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a universal tendency for everything to disintergrate, to run down, and
finally, to "die." The whole universe is growing old, wearing out, headed
toward ultimate stillness and death. This universal "increase in entropy"
leads directly to the conclusion that there must have been a creation of
things in the past; otherwise, everything would now be dead (since
they are universally dying in the present).
Again, we are driven to the logical necessity of a primal creation--
a creation that was accomplished not by present natural processes, but
by past supernatural processes.
This means, however, that we cannot deduce
anything about that creation except just by the fact of creation. The
process of creation, the duration of the period of creation, the order
of events--all are hidden from us by virtue of the fact that our
present observed processes do not create--they only conserve and
deteriorate!
Nevertheless, there must have been a creation, and, therefore, a Creator!
Being the Creator of the infinitely complex, highly energized cosmos,
that Creator necessarily must be omniscient and omnipotent. Having created
life, as well as human personalities, He must also be a living Person.
No effect can be greater than it's cause.
Therfore, He is fully capable of revealing to us knowledge about His
creation--knowledge which could never be learned through studying present
processes. It almost seems that he must do this, in fact, since He
surely is not capricious. He would not create men and women who
long to know the meaning of their lives, yet neglect or refuse to tell
them anything about it.
Assuming then, that He has revealed this information to His creatures, just
where is His revelation to be found? There are numerous books of religion,
ancient and modern, but their cosmogonies do not contain any account at
all of the creation of the universe.
The answer, therefore, had to be in His record of creation in the
Book of Genesis, for there is no alternative. There are only
three creationist "religions" in the world--Christianity, Islam,
and Judaism--and all three base their belief in creation on the record
of Genisis.
Without exception, all the other religions and philosophies
of the world have based their beliefs concerning origins on some form
of evolutionism.
That is, they all begin with the universe (space, time,
matter) already in existence, they speculate how the forces of nature (often
personified as various gods and goddesses) may have generated all
the systems and living creatures of the world out of some primordial watery
chaos. Only Genesis even attempts to tell how the universe itself
came to be.
Whether most people believe it or not, therefore, the creation account in
Genesis is God's record of His creation. Jesus Christ also taught this
truth, so surely any true Christian should believe it. This account does
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