Forming the World

Sitting in my office, writing this review, I look around me and I realize that everything I own was designed and created for a specific purpose: The books, pencils, stapler, computer, telephone, paperweights, the printer, the desk, the desk drawers, the trash can, envelopes, sheets (letter and legal size), the clips, the big year calendar on the wall, the door, windows, blinds. Everything to make my work possible.

By observing the natural world, the balanced interdependence of the various elements that make this possible, we discover that undoubtedly was conditioned to allow not only life, but to allow its full development. Not that life has gradually adapted for long periods of time to previous existing conditions, but that conditions, the Bible assures us, were set for life to be possible (Gen. 1.3-13).

No such coordination of conditions could be attributed to coincidence for this is mathematically impossible. Isaiah 45:18 tells us that God, without sharing responsibility, formed, made, and established (NKJV) the earth with a clear idea to be inhabited.  From the creation light, essential for the development of life, to the conditions generated by the atmosphere, the allocation of rocks to keep the waters in its place, to the diversity of plants that together provide the nutrition for our healthy development, the hand of the Creator can be seen.

If we assume the origins through evolution, why would life need conditions so defined? If we are true and consistent with the idea of evolution, life could occur anywhere and adapt to any condition. Therefore, by recognizing that life requires certain environmental specifications, shouldn't we accept the fact of a deliberate design, though the intervention of a higher being?

With the desire to exclude God from the obvious, man has developed alternative stories relating to our origins such as natural selection, where the strongest survive over the weakest. Christ, on the other hand, advocates for the weak: "the poor in spirit", "those who mourn", "the meek", "those who hunger and thirst for righteousness," "the pure in heart", "the Peacemakers "," those who are persecuted."  In addressing this disparity of the versions of the origins, there cannot be a relative truth where everyone has the freedom to choose ones truth... In actuality, there is only one absolute truth, and the individual has the option to accept it or reject it.

The difference of philosophies of life that ramifies from the acceptance or rejection of this truth is abysmal and marks in definitive our worldview and behavior. For those who are consistent with the testimony of nature, the sacred text reminds us, "worship him that made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water" (Rev. 14:7), for "God said", because his word is power; "God saw", because what God does is good; "God called", because God is the creator, therefore, the owner.

"Remember your Creator in the days of your youth" (Ecclesiastes 12:1)