Big Bang of the Mind

Big Bangs of Creation: Mind
We have learned a lot about the origins of the world around us from the recent presentations at the Greater Houston Creation Association. It is often claimed that the gas clouds produced by the cosmological Big Bang after billions of years of time will produce stars and dust clouds that will contract into stars, some with planetary systems. Over more billions of years, life will arise and increase in complexity and eventually produce beings that use language, read, write, do science and create beauty and intrigue in many different art forms. This line of thought is condensed into the summary that we are merely highly evolved stardust. The theory of evolution is designed to eliminate any form of plan or purpose, thus eliminating any form of God. Or, does it?
The above line of reasoning is one of the mainstays of atheism.
However, there are a number of physical facts and principles that atheist thinkers choose to discount or ignore.

  • The Big Bang demands either something from nothing or eternal existence of matter. There is no adequate explanation that exists for star and galaxy formation out of the expected gas or dust clouds. Furthermore, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) varies only one part in a hundred thousand across the universe. This cannot be physically explained unless the speed of light was much higher in the past or different physical principles prevailed sometime in the past.
  • A planetary system and its environment must be very highly “tuned” to simultaneously provide all of the environment’s requirements for massive amounts of useful information of life to form and flourish. But, all the requirements for life must all occur in the same time and place in the universe and then spontaneously metabolize and reproduce.
  • If these assumptions were true, then our thoughts are mere products of chemical processes that originated in the infinite chaos of the Big Bang. Thus, free will is an illusion: there is no non-material “mind” independent of the brain, and no eternal soul.
Explaining the origin of things without action by a powerful and wise Creator has always been a major problem for the materialist. For example, an abundance of information is embodied in the genes and bodily structure of living organisms. That information must be explained. However, the only observed source of information is intelligent minds. Information has never been observed to arise from random purposeless processes.
Yet here we are doing deliberate, planned, purposeful, and often intelligent things of our own free will. These are essential characteristics of a mind. But what is a mind, where does it come from, what does it do and how does it work? Is our mind a part of the image of God with which we are endowed as Genesis asserts?
On Jan 5th Mr. Robert Brayton presents “The Big Bangs of Creation: Mind.” Brayton will go where others have feared to tread. This presentation will be very interesting indeed.

Robert Brayton is an inventor (two 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), and Mensa. He is currently helping astronomers with the Institute for Creation Research and Answers in Genesis to develop a creationist science view of protostar development.
Please plan to join us on January 5th, at 7:00 pm in the Reception Room at Houston’s First Baptist Church (7401 Katy Frwy, Houston TX 77024), or by Zoom (visit GHCAonline.com for the link and more information). Invite your friends and skeptics – all who desire to increase their understanding of Biblical creation science are welcome. Time for questions and discussion will be provided at the end of the presentation. Snacks and refreshments are provided for those attending in person.
(from the GHCA Newsletter)
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