12/13/2015 Soleil about
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When people ask me
how I can believe that God made the world in 6 days, I have to ask “Yes, it
does seem hard to believe – why did God take so long?” Because
the more scientists study the creation – both the awesome reaches of outer
space and the vast inner reaches at the subatomic levels – the more we should be
amazed by its Creator. The same Creator
that made stars and galaxies millions of light years away could most certainly
create their light streaming and already visible here on earth in the same
instant. The same Creator that could bypass
years of growth and development to instantly create trees and animals and
people in a mature state, could also make a mature universe that may appear to
scientists to have taken millions of years to develop if they rule out the
creative power of God before they even make their hypothesis.
These are the
sorts of thoughts that Soleil, an Indian-born molecular biologist I found
working on finishing up his dissertation at a coffeeshop, had never stopped to
consider. He had always just assumed the
commonly accepted “facts” of evolution, and agreed that it would be
professional suicide for any scientist to put forward evidence about the
origins and development of life that is outside of that evolutionary narrative. But what is harder to believe – that God, who
always existed, spoke the universe into existence, or that “nothing” did?
I believe that
Soleil, who has spent some of the best years of his life studying the details
of creation, has lost the forest for the trees – he has become so focused on
the details of creation that he has never really stepped back to consider its
Creator. That is, except for a recent
coffeeshop conversation in the middle of his dissertation. “When I consider your heavens, the work of
your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is
mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?” (Psalm 8)
P.S.
Have you ever questioned evolution?
For mountains of evidence against evolution that scientists don’t dare
consider – check out www.evolutionfacts.com
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