How did God use NUMBERS
to create the universe?

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How were numbers used to create some of the properties of the universe that are familiar to us? How does the very existence of the universe PROVE that a divine Being MUST exist?

God's creation is based on numbers that form mathematical laws and principles that govern everything around us. The awesome complexity of the earth, as well as the immense expanse of space and all it contains, is witnesses that an intelligent Being with tremendous power made them. They are an eternal testimony that a God DOES exist who both created them and continuously upholds them with laws he set in place. The Bible tells us the universe is so amazing that every human is capable of ultimately concluding that He exists.

"For the invisible things of Him are perceived from the creation of the world, being understood by the things that were made (especially humans) - both His eternal power and Godhead - so that they are without excuse" (Romans 1:20, Holy Bible in Its Original Order - A Faithful Version (HBFV) throughout unless stated))

God CHALLENGES every human to study the evidence of his existence that is all around him or her.

"Lift up your eyes on high, and behold, Who has created these things, Who brings out their host by number? He calls them all by names by the greatness of His might, for He is strong in power; not one fails." (Isaiah 40:26)

"He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by their names. Great is our LORD and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite."

"Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praises upon the lyres unto our God, Who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains." (Psalm 147:4-5, 7-8)

The Milky Way galaxy we live in roughly contains 100 billion stars. Astronomers have also estimated that there are as many as 200 BILLION galaxies in the observable universe. The current diameter of the observable universe is about 93 BILLION light years. The width of the ENTIRE universe (the parts we can and cannot see) is bigger still. In comparison, the width of a typical galaxy is only 30,000 light-years.

The first natural division of time we find in the Bible is a day. The number seven marks this day.

"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And by the beginning of the seventh day God finished His work which He had made. And He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because on it He rested? from all His work which God had created and made." (Genesis 2:1-3)

When God ordained periods of rest and worship for Israel he marked them with the number seven. The seventh day is a weekly holy day. The seventh Hebrew month has special Biblical Feast days within it. The seventh year was deemed a year of rest for the land. Every seven times seven years (49) marked a very special period known as the year of Jubilee.

We see a law of numbers in various areas of nature. Sometimes one number is the dominant factor, sometimes another. In nature, seven is to mark the only possible mode of classification of the mass of individuals that constitutes science. Below are two examples of the divisions of seven, one from the animal kingdom (dog) and one from the vegetable kingdom (rose).

In the vegetable kingdom, life revolves around law and order. In the Endogens (or inside-growing plants), the number three prevails, while in Exogens (or outside-growing plants) number five is prevailing. The grains in Indian corn, or maize, are set in rows, generally straight, but in some cases spirally. These rows are arranged in even numbers, but never an odd one! They range from 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, and sometimes as high as 24. This patter is permanent.

If we notice how the leaves grow upon the stem of a plant, not only is their order in classifying their nature and character, but also certain numbers appear in their arrangement and disposition. Some leaves are alternately spaced, some opposite, while others are in a spiral arrangement. However, in each case all is in perfect order. After a certain count of leaves one will come immediately over and in the same line with the first:

• In the apple it is the fifth leaf

• In the oak it is the fourth

• In the peach it is the sixth

• In the holly it is the eighth, but it takes two turns of the spiral before the eighth leaf stands immediately over the first

• In the larch it is the twenty-first leaf

Examples might be multiplied indefinitely were design in nature our only subject.

Here we have a field of research in which constant discoveries are made. Chemistry is not like geology, whose theories are regularly superseded by new ones. If we know the action of a certain substance, then our knowledge never changes. All matter is composed of certain combinations of various elements. Elements are one of a class of substances that cannot be separated into simpler substances by chemical means. The law by which the elements are arranged may seem complex but there is a design behind it.

• When magnetized all elements fall into two classes. One class arranges itself east and west, at right angles to the line of magnetic force. The other class arranges itself parallel to the magnetic pole.
• Some elements, which combine with only one atom of another element, are called Monads. Elements that combine with only two atoms of another element are Dyads. Those that combine with three atoms are Triads, etc.

• Some of the most important elements are a multiple of either 4 or 7 (or very closely so). The atomic weight of iron (Chemical symbol: Fe) is 56 (7 x 8), silver's weight (Ag) is about 108 (4 x 27), copper's weight (Cu) is around 63 (7 x 9), carbon's weight (C) is 12 (3 x 4), mercury's weight (Hg) is 200 (4 x 50), etc.

Sound is a wave, an oscillation of pressure transmitted through the air (or other substance) within frequencies that are heard. The pitch of a musical note is higher or lower based on whether these vibrations are faster or slower. Experiments have determined a fixed number of vibrations for each musical note. The following is the scale of Do showing the number of vibrations in a second under each note and the differences between them.

On examining the above it will be at once seen that the number eleven is stamped upon music, as well as seven, since there are seven notes of the scale (the eighth being the repetition of the first).

In the above scale, there is a range of 264 vibrations. There is a difference between each one, so that there are practically 264 notes in the scale, but the ear cannot detect them all. There are vibrations that the ear cannot detect, so slow as to make no audible sound, but there are contrivances by which they are visible to the eye. When sand is thrown upon a thin metal disc, to which a chord is attached and vibrated, the sand will immediately arrange itself in a perfect geometrical pattern. The pattern will vary with the number of the vibrations.

The vibrations of light cause color, just as the vibrations of air cause sound. There is a relation between the two, so that a particular color corresponds to a particular note in music. Hence, there are seven common colors seen by the naked eye that answer to the seven musical sounds. The number seven, in both music and color, is divided into the numbers three and four. There are three primary colors - red, green, and blue. The four secondary colors are orange, yellow, indigo, and violet. In English, a popular way of remembering all colors is to memorize the name "ROY G. BIV" for red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.