True Convictions

It all begins with creation. Science teaches it all happened during the “Big Bang”, a concept first postulated by Russian American physicist George Gamow in 1948. The basic teaching is that all matter was compressed into a spot that suddenly exploded. That might make for a great science fiction movie, but it doesn’t begin to answer the question of creation. Suppose scientists were able to prove the Big Bang really did happen. They still haven’t answered anything. If, as they teach, all matter was compressed in a single spot, they’re still left with matter that appeared from nowhere. Where did the spot come from? Whether it’s compressed or expanded, physics teaches that matter cannot be created or destroyed, so basically, according to the Big Bang theory, everything that is today, always has been. But where did it came from? And for that matter, what did it expand into? If nothing existed, then I guess something that came from nowhere expanded into nothing. Somehow something doesn’t fit.

And once we establish where matter came from, we’re still faced with the biggest question of them all. Where did life come from? Did a particle of dust wake up one morning and decide to start breathing? As much as science claims to “know” they still haven’t answered a single one of the basic questions concerning creation. They’ve just worded it all to sound “scientific”. In much the same way a snake oil salesman could explain the “logic” behind drinking the essence of a snake that allowed it to survive the hot desert sun, science manages to sandwich what few facts it has with lofty sounding words that draw no real conclusions. If we were to take a close look at the scientific account of how it all started, the way they’d like us to believe it, it would look something like this:

In the beginning there was nothing. No matter, no space, even time had not yet begun. Then suddenly, all matter as we now know it appeared. It wasn’t such an amazing event, however, when you consider it all appeared in a tiny dot instead of a universe full of planets. This dot appeared within space that didn’t formerly exist, and the clock of time magically started ticking at exactly that same instant. Suddenly some mysterious cosmic energy source forced the dot to explode, and the space that never was became filled with cosmic dust. This was a truly amazing moment when you consider that according to physics energy cannot be created or destroyed, but that’s a whole other story. Contrary to our currently accepted laws of physics, this dust storm magically evolved from total, uncontrollable chaos into the incredibly complex, orderly patterns that were to maintain its existence for billions of years. This dust accumulated into planets, stars and asteroids. On one of the planets, life magically appeared for no reason, out of nowhere and sparked action in the body of a single celled amoebae. Somehow it seems to take much more faith to believe that story than it does to believe there’s a God somewhere that spoke it all into existence.