Understanding Creation From The View of The Creator

Marvin Martin

• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781640880788
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

Watch the so-called evidence against Genesis and Scripture disappear under the scrutiny of real scientific research.

Doubts are put to rest. The truth of scripture is objectively established, avoiding usually subjective arguments that invite debate. The objective truth herein, embraces the creation timeline, provides irrefutable evidence of a universe created by design, explains how our prayers can be heard, and reveals the source of our inherent propensity to sin.

The objective fabric of the book is rooted in the two greatest, accepted, and proven unifying theories of nature, relativity and quantum mechanics. Best yet, armed with this book, Christians can prepare themselves to witness as never before, empowered to allay concerns among the faithful, defeat the atheists in debate, and build the Christian population through conversion.

Furthermore, by closing the gap between brain research and education practice, the manuscript reinvents education in a way that will clearly differentiate Christian schools from public alternatives; as validated in an ongoing pilot program’s curriculum, content and method of delivery.

About the Author

Marvin Martin received B.S. and M.S. Degrees from New York University’s College of Engineering. He was one of two among 300 entering engineering majors admitted to the college’s Engineering Science program. Engineering Science is a combined engineering, physics, and mathematics major, including interdisciplinary, total systems engineering. By the time he earned his bachelors’ degree, under contract to industry as a technical writer, he published two rocket systems books, the launch checkout and troubleshooting procedures for the Atlas Satellite Launching Rocket, and then the Polaris Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile.

He holds the nation’s Intelligence Medal of Merit for technical and management contributions, to the development of cost-effective, space-based reconnaissance satellite systems, and was selected for the Nation’s Independent Research & Development Roll of Honor, as principal investigator on the Advanced Military Spacecraft for the Space Shuttle Era project. His papers on supersonic aerodynamics and aeromechanics solved major problems causing launch failures of the Thor-Agena rocket, one of the nation’s first satellite launch systems.

Concern for the environment is reflected in his work as director of the U.S. Pilot Program for Total Effluent Management in the Mid-Atlantic states, Pennsylvania through Tennessee. His application of environmental experience to education is recognized by a citation from NASA, three grants from energy giant BP, and the A+ For Energy Award presented to him by the elected California State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Prior to adopting education as a second career, Marvin managed the development of the artificial intelligence system, the brain, for the space-based Strategic Defense “Star Wars” initiative. Based upon its success during extensive government testing, Marv was invited to the White House to brief the program to the president’s Scientific Advisory Group.

Credentialed in both special education and secondary science education, he was appointed as Visiting Professor at Christian faith-based La Sierra University, where he has succeeded in applying brain research to education. Researchers at both USC’s and UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institutes cite his work as closing the gap between research and classroom practice. His 8-volume STEM science program is currently being pilot tested in California at the San Gabriel SDA Academy, a faith-based K-12 school. His contributions to education are recognized by special citations presented by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the California State Assembly, and California State Senate. This publication demonstrates the truth of Professor Martin’s conviction, God is Creator and there can be no difference between science and Scripture. Encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it closes gaps between Gospel and science.

Marv is an experienced manager, having occupied executive positions in high-tech industry, as director of advanced studies at a Fortune 500 company and, in government, as Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Analysis Division. In awarding the Intelligence Medal of Merit, the CIA cited the Agency’s major area of progress to be in the field of analysis, and Marv to be an engineer of that progress, as an analyst and as a manager, doubling the size of CIA’s Analysis Division without loss of competence. Following his tour of duty at CIA, he went on to head a super-secret intelligence think-tank, supporting the President and national security apparatus. Thereafter, by arrangement with the State Department, Marv accepted an appointment in Europe, leading the successful intelligence effort associated with freeing the Baltic States from Soviet domination and blockade. Thereafter he quantified the risk associated with possible European military action to halt the genocide in North Africa. Returning to the United States, Marv, as a civilian, championed the idea of introducing small, remotely-piloted air vehicles into combat. The Defense Department sent Marv to NATO to explain how these aircraft can multiply combat power, employing tactics that Marv innovated. An entrepreneur, Marv founded two successful companies. Martin and Stern, Inc., a developer of special-purpose computers, was acquired by a public corporation three years following its founding. Thereafter, he founded CSG, Command Systems Group, Inc. It was at CSG that the Star Wars artificial intelligence system was developed, along with the design of an artificial intelligence system for autonomously piloted, unmanned aircraft.

Prologue Part 1: Reinforcing Christian Belief

For centuries, our understanding of creation has been revealed to us through Scripture. This was good and sufficient. The Gospel spoke with a voice understandable and consistent with society’s early-on understanding of nature, at that time perceived and given to us by our senses.

It has come to pass, we now understand the real-world as given to us by science, a visibility well beyond our senses. The world of the very small is now understood as controlled by strange, counterintuitive laws of quantum mechanics. The world of the vastly large is now understood as controlled by strange, counterintuitive laws of relativity, having time as a fourth-dimension and gravity as a distortion of the fabric of space itself.

At issue is: Does the body of science reveal a beauty of creation and existence, so fine tuned that it is unambiguously the product of intelligent design, or is our improbably fine-tuned existence merely the outcome chance, an infinite number of rolls of dice?

My appointment as Visiting Professor at Christian faith-based La Sierra University carried with it a charter to show science and Scripture are consistent, not opposing views. Furthermore, the showing of consistency was to be objective (factual) rather than subjective, interpretation-based, relying upon Scripture alone. I felt as if I was asked to write something akin to a next chapter of Genesis; if humanly possible, certainly beyond my ken. I did start from my Christian faith and Gospel, supplemented by graduate-level study of relativity and quantum mechanics. In other words, I was prepared to seek closure, to reconcile differences between science and Scripture. In so doing, my enlightenment became rooted in Jesus’ promise of a continued presence in the form of the Holy Spirit.

In visits over time, the Spirit provided a roadmap. For example, concerning creation, I was to reveal the depth in which fine tuning is implicit in our universe’s existence and design, proving that even the slightest change would be destructive of existence as we know it. In this regard, the roadmap set forth by the Spirit-led to revelation of three sub-obvious areas of fine tuning:

1. Avogadro’s Number, a constant of nature. It is an enormous number, on the order of a million, times a million, times a million, times a million. I discovered even the smallest change in the design of an atom, the building block of everything, would have an effect magnified by Avogadro’s number. The Spirit suggested I look at a sub-sub-atomic particle, a quark, and the effect of a millionth of a part change in the electric charge of a quark. Sure enough, magnified by Avogadro’s number, the aggregate charge buildup in a human body would be greater than the electrical charge in the largest lightning bolt ever detected.

2. Hund’s Rule, a law of nature that controls the placement of six among an oxygen’s eight electrons in the atom’s second energy level, a volume of space, the electron cloud surrounding the atom’s nucleus. There are eight places for electrons to be placed in the atomic second energy level, creating essentially two options for placement of oxygen’s six, second energy-level electrons. One option would allow oxygen and hydrogen to combine, creating water with its known life-giving properties. The alternative option will eliminate all life-giving properties of water, i.e., it will not be a liquid at ordinary temperatures, it will not be a solvent creating the ions that make the brain work, and i...