Introduction: It
is common thinking in the media and taught in many schools that
Evolution is right, and many people choose to think it is. The so called
experts state that the evidence makes Evolution the only sensible
choice. But how many of us have taken the time to stop and think about
things from the very beginning of time? Let’s do just that. Go back to
the absolute beginning. Because the starting point you adopt is vital
and will affect your whole journey through this issue.
Now I am not a great scientist or amazing intellect, but common
sense tells me that absolutely nothing comes about if there is nothing
to bring it about. For a start to happen there must be something there
to start it. Science itself will tell you that nothing just appears. And
this is the battle that many great minds are having even as you read
this. These great minds tell you categorically there is no God, even
with a little smirk when saying it, but they have no real idea where
everything started. Of course they keep coming up with new theories. I
believe one such theory is that it was gases that combined to cause the
Big Bang. The trouble with this theory is “where did the gases come
from?” Gases have to come from something. What was it? And then where
did that come from? And if you say that it just appeared then science
would mock you because nothing just appears, does it? And so it goes on
until we have to come to the ultimate decision that something has
existed for ever.
And right there is where both sides of the debate, Evolutionists and
Creationists have to make a choice. Reiterating the scientific fact that
nothing, absolutely nothing can come out of absolutely nothing, in other
words nothing can just appear or happen, we have no other option than to
believe that something did exist for ever. And if you are really serious
about working this out and not just using the evolution theory as a
convenient smokescreen, lets look at the two main choices.
1. Evolutionists have not yet worked out exactly what it was, but
let’s take for an example that it was a tiny organism or something even
smaller that started everything.
2. Or the Bible’s teaching that a huge enormous God who is from
eternity to eternity, who lives outside of our reality, created the
heavens and the earth, and then in six days, took the formless, empty,
dark world and gave it a timescale and light and life, using day and
night as a measure for one day.
So if you are still following me, we all have a choice exactly
what to believe. Do we believe in the biggest being in the universe or
do we believe in the smallest? I personally have a 100% faith in God,
but if you honestly believe that our amazing world and all of its
incredible facets, including the amazing human race, just happened,
because possibly some tiny organism happened to be floating around for
ever and ever, then your faith outdoes mine by miles.
Of course both sides have to ask this question. Where did either
that tiny organism or this massive God come from?
The Bible says Almighty God was and is and is to come. From eternity to
eternity. I don’t pretend to understand it, but I do believe it.
The tiny organism (or whatever) has got some of the greatest
intellectual minds on earth speaking on its behalf.
There is another theory used to explain the creation of the
Universe. It is called the Theory of Intelligent Design
where people believe that a greater force started it all but don’t
really recognise God as that force. I have to ask a question here. Why
would people be so committed to some faceless force of which nothing is
known when there is so much information about an Almighty God?
One more point: What about entropy? In the Second Law of
Thermodynamics, we are told that the universe is heading slowly towards
chaos. This is what entropy means, but this idea actually flies in the
face of the Theory of Evolution, by stating that order descends to
chaos, where Evolution is based on chaos evolving to order.
In summing up: The Bible shows clearly that Almighty God created
the earth and it lay in darkness and formless until he went to work on
it. (It could have lain in that darkness for a long long time, but when
God started shaping his creation it took him 6 actual days). Then he
looked and saw that it was good. So God brought a perfect world out of
nothing and he was pleased with his creation. The Bible also says that
the pinnacle of his creation was humans and that they were made in his
image. This makes us so important in the scheme of things. When you see
the amazing pictures on TV of the wonders and beauty of creation you can
see why God was so pleased. But God was infatuated with us. The world
was made for us, not us for the world. If you want to reject a loving
God that choice is of course yours. If you would rather think of
yourself as just a collection of atoms existing for a few years before
you die and get re-cycled, be my guest. But can I ask you to think of
this. Why are you so determined to believe that Almighty God had nothing
to do with your existence? |