February 12, 2018 - - Isaiah 55:8-9 What are the fundamental entities of the universe?
/“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8 & 9 NKJV
...the foundation for materialism (atheism, humanism, evolution) is that the universe consists of only two entities: mass and energy. Therefore, if a third entity can be shown to exist, then materialism and all philosophies based on it must also be false. Information is this third fundamental entity.
Mike Riddle
Indeed, Einstein pointed to the nature and origin of symbolic information as one of the profound questions about the world as we know it. He could identify no means by which matter could bestow meaning to symbols. The clear implication is that symbolic information, or language, represents a category of reality distinct from matter and energy.
John Baumgardner
The presupposition of the Bible is that there is a God who created the universe, the earth, and all organisms living on earth. This has been shown to be consistent with scientific discoveries that there is a nonmaterial third fundamental entity called information that originates only from an intelligent source. The universe consists of more than just mass and energy, and the information found within the DNA system of life originated from an all-knowing, all-powerful Creator God.
Mike Riddle
These last three quotations are drawn from the book: THE NEW ANSWERS Book 2. Gen. Ed. Ken Ham; chapter 20, 8th printing, March 2011.
Here's where the rubber meets the road. When you meet with or debate a person who claims to be a materialist, someone who states there is only mass and energy and by extension claims there is no God, no Divine Source Who gave a beginning to the universe, then challenge him. Ask him to explain things using the only tools he claims exist as foundational entities in the universe: mass and energy. It is nonsensical. Of course he can't. He must use the gift of information, of language, of drawings and symbols--all of which are God's thoughts--even to argue his own position that there is no god! Ask such a materialist to explain the very conundrum Einstein couldn't explain: how can matter bestow meaning to symbols? Only God can be, only God IS, the source of information.
He is the Creator. He is the Beginning. He is the Goal of all history. He created in six days, the heavens and the earth, the stars and the creatures that exist. On the seventh day He created a sanctuary in time, a day of rest and delight wherein the people who know Him worship Him!
Blessed be Your Name, O God my Father!
Praise belongs to You, Lord Jesus Christ, Ruler of all!
Blessed are You, Spirit of God, Wise Counselor Who leads believers to Jesus Christ.
Thank You, God of Thought and Information, for the proofs You have set in our bodies, written in the very code of our DNA, the evidence of information which can only have its source in You. Thank You that You spoke life into being and thank You for the way in which You sustain the faith of Your people until that great and glorious day when we shall see Jesus Christ return, with all His holy angels, to bring judgment to the unbelieving world and salvation to believers. May the mysteries of this universe and the enigmas of our times draw many, many unbelievers to consider You, to find their restless questions can only be answered in the Person of Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Savior. And so bring many sons and daughters to know and believe in Jesus, the Joy of the Redeemed, the Captain of our Salvation, the Radiance of the Father's glory. Hallelujah! Amen.
