I have been invited to present the “Big Bangs of Creation” series at the Greater Houston Creation Association meetings November 3, 2022, December 1, 2022, and January 5, 2023.  The GHCA meetings start at 7:00pm at Houston’s First Baptist Church reception room.  View the GHCA website or join their email newsletter.  These meetings are simulcast with Zoom (you must preregister).  Please send me a private email if you plan to attend, so I can let the meeting coordinator know how many people to expect.  Thank you, I look forward to exploring these important topics with you.

Genesis 1 – The Big Bangs of Creation

We are told that a million chimpanzees banging randomly on a million typewriters for a million years could, by chance, write a line of Shakespeare, and for this reason we are to believe that a system so deep, so complex, and so finely tuned that it could not have been designed and built by a million geniuses with a million supercomputers in a million million years arose from absolutely nothing with no direction and no purpose. This is the essence of current thinking in material science that this series seeks to debunk.

We show that this deep, complex, fine tuned system that resulted in “life, the universe and everything” was purposefully designed and created by the God of the Bible, as witnessed in the testimony of Genesis chapter 1. Material science attempts to describe the advent of the cosmos of everything from nothing as the Big Bang. In this series, we study not just one, but three equally materialistically inexplicable big bangs: Cosmology, Information, and Mind.

Big bang of Cosmology – universe from nothing, fine tuned for life. We examine various cosmological arguments including philosophical, fine tuning, and that the earth, sun, and universe appear to have been designed for intelligent life, by an intelligent designer. We further discuss that the God of Genesis and the Bible is that one intelligent designer and creator.

Big bang of Information – gigabytes of purposeful instructions stored in DNA, fine tuned for life.  We show that the multidimensional information stored in every cell of every living thing contains far too much useful information that is far too inexorably interdependent to have arisen by any undirected process. We further discuss the origins of kinds, and that the current research of the Institute for Creation Research study of Continuous Environmental Tracking is a superior explanation for the diversity of life. Having made the case for CET, we conclude that the diversity was baked into the information of the cell for the purpose of rapid adaptability to changing environments. This strongly implies an intelligent designer not only made life
possible, but anticipated and designed for diverging environments. Once again, we show this is consistent with the God of Genesis.

Big bang of the Mind (and thus, language) – independent freewill operating within three pounds of living flesh. If we are mere products of stardust – chemicals behaving only according to the laws of physics originating in the Big Bang’s initial moment of ultimate randomness – then everything we do, say, and think are merely inevitable chemical reactions with no purpose or meaning: there is no freewill. However, scripture informs us, and science agrees that we indeed have a free will and the agent of that freewill cannot only be the product of the material brain itself. Because we have freewill, we are accountable to the God who created us. And that is the crux of why atheists put their faith in evolution and remain willingly ignorant of the obvious
conclusion that we are God’s creation.

Questions and Answers follow each presentation. Please join us for this three presentation
series.

Robert Brayton is an inventor (2 U.S. Patents), engineer (Compaq, HP), and professional photographer (CPP, Photographic Craftsman, Professional Photographers of America), volunteer (Insperity Observatory Assistant Director, NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, Civil Air Patrol, ICR Discovery Center), guest speaker (Houston Astronomical Society, North Houston Astronomy Club, Greater Houston Creation Association, Gulf Coast Mensa), Mensa member, and earned the Master Level Astronomical League Outreach Award. He coauthored the Astronomy League Foundations of Imaging program. He is currently helping astronomers with the Institute for Creation Research and Answers in Genesis develop a creationist’s view of
protostar development.