“In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.” So starts the Bible in Genesis 1:1. The preceding verses give an account of how God did it in six days. Yet, we have many people believe that the modern world is a result of billions of years of evolution. How are we to counteract it? Did we get here by chance after billions of years of accidental mutations? Or is there a God?
A Russian scientist came to America and gave a talk in Pensacola, FL. In it, he stated, “Either there is a God or there isn’t. Both possibilities are frightening.” Those are the only two options. Why are those such frightening possibilities? If there is a God, we had better find out who He is, what He wants, and do what He says. If we don’t do what He says, then we’re liable to be punished. If there is no God, then we’re in trouble because we’re hurtling around the sun at 63,000 miles per hour and no one is in charge.
The Bible clearly states that God created the entire universe in six literal 24-hour days. Most Christians believe this. However, there are a good number of Christians that believe that God used evolutionism to create the world. God did not use evolutionism to create the world. A God that has to rely on this method is NOT the kind, loving, just God portrayed in the Bible. A god that has to use evolution is not all powerful and all knowing and can’t get his creation right the first time. David Hull said, “What kind of God can one infer from the sort of phenomena epitomized by the species on Darwin’s Galapagos Islands? The evolutionary process is rife with happenstance, contingency, incredible waste, death, pain and horror… The God of the Galapagos is careless, wasteful, indifferent, almost diabolical. He is certainly not the sort of God to whom anyone would be inclined to pray.” God did not use evolution to create the world.
What if you don’t believe in God? How do you convince someone there is a God? Creation is proof of a creator. I love to build with LEGOs in my spare time. If I see a LEGO plane on the floor in our house, I know that someone physically put the pieces in order on purpose. That plane did not come together by itself when someone dumped out a container of pieces on the floor. Creation proves a creator. A painting is proof of a painter.
Let me use another example. Let’s say you put a frog in a blender and put it on puree. In just a matter of seconds, you will have “frog nog.” I have a challenge for you: put the frog back together. You have all the ingredients to make the frog, and your job is to reassemble it. I will let you use as much energy you need. Nuke it, zap it, microwave it, and do whatever you want with it. Will you ever rebuild the frog? No. What if you do it for billions and billions of years? What if you do it to all eternity? No. You will never reassemble the frog.
Let’s suppose for a moment you did somehow reassemble the frog. Now you must bring it to life. How are you going to do that? Life is proof of God because its origin is something that cannot be explained through natural processes.
Why would someone not believe in God? 2 Peter 3:3 answers that question: “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts.” One reason someone would not want to believe in God is because that person has a specific lust that they are unwilling to give up. If there is no God, then there are no absolute morals. There is no absolute right and wrong.
I have personally asked evolutionists, and have heard them be asked, the question, “If evolution is true, how do you decide right and wrong.” They generally give three answers: “That question is nonsensical,” “‘Right’ is dependent on what is best for the population,” or “I decide for myself what is right or wrong.”
The first answer is just not really answering the question. The question is completely logical, because like I said, if there is no absolute authority there is no absolute morality and no absolute laws of right and wrong. The second and third answers are very dangerous because they are subjective to opinion. If someone has extreme beliefs that he is willing to carry out, if there is no God, he would be doing right in carrying out his beliefs. For example, Hitler believed that he was doing the best for humanity by ridding it of the inferior people.
There is a God. Whether you like it or not there He is real, and He shall come to judge His creation. 2 Peter 3 sums it up very well, “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?”
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