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Why Everything Is the Way It Is
The prevailing view in today’s media, public schools, and surrounding
society is that the Bible isn’t true, no educated person believes in
God, and science is the key to life’s mysteries.
The lie of evolution
becomes so deeply implanted that deliverance is increasingly difficult.
The world rejects “God says” and accepts “science says”
as the ultimate truth. Few realize that science cannot answer the
important questions: why the universe and life exist, and why every
child knows the difference between right and wrong and believes that God
exists until taught “better.”
Few know what leading scientists admit.
Max Planck, father of Quantum Theory, declared:
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of
nature.
We don’t know what time, space, matter, or energy are—much
less the soul and spirit.
Why? cannot be addressed to the universe but only to its Creator.
One cannot reason with an earthquake or a hurricane. There is no
sympathy in “Nature.” Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger, one of the
architects of quantum mechanics, wrote:
The scientific picture of the real world around me is...ghastly silent about all that...really matters to us....It knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity....
Whence came I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question...for every one of us. Science has no answer to it. Science knows nothing of truth—only physical facts.
The scientific picture of the real world around me is...ghastly silent about all that...really matters to us....It knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity....
Whence came I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question...for every one of us. Science has no answer to it. Science knows nothing of truth—only physical facts.
Lee
Smolin, founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical
Physics in Waterloo, Canada, has said: “When a child asks, ‘What is the
world?’ we literally have nothing to tell....”
The question why? irritates atheists because the maker decides the
purpose for whatever is made. Without a Creator, neither the universe
nor life has any meaning. Without God, there is no reason for a rose bud
or for the dew that makes it shimmer in the morning sun —or for
anything else that we hold dear and enjoy, including human existence
itself.
Why is everything the way it is?
Why is everything the way it is?
Because God is the way He
is. But who is this God? Is he Zeus of the Greeks, Brahman of the
Hindus, Allah of Islam? Does it matter? Can’t we just acknowledge a
“higher power”? Higher than what? Power? No impersonal “power” could
create personal beings.
Nor could any “force” conceive and write in
words on DNA the directions for constructing and operating all living
things.
Atheism leads to numerous absurdities promoted by
otherwise intelligent people. Sir Francis Crick, Nobel laureate as
co-discoverer of the DNA language, begins his book, The Astonishing
Hypothesis:
You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions,
your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than
the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated
molecules.(
If this is the way the universe made us, why does Crick call it
Astonishing? He knows it is contrary to common sense. Yet to cling to
his atheism he must persist in such madness. However, most people would
firmly object to Crick’s description. Any thinking person knows he
weighs choices carefully, experiences joys, sorrows, hopes, ambitions,
fears, remorse, and regrets that are very real. But “science says” is a
holy mantra that causes every knee to bow—except those who will not
worship Baal (1 Ki 19:18). Biologist Richard Lewontin defiantly boasts:
We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some
of its constructs...for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.
Arch atheist and outspoken enemy of God, Richard Dawkins, claims that
we are merely vehicles through which “selfish genes” perpetuate
themselves. Yet he says genes have no foresight. They do not plan ahead.
Genes just are. He also states, “Much as we might wish to believe
otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species...are concepts
that simply do not make evolutionary sense.”
What an admission!
If evolution makes us incapable of true love, morals, or
ethics, why do we admire these qualities? How can we be so unnatural,
if we are the offspring of nature? Crick and Dawkins seem embarrassed
that many of the human qualities that everyone possesses could not have
been produced by evolution. We do not think and act like we should if we
were evolved from lower creatures.
The language component in the human gene “is identical in every
particular to [that in] a snail. [Only] the sequence of building blocks
is...different....”(7) The organizational genius behind DNA is
breathtaking. Using the same four letters for plants, animals, and man,
distinction is maintained not only between all kinds of living things
but between individuals of each kind.
This ingenious arrangement sets
bounds which make it impossible for DNA of one kind of life to change
into DNA of another kind.
Unquestionably, the DNA language, which is the basis of all life, did not and cannot evolve.
Unquestionably, the DNA language, which is the basis of all life, did not and cannot evolve.
The similarity between man’s DNA
and that of all animals is no more evidence that man evolved from
animals than is the similarity in human and plant DNA evidence that we
evolved from plants.
Evolution did not make us. God made us. But atheists cling to
evolution as an escape from accountability to God. Darwin’s theory was
his revenge against the god he could no longer believe in, the “god”
that had allowed his daughter, Annie, to die. Darwinism’s atheism
prevents science from knowing why things are as they are.
Without God
there is no answer to the why for anything. Yet here we are in a vast
and awesome universe and common sense cries out for a reason for its
existence and ours.
Why is everything the way it is?
Only because God, who
created it all, is the way He is. And why is God the way He is? Because,
unlike the capricious gods of non-Christian religions, God revealed
Himself to Moses thus: “I AM THAT I AM” (Ex 3:14). Consistently the
Bible’s God declares, “I am the LORD, I change not (Mal 3:6).” God is
outside of, and untouched by, the time and change so evident in our
world.
Dawkins says, “Genes just are.” No, genes are not self-existent and
eternal. They had to have a Maker. God alone has no maker but is the
Maker of all: self-existent, uncreated, unchanging, perfect, eternal,
omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. For God to be God, this is who
He must be.
Why is everything the way it is? Because God, who made
all, is the way He is. Of the newly created universe, we read:
“God saw
everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good” (Gn 1:31).
Why was everything “good”? Because God who made everything is good:
“There is none good but one, that is God” (Mt 19:17).
Even in its present corrupt state, much in the universe is still so beautiful that it thrills and moves us deeply because the God who made it is beautiful. David wrote: “I seek [to] dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord...” (Ps 27:4).
Even in its present corrupt state, much in the universe is still so beautiful that it thrills and moves us deeply because the God who made it is beautiful. David wrote: “I seek [to] dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord...” (Ps 27:4).
We need greater appreciation of God’s beauty!
Why is there some apparent “good” even in a Hitler or a Stalin? Nazi
extermination camp guards who had presided over the murder of Jews all
day could come home at night, kiss their wives, play with their
children, and enjoy listening to Wagner. This is because God, who is
good, made man in His image (Gn 1:26,27).
Although sin separated all
mankind from a holy God, a remnant of the image of God in which we were
created remains. Yet everything man touches, even love, is corrupted.
The man who persuades a woman to live with him without marriage tells her, “I love you.” But what he may mean (perhaps unknown even to him) could be, “I love myself, and I want you.” Only too late they may discover that this is what both of them mean by “love.”
Why the blight, rot, and death that taunts us everywhere? This, too, is because God is the way He is. Without God, whose character reveals and condemns it, there would be no sin; and without God’s law written in man’s conscience, there would be no knowledge of sin: “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things” (Is 45:7).
The man who persuades a woman to live with him without marriage tells her, “I love you.” But what he may mean (perhaps unknown even to him) could be, “I love myself, and I want you.” Only too late they may discover that this is what both of them mean by “love.”
Why the blight, rot, and death that taunts us everywhere? This, too, is because God is the way He is. Without God, whose character reveals and condemns it, there would be no sin; and without God’s law written in man’s conscience, there would be no knowledge of sin: “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things” (Is 45:7).
Atheists scoff, “How could a good God create this evil world? If God
can’t stop suffering and death, He is too weak to be God; and if He
could but doesn’t, He is a monster unworthy of our trust.” In fact, this
is not the world God made but the one we made in rebellion against Him.
Don’t blame God for what we have done to His once-perfect world!
Why did God allow man to rebel? That fact, too, is true
because “God is love.” We can neither receive and enjoy His love nor
love Him in return (or love one another) without the power of choice.
Love is from the heart. The ability to say “yes” means nothing without
the equal ability to say “no.” Tragically, Adam and Eve, chose to say
“no” to God and to follow Satan. The entire universe suffers as a
result: “The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together
until now...waiting...” (Rom 8:20-23).
Those who reject the truth reject God.
Sir David Attenborough, producer of decades of TV programs promoting evolution, argued:
The God you believe in...an all-merciful God created...a parasitic
worm...that can live in no other way than in an innocent child’s eyeball
[in West Africa]?
No, that is not the way the universe was at the beginning. And during
the millennial reign of Christ, the world will be restored to its
original condition, without animals devouring one another, without
microbes and parasites preying on other living things: “The wolf also
shall dwell with the lamb...the leopard shall lie down with the
kid...the calf and the young lion...together; and a little child shall
lead them....
The lion shall eat straw like the ox...the sucking child
shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his
hand on the cockatrice’ den...for the earth shall be full of the
knowledge of the LORD...” (Is 11:6-9).
In Christ alone, and His payment of the penalty for our sins upon the Cross, we find reconciliation to God and ultimate meaning and purpose. “All things were made by him...” (Jn 1:2). O mystery! The babe born in Bethlehem was and forever is “the mighty God, the everlasting Father” (Is 9:6).
In Christ alone, and His payment of the penalty for our sins upon the Cross, we find reconciliation to God and ultimate meaning and purpose. “All things were made by him...” (Jn 1:2). O mystery! The babe born in Bethlehem was and forever is “the mighty God, the everlasting Father” (Is 9:6).
Jesus said, “I and my Father are one” (Jn
10:30).
How can we understand and better know this infinite God? He made us for
Himself, and we naturally thirst for Him: “My soul thirsteth for God,
for the living God...” (Ps 42:2). Yet those in rebellion foolishly
attempt to quench that thirst in earthly possessions, pleasures, and
pride. It was to reveal God to man as the only One who could fulfill
that inner longing that Jesus, God’s “only begotten” Son (Jn 1:14; 3:16,
etc.) was born into this world.
The suffering that Christ endured at men’s hands revealed
the evil in all of our hearts. That suffering, which we inflicted upon
Him, could not save us. It was the punishment for our sins that Jesus
suffered on the Cross under God’s wrath against sin that made it
possible for all to be forgiven who believe on Him. It is because He
fully paid that penalty in our place that He can say, “If any man
thirst, let him come unto me, and drink” (Jn 7:37).
He who was born of a virgin and fully man is also fully God: “For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily (Col 2:9); who being the brightness of his [God the Father’s] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power...by himself purged our sins...” (Heb 1:3).
He who was born of a virgin and fully man is also fully God: “For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily (Col 2:9); who being the brightness of his [God the Father’s] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power...by himself purged our sins...” (Heb 1:3).
Paul declared, “Without controversy, great is the mystery of
godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen
of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world,
received up into glory” (1 Tm 3:16). Though now we only dimly understand
(“we see through a glass darkly [and] know in part”–1 Cor 13:12), we
have the glorious promise that the more we by faith look upon, meditate
upon, and understand our Lord Jesus Christ, the more clearly we see Him
and become like Him:
“But we all, with open [unveiled] face beholding as
in a glass [mirror] the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same
image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Cor
3:18).
The revelation of Christ, for which our souls thirst,
thrills us increasingly as we more clearly understand who He is in all
His fullness and what He accomplished to reconcile us to Himself.
Something of His glorious person is beautifully expressed in Graham
Kendrick’s hymn:
Meekness and majesty, manhood and deity,
In perfect harmony—the man who is God;
Lord of eternity, dwells in humanity,
Kneels in humility, and washes our feet. Father’s pure radiance, perfect in innocence,
In perfect harmony—the man who is God;
Lord of eternity, dwells in humanity,
Kneels in humility, and washes our feet. Father’s pure radiance, perfect in innocence,
Yet learns obedience to death on a cross;
Suffering to give us life,
Conquering through sacrifice—
And as they crucify, prays, “Father, forgive.” Wisdom unsearchable, God the invisible,
Suffering to give us life,
Conquering through sacrifice—
And as they crucify, prays, “Father, forgive.” Wisdom unsearchable, God the invisible,
Love indestructible in frailty appears;
Lord of infinity, stooping so tenderly
Lifts our humanity
To the heights of his throne. Oh, what a mystery—Meekness and majesty;
Bow down and worship,
For this is your God,
This is your God!
Lord of infinity, stooping so tenderly
Lifts our humanity
To the heights of his throne. Oh, what a mystery—Meekness and majesty;
Bow down and worship,
For this is your God,
This is your God!
Dave Hunt
1. Max Planck, “The Mystery of Our Being,” in Quantum Questions, ed. Ken Wilbur (Boston: New Science Library, 1984), 153.
2. Erwin Schrödinger, quoted in Quantum, 81.
3. Dennis Overbye, “Physics awaits new options as Standard Model idles,” Symmetry, vol 03, issue 06, August 06.
4. Francis Crick, The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul (New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1994), 3.
5. Richard Lewontin, “Billions and Billions of Demons, The New York Review, January 9, 1997, 31.
6. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (Oxford University Press, 30th anniversary edition, 2006), 2.
7. Dawkins, Selfish, 22.
8. M. Buchanan, “Wild, Wild Life,” Sydney Morning Herald, The Guide, March 24, 2003, 6.
2. Erwin Schrödinger, quoted in Quantum, 81.
3. Dennis Overbye, “Physics awaits new options as Standard Model idles,” Symmetry, vol 03, issue 06, August 06.
4. Francis Crick, The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul (New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1994), 3.
5. Richard Lewontin, “Billions and Billions of Demons, The New York Review, January 9, 1997, 31.
6. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (Oxford University Press, 30th anniversary edition, 2006), 2.
7. Dawkins, Selfish, 22.
8. M. Buchanan, “Wild, Wild Life,” Sydney Morning Herald, The Guide, March 24, 2003, 6.