The Odds of God

by Michael G. Mickey
(2-4-08)

Genesis 1:1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Isn't it amazing how many people today struggle to see the truth in the above, even as science marvels at the violent nature of the known universe?

A recent Fox News story indicated that astronomers have been astonished of late by the violence of the universe.

The following are excerpts from that story:

• The deeper astronomers gaze into the cosmos, the more they find it's a bizarre and violent universe.
• The research findings from this week's annual meeting of U.S. astronomers range from blue orphaned baby stars to menacing "rogue" black holes that roam our galaxy, devouring any planets unlucky enough to be within their limited reach.

The violent nature of the cosmos should cause us to wonder how it is that we are in existence on this planet where we purportedly arose from the primordial ooze as a result of life suddenly coming into existence on our planet by some unknown means - a puzzle which evolution proponents around the world have never been able to solve but thoroughly expect us to believe, even though what they believe happened is no more provably accurate than the believer's faith in the explanatory statement we find in Genesis 1:1.

Through faith and observation of the world around us, absorbing what science tells us is taking place beyond the planet we live on as well, we say with confidence that there is clear evidence of design present in our existence - a balance so finely-tuned that it could not and, in fact, did not occur outside of there being a God who made it all happen, exactly as recorded in the Word of God. Is that far-fetched on our part? Hardly, in my opinion and the opinion of many others too numerous to name who come from all walks of life and all levels of education.

The following is another excerpt from the aforementioned Fox News story. Referring to the roaming black holes that move about our galaxy swallowing everything in their path, the story reads:

• The odds of one of these black holes swallowing up Earth or the sun or wreaking other havoc is somewhere around 1 in 10 quadrillion in any given year.

Even in the chaotic and turbulent universe we live in where comets, asteroids, black holes, supernovas and the like take place regularly, the planet earth has somehow, taking Darwinian theory as truth for a moment to prove a point, dodged a plethora of potential hazards long enough for all sorts of ever-so-small transitional changes to occur in all life on the planet over the course of hundreds upon hundreds of millions of years bringing us to where life's 'evolution' stands today.

We somehow survived our chaotic universe's violent nature but scientists tell us that earth hasn't gone unscathed. Some of the threats to life's existence, at the very least, have occurred in earth's past wiping out practically everything from time to time but leaving enough life around for evolution to keep on working its magic, eventually bringing us to where we are today, the highly-evolved beings we are.

We're so evolved that we can roughly know how the galaxy was formed and how the magic of Darwinian evolution led to us being here today, a byproduct of us, the ever-evolving life forms that we are, being lucky enough to reside on a planet that hasn't been destroyed which is quite 'convenient' for lack of a better term.

"This is the glory of the universe," J. Craig Wheeler, president of the astronomy association mentioned in the Fox News story is quoted as saying.

This, I would counter, is the glory of God whose hands made the universe!

Psalm 19:1-3:

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

Wouldn't it be great if all mankind would listen to the celestial evangelists that appear before us night after night? Their 'words' are so revealing, as I believe the Fox News story bears witness to.

We survive but just barely!

Not only do we live in a violent universe, scientists readily admit, as we see in a LiveScience.com article, that if "Earth had been slightly smaller and less massive, life might never have gained a foothold."

The same could be said if the earth wasn't tilted just right to allow global distribution of the sun's light. Likewise, if the earth had been closer to the sun or farther from it, life wouldn't exist. The same could be said of our atmosphere's composition. It, by sheer chance, is just right to sustain life! Earth is not too hot, not too cold, too dark or too light. It's just right - by chance, of course.

According to the LiveScience.com article, "Earth has been on the edge of habitability from the beginning, and just eked by to allow life-friendly conditions." Amazing, isn't it?

When we look at all these issues reviewed in this commentary in total, shouldn't it raise the odds of God's Word being exactly what it claims to be in the eyes of the skeptical? For them to deny so, in my opinion, is irrational, especially when we add Bible prophecy into the mix which was history written in advance centuries ago, much of which has documentably come to pass with the rest of its fulfillment clearly coming into view in the world around us with startling accuracy!

Suffice to say this is not a time for anyone to be playing games where the future of one's eternal soul is concerned. This is a time for wisdom, not wishful thinking on the part of those whose sinful nature entices them to continue down the pathway to destruction, luring them to hold onto some scientific theory as fact when it will be of absolutely no benefit when the reality that is found in God's Word runs its course in full!

Darwinian Fairy Tales Aside

If you don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, it's high time to get to know Him. The odds of you someday bowing before Him are 100%, believe it or not. The only question left to be answered is how you will bow before Him.

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