long ago there was no world at all. There was no sun to shine, no stars to twinkle,
no moonbeams to play through the night shadows. But even then there was God;
for He has always been the same unchanging God.”
Certainly, it is difficult for us to conceive of a time when the physical things
with which we are now familiar simply did not exist. That there actually was a
time, “long, long ago when there was no world at all”. Yet, among the existing
theories with regard the origin of life, two of the three possible theories demand
that at one time there was nothing. The third theory does not really answer the
question of where we came from, but simply skirts the query to the side by
asserting without evidence, and, in fact, contrary to the evidence, that matter has
always existed. There was actually no beginning of the world at all, says the
theory. But the established scientific law of entropy states that matter is
persistently decaying and dying away, which is indicative of the fact that matter
will one day cease, and is therefore not eternal. It had to have had a beginning.
A second theory is that matter simply created itself ex nihilo – or out of
nothing. This is commonly referred to as the Big Bang theory. Despite the lack of
scientific evidence supporting it, many strangely subscribe to it. Again, the theory
does not really answer the question of the origin of life, but only complicates it.
Science deals only with that which can be measured, tested, or observed with the
five senses. When scientists support the Big Bang Theory – and that is all it is –
they infringe the very laws by which they as scientists are governed. What
scientists have actually measured, tested, or observed that which allegedly
occurred billions and billions of years ago? No, in order for them to believe the
Big Bang, they must venture outside of science, then postulate, imagine, and
make supposition, and ultimately must make a leap of faith as to whether or not
the theory is veritable.
The theory starts out with the notion that there were certain environmental
and chemical states in existence, a sort of primeval soup, and from this
transpired a colossal explosion, which eventually evolved into the world we now
know. But friends, where did that primeval soup come from? Who or what
caused that to exist? The Big Bang theory does not answer the question of life. It
merely begs more questions.
It’s a virtual truism that life can only come from life. Nothing cannot create
something. The very intimation that nothing can create – let alone create
something – is absurd on the face of it. Walk through the halls of the great
French Museum, The Louvre, and visit the flasks of the notable Louie Pasteur,
and from his remarkable experiments try to deduce that something can come
from nothing. He proved otherwise long ago, and is still doing so from the grave.
Since something had to create the world, and since matter has not always
existed and cannot create itself from nothing, the irresistible conclusion follows
that that which created the world was immaterial – non-matter. Something
supernatural and unique from that which exists in the material world had to have
been the source from which all life has sprung. When we turn to the first pages
of the Bible, and the very first sentence, we find that source identified. “In the
beginning, God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1).
