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The Origin of Life and the Universe

Dr. Jeff Zweerink’s presentation:

“The Beginning and Design of the Universe"

It’s good to be here today…
Listened to a lot of cosmologist
talk and there’s a very prominent cos-
mologist; atheist cosmologist named
Lawrence Krauss; and he’s fond of
making statements like this:
“The amazing thing is that every atom
in your body came from a star that
exploded. And, the atoms in your left-
hand probably came from a different
star than your right hand. It is really
the most poetic thing I know about
physics: you are all stardust. You co-
uldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements – the carbon,
nitrogen, oxygen, iron, and all the things that matter for evolution –
weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear
furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those
stars were kind enough to explode... The stars died so you could be here
today.” (Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is So-
mething Rather Than Nothing)
Now, obviously Lawrence Krauss’s statements are specifically antagonizing
Christians, but I think his statements are actually offensive to all forms of
religion with a theistic worldview – those that argue for a God Who created
the universe and all that it contains. Essentially Krauss argues that science
can explain everything and therefore we don’t need a god. As a Christian
who is a scientist I actually find a different conclusion: A theistic