WHY IS THERE SOMETHING INSTEAD OF NOTHING?

"He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities--all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together" (Colossians 1:15-17).

"It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious . . . I find need for God in the universe and in my life" (Arthur L. Schawlow, professor of physics at Stanford University, Nobel prize in physics, 1981).

There never has been "nothing." Purely naturalistic cosmologists have speculated a beginning resulting from a coalescence of subatomic particles. But a particle, no matter how small it is, is still a particle.* It reminds me of the story about a boy who asked his grandmother, "What holds the world up?" "The world sits on the back of a turtle," gramma replied. The boy asked gramma, "What does the turtle stand on, gramma?" "The back of another turtle," gramma answered. What does that turtle stand on, gramma?" Becoming frustrated with all the questions, gramma replied, "Stop asking questions! It's turtles all the way down!"

It would be easier to have nothing than something--ask any poor person! But, here we are living in a world teeming with diverse, complex, intricate, beautiful, ugly life. If we try to account for this life completely by macro-evolution, we would expect scientists to be able to duplicate evolution in the lab, making life from non-organic materials. They can't! If we use macro-evolution as an explanation for this life, we would expect to see the universe teeming with life, since evolutionists credit minerals with self-organizing properties to adjust to the environment in which they exist. There isn't! What drives the space program is the desperate search for life in other places in the universe to support the faith of the naturalist. This great diversity of life in our solar system is found only on earth. It is the only place that will support life as we know it. Is that by chance? Hummmmm.

To macro-evolutionists, one form of life is no better than another. A human being is no more significant than a cockroach. There is no love in their world, only altruism; what a sterile word!
This is the description of a world that is the result of time plus chance.

There has always been something, I should say, Someone, who stands above the laws of physics; who was the author of them. That Someone stepped into space and time for a few years that we should know Him. It is only in Him that we have hope for a great future.

Grace&Peace;
Tom

*I'm fully aware that the smallest sub-atomic particles are not particles but energy. But it always begs the question, "Where did that come from?"