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I love these articles from Perry. I hope you enjoy the Holy Spirit in them with me. Please check them out.

Love, Dave

-- On Thu, 4/24/08, Perry Marshall wrote:
Subject: Where did the Universe Come From? Part 4

To: "Dave"
Date: Thursday, April 24, 2008, 9:54 PM

Where did the Universe Come From?

Part 4: Dave,"If you can read this sentence, I can prove to you that God exists"

See this email I just sent you that you're reading right now? This email is proof of the existence of God.

Yeah, I know, that sounds crazy. But I'm not asking you to believe anything just yet, until you see the evidence for yourself. All I ask is that you refrain from disbelieving while I show you my proof. It only takes a minute to convey, but it speaks to one of the most important questions of all time.

So how is this email proof of the existence of God?

This email you're reading contains letters, words and sentences. It contains a message that means something. As long as you can read English, you can understand what I'm saying.

You can do all kinds of things with this email. You can read it on your computer screen. You can print it out on your printer. You can read it out loud to a friend who's in the same room as you are. You can call your friend and read it to her over the telephone. You can save it as a Microsoft WORD document. You can forward it to someone via email, or you can post it on a website.

Regardless of how you copy it or where you send it, the information remains the same. My email contains a message. It contains information in the form of language. The message is independent of the medium it is sent in. Messages are not matter, even though they can be carried by matter like printing this email on a piece of paper.

Messages are not energy even though they can be carried by energy, like the sound of my voice.

Messages are immaterial. Information is itself a unique kind of entity. It can be stored and transmitted and copied in many forms, but the meaning still stays the same.

Messages can be in English, French or Chinese, or Morse code; or mating calls of birds -- or the Internet, or radio or television. Or computer programs or architect blueprints or stone carvings. Every cell in your body contains a message encoded in DNA, representing a complete plan for you.

OK, so what does this have to do with God?

It's very simple. Messages, languages, and coded information ONLY come from a mind-- a mind that agrees on an alphabet and a meaning of words and sentences-- a mind that expresses both desire and intent.

Whether I use the simplest possible explanation, such as the one I'm giving you here, or if we analyze language with advanced mathematics and engineering communication theory, we can say this with total confidence:

"Messages, languages and coded information never, ever come from anything else besides a mind. No one has ever produced a single example of a message that did not come from a mind."

Nature can create fascinating patterns - snowflakes, sand dunes, crystals, stalagmites and stalactites; tornadoes and turbulence and cloud formations.

But non-living things cannot create language. They *cannot* create codes. Rocks cannot think and they cannot talk. And they cannot create information.

It is believed by some that life on planet earth arose accidentally from the "primordial soup," the early ocean which produced enzymes and eventually RNA, DNA, and primitive cells.

But there is still a problem with this theory: It fails to answer the question, 'Where did the information come from?'

DNA is not merely a molecule. Nor is it simply a "pattern." Yes, it contains chemicals and proteins, but those chemicals are arranged to form an intricate language, in the exact same way that English and Chinese and HTML are languages.

DNA has a four-letter alphabet, and structures very similar to words, sentences and paragraphs; with very precise instructions and systems that check for errors and correct them.

To the person who says that life arose naturally, you need only ask: "Where did the information come from? Show me just ONE example of a language that didn't come from a mind."

As simple as this question is, I've personally presented it in public presentations and Internet discussion forums for more than two years. I've addressed more than fifty thousand people, including hostile, skeptical audiences who insist that life arose without the assistance of God.

But to a person, none of them have ever been able to explain where the information came from. This riddle is "So simple any child can understand; so complex, no atheist can solve."

You can hear or read my full presentation on this topic at: http://www.cosmicfingerprints.com/ifyoucanreadthis.htm

Watch it on video:
http://www.perrymarshallspeaks.com/

For a high-school level, layman's version, go here:
http://www.cosmicfingerprints.com/information.htm

Matter and energy have to come from somewhere. Everyone can agree on that. But information has to come from somewhere, too! Information is separate entity, fully on par with matter and only come from a mind. If books and poems and TV come from human intelligence, then all living things inevitably came from a super intelligence.

Every word you hear, every sentence you speak, every dog that barks, every song you sing, every email you read, every packet of information that zings across the Internet, is proof of the existence of God; because information and language always originate in a mind.

In the beginning were words and language. In the Beginning was Information.

When we consider the mystery of life - where it came from and how this miracle is possible - do we not at the same time ask the question where it is going, and what its purpose is?

Respectfully Submitted, Perry Marshall Further reading:-"If you can read this, I can prove God exists" - listen to my full presentation or read the Executive Summary here:
http://cosmicfingerprints.com/ifyoucanreadthis.htm

-The Atheist's Riddle: Members of Infidels, the world's largest atheist discussion board attempt to solve it (for well over a year now!), without success:
http://cosmicfingerprints.com/iidb.htm

-"OK, so then who made God?" and other questions about information and origins:
http://cosmicfingerprints.com/infotheoryqa.htm

P.S.: Preview of tomorrow: You get to listen in on one of the most fascinating science lectures I've ever had the privilege of hearing. It is a presentation in which hard science and faith fuse together in a fascinating tour of this magnificently engineered universe that is our home.

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"It was the third of September" and it was cold and rainy in Cleveland. The word had just been received "My Daddy died". The news matched the weather.

"I never saw him, only heard bad things about him". I lived near the South Flats. Daddy was a worker at the warehouses on the river. They told me "He never worked a day in his life".
I'd heard from a young man who said he knew Daddy and asked did I? Mama told me she thought there was " Some outside children and another wife".

Once or twice after trying to get to some truth in the matter, people told me "He did some storefront preaching. Maybe they didn't remember all but some could recall " Preaching and collections in the name of the Lord". I didn't know who was telling the truth, "Mama was telling the truth", as she knew it.

There were photos from the mills in full production with the "Jacks of all trades who worked in them". Daddy was there in the back.

There were photos of the little bars all around the "mistake on the lake", word up Daddy
"spent most of his time chasing women and drinking".

I vowed to find him, I didn't. I said I'll never be like him, I'm not. I said I hate him, I don't.
When I saw Mama, "She looked at me with a tear in her eye and said, all he ever left us was alone."

She said, "I loved him".
So did I.

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God Help us turn the Tide of "Mankind Awry"

Beloveds, I haven't been consistent in my outrage. For, it has been misguided, as if it was something new or refreshing revealed by me. It is Gods' Word and Will. Praise be to God the Father, Lord of Heaven and earth and His Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ.

The reasoning behind defensive driving is... "If one falls victim to road rage then all of a sudden there are two uncaring and ignorant drivers, where before there was hopefully only one."

As we, as a country of diverse and multi-cultural folks, become more dependent on the auto, it is imperative that we also bring our religion to the roadways. Except for cannibalism, where any infidel or stranger was eaten, all forms of worship of higher powers, express some forms of brotherly and sisterly love, at the very least.

Sitting behind the wheel of a vehicle is, to me, perfect worship of my God. I have the car in my grip, to hold and guide "For The Moment", God willing. As I look behind, where I just came from, with God's help, there is " Always Has Been". Then a careful look ahead reveals a wondrous and prickly glimpse of "What Will Be", according to our Lord Jesus. Let us Thank Him for every opportunity to Wonder and Reach for His simple message that we are so careless in understanding and reluctant to heed.

Reading in Hebrews again, God reminds us "He will never fail us. Jesus always was , is now and ever shall be".

The Words that keep coming into my heart and then to my head are.."It is necessary and good to be calm, quiet and loving". My dear brother put it in my heart, through God, as the majestic, white light of the Christ Mind. If any of you out there, and I'm now talking to my peers, in gender, believe you are strong enough, wise enough, loving enough, fearless enough to pick the Cross up and carry it as our Lord did years ago, please get down and pray for forgiveness. It was Gods Divine mercy throughout time that allowed us to reach "Now". We will be allowed to see "All" if we Believe and Follow the simple, yet incomprehensible, instruction given to us from Gods' Word by Gods' Son from the Holy Spirit left on us to have and hold, if we only Stop. Amen