EVOLUTION - PART TWO

                             EVOLUTION -    PART TWO
 (copied from  Mark Cahill's      Book "One         heartbeat away.")


Many people don't believe that God created the universe because they can't imagine a Being that is eternal. 'Surely God must have a beginning,' they think. 'Where did He come from? Who made Him?'   If they don't have satisfactory answers, they refuse to believe.

I find it interesting that, before coming up with the "Big bang" theory, scientists believed that the earth was eternal. They couldn't explain how it came into being by itself, so the claimed  that  it simply always was. It had no beginning.

Scientists now proclaim that the universe began with a "big bang"  but that provides more questions than answers. There had to be something to go "bang". Where did the matter come from? What energy sauce caused the "bang?"  What was the catalyst that set the matter in motion to form the universe?  How could order come from disorder?

Think about that, if you think that matter existed for all eternity, and it had the ability to spontaneously start up the universe, and it was powerful enough and intelligent enough to put our immense universe together with order and precision and beauty - haven't you just defined God?

He is not as difficult to believe in as you may have thought.  You may not understand Him, but that is no reason to believe He does not exist.





I have added the note on the
left. It was not in Mark Cahill's book.




There is something in science called the Law of Cause an Effect.  This is an indisputable, universal law that says for every material effect there has to be a cause. There is nothing in the universe that does not have a cause behind its existence.

Your parents caused you, your grandparents caused your parents etc. but if you go further back there will not be an infinite regression. You must eventually reach a first cause, or an (uncaused) cause, which created the first cause.

Something just does not come out of nothing, all by itself, in other words, there had to be some causal agent that began the process and set our whole universe in motion.

The universe (an effect) cannot simply bring itself into being, it requires a cause that is outside itself.
If you placed all the pieces of a watch into a shoebox and shook it for a while, do you believe that it will shake into a functioning watch?

Of course not! There is no possible way for that to happen. And if it couldn't happen to something as relatively simple as a watch, it most certainly cannot happen by chance to our magnificently complex universe.

You may find it hard to believe that God could make everything out of nothing. But the alternative is that nothing turned itself into everything. Which one takes more faith to believe?


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