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We hope you enjoy this re-post from May 15, 2013. Be blessed! The Today’s Quote From God Team

We have also a more sure word of prophecy… – 2 Peter 1:19, KJV

Imagine believing in something with all of your heart, your soul, and your mind. Imagine that you staked your reputation, your worldview, and your lifestyle on that belief. Imagine that your belief formed the foundation of everything you are as a human being. And then, imagine how you would feel when you come face-to-face with the reality that everything you believed in was a lie.

That’s exactly what happened to a group of biologists at the Wistar Institute symposium held in Philadelphia, PA in 1966.

The late Charles Colson and co-author Nancy Pearcey report in their book How Now Shall We Live?:

Beginning in the 1960s, mathematicians began writing computer programs to simulate every process under the sun, and they cast their calculating eyes on evolution itself. Hunched over their high-speed computers, they simulated the trial-and-error process of neo-Darwinian evolution over the equivalent of billions of years. The outcome was jolting: The computers showed that the probability of evolution by chance processes is essentially zero, no matter how long the time scale. *

Murray Eden of MIT and Marcel Schutzenberger of the University of Paris presented these findings at the Wistar symposium, and as Colson and Pearcey write, “…after the symposium, chance theories began to be quietly buried.” *

Colson and Pearcey continue:

The famous astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle compares it [life beginning through chance processes] to lining up 10 to the 50th power (ten with fifty zeroes after it) blind people, giving each one a scrambled Rubik’s Cube, and finding that they all solve the cube at the same moment. *

This overwhelming mathematical evidence in opposition to the theory of evolution is matched by the overwhelming mathematical evidence in favor of Jesus Christ being God. As reported in my post of December 25, 2012, scientist Peter Stoner calculated the odds of one man fulfilling just eight of the Old Testament prophecies pertaining to the Messiah as equivalent to 10 to the 17th power. Stoner described this number as follows:

Suppose that we take 10 to the 17th power silver dollars and lay them on the face of Texas. They will cover all of the state two feet deep. Now mark one of these silver dollars and stir the whole mass thoroughly, all over the state. Blindfold a man and tell him that he can travel as far as he wishes, but he must pick up one silver dollar and say that this is the right one. What chance would he have of getting the right one? Just the same chance that the prophets would have had of writing these eight prophecies and having them all come true in any one man. **

Jesus Christ did not fulfill eight Old Testament prophecies. He fulfilled over three hundred!

I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist. I’ve got plenty of faith to be a Christian. How about you?

SOURCES:

* Colson, Charles and Pearcey, Nancy, How Now Shall We Live? (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 1999, pgs. 73-74.)

** Strobel, Lee, The Case for Christ (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1998, pg. 183.)