CREATION-VERIFIED
If the solar system was
brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life
on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an
accident too. If so, then all our
present thoughts are accidents- the accidental by-product of the movement of
atoms. And this holds for the thoughts
of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts are merely accidental
by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to
give me a correct account of all the other accidents.
Someone once estimated that the
number of random genetic factors involved in the evolution of a tapeworm from
an amoeba would be comparable to placing a monkey in a room with a typewriter
and allowing him to strike the keys at random until he accidentally produced a
perfectly spelled and perfectly punctuated typescript of Hamlet's soliloquy.
John MacArthur
Random noise could never
produce a Bach cantata. Random letters
floating in an ocean of alphabet soup will never spell out a chapter from Moby
Dick. When we hear the music, we know
there was a composer. When we read
coherent writing, we know there was an author.
How much more does this principle apply to the detailed information
contained in the DNA of every living creature?
John MacArthur
The Battle for the Beginning, 2001, P. 137.
Notice that expression,
"according to its kind," which appears twice in (Genesis 1) verse 21,
twice in verse 24, three times in verse 25, and once each in verses 11 and
12. It is used every time procreation
is mentioned in the Genesis account. It
underscores the very truth evolution denies: that when living creatures
reproduce, they can produce only creatures similar to themselves. Apes do not give birth to humans.
John MacArthur
The Battle for the Beginning, 2001.
Honest scientists must admit
that all of life had to be designed by an immensely intelligent mind. The more science looks at life, the more
complex it becomes. The human brain is
far more complex than NASA's space shuttle.
The brain alone is made up of at least six million functioning
parts. No one would imagine that the
space shuttle evolved by chance from nothing.
Why should we have such a view of life itself?
John MacArthur
The Battle for the Beginning, 2001, p. 138.
(The Bible) presents a most
plausible understanding of the universe and the existence of life. It presents a God who creates. That makes more sense than believing that
everything came out of nothing – that nobody times nothing equals all things –
which is essentially what the theory of evolution says. I have an easier time assuming that
everything was produced by someone. And
the Bible tells me who that someone is: God.
John MacArthur
You Can Trust the Bible, Moody Press, 1988, p. 8.
There may be some theoretical
chance that wind and rain erosion could produce the face of four presidents on
the side of a mountain, but it is still far more reasonable to assume that an
intelligent sculptor created Mount Rushmore.
Norman Geisler
The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations, ed. Mark
Water, 2000, Baker, p. 159.
The design of the
universe...is very magnificent and shouldn't be taken for granted. In fact, I believe that is why Einstein had
so little use for organized religion...He must have looked at what the
preachers said about God and felt that they were blaspheming. He had seen much more majesty then they had
ever imagined, and they were just not talking about the real thing. My guess is that he simply felt that
religions he'd run across did not have proper respect...for the author of the
universe.
Charles Misner