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    The Origin and Beginning of Matter and Life
    The Origin and Beginning of Matter and Life
    The Origin and Beginning of Matter and Life
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    The Origin and Beginning of Matter and Life

    By Alphons V. Versne

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    The Evolution versus Creation debat is presented in the Western world as the choice between Science and Faith. Science is a system of acquiring knowledge, using observation and experimentation to describe natural phenomena. By this definition, Evolution is as much a matter of Faith as Creation is. The origin and beginning of what is cannot be observed and reproduced by experiments. The book unveills the academic and educational fraud in the Western world that retain that what is came into existence by random change and natural selection against the findings of the Sciences, especially over the last hundred years. The phenomena of irreducible compexity and the information concept reduce Evolution to science-fiction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateApr 16, 2014
    ISBN9781496977274
    The Origin and Beginning of Matter and Life
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    Alphons V. Versne

    After a working life of 43 years in international business and industry, the author launched into theological studies and rounded these off with a B Th and M Th Degree at The Baptist Theological College of Southern Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa. Because of his background in the secular world, the further research is in the field of the application of biblical principles and values in secular society.

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      The Origin and Beginning of Matter and Life - Alphons V. Versne

      © 2014 Alphons V. Versnel, B Th M Th. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide. Used by permission. NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION® and NIV® are registered trademarks of Biblica, Inc. Use of either trademark for the offering of goods or services requires the prior written consent of Biblica US, Inc.

      Published by AuthorHouse 04/14/2014

      ISBN: 978-1-4969-7726-7 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4969-7725-0 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4969-7727-4 (e)

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Chapter 1 Theories On The Beginning Of The Universe

      Introduction

      The Universe Began To Exist And Had A Cause Of Its Existence

      The Scientific Evidence

      Conclusion

      Notes For Chapter 1

      Chapter 2 The Beginning Of Matter

      Introduction

      The Scientific Method Applied To The Physical Universe

      Quantum Mechanics

      The Standard Model

      The ‘Big Bang’ Theory

      Motion

      The Forming Of The Universe

      A New Theory Describing The ‘Outer Space’

      The Age Of Things

      The Earth: A Unique Place For Life

      Conclusion

      Notes For Chapter 2

      Chapter 3 The Origin And Beginning Of Life

      Introduction

      Theories For The Origin And Beginning Of Life

      The Plant World (10)

      Animal And Human Life

      The Irreducible Complexity Of Life

      The Information Concept

      Cosmic Design—A Single Designer

      Conclusion

      Notes For Chapter 3

      Postscript

      Endnotes

      God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day." (Genesis 1:31)

      Johannesburg, April 2014

      PREFACE

      When my granddaughter, in her first year of veterinary sciences study in London, expressed her surprise that I still believed in the creation of the universe, as described in the first book of the Bible, Genesis, I did not have the ready knowledge of the sciences to enter into a meaningful discussion.

      There are two theories that claim to explain the existence of the universe and life:

      1.   Life and everything else in the universe is created by design by a Designer, whom we call God. This philosophy is represented by Creation.

      2.   The other theory that was conceived in the nineteenth century by Charles Darwin claims that the universe and life evolved from unguided, random, events. This philosophy is called Evolution.

      The evolution theory is based on the Primary Axiom: what is—matter and life—are merely the product of random mutations plus natural selection. This is the general accepted position of academics in the Western world that is taught in our schools and universities. ‘Creation’ theory is not ‘scientific’ and not allowed to be taught.

      What is left out of the academic discussion is that the Primary Axiom, Evolution, is as much a philosophy, a belief system, as is Creation. The correct academic approach should be to test the validity of the two philosophies, by applying the discipline of the Sciences to the two belief systems.

      The progress in the Sciences over the last 100 years enables us to have a much better understanding of the validity of the one or the other premiss. The fascinating journey through this is a convincing testimony to the creation of the universe and life by design, by the eternal Designer, whom we call God.

      CHAPTER 1

      THEORIES ON THE BEGINNING OF THE UNIVERSE

      Introduction

      Philosophy begins with a sense of wonder about existence and one of the most profound questions a man can ask concerns the origin of the universe [1]. This argument is known in philosophy as the Cosmological Argument [2]:

      A pattern of argumentation that makes an inference from certain alleged facts about the cosmos to the existence of a unique being, identified with, or referred to as God.

      Among these initial facts are that the universe came into being, that it is contingent in that it could have been other than it is, or that certain events in the world are causally dependent or contingent. From these facts philosophers infer that a first cause, or necessary being, or a personal being—God exists.

      The argument arises from human curiosity as to why there is something rather than nothing? How did the universe begin? Why are we here?

      Cosmology explains ‘unknowns’ with ‘unknowns’. We are using philosophical reasoning to choose our models. We create models. Then we make observations and interpret these to see whether these are consistent with the model. We cannot prove to be right.

      Facts have to be interpreted within a framework (paradigm), which is built upon starting assumptions (unprovable beliefs).

      The basic questions, then, which philosophy and science try to answer are

      39904.png    How did the universe begin?

      39907.png    Why are we here?

      The modern, secular, world tries to find the answers to the first question in science-and so far fails to do so. But we argue that the answer to both questions is philosophical—the more we advance in the sciences, the more we have to conclude that the answer on ‘the origin’ cannot be found in science.

      It is a conclusion of observational science that life arises only from life, therefore the question to be answered is what or who is the origin of what is. The answer cannot be defined in terms of physics and chemistry.

      The universe began to exist and had a cause of its existence

      The Philosophical Argument

      Thomas Aquinas proposed Five Ways of what he considered five proofs of the existence of God in his Summa Theological. The fifth is taken from the governance of the world. Things which lack knowledge, such as natural bodies, act for an end, and this is evident from their acting always, or nearly always, in the same way, so as to obtain the best results. Hence it is plain that they achieve their end, not fortuitously, but designedly. These bodies are ‘programmed’. Therefore, an ‘intelligent being’ exists by whom all natural things are directed to their end; and this ‘being’ we call God (3).

      In Cosmology a theory is phrased, by extrapolating the observations backwards, to explain the observations, by applying the ‘laws of nature’ to the observations. This way science describes, mathematically, the beginning of the universe and predicts future observations, expecting to prove the premise. If this is not the case, a new model is phrased or the existing one adapted to accommodate the new findings.

      Leibniz [4] argues that something rather than nothing exists because a necessary

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