during the storm. On some of these are crosses and pictures of 8 people. Although it is known that Noah probably did not carve these, it is evidence that many people of past ages recognized this place as the site of the ark's resting place.

Noah's House, Vineyard and Altar Found?:

    Other very fascinating things were found, like the walls of a rock house, which is thought to possibly be that of Noah and his family. Its stone floor is set  about four feet into the ground and the roof is gone. Radiating out from the house are fences. The Bible says that Noah was a "husbandman," which is a person who grows grapes. He even got drunk on some of the wine. (Gen. 9:20,21) Up in a mountain valley above the house was found an altar built of stone which has a 3 foot high step up to its top. This would be logical for the people before the flood were of giant proportions. There was a place where it could be seen that animals were sacrificed and a trough cut into the stone to let the blood drain away. Huge boulders were placed as a possible containment for animals which were to be sacrificed.

A side note:

    The Lord instituted the system of sacrifices with Adam and Eve after they first sinned. He told them that the penalty for sinning was death. The life of the sacrificed animals would be a constant reminder of this. But of far more importance, this sacrificial system would point forward to the time when Jesus the Lamb of God would be sacrificed on the cross, to save not only Adam and Eve from their sins, but for everybody who would ever be born from their time to the end of the world.  God told Adam and Eve that by following His instructions about sacrifices, and asking forgiveness when they sinned, they would not have to suffer the consequences or the dreaded eternal second death.

    The Bible clearly states that "The soul that sinneth, it shall die. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God." This system instituted at Eden was to be practiced until Jesus died on the cross when type met antitype. These ordinances at that time were nailed to the cross or done away with. Salvation could then be had by accepting Jesus' sacrifice instead.

    One of the most interesting feature of this site was what was in the front yard. There were 2 large stones, one setting upright and one lying flat on the ground. Ron Wyatt found what was to him two most exciting pictures carved on these stones. Across the top of each was an arc-shape; below this was a curly-cue which looked like an ocean wave, and atop it was a very simple boat-shape; walking away from this boat and wave were 8 people. The first and
largest was a man; next and second largest was a woman; the next 3 were all the same size and all smaller than the largest woman, and they were men. The last and smallest figures were 3 women. It seemed quite clear to Ron that these were iconographic representations of the 8 survivors of the flood, all walking away from the ship with a rainbow overhead. Ron wondered what this all meant.

    When he studied these 2 large monuments more closely, he noted that on the one lying on the ground, the largest woman (who represented Noah's wife) had her eyes closed and her head tilted downward. On the larger one which was still standing, he saw that BOTH the 1st woman And the 1st man (Noah) had their eyes closed and heads tilted downward. Since these were in front of the house, he believes they were the actual tombstones of Noah and his wife. The iconography showed that FIRST his wife died, and on her stone, only HER eyes
were closed. When Noah died, BOTH of them were represented as dead.

    As Ron continued his research, some well known scientists and people became involved in helping him. These included, John Baumgartner, Physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the very high-profile government facility in New Mexico, David Fasold (now deceased), world famous marine salvage and demolition expert, and James Irwin (now deceased), former astronaut, now deceased. Together they used the latest of sonar sounding and recording devices, as well as super sensitive metal detectors with which they were able to map out the superstructure and framework of the boat.

    Most interesting of the findings about the ship was the extensive use of iron brackets and rivets, which would be logical to hold a boat of this size together. This iron examined by John Baumgartner at Los Alamos, proved to be a very high grade iron which contained traces of aluminum. From the findings they were able to piece together enough information to construct a model of how the boat appeared. It had huge anchor stones which are scattered all over the area many of them engraved with crosses from pilgrimages made to the area many hundreds of years ago.

Petrified Wood Without Growth Rings:

    They were able to see the discoloration of the petrified wooden ribs and cross members of the boat. They took samples of the petrified wood to Galbraith Labs in Knoxville, Tennessee. Analysis showed that the total organic carbon content of the sample indicated that it was indeed wood. But the lack of growth rings puzzled some of the group until they realized that before the flood there was no rain. The Bible says the earth was watered with a dew. Growth rings only come as seasonal rains come and go.

    Thus it is that the Lord has lead and guided in this most important of all archeological discovery of modern times. No doubt ordained by Him to be found as proof against the ideas that the Bible is a book of fables, including the account of the flood. The verification that there was indeed a flood and that the remains of the ark have been found and authenticated by many reputable sources adds yet another strike of the death knell to the theory of evolution, which has adamantly denied there was a worldwide flood, declaring that the story of Noah
and the flood was only folklore (all folklore has a "flood" story) and could not be proven.

    As God continues to lead men to more and more evidence, the case for evolution grows weaker and weaker. The evolutionist and atheist will eventually have no recourse but to admit to the truth. Anyone desiring to know more about the ark can contact Ron Wyatt at the address listed at the end of this chapter.

    David Fasold  also wrote a book about the ark which can be purchased or ordered from the popular bookstores.