The next time you’re outside and you have a minute, just look around.  Ask yourself the following question:  Did all of this just happen?  That might sound like a silly question, after all, things don’t “just happen.”  We know things happen because something causes them to happen.  Things don’t just appear, they grow from something smaller.  A tree doesn’t just appear, it grows from a seed or a nut.  But of course, that seed or nut did not just appear, it came from another tree . . . of the same kind.  And if we keep going back, we have to go back until we have the first tree . . . of its kind.  But where did that tree come from? 

Questions . . . About Beginnings

If there is a tree here today, and we know that trees come from other trees of the same kind.  So what if we try to trace that tree back all the way to the first tree.  But where did that tree come from?  And what about dolphins and lions and people and everything else that is alive.  Those all came from other living things . . . dolphins from dolphins, lions from lions, people from people.  And that’s really important. Can you imagine what would happen if a lion gave birth to a dolphin?  It wouldn’t survive long on the African plane.  But we still have the same problem, we have to get back to the first dolphin, the first lion, the first person.  And then that leads to “where did they come from?”

Science Offers Solutions

For some time now, science has offered solutions to our “beginnings” questions.  Most people believe those answers.  Approximately 65% of people in the United States believe in evolution, while 98% of scientists believe in evolution.  The Big Bang Theory is believed by 99.9% of scientists, while only about 20% of people in the United States being very confident in the Big Bang Theory, while about half believe in it to some extent.  But let’s look at some basic questions.

The Big Bang Theory

According to the Big Bang Theory, everything(all matter) started as one chuck of matter about the size of a car.  Where did that matter come from?  And then it just blew up.  Why did it blow up?  How could any life survive that cataclysmic of an explosion?  If stars are large balls of hydrogen that are effectively burning by turning hydrogen atoms into helium atoms(I apologize for the physics lesson), wouldn’t they have been doing the same thing before when they were in the car-sized ball of matter?  And why is almost everything in spheres after being blasted to bits?  Have you ever seen the results of an explosion?  They are all kinds of different shapes and sizes.  They look more like an asteroid field than a sphere of flame with several smaller spheres of solid matter circling around them.

Evolution

Then there’s evolution.  Life comes from life.  If that’s true, then how did anything survive that Big Bang blast?  How does something evolve from something without wings to something with wings?  I’m pretty sure that I could want to have wings for a long time and never grow them.  It isn’t a matter of desire or time.  I just don’t have wings.

How many times have you heard that a species evolved some defense over the course of millions of years, and were thereby able to survive?  If it took that long, clearly that species would have gone extinct in way less than millions of years.  And if they did survive, for millions of years, I guess they didn’t really need that “evolution.”  This isn’t Ph. D level biology . . .  it’s just common sense.

The same is true for people.  If different iterations of human beings evolved and the predecessors died off, why didn’t they die off way before they evolved?  And let’s remember, there would not be a lot of them as they were evolving.  Those evolving over millions of years would be a small number because they came from a small number.  If there were flourishing and surviving, there would be no need to evolve.  If they were few and struggling, they would quickly die out before the time necessary to evolve would elapse.  This is just common sense.

What About God?

The Bible presents a very different explanation of how all of this happened.  In Gen. 1, God speaks everything into existence.  But before that, there was just God.  And if you keep going back, there is the same thing, just God.  It’s similar to the issue with the car-sized piece of matter that the Big Bang Theory suggests everything comes from.  So either that piece of matter is eternal, or God is eternal.  Either way, one has to be, based on how all of this came into being.  One idea suggests that matter just always was here and it didn’t come from anywhere.  The other idea suggests that God is eternal, and He has just always existed.  An all-powerful God being self-existent seems to make more sense than an intimate piece of matter being eternal and self-existent.

God and Evolution

Evolution says that life came from not life.  That is not biologically possible, but the Bible says that life came from God.  Both statements are fantastical.  Life just coming from nothing makes no sense.  However, God speaking all life into existence just by speaking blows the mind.  We cannot fathom anything like that because we can’t do anything like that.  Of course, since God is so far greater than people are that we often have a difficult time wrapping our heads around what God can do, and has done.  We make things from other things.  God makes things from nothing.

More Things

The Bible says that things make the same things.  Lions make lions.  Dolphins make dolphins.  This is best for both lions and dolphins.  A lion born to a dolphin in the ocean wouldn’t last long!  It is structured.  It is ordered.  It self-replicates.  It makes sense.  Something making something else, even if only slightly different, doesn’t pass the sniff test.

Pulling Back

Take a step back, thought-process-wise, and look at life around you.  Do you really think all of this just happened?  There are an almost infinite number of ways that things could have gone off the tracks based on the Big Bang Theory and evolution.  There’s just no way it wouldn’t have failed.  When compared to the organization and order that the Bible shows God as utilizing, it only makes sense that the Biblical account is the only one that could possibly be correct.  Science likes to use a lot of big numbers, billions of years, with the idea that if you take long enough, anything can happen.  But that’s just it.  You can take all the time you want, and if you have a vacuum with no life in it, it doesn’t matter how long you wait, life will not just spontaneously appear in that vacuum.  The only way life will get in there is if you bring life to the vacuum.  And that is exactly what God did.  He took nothing and made everything.

You don’t even need the Bible to realize this.  You just have to look at the world/universe and ask yourself:  How did all of this happen?  Did it just happen . . . oops, or did someone make it happen?  We might not know who made it happen, but we can easily and logically conclude that someone made it happen(Rom. 1:20).  We can figure out that whoever made it happen did so in an organized and intentional manner.  We call also see that there is vast and amazing beauty in this world.  Get out there.  Look at it.  Enjoy it.  And thought it, see God’s handiwork, not some accidental lab experiment.