The Logic of Creation 3

THE LOGIC OF CREATION #3

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