Dr. Barclay with Something to Think About - JUST SOME FACTS

JUST SOME FACTS

There are two basic theories about how all we see and experience came about. One, of course, is the theory of creation which essentially states that God created everything by His Word and for His purpose. The other theory promotes the idea that everything simply, and spontaneously, evolved over time, without guidance, into what we have today. Neither theory can be totally proven nor disproven but only one today is accepted by science and therefore taught to students. This in spite of the fact that the theory of evolution contradicts the Law of Thermodynamics which, in essence, states that the universe is, over time, evolving from a more organized to a more disorganized state and not spontaneously becoming more organized as evolution implies. There are also some interesting questions I have never seen answered.

If the universe is as old as science claims, how large was the sun at the beginning? If a few degrees in temperature can cause the changes that climate change can apparently bring, how did the earth develop considering how hot it must have been a few billion years ago?

If the universe developed from a “Big Bang” as we are told, where did the energy originate from? According to E=MC², Einstein’s Theory upon which atomic energy and power (as well as the atomic bomb) is based, the energy required to create the universe can be roughly approximated. In the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in WW2 only about 500-700 milligrams of matter was converted into energy. That relates to about one-third of the weight of a dime. If that little amount of matter can create energy equivalent to 15-20 thousand tons of TNT, how much energy would be required to create the universe with an estimated weight of 2.0x10⁴⁹ tons and where did that energy come from?

There are less complicated facts to consider as well. A comet’s vapour trail can be up to 10,000 miles long but that vapour condensed may take up a space of less than one cubic inch.*

The rings of Saturn are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.*

There are more insects in a square mile of rural land than there are humans on the earth.*

A single human chromosome contains about 20 billion bits of information, which if written in ordinary sized books, would require about 4 thousand volumes to contain it all.* And each human cell contains 46 chromosomes and many of these cells are so small that hundreds could fit in the head of a pin.

These are only a few examples of many pieces of information and questions that need to be explained as to how such could occur through spontaneous and random happenings. It seems to me that it requires a lot more faith to believe in the universe just happening by chance than to believe that:

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth… 

(Genesis 1:1) 

…and that everything in creation came about from there.

Just something more to think about. 

*From David Guzik’s Bible Study Guide on Colossians 1