Does God exist? Was the universe created or did it somehow form all on its own?
Every debate over these two questions that I have ever witnessed has always left me scratching my head, wondering what on earth the “God doesn’t exist” and “Big bang” theorists base their beliefs upon. Regardless of which side of the debate you happen to be on, your beliefs must require at least some amount of ”faith in things unseen”. Allow me to explain, and I’ll begin with a look at the “faith” of those who believe that there is no God…
Non-believers hold fast to the notion that the Genesis account of creation is pure fiction. Instead, they believe that the universe and everything in it was created when a giant ball of matter exploded, flinging gases and bits and pieces of rocks and metals out into the void where they eventually coalesced due to gravitational attraction into stars, planets and galaxies.
They further believe that the earth just happened to end up by pure chance at exactly the right distance from one of those stars (our sun) to allow the “creation and evolution of life”. According to the prevailing theory, this process began with single-cell organisms forming from the various chemicals found in some “primordial soup”. These single-cell organisms eventually “evolved” into slightly more complex organisms – which eventually evolved into slightly more complex organisms… and this process allegedly occurred over millions of years until man finally evolved from the apes.
Now, let’s take a look at the problems with these theories…
First of all, if all of the matter that is currently found in the universe began as one giant ball of “stuff”, the density of that ball would have surely been so great that it would have been nothing but a gigantic “black hole”. As any 4th grade science student can tell you, a black hole is an object that is so massive that its gravity prevents anything and everything from escaping, including light – hence the name. Therefore, by definition, it would have been literally impossible for this massive object to explode and spew anything at all out into the void. With an object of that mass, there could have been no explosion strong enough to cause matter to break free of the strongest gravitational pull the universe has ever known.
But let’s assume for a moment that the “big bang” somehow ignored the law of gravity and happened anyway. It would still mean that the process of evolution would have to have started with the formation of that magical single-cell organism in the middle of that primordial soup. Never mind the fact that scientists have been trying to “create life” in a laboratory setting for decades now, and with absolutely no success. Regardless of the chemicals mixed, the temperatures used and the electric stimulation applied, with all of their knowledge and space-age equipment, not one single living organism has ever been created from scratch by human scientists. And yet they actually believe that the process happened by pure chance, all on its own? Now that’s one huge leap of faith!
But let’s assume for a moment that it did…
There is absolutely zero hard evidence that any organism has ever evolved into another species. All we have are fossil records which prove that millions of different species of animal life have existed in various places at various times since the world began, but in all the millennia of human existence no person has ever witnessed the evolution of even one species into another. And with thousands of years of observing millions of organisms, you would think that someone along the way would have witnessed such an apparently frequent occurrence.
Now let’s take a look at creation from the point of view of a believer…
The rest of us believe that an all-powerful being – God – created the universe and everything in it, and the process didn’t take millions of years as the scientists believe. In fact, it took a mere six days! How is that possible you say? Because all God had to do was speak, and something was created or altered to suit his desires. Hard to believe you say? Actually, if you think about it with an open mind, believing in a Creator requires much less of a leap of faith than not believing in one. The existence of a Creator explains everything that cannot be explained – or is simply impossible under the laws of physics and nature - without one.
After all, where did that gigantic ball of matter that forms the basis of the “big bang” theory come from in the first place? Had it always existed, and all of a sudden it decided to blow up? Was it “created”? The answer is neither. If you understand and believe in the laws of physics (and surely every good scientist must), if that big ball of matter ever existed it would still be there – and the universe as we know it wouldn’t.
On the other hand, by definition an all-powerful God can do anything He wishes, including create the laws of nature and physics – and then “break” them at His pleasure. Neither man nor nature itself holds the power to break those “laws”, therefore the creation of the universe happened just as described in Genesis. To believe otherwise would literally require one to believe in the impossible.
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” –Genesis 1:1