As I write this column, several lottery jackpots promise their winners enormous prizes. The Powerball is at one billion dollars while Mega Millions offers $720 million and the California Super Lotto only proffers a modest $77 million.
Many people purchase tickets hoping against hope that theirs will be the one to win these gigantic payouts without realizing that bankruptcy for lotto winners occurs at a higher percentage than for the general public. There are also many accounts of catastrophic implosions of winners’ lives triggered by sudden wealth.
Imagine, however, if you won the big prize. Your chances are less than one in 292 million. But imagine also winning it again next month. And each month after that for over a year. These odds are astronomical and so improbable, this would never happen even in billions of years.
And yet, evolutionists tell us that seals and other marine animals overcame even greater odds to grow legs to escape the water and then lost them again as they reentered the sea millions of years later. If we’re wise enough not to be hoodwinked into trying to win the lotto many times over, why do we accept such crazy odds regarding the natural world?
This statistically impossible scenario supposedly not only happened once but at least 15 separate times according to the “story.” This narrative continues to be taught and believed in spite of the fact that not one transitionary fossil has been found to connect seals with non-seals.
Charles Darwin himself predicted that paleontologists would verify his theory of Evolution by digging up many transitionary fossils demonstrating how various species changed into others. Although fossils do record variations within species, such as horses getting larger or smaller, 164 years later we’re still waiting on evidence of any specie changing into another. Its absence actually disproves his atheistic theory.
In contrast to Darwin, many leading scientists in most every field were once sincere committed Christians. Copernicus, who demonstrated that the sun was the center of the solar system, was a clergyman who said, “God is the best and most orderly workman of all.”
Sir Isaac Newton, whose theories have been proven time and again said, “This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and domination of an intelligent and powerful Being…He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient….He governs all things.”
Geniuses such as Francis Bacon and Blaise Pascal were also staunch Jesus followers. Gregor Mendel, who unlike Darwin actually studied genetics and reproduction, sought to discover the secrets of God’s creation. He was an Augustine friar and once said, “The victory of Christ gained us the kingdom of grace and the kingdom of heaven.”
These godly men weren’t foolish enough to believe all that exists came from nothing without an almighty Creator. They knew chaos and randomness cannot produce perfect order and exact precision. Most importantly, as another Christian scientist, Louis Pasteur proved, there is no way life can arise from non-life.
From the Big Bang to the beginning of life to fish crawling out of water and then back into it, the entire scenario is one of wild fantasy that denies true science and hopes against hope for a universe without God. Even with billions of years, the odds are too great to overcome these impossibilities every step of the way.
So why is this incredulous theory still taught, promoted and believed? Because people don’t want there to be a Creator, for if there is, His creatures are obligated to heed what He has to say. We don’t want Him telling us how to live or what to do and what not to do.
Let’s not fall for the lotto lies or those regarding our own origin. Basic common sense tells us design came from a Designer. The sooner we acknowledge our Creator and receive and embrace Him, the better off we’ll all be.
Blessings, George