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Today’s Chapel:
“Intelligent Design”
by Pastor Jim Bomkamp
Special Revelation:
The word of God
General revelation
Romans 1:20: “For since the creation of the
world His invisible attributes, His eternal
power and divine nature, have been clearly
seen, being understood through what has
been made, so that they are without
excuse.”
General revelation
Psalm 19:1-6, “The heavens are telling of the glory of
God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His
hands. Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night
reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there
words; Their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out
through all the earth, And their utterances to the end of the
world. In them He has placed a tent for the sun, Which is
as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber; It rejoices as
a strong man to run his course. Its rising is from one end of
the heavens, And its circuit to the other end of them; And
there is nothing hidden from its heat.”
Intelligent Design
“Computing Intelligence”
A “floating point” number on a computer is:
“A very large number on a computer
expressed as a floating-point number which
consists of a basic number or mantissa, an
exponent, and a number base or radix
(which is often assumed). The number base
is usually ten but may also be 2.”
A “floating point operation” (FLOP) is a
mathematical operation which is performed
on a “floating point” number.
Early Supercomputers
Cray-1: Cray's first supercomputer
Introduced in 1976.
Peak performance of 133 megaflops
(MF).
The first system was installed at Los
Alamos National Laboratory at a
cost of $8.8 million dollars.
To handle the intense heat
generated by the computer, Cray
developed an innovative
refrigeration system using Freon
(constant –90C temperature was
attempted)
Cray X-MP:
Launched in 1982.
Capable of 500 MFs, 1 GF on some
applications.
Multiple 333 MFLOPS processors
powered the system to a record
sustained speed of 2.3 gigaflops.
The first operating system based on
UNIX, UNICOS.
A first generation Pentium 4
processor running at 2.8GHZ, it
averages somewhere around 1.1
gigaflops in benchmark studies,
which is in the general range of the
Cray X-MP.
Cray-2:
Introduced in 1985.
Peak performance of 1.9 GFs.
At the time, it had the world's largest
central memory with the possibility
of 2048 megabytes.
The Cray-2™ system provided a
tenfold increase in performance
over the Cray-1.
Cray Y-MP8D:
Introduced in 1988.
This system was key to breaking the
one gigaflop performance barrier. It
has traditionally been the standard
by which other supercomputers are
compared.
Cray Y-MP2E:
Cray's first air-cooled
supercomputer.
Cray Y-MP8E:
Like the Cray Y-MP8D, this system
held a maximum of 8 vector
processors but included a faster,
improved I/O (input/output) system
called the Model E I/O.
Cray C90:
Launched in 1991.
It was Cray's high-end
supercomputer of the early '90s
(thus its name, "Cray for the '90s" or
C90).
It featured a new CPU with industryleading sustained performance of 1
GF. Using 16 of these powerful
processors and 256 million words
(MW) of central memory, the system
boasted unrivaled total
performance. Peak performance
equaled 16 GFs.
Cray EL:
Cray's first low-cost supercomputer
and predecessor to the Cray J90
Series.
Cray T3D:
introduced in 1993
Cray's first line of scalable parallel
supercomputers.
Cray J90:
Air-cooled, low-cost vector
supercomputers introduced by Cray
in the mid-'90s.
Cray T90:
The Cray T90 line of powerful,
general purpose, vector-based
supercomputing systems employs
an array of innovative technologies,
including pioneering connectors that
eliminate internal wiring.
Though no longer in active
production, the T90 is still widely
used to solve some of
supercomputing's most difficult
problems.
Cray T3E:
Since its debut in 1995, the
successor Cray T3E™
supercomputer has been the world's
best selling MPP system.
Cray 1200:
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The Cray T3E-1200E system was
the first supercomputer to sustain 1
TF (1 trillion floating point operations
per second) on a real-world
application.
Modern Supercomputers
IBM Blackforrest
IBM Bluesky
IBM ASCIIWhite:
First commissioned in 2000 at a
cost of around $110 million .
Its a computer cluster based on
IBM's commercial RS/6000 SP
computer. 512 of these machines
were connected together for ASCI
White, with 16 processors per node
and 8,192 processors in total with 6
TBs of memory and 160 TBs of disk
storage.
It had a theoretical processing
speed of 7,226 GFs.
It weighed 106 tons, covered 9,920
square feet of floor space (equal to
two NBA basketball courts), and it
consumed 3 MW of electricity with a
further 3 MW needed for cooling, or
the power to run 1,000 homes.
What is the world’s greatest
supercomputer?
The world’s greatest
supercomputer: the human brain
Contains about 100 billion neurons,
each of which is connected to about
1000 of its neighbors through
synapses, for a total of 100 trillion
connections, all of which operate in
parallel.
If we estimate each connection to
be capable of 100 operations per
second then this gives a total of
10,000 TFs for the whole brain.
Note that this really is a rough
estimate. Others rate the brain at
between 100 and 100,000 TFs.
Approx. 2-4 lbs, powered by tasty
food items & requiring about 2,000
calories/day. It is at estimated to be
least 1,000 times more powerful
than AsciiWhite, such as a human’s
brain is to a mouse’s brain.
What should we conclude?
The world’s philosophy is that we are “goo-man”, that is we
came up out of the goo and evolved to the state that we are
in. Thus, the incredible complexity of our human brain is just
the result of random chance plus time, LOTS AND LOTS of
time…
The Psalmist tells us what the appropriate response should
be: Ps. 139:14, “I will give thanks to Thee, for I am fearfully
and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Thy works, And my
soul knows it very well.”
Could the human brain have
evolved to what it is now?
That is not a logical conclusion for many reasons!!!
1. Does not a sophisticated design clearly point to a sophisticated
designer?
2. Evolution from lower lifeforms would violate the third law of
thermodynamics: entropy.
3. There are many very complex systems in our bodies that have interdependencies with our brain.
4. There are many systems in our bodies that include irreducible complexity
Evidence of “Intelligent Design”
from the human eye
The interdependence of very
complex function systems in a
life form, or even in some cases
between life forms, in order for
organs to work properly and a
species to have certain
functionalities gives us evidence
that there had to be a creator.
The human eye is one good
example of this.
The clear ocular media and
structures of the human eye
(there are a huge number of very complex structures in
the human eye, all of which must work perfectly for us to
see- irreducible
complexity)
The optic nerve
Stereoscopic vision
What do evolutionists believe?
Evolutionists tell us that the human eye evolved
from a freckle (a mere light sensitive cell) that is
present on tiny wormlike creatures. Too numerous
to count successive species in the evolutionary
chain then had their light receptor (eye) evolve to a
higher functionality, until the human eye was
achieved.
Evidence of “Intelligent Design”
from our Sense of Hearing
Small sample of an audio signal
of say a symphony playing a
piece of music
The same wave broken down
Fourier breakdown of that
audio signal we are
listening to into its
respective sub
component frequencies,
all of which our human
ear is able to separate
and hear distinctly.
Stereoscopic hearing
Stereoscopic hearing
(The distance between our ears produces a phase shift of
all sound waves we hear and our brain interprets this to
give depth perception and direction in sounds we hear.)
The existence of DNA reveals
“Intelligent Design”
The complex nature of DNA
that is found in every living
cell shows the work of a
creator and intelligent
design.
Every species on the face of
the earth has a DNA
structure that is unique to
that creature.
What DNA contains:
Dave Hunt has described
the DNA structure in every
living cell as being, “a digital
database containing all of
the information needed to
create that species.”
One article I read said that
every single cell contains
enough DNA to form a
single thread that would be 7
ft. long.
What DNA contains:
Quote from Chuck Colson’s book, “How Now Shall We Live”:
“One of the most compelling arguments in favor of Creation is the presence
of immense amounts of information carried within cells in the form of
DNA. Random events cannot account for systems of storing and retrieving
useful information such as the complex system found in the living
cell. There is the equivalent of the information found in 30 volumes of the
Encyclopedia Britannica in just one cell's DNA. This information is used to
produce the complicated proteins necessary for its survival. Believing that
this occurred by chance is beyond foolish. There is no analogy good
enough to compare the impossible odds of this happening to human
experience. Nature can only produce low information things such as waves
and crystals. Some may look at crystals having high information content
because of their highly ordered structure, but it all comes from a simple
repeating pattern that requires very few instructions. In order to produce a
functioning strand of DNA, every single pair of amino acids would have to
be carefully copied in the correct order, and there are millions of pairs in a
single strand.”
Ps. 139:14, “I will give thanks to
Thee, for I am fearfully and
wonderfully made; Wonderful are
Thy works, And my soul knows it
very well.”