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<blockquote data-quote="BrownFlush" data-source="post: 5302934" data-attributes="member: 65823">Which is more reasonable to believe?&nbsp;&quot;In the beginning the heavens and earth just happened,&quot; or &quot;In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.&quot; (Gen. 1:1)&nbsp;There is a scientific axiom, called cause-effect, which states that something cannot come from nothing; every effect must have an adequate cause. Christians believe that God was the First Cause. Moses wrote, &quot;In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth&quot;. No more reasonable explanation has ever been offered. &nbsp;Our world, with the perfect timing of its revolution around the sun and rotation on its axis, the water-evaporation-condensation cycle, the movement of the winds from the equator and back, and the ocean currents, runs like one giant piece of clockwork. We all can understand that a well-constructed house does not just spring up out of the ground. Why is it then that some try to tell us that the earth, in all its beauty and precision, is the result of blind chance? &quot;Every house is builded by some man; but he that builded all things is God&quot; (Heb. 3:4). The world &quot;build&quot; here means to construct or erect, as of a building. The Bible pictures this globe of ours as a huge, well-planned structure whose architect and engineer is God.The nature of man is something. Man has certain capacities which animals don&#039;t. Man has a conscience that helps him determine right from wrong. He can appreciate that which he considers beautiful; and he is rational, having the power to reason and communicate logically. Animals have powerful instincts, but they don&#039;t have these characteristics. H/ow and where did man get them? Science cannot even explain where man came from, much less how he became superior to the animals. If evolution were true,(sure) man could not have inherited these qualities from his supposed animal ancestors because they did not have them to pass on. Uh-oh. The environment?Not at all an adequate source. The only reasonable answer offered so far is the one that includes God. &quot;So God created man in his own image&quot; (Gen. 1:27). Certain of the characteristics which God possesses such as morality, rationality, and aesthetics, He gave to man in creation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BrownFlush, post: 5302934, member: 65823"] Which is more reasonable to believe? "In the beginning the heavens and earth just happened," or "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." (Gen. 1:1) There is a scientific axiom, called cause-effect, which states that something cannot come from nothing; every effect must have an adequate cause. Christians believe that God was the First Cause. Moses wrote, "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth". No more reasonable explanation has ever been offered. Our world, with the perfect timing of its revolution around the sun and rotation on its axis, the water-evaporation-condensation cycle, the movement of the winds from the equator and back, and the ocean currents, runs like one giant piece of clockwork. We all can understand that a well-constructed house does not just spring up out of the ground. Why is it then that some try to tell us that the earth, in all its beauty and precision, is the result of blind chance? "Every house is builded by some man; but he that builded all things is God" (Heb. 3:4). The world "build" here means to construct or erect, as of a building. The Bible pictures this globe of ours as a huge, well-planned structure whose architect and engineer is God. The nature of man is something. Man has certain capacities which animals don't. Man has a conscience that helps him determine right from wrong. He can appreciate that which he considers beautiful; and he is rational, having the power to reason and communicate logically. Animals have powerful instincts, but they don't have these characteristics. H/ow and where did man get them? Science cannot even explain where man came from, much less how he became superior to the animals. If evolution were true,(sure) man could not have inherited these qualities from his supposed animal ancestors because they did not have them to pass on. Uh-oh. The environment?Not at all an adequate source. The only reasonable answer offered so far is the one that includes God. "So God created man in his own image" (Gen. 1:27). Certain of the characteristics which God possesses such as morality, rationality, and aesthetics, He gave to man in creation. [/QUOTE]

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