The Universe

If you need a proof of God please look at the picture below. It was taken from the Hubble telescope. It's title is Hubble Deep Field Image Unveils Myriad Galaxies Back to the Beginning of Time.

I'd love to hear Richard Dawkins give us his explanation as to what caused the Big Bang.

For more spectacular pictures of God's Universe see the Hubble website.

The Existence of God

 Fr. Terry Donohue is giving our Parish a Lenten mission for three nights.

Last night Father Terry explained the intellectual reasons for believing God's existence, and for believing that Jesus is, who he says he is. His talk last night, was "from the head" approach as he said.

He uses physics and philosophy in this part one of his talks.

Tonight and tomorrow night he'll speak to the Faith aspect for the existence of God.

Here are his five reasons for the Existence of God that he goes into detail on:

- The need for an uncaused cause

- The universe had a beginning

- The fine-tuning of the laws of nature

- Modern day miracles

- Moral obligation

It's a great talk and it leaves me with two questions I'd love to ask Richard Dawkins.

1) How does Dawkins explain the origin of life (I think even Dawkins admits he can't answer this question)?

2) How does Dawkins explain bone fide modern day miracles?

Fr. Terry also does a great job in discussing the Resurrection.

Dawkins and Lennox: who is petty?

Great debate between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox.

Of course Dawkins has to begin with comments that have nothing to do with debating, like:

"That God couldn't think of a better way to rid the world of sin than to come to this little speck of cosmic dust, have himself tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself. That is profoundly unscientific. It is petty and small minded and it doesn't do justice to the grandeur of the universe."

Petty and small minded? Nothing like a personal attack to make your point.

Then Dawkins gets a bit tongue tied when Lennox states that historians, even non believer historians, agree that the evidence for Jesus and the empty tomb are very strong.

Dawkins says:

"I don't care if historians believe in Jesus because it's petty."

That gave me a wonderul chuckle. Thanks Richard.

All in all, a good debate.