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113. Eye Witnesses

Papyrus 91 is dated 250 A.D. and contains fragments of Acts 2:30-37; 2:46-3:2. P91 with codex Sinaiticus read for 2:32 (Peter says, with the Eleven disciples): “God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.”

64. Biblical Texts: Papyri

Papyrus 72 (below image) has portions of 1,2 Peter and Jude and is dated 200-400 A.D. Speaking of Jesus, a section of 2 Peter 1:16 reads: epoptai genethentes tes ekeinou megaliotetos “we were eyewitnesses of his grandeur.”

131. Eye Witnesses

Papyrus 75 contains most of Luke and John and is dated 175 to 225 A.D. In the account of the disciple John in 20:24-30, the risen Jesus says to Thomas: “Put your finger here; see my hands…Reach out your hand and put it into my side…”

93. New Testament People

There are at least thirty people in the New Testament that have been cited by non-Christian sources and/or confirmed by archaeology. The New Testament contains multiple independent accounts by eight different authors.

136. Eye Witnesses

Codex Sinaiticus is dated 330-360 AD and contains the book of Acts and the entire Greek New Testament. In Acts 10:39-40 (below image) Peter says, “We are witnesses of all that he [Jesus] did. And although they killed him … God raised him up on the third day …”

96. Appearances of the Risen Jesus

46b. Intelligent Design

The ATP synthase machine with rotary motor is able to produce about 100 ATP molecules per second with near-100% efficiency. In humans it produces about 150 pounds of ATP every day, which is used rapidly as energy. ATP synthase is irreducibly complex.

126. Identity of Jesus

Papyrus 66 is dated around 200 A.D. and contains most of the book of the account of John. In 8:58, Jesus says to the crowd at the Jerusalem temple, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham existed, I AM.”

144. Fine Tuning

“Since the 1960s physicists have recognized that many physical parameters are finely tuned, against all odds, to make life possible ... Much of this fine-tuning, moreover, has been present from the very beginning of the universe itself.” (S. Meyer)

132. Intelligent Design

The photosynthetic habitable zone of a planet is where photosynthesis can occur. The constraints for photosynthesis are: water quantity, temperature, seasonal variation, mineral availability, light intensity, and CO2 concentration.

54. Intelligent Design: Habitable Zones

To be life-friendly, a parent star temperature needs to be between about 4,600K and 7,100K for the UV habitable zone to be located within the water habitable zone. Over 80 percent of all stars would not have a planet within both zones.

55. Intelligent Design: Habitable Zones

The ozone habitable zone of a planet is where an ozone shield can form. Ozone in Earth’s stratosphere absorbs up to 99% of life-damaging UV radiation. Necessities are: quantity of oxygen, just-right UV radiation, and low variability.

80b. Intelligent Design: Habitable Zones

The obliquity habitable zone is determined by the axial tilt of a planet relative to its orbital axis. Higher obliquity pushes several habitable zones outward. For Earth to be within nine habitable zones suggests purposeful design.

108. Intelligent Design

A habitable planet must have a strong magnetic field, similar to Earth’s, to shield life from both deadly solar and cosmic radiation, and to maintain surface water. The planet’s mass and rotation rate should be very similar to Earth’s.

119. Intelligent Design: Habitable Zones

The tidal habitable zone of a planet is the range that is far enough from a host star to prevent tidal locking but close enough for life-essential radiation. A large number of exoplanet candidates are likely tidally locked.

125. Intelligent Design: Habitable Zones

The astrosphere habitable zone is where a star’s stellar wind extends far enough to where other habitable zones overlap and is just-right to shield an orbiting planet’s atmosphere and surface from deadly high-energy cosmic radiation.

143. Intelligent Design: Habitable Zones

The rotation rate habitable zone of a planet is where the rotation rate results in temperatures that are not too extreme, and atmospheric jet streams that don’t produce too dry or too wet conditions.

142. Intelligent Design: Habitable Zones

The circumstellar habitable zone (CHZ) for liquid water on a planet is dependent on the radius of the planet's orbit, planetary mass, and the radiative flux of the host star. For the solar system, the CHZ is approximately 0.99 to 1.70 AU.

141. Habitable Zones

The electric wind habitable zone is where a planet with an atmosphere greater than about 1% of Earth’s is at a distance from the star more than about 90% of the Earth’s distance to the Sun. If the distance is less, the electric field will dry out the planet.

140. Antiquity of Acts

In Acts 17:23 (codex Sinaiticus top right) an altar to an unknown god in Athens is mentioned. The Greek traveler and geographer Pausanius (110-180 AD) wrote of altars to unknown gods (1.1.4; C. J. Hemer, 117-18). See also below.