I was thinking of posting a summary of why I think it is more logical to believe that God made everything, just the way He said he did, on one of the atheist forums, just to see what answers they came up with to life's big questions, but there is so much hate on some of those sites (why?) that I'm not sure if I should do it. This is the outline of the text I was going to use. I'd appreciate comments on whether I have made any factual errors in this:-
Creation v Evolution – Which is more feasible?
Since scientists have proven beyond reasonable doubt that the universe couldn’t be eternal, there are only two other possibilities – either it was created by an eternal force (usually referred to as God) or it created itself. Since there is no evidence that anything comes from nothing, then the former would seem to be more rational as at least it attributes the miracle of creation to a miracle giver, rather than some unknown random events.
There are so many problems with the theory of evolution and the naturalistic view of the origin of the universe. Here are just a few:-
There is no known process for the creation of the first stars, but several theories as to why they shouldn’t be there at all.
Galaxies exist right at the edge of the observable universe, where even stars should barely exist.
Many of the planets in our own solar system have features that can’t be explained by naturalistic ideas, such as the 7 degree offset of the planets relative to the sun.
The fossil record – it doesn’t support evolution as there should be millions of transitional forms, rather than just a handful of highly-contested examples. Even Darwin admitted that the fossil record didn’t support his theory, but he assumed that in time, further discoveries would confirm his theory. It hasn’t.
The origin of the matter and space itself – where did it come from? How do you know?
The origin of life – how could it have got started on its own from lifeless chemicals? No-one has come up with a plausible process for this. Problems include:-
Chirality of amino acids and proteins –ALL life has one-handed versions of these chemicals, but when the chemicals are generated outside of life, it always results in a racemate (an roughly even mix of right and left-handed molecules). Moreover, when something dies, the chemicals in the creature’s body start doing what they want to do naturally and return to a mixture of right and left-handed molecules. As one biologist once postulated, “What is death anyway? It’s the triumph of chemistry over biology.
The fact that life can’t begin in the presence of oxygen but it can’t continue without it.
The complexity of the living cell – the more that science learns about the way our bodies function, the more it becomes apparent that life is no freak accident. In addition, many of the cell functions are inter-dependent, rather like the old chicken and egg argument. It’s so complex that it is a mind-blowing testament to the power of the Creator, as is the majesty and awesome size of the universe. To state otherwise is to deny the truth.
The Bible in fact gives us a stark warning about what to expect when we abandon God’s truth for a lie. Paul’s letter to the Romans sums it up in no uncertain terms and before you read, ask yourself, how much of this in on the increase today? Here’s the quote:-
Rom 1:20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
Rom 1:21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Rom 1:22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
Rom 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
Rom 1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
Rom 1:25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
Rom 1:26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
Rom 1:27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Rom 1:28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
Rom 1:29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
Rom 1:30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
Rom 1:31 they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
When it comes to many of the similarities among molecules, the theory of evolution is not only weak, it has been falsified. That conclusion was expressed by Colin Patterson19 of the British Museum in an address to leading evolutionists which he gave at the American Museum of Natural History.
Patterson first lamented that his topic, creation and evolution, had been forced on him, and then he acknowledged that he had recently been entertaining non-evolutionary or even anti-evolutionary ideas. Why? Because, he said, after twenty years of research in evolution, he asked himself to name just one thing about evolution he knew for sure—and he couldn’t come up with anything! When he asked other leading evolutionists, the only thing anyone could come up with was that “convergence is everywhere.” Finally, Patterson said with dismay, he was forced to conclude that evolution is an “anti-theory” that generates “anti-knowledge”—a concept full of explanatory vocabulary that actually explains nothing and that even generates a false impression of what the facts are.
And there you have it. Do you really believe that the grass underfoot or the trees that blow in the wind are your [admittedly very-distant] relatives? Why not give God the glory instead, rather than trying to come up with fudge factors like Dark Matter and Dark Energy to prop up theories that are clearly wrong? All they tell us is that there is only about 4% of the universe that is understood. That’s not very much is it?
Creation v Evolution – Which is more feasible?
Since scientists have proven beyond reasonable doubt that the universe couldn’t be eternal, there are only two other possibilities – either it was created by an eternal force (usually referred to as God) or it created itself. Since there is no evidence that anything comes from nothing, then the former would seem to be more rational as at least it attributes the miracle of creation to a miracle giver, rather than some unknown random events.
There are so many problems with the theory of evolution and the naturalistic view of the origin of the universe. Here are just a few:-
There is no known process for the creation of the first stars, but several theories as to why they shouldn’t be there at all.
Galaxies exist right at the edge of the observable universe, where even stars should barely exist.
Many of the planets in our own solar system have features that can’t be explained by naturalistic ideas, such as the 7 degree offset of the planets relative to the sun.
The fossil record – it doesn’t support evolution as there should be millions of transitional forms, rather than just a handful of highly-contested examples. Even Darwin admitted that the fossil record didn’t support his theory, but he assumed that in time, further discoveries would confirm his theory. It hasn’t.
The origin of the matter and space itself – where did it come from? How do you know?
The origin of life – how could it have got started on its own from lifeless chemicals? No-one has come up with a plausible process for this. Problems include:-
Chirality of amino acids and proteins –ALL life has one-handed versions of these chemicals, but when the chemicals are generated outside of life, it always results in a racemate (an roughly even mix of right and left-handed molecules). Moreover, when something dies, the chemicals in the creature’s body start doing what they want to do naturally and return to a mixture of right and left-handed molecules. As one biologist once postulated, “What is death anyway? It’s the triumph of chemistry over biology.
The fact that life can’t begin in the presence of oxygen but it can’t continue without it.
The complexity of the living cell – the more that science learns about the way our bodies function, the more it becomes apparent that life is no freak accident. In addition, many of the cell functions are inter-dependent, rather like the old chicken and egg argument. It’s so complex that it is a mind-blowing testament to the power of the Creator, as is the majesty and awesome size of the universe. To state otherwise is to deny the truth.
The Bible in fact gives us a stark warning about what to expect when we abandon God’s truth for a lie. Paul’s letter to the Romans sums it up in no uncertain terms and before you read, ask yourself, how much of this in on the increase today? Here’s the quote:-
Rom 1:20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
Rom 1:21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Rom 1:22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
Rom 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
Rom 1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
Rom 1:25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
Rom 1:26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
Rom 1:27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Rom 1:28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
Rom 1:29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
Rom 1:30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
Rom 1:31 they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
When it comes to many of the similarities among molecules, the theory of evolution is not only weak, it has been falsified. That conclusion was expressed by Colin Patterson19 of the British Museum in an address to leading evolutionists which he gave at the American Museum of Natural History.
Patterson first lamented that his topic, creation and evolution, had been forced on him, and then he acknowledged that he had recently been entertaining non-evolutionary or even anti-evolutionary ideas. Why? Because, he said, after twenty years of research in evolution, he asked himself to name just one thing about evolution he knew for sure—and he couldn’t come up with anything! When he asked other leading evolutionists, the only thing anyone could come up with was that “convergence is everywhere.” Finally, Patterson said with dismay, he was forced to conclude that evolution is an “anti-theory” that generates “anti-knowledge”—a concept full of explanatory vocabulary that actually explains nothing and that even generates a false impression of what the facts are.
And there you have it. Do you really believe that the grass underfoot or the trees that blow in the wind are your [admittedly very-distant] relatives? Why not give God the glory instead, rather than trying to come up with fudge factors like Dark Matter and Dark Energy to prop up theories that are clearly wrong? All they tell us is that there is only about 4% of the universe that is understood. That’s not very much is it?
