No proof He exists, but His existence helps make sense of life
Dr Bruce Manners
Senior minister
Avondale College Seventh-day Adventist Church
God did it!
The Bible often makes this point about creation, but it never goes into much detail. For a few millennia, this didn’t matter. Come the scientific age, though, and we want the “how” question answered, despite the writers of the Bible never intending it to be a book about science.
This is the mistake 16th century German reformer Martin Luther made with a comment about one of his contemporaries, Copernicus. Copernicus claimed the sun, not the earth, was the centre of our solar system. “The fool wants to turn the whole art of astronomy upside-down,” said Luther. “However, as Holy Scripture tells us, so did Joshua bid the sun to stand still and not the earth” (Joshua 10:12-15).
Copernicus was right, Luther was wrong. The Bible spoke to its first readers in terms they understood. We’re the ones who bring a different perspective to the text.
As a Creationist, I would love to have scientific evidence to conclusively prove God created. The closest we can get, with science, is to find evidence of the possibility.
Mind you, scientists (Creationists or not) have to be careful about how much they say about origins because they can quickly move from science to the philosophy of metaphysics for which there is no scientific methodology.
The honesty of Isaac Asimov, scientist and science fiction writer, is refreshing: “Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect He doesn’t that I don’t want to waste my time.”
I so strongly suspect God does exist because, even though I don’t have the evidence to prove He exists, His existence is the only way I can make sense of life on Earth. That begins with His creation of our cosmos.
That’s why I say, God did it!
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