or Design?” He wrote,
“The atmosphere of
life-supporting gases
is sufficiently high
(about 500 miles)
and dense to blanket
the earth against
the deadly impact
of twenty million
meteors that daily
enter it at speeds of
about thirty miles
per second. Among
many other functions
the atmosphere also
maintains the temperature
within safe limits for life;
and carries the vital supply of
fresh water-vapor far inland from
the oceans to irrigate the earth, without
which it would become a lifeless desert.
The Paradigm Shift
Continued from page 7
working microwave or refrigerator
and most tragic of all is the fact that
there would be very few from this
generation with the character or skills
to survive and navigate the difficulties
of such times. Civil disobedience with
mass looting and killing combined
with unfettered disease outbreaks
are just a few of the things that would
ensue and cause whole nations to
crumble. Some countries however,
would not be as badly affected.
The transportation system of a
country like Cuba that is stuck in
the 1960s would be unaffected by
a technological meltdown. First
World countries with their highly
computerised, self driven cars and
remote flown air crafts and drones
would come to a crashing halt. The
paradigm would shift with blinding
speed, where Third World countries
would begin to flourish and have
warfare supremacy while First World
countries plunge into darkness and
unimaginable despair. Poor countries
Thus the oceans with the atmosphere
are the balance-wheel of Nature.” [2]
You recall a statement somewhere that
Professor A. Cressy Morrison, former
president of the New York Academy of
Sciences, had made about the atmosphere
being a mixture of gases in delicate
balance with the Earth and the organisms
that inhabit it. “Our atmosphere is a
mixture of gases in delicate balance with
the Earth and the organisms that inhabit
it. Gases are maintained at certain
percentages (partial pressures) so that
the planet will remain hospitable to life.
This protects life on earth by absorbing
ultraviolet rays, warming the surface
through heat retention and reducing
extremes between and day and night.” [3]
So many exciting conditions are necessary
for life on earth that they could not possibly
that are without computerised
technology and are still using the
ancient skills and ‘know how’ would
suddenly become the nations to
envy.
Do not trust in technology
Our technological advances have
given rise to a carnal hope and
excitement of a coming man made
utopia. A time when we can indulge
ourselves in all the lust and pleasures
of this life without suffering the
consequences. There are genuine
signs of a future where we will be able
to genetically engineer ourselves and
eradicate illnesses like cancer and
greatly increase our life-span, but do
not put your hopes up. “Thus says the
Lord: ‘Cursed is the man who trusts
in man and makes flesh his strength,
whose heart departs from the Lord.’”
Jeremiah 17:5
The laws of God will continue to defy
every effort of men to undo them.
Time dictates that everything that
has a beginning has an end, they all
wax old then cease to exist. Great
exist in proper relationship by chance!
Another question begins to gnaw at
your guts, “Could the God you’ve been
hearing about all your life have been
controlling the balance of those gases all
this time. Could the pride and arrogance
of man unravel this amazing balance?”
CONCLUSION:
The
design
and
management
of
balanced
atmospheric gases is evide nce of a
creation therefore of a Creator. p
[1] Gamow, George “Matter, Earth, and Sky”; Riegle,
David D. Creation or Evolution, p 15
[2] Monsma, John Clover p. 21 The Evidence of God
in an Expanding Universe;
[3] A. Cressy Morrison “Seven Reasons - why a
Scientist believes in God” (Int);
By C Richard McCaw
author, music teacher and
many years as a Bible teacher
inventions, great dynasties, ruling
nations and even the Earth itself has a
shelf life. Man’s pride is blinding him
to these obvious truths. The increase
in the power and reach of technology
accompanied by a fading morality is
a ticking time bomb. The weight of
the responsibility that comes with
such modern advancements where
the press of a button could wipe out
nations cannot be ignored, yet it is in
these times we are witnessing such
loose morals and diminished integrity
as we have never seen before. Foolish
mankind have all these years been
building his house upon sand. Listen
for the mighty crash when the season
of heavy rains come.
“But the day of the Lord will come like
a thief. The heavens will disappear
with a roar; the elements will be
destroyed by fire, and the earth and
everything done in it will be laid
bare.” 2 Peter 3:10 p
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