In order to create life the evolutionist postulates that mindless matter and blind random chance combined billions of years ago to form amino acids, then protein molecules, followed by single cell organisms, and on and on up the ladder of complexity until finally mankind arrived. And as far as how our universe came into existence the best that scientists can offer us is that billions of years ago a giant explosion, or a Big Bang, brought everything into existence. Thus everything came into existence by accident, happenstance and chance.
As I was reading my Bible today, I came across a very interesting verse from the book of Jeremiah that uses three different words to describe how our universe came about. Instead of by accident, happenstance and chance, Jeremiah uses the words, power, wisdom, and understanding, for we read in (Jeremiah 51:15): “He made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.”
Our universe is so amazingly orderly and complex to believe that it came about by accident and chance is sheer nonsense. I like how scientist and Christian philosopher, John Lennox, put it: “Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by world-famous scientists.”1 The late American biochemist and creationist, Duane Gish, also said it well when he commented: “Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.”2
To me it is much more rational that our universe and mankind came about from an all powerful and wise Creator and when the book of Jeremiah says that God used His awesome power, his infinite wisdom, and His careful understanding to create the universe this satisfies my soul and lets me know I am here by design and not accident. For in the last analysis if I am some cosmic accident then life is meaningless and hopeless. But if an all wise and powerful God created me in His very own image, then I, by definition, must be very special. And praise God He has left us with His Word, the Bible, to show me what His plan for my life is and how to find peace, joy, and meaning now and forever.
In closing may I submit to you that the words power and wisdom, when we ascribe them to the creation of our universe and mankind makes far more sense than the nonsense that some great cosmic accident was the cause of the creation of everything there is. For in the last analysis one of the great purposes of our Creator is to create, while the purpose of an accident is to destroy. I ask you to consider your options!