Information in our current world is growing in leaps and bounds. We use this information to discover how and why things in the world around us work. We capture satellite imagery for use in studying the weather and its patterns and we attempt to use that data to forecast what the weather might be like across the country. Scientists build models of buildings and bridges and test them to observe how they react to different scenarios. We continue to build more and more complex satellites and probes to explore planets and space.
All of this information that is gathered and that we generate comes directly from observations of the world and universe around us. We can observe and analyze cause and effect. For example, we know that if I drive my car into a telephone pole at 35 miles an hour, something is going to break. We may not know exactly how much damage is going to occur or how long the power is going to be out at my house, but some damage will occur. We know this because we have seen and observed what happens when vehicles impact stationary objects. Cause and effect. This is one of the things that sets us apart from animals. God has given us the ability to reason, to investigate and to study and to make decisions. You do not see gorillas or monkeys using a telescope to study the stars and their movements. Humans alone have been given the ability to observe and collect data.
Normally conclusions that scientists make are based on observable, factual data. We rely on this type of information to ensure that medications we take are safe, that the vehicles we drive will somewhat protect us in that 35 mile an hour crash into a telephone pole and that buildings and bridges will be safe to use. But what happens when scientists step away from observations and begin to extrapolate data. What happens when preconceived notions take over and these ideas are pushed upon the public? You get ideas like the big bang theory and evolution. These concepts are NOT observable in the world today. You cannot observe a living creature reproduce and then that living creature reproduce then follow this for several generations and suddenly you’ve changed a raccoon into a cat. It does not happen that way. Over the course of hundreds of years, we have not observed this take place (Interestingly, we have observed man’s ideas and concepts change of how life as we know it came to exist on earth.)
Let’s take a closer look at the big bang theory for the origin of the universe and a little of the logic of why some scientists believe this. In the past century man has gained the ability to take fairly precise measurements of the movements of different stars. Now most of these measurements are based on the Doppler effect shifting the color spectrum of these stars. This allows scientists to assume that a star is moving away or towards us with some accuracy. Using this technique, it was found that more stars have a red shift in their color spectrum, meaning that they are moving away from us. By observing this data, we can make this type of conclusion about what is happening to the universe today. But this is where scientists get themselves into trouble. They use this data that has been recorded over the past, maybe 100 years and extrapolate. More erroneous assumptions are made and suddenly we have gone from observing that stars are moving away from each other to assuming that a massive explosion, millions of years ago is what drove them apart. I could just as easily make the assumption that a massive explosion is what caused me to drive into a telephone pole at 35 miles an hour.
Now that we have spent some time looking at man’s opinion of how the earth was formed, let’s take a look and see what God has to say about it.
Gen 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. (2)The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. (3) And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. (4) And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. (5) God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. (6) And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” (7) And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. (8) And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day. (9) And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. (10) God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. (11) And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. (12) The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. (13) And there was evening and there was morning, the third day. (14) And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, (15) and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. (16) And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. (17) And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, (18) to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. (19) And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day. (20) And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” (21) So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. (22) And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” (23) And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day. (24) And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. (25) And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. (26) Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” (27) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (28) And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (29) And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. (30) And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. (31) And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Gen 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. (2) And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.
There it is. Plain and simple. The first seven days of the earth and universe. God spoke and it was done. Giving the earth its form, creating light and darkness, creating the heavens populating this earth with plants, animals and sea life. All of this was done for man, the one being that was created in God’s own image. He set us on this earth with everything we need to support life until the judgement day.
So let’s compare the two concepts for how the earth was formed. The big bang theory uses a small amount of information gathered over the last century and comes to the conclusion that something caused a big bang (this something has never been identified because it is unobservable), that caused gases to be spread through the galaxy, eventually forming stars, and eventually forming planets, and eventually one of them landed at just the right distance from the sun so that life could begin by another unknown and unobservable event, and eventually that life grew and developed into humans who eventually gained the technical abilities to observe the universe. That’s option 1. Option 2 is that our eternal omnipotent God set these things in order by creating the earth and universe in its current state and setting Man on the earth to follow his will. Do not let others fool you into thinking that belief in God is somehow less intelligent than belief in some manmade theory like the big bang theory. The only logical option is belief in God and his word.
If you have not believed on God and become a Christian, now is the time. You need to believe (Rom 10:17), repent (Acts 2:38), confess (Rom 10:9) and be baptized (Gal 3:27.) After that we need to live faithfully (2 Tim 4:7,8).
—Daniel Wimpee