You Gotta Have Faith

Everyone believes in something. Even those who say they are athiests or agnostics believe in something. Perhaps they believe in the theory of evolution or the "big bang" theory (emphasis on the word, theory). It's interesting that someone can put their faith in things that hundreds of years after being "discovered" can still only be called theories, yet they couldn't fathom putting their faith in God.

God has given everyone a measure of faith. That's why scientists, scholars, researchers, believers and non-believers are forever searching for a higher power or deeper meaning to life. It's not a question of if you are a person of faith, but rather what or who you put your faith in. Just think about it. We are inherently people of faith. It's in our DNA.

It takes tremendous faith to believe that something randomly exploded in outer space and all of the pieces of that "something" randomly landed in such an intricate and orderly way as to produce planets, including one like our own that just randomly fell in place with random forces like gravity and randomly happened to support life in all of its complexities. Hmmm. Whenever I've seen or heard of demolitions or explosions of large structures, I don't recall anything coming out of that except ashes, rubble and sometimes death.

It also takes even more tremendous faith to believe that, in complete opposition to all of the rest of the observable forces of nature, man somehow evolved into a more complex creature. All around us, we see evidence of things changing horizontally--meaning changing in color, size, etc. but, essentially remaining the same, not radically changing in form. No one has recorded eyewitness accounts of tadpoles or frogs changing form, growing exponentially larger than their parents, walking upright and beginning to talk. All around we see that nothing living has dramatically changed from its original form so as to be completely uncrecognizable, which would have to be the case in order to accept the theory of evolution.

Since most people innately recognize that there is more to life than we can explain, I find it much more plausible to use the faith that is inherently within us to believe in the existence of a being (God) who is supremely intelligent and who deliberately put the universe and all that it contains in order. It's just too much of a stretch for me to believe that things like luck, chance or coindence--which are, by definition, random--somehow went against their core randomness and worked strategically and thoroughly enough to be behind the origin of life.

If things like evolution and "the big bang" are not random, then they must, by definition be deliberate. If they are deliberate, then somewhere there is a deliberator....

Think on these things and BNcouraged!

Rev. Karen