Consider
this.
By Ken Raggio
c.2004
1.
In the empty darkness of the eternal, pre-universal past, infinite
spirit DID NOT exist.
2.
In the empty darkness of the eternal, pre-universal past, infinite
spirit DID exist.
If you chose to believe the first
statement, that spirit DID NOT exist, you are an atheist. You choose to
believe that the universe came into existence without any logic, order
or controlling influence.
There are plenty of
atheists in the world today.
I was eating breakfast
at about 6:30 one morning in a hotel restaurant in Belize City, in
Central America. An elderly gentleman at the next table struck up a
conversation. Within minutes, he had invited himself to my table.
Charles was a feisty 83 years old, and I quickly learned that he had
flown bomber missions in World War Two.
Charles
wasted no time telling how he was orphaned as a child, enlisted in the
military at seventeen, went to Harvard on a government scholarship, and
eventually earned three Masters Degrees and married a beautiful woman
almost twenty years his junior. As a horticulturalist and chemist,
Charles completely dismissed the possibility of a higher power. I asked
him if he had ever read the Bible, and he arrogantly informed me that
he did not read fiction!
We engaged in a
vigorous conversation for nearly an hour. I looked for an opening in
his thought processes. He had effectively built a wall of arguments
against any notion of God. Not that any of them had any serious logic
to them. He had bitter defense mechanisms dating back to the loss of
his parents and crusty wisecracks as old as his painful war
experiences. Not a smidgen of thoughtful consideration of worthy truths
and not a hint of spiritual perception anywhere.
I
shook hands with Charles and wished him well. But in my heart, I wished
I had the time to sit with him for the day, and press him hard to
explain some things to me.
If there is no God, then
everything we see and know in the universe is entirely:
·
Arbitrary
· Random
·
Accidental
Typically, an atheist believes that it
makes far more sense to believe that despite incredible odds to the
contrary, everything evolved mindlessly into its present form. On the
surface, the mathematical possibilities may appear to justify such an
argument.
Let’s look at that argument for
a few moments.
In 1996, the news media reported
that there was life on Mars three million years ago. Not plant or
animal life, but a single cell smaller than bacteria. They theorized
that it came to earth on a potato-sized rock.
NASA
Administrator Dan Goldin claimed that tiny fossils of Martian organisms
were present in a meteorite they believe landed in Antarctica 13,000
years ago. A golf-ball-sized chunk of the meteorite, labeled ALH84001,
was displayed in a clear plastic case at a national news conference.
For
two years, scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration and Stanford University examined the 4.2 pound meteorite
for traces of organic molecules and carbon compounds - the building
blocks of life on earth. They believed the rock formed under the Mars'
surface about 4.5 billion years ago.
Between 3.6
billion and 4 billion years ago, water penetrated fractures in the rock
and deposited carbonate materials (they say). They believe living
organisms may have been involved in the formation of the carbonate, and
some of the microscopic organisms may have fossilized in the rock.
Inside microscopic globs of carbonate, they found polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons - or PAHs - mineral compounds associated with microscopic
organisms and possible microscopic fossils.
Photographs
show the carbonate as orange-brown in color with black and white rims.
“Compounds in these rims are very similar to those produced
on earth by bacteria. The simplest explanation is that these are
products of micro-organisms on Mars,” Kathie Thomas-Keprta of
Lockheed-Martin said at the briefing.
Even members
of the investigative team were skeptical. Stanford University's Richard
Zare noted that PAHs are present on earth in non-organic substances
such as diesel exhaust, candle soot or even charred meat. It is
possible that these substances originated on earth.
At issue,
in my opinion, is the amazing public zeal to throw out the Biblical
concepts of divine creation to believe anything else.
These
announcements unleashed a fury of conjectures. For instance, the UFO
cults had a field day with this. They were crying, “I told
you so!” and resurrecting the
“Martian-invasion” images of Orson
Welles’ “War of the Worlds” infamy.
Others
dared to go so far as to suggest that life on earth actually originated
on Mars, and was imported to this planet.
If that
is true, then we are being asked to believe that life could first of
all be miraculously catapulted with rocket force out of Mar's gravitational field. We must then believe that it can survive a
150,000,000 mile journey through space, plunge into the earth's
atmosphere at several thousand miles per hour, experience white-hot
friction of hundreds of degrees, impact in snowy ices of Antarctica for
centuries, yet still evolve into every plant, animal and human species
on earth!
These same people will not believe that
God parted the Red Sea.
The American public is being
bamboozled in a most sophisticated way. NASA’s hype in this
outrageous fraud was useful for soliciting billions of dollars from
Congress to continue to explore Mars.
Meanwhile, a
national (and global) denial of the creation of the universe by a
living God is being perpetrated. Then President Clinton said, "I am
determined that the American space program will put its full
intellectual power and technological prowess behind the search for
further evidence of life on Mars. If this discovery is confirmed, it will surely be one of the most stunning insights into our universe that
science has ever uncovered.” (Emphasis mine) Note that it was
being called evidence before it was confirmed.
The
late Carl Sagan, renowned atheist scientist and Professor at Cornell
University and author of ‘Cosmos’, enthusiastically
agreed, while admitting that the organic chemicals reported in the
study “are not evidence of life.”
Not
evidence? So, what’s the point?
There is a
major socio-political coup being orchestrated by the atheistic powers
that be. One crowd says in effect that Martians are real, while another
group insinuates we are descended from Martians! I should remind you
that Darwin's theories of evolution have never yet been proven!
We
have far more reason to believe Moses' account of creation than reasons
NASA will ever have to support its theories. From the time of Moses
unto this day, there are thousands of years of archaeological and
historical evidences supporting the Biblical version of world history.
According
to Hubert P. Yockey, author of “Information Theory and
Molecular Biology”, “Proposals by both reduction
mechanists and dialectical materialists for the required time to
generate a “primeval soup” of prebiotic carbon
compounds on a “suitable” planet vary from 100
million years to a billion.”
What does
that mean? Scientists admit that it would take between one-hundred
million years and one billion years in an IDEAL environment just to
produce the basic building blocks of higher life forms.
I
am no statistician, nor am I a molecular biologist, but I did learn in
junior high school the fantastic power of exponential mathematics.
Every variable in an equation increases the possibilities of resolution
by one exponent.
In other words, if a problem has
one variable, that is X1. If it has two
variables, the possibilities
are squared, or X2. Three possibilities,
increase to an exponent of 3,
or X3. If a Chevrolet has a thousand parts, what
are the odds it will
still be running in a million years?
Now if it takes
100 million years to produce the building block of life (X1),
and we
start adding all the other variables, let’s see where time
goes. I will suggest some of the simplest variables as they come to
mind:
1. The
environment on the earth must remain consistent to support life without
interruption for 100 million to 1 billion years.
2.
Those primitive life forms must be replicated into equivalent and
matching male and
female forms of the same species. That is a HUGE (actually a multiple)
variable.
3.
Both male and female forms must survive in the same habitat for
hundreds of millions of years
to evolve into the human form we know today.
4.
Every generation must be healthy, mature and capable of
reproduction AND find a suitable mate.
5.
Every generation must survive all the harshest environmental
challenges, sicknesses, diseases, hostile environmental factors,
dangerous beasts, fires, storms, violence, drought, famine, ice ages,
et cetera, that can possibly occur
over a period of billions and billions of years.
6.
Mutations must occur with certain regularity, consistency and
reproductive success to forward the so-called evolution of the species.
7.
8.9.10. Just add your own variables. There are easily thousands.
Yet
today,
we have several thousand years worth of human corpses that reflect
virtually no profound changes from ancient man to modern man.
We
still have absolutely NO evidence of missing links between humans and monkeys. Should we not be able to see living specimens of EVERY stage of evolution? If not, why not? The half-man/half-ape is not the only missing link. There are countless other missing links down the hypothetical line of "evolving" ancestors.
How many eons of time must transpire for a carbon molecule to create an amoeba, then mutate healthily into a fish, mutate healthily into a frog, mutate healthily into a monkey, mutate healthily into a man having almost 100 TRILLION living cells all working in perfect symphony.
Give me a break.
Let me go ahead and bottom-line it. If
you put 100 million years to an exponent of even TEN legitimate
variables, you are talking about 100 million years times 100 million
years times 100 million years times 100 million years times 100 million
years times 100 million years times 100 million years times 100 million
years times 100 million years times 100 million years.
OK.
What does that come out to? So long a time that only a brain-damaged
moron could believe it actually happened that way!
And
I suggest the exponential factor is far more than TEN! Why not TEN
BILLION variables, with an exponent of ten billion? That
isn’t altogether illogical! How much is a hundred million
with an exponent of ten billion?
So what is the
alternative possibility to the theory of evolution?
GOD MADE IT! That’s what!
Is
THAT harder to believe than to believe that mankind has been evolving for jillions and jillion of years? I think not!
While
NASA officials flaunt these outrageous interplanetary rocks, why doesn't someone wave some photos of
Amazingly, nobody
wants to believe these
stories, because they come from the Bible, but they can believe that
mankind evolved from absolute ZERO to a ROCKET SCIENTIST in a few
billion years. Not a chance in trillions.
The same
people who deny the God of miracles nevertheless believe in millions of
random accidents far more fantastic than any miracle in the Bible! It
is the fool who says in his heart “there is no God.”
Look at it this way:
This infinitely brilliant, infinitely powerful God created this infinitely wonderful universe and scooped into the dust of the earth and created this infinitely amazing creature called man. Then man looked up into His face and said, “I vehemently deny that you exist.”
THAT is what men ARE doing today. In the face of all the unspeakable miracles of creations, they bitterly insult their Creator.
Go figure.
Nobody has yet answered the biggest question of them all. How do you get SOMETHING from NOTHING?
In the end, the biggest question is NOT "how did LIFE begin?" but "how did MATTER begin?"
Furthermore, in the formation of the entire universe, SOMETHING had to be the FIRST thing to exist, BEFORE everything else.
I say that GOD existed before the very first ATOM. SPIRIT existed before MATTER. That is my final answer.
In
the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And the spirit of
God was the spirit of Life. God created all MATTER. God created all LIFE. There you have it.
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