Are You Just an Accident?
A commentary by John Ross Schroeder
Good News writer from Watford, England
"Welcome and congratulations. I am delighted you could make it. Getting
here wasn't easy." These are the first sentences of the introduction to
best-selling author Bill Bryson's new book, A Short History of Nearly
Everything. He is referring to your arrival on earth as a human being.
Mr. Bryson continued: "For you to be here now trillions of drifting atoms
had somehow to assemble in an intricate and curiously obliging manner to
create you." He then speculated as to why these atoms should go to the
trouble of bothering with you since they "don't even know that you are
there."
Bill Bryson further remarked that atoms were fickle, and that their devotion
to keeping you together had its distinct limitations. After all, even a
very long human life only amounted to "about 650,000 hours." This is a
curious way of describing our lives.
What follows in Mr. Bryson's new book is over 400 pages of entertaining
commentary speculating on how human beings and the universe got here in
the first place. Interestingly enough, he began his research with a 4th-
or 5th-grade U.S. science textbook.
Like most of us in the Western world, Bill Bryson received his education
in a system fundamentally based on the evolutionary teachings of Charles
Darwin. It has been said (and with much accuracy) that all modern education
is based on the theory of evolution. Basically, evolution implies that
the presence of the universe itself was due to an accident.
But there has always been an alternative, credible understanding of how
human beings were put on earth.This alternate knowledge tells us that it
really occurred due to wise planning and forethought. Even the tiny atoms
that make up a human being were all tempered together by intricate and
deliberate design. King David exclaimed in Psalm 139:14 that "I am fearfully
and wonderfully made."
To believe all that is you is just a fortuitous accident deprives life
of any real meaning. Thankfully, there is rational proof available that
a benevolent God created you for a very great purpose.
You can discover this supremely valuable information by requesting our
free booklets Life's Ultimate Question: Does God Exist? and Creation
or Evolution: Does It Matter What You Really Believe? Or you may choose
to view or download these publications online.
Truly our Creator is the God of small things when tempering all these minutely
tiny atoms together into just one human being.
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