POLYSTRATE PETRIFIED TREES _______________ Polystrate trees are fossilized tree trunks that are found protruding through multiple layers of rock strata. The question is how the tree fossilizes this way if the rock layers take millions of years to form? _______________ If you enjoy my posts, please like, boost or give me a follow! Zaps are always great too! #grownostr #plebchain #science #creation #apologetics

JESUS WALKS ON WATER _______________ Painting by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky. (1817 - 1900) #grownostr #plebchain #Christianity #Bible #painting If you enjoy my posts, please like, boost or give me a follow! Zaps are always great too!

PIGEON POOP LEADS TO A UNIVERSAL DISCOVERY _______________ The biggest piece of evidence for the viability of the  Big Bang theory came in 1964 when Bell Labs scientists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were conducting research at the Bell Laboratory, Holmdel Horn Antenna. During their work recording the microwave radiation of the Milky Way galaxy, an unusually high background microwave radiation was detected. The source of the excess radiation could not be determined and they thought that it could be the leftover radiation from a high altitude nuclear explosion that was conducted a year earlier. However, the radiation measurements didn’t decrease as time passed so it was ruled out as a cause. Even the pigeon droppings that were all over the inside of the antenna, described as “white dielectric material” by Penzias, was cleaned out and examined to see if it was the cause of the excess radiation. In the end, no terrestrial cause of the radiation was found and it was determined that the radiation was coming from the universe itself. This radiation was the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) that was left over from the big bang event and was later shown to be almost uniform throughout the universe. This evidence placed the Big Bang Theory as the prominent theory of the origin of our universe and is dominant to this day. _______________ #grownostr #plebchain #physics #science #engineering If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated! Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson at the Bell Laboratory, Holmdel Horn Antenna

THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD _______________ The Cosmological Argument is a philosophical argument for the existence of God and can basically be summed up by the following logical form: Premise 1: Everything that begins to exist has a cause of its existence. Premise 2: The universe began to exist. Conclusion: Therefore, the universe has a cause of its existence. Premise 1: States that for everything that has a definite point in time where it begins to exist, there must be a cause or another entity that brings forth that existence. For instance, if you have a seedling growing in your front yard there must have been another plant that initiated that seed that is spouting. Things in our universe just don’t pop into existence from nothing, it is contrary to the reality that we know. Premise 2: States that our universe has a definite beginning point where it began to exist. We know this by many reasons. First, the Big Bang Theory is evidence that points to this conclusion. Second, one can point to the increasing entropy of the universe, where the universe will eventually run out of usable energy making and infinite past is impossible because entropy would have run out an infinite time ago and we would not be here. Lastly, you can use the argument that Aquinas used in his Second Way that an infinite regression is absurd and doesn’t make sense.  The conclusion ties premise 1 and 2 together. The universe had a beginning, thus it had a cause. Some people take this part as an objection to the Cosmological Argument. They will say that it doesn’t prove the existence of the Judeo-Christian God. Yes, they would be right, it doesn’t. It is not meant to prove there is a God, only a cause sufficient to create the universe. Now, that cause would have some of the attributes of the Judeo-Christian God like all-powerful, timeless, and spaceless just to name a few. Another objection to the Cosmological Argument is the need for the first cause of the universe to have a cause. The answer to the question, “Who made God?”. I believe that to be a premise that doesn’t take all the facts of the situation into account. Remember in the preceding paragraph that the cause would have the attribute of timelessness? If you are timeless, how do you have a beginning or a cause? There is no time. If you cannot measure with the parameter of time then there is no beginning or end, everything exists in a timeless realm. Something we cannot even begin to comprehend, and we exclude from this kind of philosophical discussion. _______________ #grownostr #plebchain #apologetics #philosophy #God If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated!

SCIENCE INCREASINGLY MAKES THE CASE FOR GOD _______________ Published in the Wall Street Journal on December 25, 2014 by Eric Metaxas illustrates a compelling case that science is increasingly making the case for a Creator of the universe. #grownostr #plebchain #Christianity #Bible #science

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Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God - Eric Metaxas

The op-ed, “Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God,” was published in the Wall Street Journal on December 25, 2014. Since then, the articl...

THE UNIVERSE FROM NOTHING IS ABSURD _______________ Link to my first Habla article discussing how the explanation of the origin of our universe does not make sense without God. #grownostr #plebchain #nostr #apologetics #God #naturallaw #philosophy If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated! https://tinyurl.com/2p8vrdds

Salvator Mundi (c. 1510) by Leonardo da Vinci #grownostr #plebchain #nostr #Christianity #paintings #art

THE SACRIFICE OF ST. DAMIEN OF MOLOKA’I _______________ St. Damien of Moloka'i, also known as Father Damien, was a Belgian priest who devoted his life to missionary work among the Hawaiian lepers in the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. Damien volunteered to take charge of the leper settlement of Kalaupapa on the island of Moloka'i in Hawaii. He served there for 16 years until his death on April 15, 1889. During his time serving the colony as their Pastor and physician, Father Damien cared for the sick in both their physical and spiritual needs. He also improved many of the colonies buildings and improved the water and food supplies. Father Damian was not afraid to do the one thing that the victims of leprosy never experienced, he touched them. This was his sacrifice to the people that he loved, people that were untouchable by regular society. In 1884, he contracted leprosy but refused to leave the colony. Father Damian choose to stay with his people and continued to care for them until his death. His remains were returned to Belgium in 1936 to be buried in Leuven which is close to the village where he was born. However, his right hand was returned to Moloka'i in 1995 to be buried in his original resting spot as a beautiful testament to the people that he touched with his compassion. “My greatest pleasure is to serve the Lord in his poor children rejected by other people.” ~ St. Damien of Moloka'i _______________ #grownostr #plebchain #nostr #Christianity If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated!

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith, Where there is despair, hope, Where there is darkness, light, Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, not so much to be understood as to understand, not so much to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in dying that we awake to eternal life. ~  St. Francis of Assisi #grownostr #plebchain #Nostriches #Christianity #prayer

STATUE OF THE BIBLICAL JOSEPH FOUND IN EGYPT _______________ A statue was found in Tell el-Dab’a, Egypt between 1986 and 1988 that has a remarkable resemblance to the biblical Joseph written about in Genesis. “Over the statue’s right shoulder you can still see his “throw stick” i.e., the symbol of his rule. On the back – remarkably, as with the Biblical Joseph – you can still see evidence that this ruler was wearing a striped garment, made up of at least three colors: black, red and white. He was found in a tomb. The tomb was empty.” “he is not Egyptian, rather he is a man who comes from the area of Canaan/Israel.” _______________ #grownostr #plebchain #Christianity #Bible If you enjoy my posts, please like, boost or give me a follow! Zaps are always great too! https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/statue-of-biblical-joseph-found-story-covered-up/