If There Be No God...

If there be no God, as proponents of Charles Darwin's evolution theories claim, what are the mathematical odds, that the entire universe, starting with the components inside the smallest living cell on upward in creation, would exhibit such complex, systemic and interdependent order without any external cause? In a mirror reflection of universal physical order, why do men so deeply crave spiritual order as well, even at the cost of liberty if necessary, to achieve it through institutions of law and government? The very existence of totalitarian dictatorships of one flavor or another throughout most countries of the world is testimony to the inability of men to live with the uncertainties of liberty. Men seem to have a deep-seated wish to control other men, all in the name of order, that order being to the advantage of the rulers notwithstanding.

Neither evolution nor creation have ever been observed in motion to occur; hence, neither model of life's origin is true science. Both ideas are speculative philosophies, based on partial and plausible evidences at best--nothing finally conclusive. Evolutionists claim an ever-upward march in the complexity of organisms over time, all the while saying too that genetic changes in them are random, and genetic mutations are usually harmful or even fatal to the organism in question. Creationists, for their part, have never produced any physical entity, detectable by one or more of the five human senses, reasonably discernable to be God--Bible claims of Jesus Christ being God in the flesh dwelling among us notwithstanding.

Creationists, in an apparent refutation of Charles Darwin's theory, have concocted a counter-theory of irreducible complexity. This theory states that entire living biological systems appeared abruptly on the scene, with no previous simpler stages of development, e.g. the Cambrian explosion. Every component now extant in the system, the theory goes, is sine qua non to the entire system's existence and function. This is similar to the idea expressed by the apostle Paul in the Bible, I Corinthians 12:12-26: can the ear say to the eye, "I have no need of thee"? Can the brain say to the heart, "I have no need of thee"? Every part of the entire body has a crucial role to play in the survival and success of the entire entity. Important, too, is not just the presence of all component parts, but their order of placement and location within the biological system as well. Is this not the signature of an outside intelligence responsible for the biological system's existence? Note well the high degree of systemic order and interdependence involved in the living organism.

How can life possibly arise from non-life, if there be no God? Transformation requires causation, and the Bible tells us God is before all things. Nothing can arise at any point in time ex nihilo, including the atoms and molecules comprising the alleged primordial slime pits from which evolutionists say early life arose, including those of the atmospheric gases providing the environmental milieu for this prehistoric event.

If there be no God, how otherwise does existence exist? If, with God, all things are possible, such possibility includes science to provide us with the answers by penetrating the alleged wall of separation between itself and religion.

-Lawrence K. Marsh