To quote the wisdom that my brother-in-law in England passed on to me: "Ian, you must use the brain that God gave you."
Well, that is what I am endeavoring to do in this present series on evolution. I invite all my readers to do the same.
Fred Hoyle, the famous physicist, brought this whole subject of creation down to a base-line of probability.
Let me pass on a quote from a lecture he gave in 1981.
"I say the chance of creation occurring by itself is of the same order of probability as a whirlwind blowing through a scrap yard and an airliner coming out fully assembled at the far end."
In other words "Nah! It couldn't happen"
Speaking on the same subject of probability Hoyle stated that chance was ruled out when odds went beyond 10 to the power 17. He then went on to say: "I would put the probability of life occurring by itself in an order of one in 10 to the power 100." Do your own math. No computer in the world could print that number.
In other words: "Nah. It couldn't happen by chance"
Then, using the brain that God has given us, we must conclude that He, Himself, put this whole wondrous puzzle together.
This being the case, we had better find out why He put us here and get on with the business of serving Him, because soon we will all be meeting Him face to face!
Jubilate
Ian
My brother-in-law, David Barrett has often said to me.
"Ian, God gave us brains. Surely He expects us to use them." David holds deep skepticism about the Genesis account of Creation.
I, in turn, have absolute confidence in the explanation given to us in the Bible as to how the earth was created.
What is absolutely preposterous is the idea that a huge explosion(Big Bang) eons ago could somehow organize itself without the aid of any superintending power and coalesce into the universe as we see it today.
All explosions BREAK things unless they are somehow organized and directed. (combustion engines being an example).
Then how is it, that the greatest explosion in history, could harness its own unimaginable energy and produce the life-forms that we see around us today? If we use the "brains that God has given us" we must conclude that the laws of physics and the laws of probability make such an event IMPOSSIBLE.
I was hearing from a friend who heard a man speak in an evolution/creation debate. He had his pants rolled up displaying his colorful socks made up of lots of pieces of wool. When asked where he got them, he replied " There was an explosion in a wool factory and the bits knitted themselves together and made me these socks. Do you like them?"
If you have a better answer as to how the Earth was formed, other than the one given in Genesis, I would like to hear about it.
Jubilate.
Ian
