{"id":1686,"date":"2018-12-13T16:44:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2018-12-13T16:44:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:44:06","slug":"blog-december-13th-is-creation-designed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=1686","title":{"rendered":"Blog December 13th \u201cIs Creation Designed?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“We Are Hard Pressed” featuring the Portsmouth Gospel Choir from the EP ” How Great Are His Signs” recorded and produced by Joffy Girling<\/p>\n

So the sun is 93 million miles away from earth and its surface temperature is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit – if the earth\u2019s temperature was 50 degrees hotter or colder all life would cease.\u00a0 So it is an accident that the earth is not further away or closer to us\u00a0 It is also an accident that we rotate 365 times a year as we pass around the sun. If we rotated only 36 times a year our days would be ten times as long and we\u2019d be terribly hot on one side and unbearably cold on the other and life as we know it would cease.<\/p>\n

Oxygen constitutes 21% of our atmosphere, the precise balance of air we need to breathe.\u00a0 If it was 50% then as soon as a match was lit we would all be blown up. Again this an accident. Well I am no academic but\u00a0 surely it takes a lot of faith to believe that all this and all the other amazing facts about our world and life just happened by accident- some would say a similar amount of faith to believe that a hurricane could hit a scrap yard and accidently create a Boeing 707! \u00a0\u00a0It seems to me that it takes a lot less faith to believe that creation was designed; in which case there must be a Designer.<\/p>\n

I do get a tad cross when some people say that science has disproved God – in fact I would say that facts like the above actually help to prove there is a God.\u00a0 Another thing that annoys me is schools teaching evolution as a fact rather than a theory. I can see that Genna, our lovely Labrador puppy, evolved from a wolf (especially when by accident Caroline or I get a nip!) however that is not at all the same as believing that she and we both evolved from some form of \u00a0\u201cpond life.\u201d\u00a0 It seems much more likely to me that Genna evolved from the first wolf\/dog that was designed by God and we evolved from the first human being that was designed by God.\u00a0 Yes it takes faith to believe this but, as I said, it also takes faith to believe that all creation happened by accident and then all the different, wonderful and amazing species somehow evolved from \u201cpond life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyway if there is a Designer who we could call God – it would be pretty amazing if we were able to get to know Him – even more amazing if He wanted to get to know us.\u00a0 But how could He do that? Would He not have to leave where He abides \u00a0(let\u2019s call it heaven) and come to earth? Now wouldn\u2019t that be amazing – God coming to live with us – God with us – Emmanuel – yes that would be truly amazing! That would warrant a really big celebration and we could call it \u2026.. Christmas!!<\/p>\n

Quote of the week:<\/p>\n

Doubt your doubts and believe your beliefs<\/p>\n

Every Day With Jesus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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