Evidence of Creation

“O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. 2 From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. 3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? 5 You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet: 7 all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field, 8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.” (Psalm 8:1-9 NIV).

Wow! What else can be said? This great Psalm of praise assumes something many today tend to forget. It assumes creation.

Let me be specific. The foundation of all of Scripture and salvation is found in Genesis 1-3, the creation account. Creation is not an interesting side issue that believers can side-step. Despite what a fallen media and biased so called scientists would have us believe all the evidence seen in this world points to creation and a Creator not to evolution and chance.

Sir Isaac Newton had a friend who, like himself, was a great scientist. The friend was an infidel while Newton was a devout believer. They often locked horns over the question of ‘Who made it?’ though their mutual interest in science drew them together frequently. Newton had a skillful mechanic make him a replica of our solar system in miniature. In the center was a large guided ball representing the sun, and revolving around this were smaller balls fixed on the ends of arms of varying lengths, representing Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, in their proper order (Pluto had not yet been discovered). These balls were so geared together by cogs and belts as to move in perfect harmony by turning a crank.

One day as Newton sat reading in his study, with this mechanism on a large table near him, his infidel friend stepped in. He was a scientist, who could recognize at a glance what was before him. Walking up to it he slowly turned the crank and with undisguised admiration watched the heavenly bodies move in their relative speeds in their orbits. Backing off a few feet to get the full impact of the work he exclaimed, “My, what an exquisite thing this is. Who made it?” Without looking up from his books, Newton answered, “Nobody.” Quickly turning to Newton the infidel said, “Evidently you did not understand my question. I asked who made this thing?” Looking up now, Newton solemnly assured his friend that nobody made it but that the aggregation of matter had just happened to assume the form it was in. The astonished infidel replied with some agitation, “You must think I am a fool! Of course somebody made it and he is a genius! I would like to know who he is.”

Newton, now laid aside his books, rose and laid a hand on his friends shoulder.

“This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know,” he said. “I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer and maker. Yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker. Now tell me, by what sort of reasoning do you reach such incongruous conclusions?” The infidel was at once convinced and became a firm believer.”

“O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!”