Fine-Tuning of the Universe: Hoyle Said It....

For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; 

so that they are without excuse: 

Romans 1:20

Hoyle Said It....
"Fred Hoyle, an eminent physicist and agnostic, stated, “A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as chemistry and

biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature.” 

Physicist P.C.W. Davies, also religiously unaffiliated, insists that “the entire universe is balanced on a knife-edge, and would be total chaos if any of the natural ‘constants’ were off even slightly.”

The existence and fine-tuning of numerous constants and parameters of the universe is unexpected and mysterious if naturalism is true. But it makes perfect sense if Christianity is true, and God desired to create beings He could have a relationship with." 

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Fine-Tuning of the Universe: The Strong Nuclear Force

For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; 

so that they are without excuse: 

Romans 1:20

The strong nuclear force:
"This force holds together the protons and neutrons in an atom’s nucleus. 

If it were slightly weaker, protons and neutrons wouldn’t stick together, making complex atoms impossible. Without complex atoms, the chemical diversity necessary for life wouldn’t exist. 

If it were stronger, protons could potentially bind to each other more readily, which could lead to a universe without stable hydrogen, an essential element for life."
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Fine-Tuning of the Universe: Goldilocks Zone

For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; 

so that they are without excuse: 

Romans 1:20

The size and distance of the Earth from the sun:
"Earth’s position in the solar system is in what scientists call the "Goldilocks Zone," where it’s not too hot and not too cold, allowing for liquid water to exist on its surface. 

The size of Earth also ensures that it has the right gravity to retain an atmosphere suitable for life without being too strong to inhibit the mobility of organisms."
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How God did it....and Stamped it....and Redeemed it

He hath made the earth by His power, 

He hath established the world by His wisdom, 

and hath stretched out the heavens by His discretion. 

Jeremiah 10:12

You Cannot "Un-bless" what God has Blessed

God made all 7 days....but He only BLESSED one....

And God blessed the seventh day,

and sanctified it:

For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth,

the sea, and all that in them is,

and rested the seventh day:

wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, 

and hallowed it.

Genesis 2:3/Exodus 20:11

And from Jesus Christ, ....
--the first begotten of the dead, 
--Unto Him that loved us,
--and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

But He was wounded
for our transgressions,
He was bruised
for our iniquities:
the chastisement 

of our peace
was upon Him;
and with His stripes 

we are healed.
Ye are bought with a price.....
Revelation 1:5/Isaiah 53:5/1 Corinthians 7:23

Designed Purpose of Your "eureka moments"

I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are Thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Psalm 139:14

"We've all experienced that "aha! moment," that sudden clarity or magical epiphany you feel when a new idea or perspective pops into your head as if out of nowhere.
Now, new evidence from brain imaging research shows that these flashes of insight aren't just satisfying—

--they actually reshape how your brain represents information, 

--and help sear it into memory.

Led by researchers at Duke University and Humboldt and Hamburg Universities in Germany, the work has implications for education, suggesting that fostering "eureka moments" could help make learning last beyond the classroom.

Such hidden picture puzzles serve as small-scale proxies for bigger eureka moments. "It's just a little discovery that you are making, but it produces the same type of characteristics that exist in more important insight events," said senior author Roberto Cabeza.
Participants tended to recall solutions that came to them in a flash of insight far better than ones they arrived at without this sense of epiphany.

"If you have an 'aha! moment' while learning something, it almost doubles your memory," said Cabeza, who has been studying memory for 30 years.

They discovered that flashes of insight trigger a burst of activity in

the brain's hippocampus, a cashew-shaped structure buried deep in the temporal lobe that plays a major role in learning and memory. The more powerful the insight, the greater the boost.

They also found that the activation patterns across the participants' neurons changed once they spotted the hidden object and saw the image in a new light—particularly in certain parts of the brain's ventral occipito-temporal cortex, the region responsible for recognizing visual patterns. The stronger the epiphany, the greater the change in those areas." 

MedicalXpress

Your Brain: Designed to Read

I will praise Thee; 

for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.... 

Psalm 139:14

"It happens in a blink. Your eyes glance over a page, and letters become words. Words transform into meaning. Sentences unfurl into stories or arguments. 
A new review by neuroscientists at the Max Planck Institute forHuman Cognitive and Brain Sciences has revealed a clearer picture than ever before. “We found high processing specificity for letter, word, sentence, and text reading exclusively in left-hemispheric areas,” wrote Sabrina Turker and Beatrice Fumagalli.

Q: But what exactly happens in your brain when you read?

It shows how different types of reading — silently or aloud, genuine words or gibberish, judgments or comprehension — each have their own neural signature.

The findings confirmed that reading taps into the brain’s classical

language network — regions like the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), ventral occipito-temporal cortex (vOTC), and temporo-parietal cortex (TPC). 

But each level of reading brought unique activity: 

Letter reading activated just a narrow zone in the left occipital cortex, a region tied to visual processing.
Word reading engaged wider networks, including parts of the frontal and parietal lobes.
Sentence reading added further recruitment from areas involved in syntax and meaning-making, especially the middle and superior temporal gyri.
Text reading required coordination hubs like the precentral gyrus and supplementary motor area — likely reflecting how we hold complex information in working memory.
That progression is striking: the brain doesn’t just scale up the same processes. It reconfigures its activity based on the demands of the task.

One of the study’s most intriguing findings lies in how different reading styles trigger different brain activity. Overt reading — reading out loud — lit up auditory and motor regions, including the left insula and superior temporal cortex. These regions help us process sound and coordinate speech.

But when people read silently (covert reading), another system

kicked in: the multiple-demand network, including the frontal pole and paracingulate cortex. This system is associated with executive functions like attention and inhibition. “More consistent reliance on multiple demand regions” during silent reading likely reflects the mental juggling act of forming internal speech while suppressing vocalization.

In other words, silently reading a sentence is less passive than it seems. It’s a high-order mental performance — speech without sound.

To further tease apart how the brain processes meaning, the team contrasted how we read real words versus pseudowords — strings like “sproke” or “glem.”

Real words triggered greater activity in regions associated with memory and meaning, like the angular gyrus, the middle temporal gyrus, and the orbitofrontal cortex. These areas help us retrieve known concepts and integrate them into what we’re reading.
Pseudowords, on the other hand, activated areas linked to phonological decoding — sounding out unfamiliar combinations. The precentral gyrus, pars opercularis of the IFG, and even right-hemisphere regions like the superior lateral occipital cortex all showed stronger engagement.

What emerges from this sweeping study is not a single “reading center” in the brain, but a flexible system that shifts depending on the demands of the text and the nature of the task." 

ZME Science

Mystery of the Mind & Will

 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; 

and man became a living soul.

Genesis 2:7

"Those two powers are intellect and will.

In general, intellect refers to the capacity to think abstractly about concepts instead of specific objects. It is the ability to reason, use judgment, have concepts, and use logic and language. For example, emotion may prompt a lonely man to think about adopting a puppy. Reason bids him to think about the responsibility he is taking on for, perhaps, fifteen years.

--Will is the ability to choose based on reason. 

--In this sense, will follows on intellect. 

--The intellect is directed to knowing truth. 

The will is directed to seeking good. A properly functioning will

should prompt the man to make a decision based on what is best for the dog as well as for himself, not merely on the emotion he is feeling as he cuddles the dog at the pet adoption center.

The intellect tells the will (so to speak) what is good, and the will pursues it. While normal brain function is necessary for the normal exercise of intellect and will, brain function is not sufficient for them. 

Your intellect and will are immaterial—i.e., —powers of your soul.

Abstract thought can have exact and unambiguous conceptual content.
Nothing material can have exact and unambiguous conceptual content.
Therefore, abstract thought is not material.

Materialists counter that our abstract concepts aren’t really exact. They are just very close approximations. But that’s obviously not true—our concepts of geometrical figures or logic itself are genuinely exact. It is matter that is never exact. In fact, the materialist invocation of logic to make their arguments presupposes the precision of logic. If the materialist’s own viewpoint couldn’t be precisely true, it wouldn’t be valid." 

MindMatters

Those SYMBOLS tell us

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—His eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. Romans 1:20 NIV

The Universe is governed by the SYMBOLS of Coded Information for Mathematics and Life

governed by the SYMBOLS of Coded Information for the Genetic Code.

Like the SYMBOLS Coded Information of Linguistic Language and the SYMBOLS of Coded Information for the Binary Codes for computers = an intelligence that wrote it---so too the SYMBOLS of Coded Information for Mathematics and Genetics.

Light Echo: V838 Monocerotis

 "The star mentioned on page 242 of, Dismantling the Big Bang is

known as V838 Monocerotis (named because it was the 838^th variable star of the faint constellation Monoceros (Unicorn)). The Hubble space telescope first spotted it in 2002. Because there are still questions of how and why it erupted, V838 Monocerotis is thought to be a binary star system, i.e., two stars orbiting close together. It is in the constellation of Monoceros, 19,000 light years away.

 

If the speed of light has changed in the past, the change would most likely occur at a time when miracles are freely allowed. 

---For Evolutionists this is the Planck era, i.e. the first 5.39 × 10^-44 s of the universe, where current theories of physics are not able to make retrodictions. 

---For the creationist, this is Creation Week.

Although creationists can account for a change in the speed of light (we have a miracle worker), most creationist astronomers suggest alternative theories as a solution to the light travel time problem.

But in the case of V838 Monocerotis, the speed limit of the universe appears to be broken!

It is important to note that the object expanding is not the star itself

(or the remnants of the 2002 eruption) but a surrounding shell of nearby interstellar dust (presumably from an earlier eruption).

The shell only appears to expand at a superluminal velocity because the light the dust gives off is a ‘light echo:’ The light originates from the star’s 2002 eruption and is re-radiated by the dust shell. 

Similar geometric effects produce apparent superluminal motion in radio galaxies, BL Lac objects (active galactic nuclei that emit signals that vary on all time scales and at all frequencies!), quasars and blasars.

Galaxies do appear to be moving away from us and the Bible describes a stretching of the heavens: covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent. Psalm 104:2, He that created the heavens, and stretched them out Isaiah 42:5; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone;44:24; have stretched out the heavens 45:12; and My right hand hath spanned the heavens: 48:13; that hath stretched forth the heavens 51:13 that I may plant the heavens 51:16; hath stretched out the heavens by His discretion Jeremiah 10:12; hath stretched out the heaven by His understanding 51:15; which stretcheth forth the heavens Zechariah 12:1.

A light echo: Light ray A, direct from the source (yellow star) arrives at the observer (blue dot) first. Light ray B and C reflect off the gas cloud, but because B has a shorter path it arrives at the observer first. To the observer, B and C appear to come from the same point in the sky. It therefore appears that the illumination of the gas cloud in the direction perpendicular to A is faster than the speed of light.

The universe appears to be expanding in all directions, in a similarway, stars explode in all directions." 

CMI