A Discussion on the Nature and Origins of the Universe

A Discussion on the Nature and Origins of the Universe

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There are four ways to look at this world: either the world created itself, this world has been eternally existent, everything is only a dream (i.e. reality is not real), or God created the heavens and the earth. A central contradiction between these beliefs may be contained in the controversy between creation and evolution. In this paper, I would argue that the only correct way (of those listed) to view this world is through the lens of Biblical creation. This would be done through disproving the other beliefs.

There are four large questions of life that many religions try to answer: who am I, what am I worth, where did I come from, and where am I going when I die (Our Only Hope, 2017). Both Christianity and evolution (and many other religions as well) answer these four questions differently.

A comprehensive application of evolution would suggest certain responses to the four above questions. According to evolution, who you are would be only a random mixture of molecules made up of stardust that came from nothing. Under the supposition of molecules-to-man evolution, you would have no intrinsic value but to propagate your race. In fact, if evolution is true, then you might even have negative value because you are a polluter of the environment, and the more people that would die, the better. This could convey greater meaning in Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. In this book, Ebenezer Scrooge, the main character, displays cold contempt for the poor, suggesting that it would be good for them to die “and decrease the surplus population” (Dickens, 1843, p. 133). The worldview of molecules-to-man evolution would fallibly claim that there is an excess of humans beyond that which is our natural carrying capacity (i.e. the “sustainable” population of mankind). Because of this, evolution, according to the “survival of the fittest” doctrine, claims that the strong should trample the weak and that death is better than life (particularly for the “lesser evolved”). After all, if evolution is true, then one animal would have to evolve a little better than the rest. Meanwhile, the rest would have to die otherwise the “good genes” would get absorbed back into the greater population and lost. And, if evolution is true, then when one dies, the organic material that is his or her body would simply decompose. As Charles Darwin put it, “From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows” (Darwin quoted on AZ Quotes, 1859). This is how a strong believer in evolution may answer the four great questions of life.

If, however, Christianity is true, then you are worth so much. You are worth so much to God that He would send His Son to save you from your sin and rebellion and give you the free offer of salvation and love. If Christianity is true, then you are made in God’s image, and therefore have inestimable value. “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” (King James Version, Genesis 1.26). If Christianity is true, then you were made by the hand of God, and you are either going to heaven or hell when you die. Which one you go to depends on whether or not Jesus’ righteousness has become your own because no sin is allowed in Heaven. The only way for His righteousness to become your own is through repenting from the evil that you have committed and turning to Him in the faith of His substitutionary life, death, and resurrection for you. However, because God is just, then if you do not believe on His Son, there will be no other recourse but for you to pay the punishment of sin for yourself: therefore, you would go to hell and perish there forever. However, God, seeing that He is Love (1 John 4.16), does not want that to happen, so He sent His Son to live and to die, and then to arise for you so that in believing in Him you would be saved. This is how a true Christian/Biblical creationist would answer the four questions.

Having looked a little at what Christianity is, it may be useful to define what evolution is. There are actually six different definitions of evolution: cosmic evolution, chemical evolution, stellar and planetary evolution, organic evolution, macroevolution, and microevolution (Our Only Hope, 2018). Cosmic evolution concerns itself with the origins of time, space, and matter. For the evolutionist, this is answered by the Big Bang. Chemical evolution concerns itself with the formation of higher-order chemicals out of hydrogen and helium. Stellar and planetary evolution refers to the origins of stars and planets. Organic evolution concerns itself with the origin of life from rocks and rain. Macroevolution is about changes between different kinds of animals, for example a dinosaur turning into a chicken. Finally, microevolution talks about variations within a particular kind of animal, such as variations between golden retrievers and beagles. I believe that on closer study, the only scientific definition of evolution is microevolution, while the others are purely religious.

According to the Big Bang theory, everything came from nothing. Alan Guth said that the “question of the origin of the matter in the universe is no longer thought to be beyond the range of science - everything can be created from nothing. It is fair to say that the universe is the ultimate free lunch” (Guth on AZ Quotes, 1997). However, this doctrine is in fundamental disagreement with the established First Law of Thermodynamics. According to LibreTexts Chemistry, “The First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy can be converted from one form to another with the interaction of heat, work and internal energy, but it cannot be created nor destroyed, under any circumstances” (LibreTexts). Therefore, under the constraints of this scientific law, there must have been some kind of miracle that created this world. After all, either this world created itself (which would be a miracle) or God created the world (which was a miracle). The only other alternatives are that the world has existed from eternity past or that this world is only a figment of the imagination (that is, that reality is not real). However, both of these worldviews are wrong. The Second Law of Thermodynamics makes the former faulty, and simple morality and logic makes the latter wrong.

“The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that the state of entropy of the entire universe, as an isolated system, will always increase over time. The second law also states that the changes in the entropy in the universe can never be negative” (LibreTexts Chemistry). Essentially, this established scientific law says that everything tends towards disorder. This means that the universe had to have a beginning: if it did not, then there would have to be infinite order, and this is scientifically impossible. Another way to put it is this way: if the universe existed for trillions of years, then everything would be dust, and the kinds of complexities and life that are now on earth would have passed away long ago. Then, the belief that the universe is eternal essentially exalts the universe as its own god because, scientifically, this is impossible. In other words, this faulty belief would be claiming that everything would be functioning outside and beyond the bounds of scientific laws. If this is true, then does science and the study thereof truly hold any validity?

Simple morality and logic disprove the belief that everything is only a dream. Morally, if everything you interact with is contained in a dream dreamt by you, then you would be the only entity in your dream that is both in your dream and beyond your dream. Therefore, you would be the god of your own “universe”. This is immoral. This is prideful and it posits that, because this is your world, your carnal desires should take precedence over everyone else’s wellbeing no matter the cost. This is one reason why it is immoral to believe everything is a dream. Logically, if everything was a dream, then there would not be the kind of continuity that is systemic in our lives. For example, in a dream, you might be sitting down in a field and enjoying a beautiful day. Then, all of a sudden, in your dream, you could be sitting down on a rocking chair in front of a fire, enjoying the sight of snow falling and friends talking. In dreams, this shift may be particularly “choppy”. Although one might not realize it in the dream itself, this cut could be quite fragmented. However, in real life, there would be continuity between these two scenarios regardless of whether you actually pay conscious attention to the shift. This is only one reason why there is a logical basis for everything to be real.

Having established the absurdity of the worldview that everything is a dream and the impossibility that the universe is self-existing and not created, let us continue the discussion on the two remaining worldviews. One of them is that the world created itself or that the universe was created by Someone else, that is God.

Let us start with the worldview that the world created itself from nothing. This is the evolutionist’s worldview. According to the cosmic definition in this belief system, the Big Bang created everything from nothing. Essentially, they believe that the universe started from an infinitely small speck of nothing. This nothing then spun faster and faster and then exploded to become everything so that, after billions of years, we have what we have today. However, this violates the First Law of Thermodynamics. Even if this substantial problem were overlooked and everything came from the Big Bang of evolution, then matter and energy should be uniformly distributed. However, this is not what is observed. Instead, there are enormous gaps of space between solar systems. If the Big Bang was true, then all of the planets should also be spinning in the same angular direction. After all, the conservation of angular momentum cursorily states that anything that flies off a spinning object would come off spinning in the same direction. Contrariwise, “Venus, Uranus, and possibly Pluto rotate backwards from the other 6 planets” (Our Only Hope, 2017). This alone should call into question the validity of the Big Bang theory. Because of this, cosmic evolution is not scientific.

The next definition of evolution would be chemical evolution. According to evolution, how did the 118 chemicals form? The evolutionist would answer this through saying that fusion occurs in stars, and this fusion has created the other chemicals. A cursory explanation of fusion is that two atoms of different molecular structure would be “pushed together” very tightly so that they form a new, different kind of atom. This process happens in stars. Although this might form certain chemicals from hydrogen, this process would not form every type of chemical. Elements beyond iron cannot be fused in stars, and this poses the question of how other higher-order chemicals could have come to be, according to evolution. This would make chemical evolution wrong.

After chemical evolution would be stellar and planetary evolution. How did the stars and planets form? This is not observable. It has been hypothesized that stars could form from large dust clouds condensing and collapsing matter/energy together to form a star. However, this has not been observed. In fact, this would violate Boyle’s Gas Law because once the matter increases in volume, pressure would build up and drive the matter away from each other (Wikipedia). This should nullify stellar/planetary evolution.

Next, there would be organic evolution: the origin of life. According to the Big Bang Theory, a hard, rocky planet (earth) was formed. Then, it rained on these rocks for millions of years and turned them into a soup of complex chemicals, and this soup eventually turned into life 3 billion years ago (Smithsonian). One of the many problems with this is that it violates the law of biogenesis. The law of biogenesis states that life could only come from life; therefore, a slew of chemicals from rocks and rain cannot engender living organisms (Biology Online). If, however, God created life, then He is beyond the bounds of scientific laws. This also means that life came from the Prince of life (John 1.1-5, Acts 3.15). Evolutionism has a grave problem with biogenesis, but creationism does not.

And then there would have to be macroevolution: the origin of the different kinds of animals. However, this goes beyond variations within a certain kind of animal. If macroevolution is true, then not only are flies and monkeys related, but also birds and bananas would be related. One of the problems with this is the concept of mutations. Mutations actually do not create any new genetic data. They only rearrange or destroy existing genetic data, and, as far as I know, they are always harmful. Even for the example of bacteria that adapt to becoming resistant to antibiotics, this mutation is not normally helpful. For, in this example, it is a mutation that results in a deformity of the bacteria’s ribosomes that makes them resistant to antibiotics. However, in normal situations, this mutation would be harmful - not helpful.

Microevolution evolution is the only definition of evolution that is actually scientific. Microevolution is essentially about variations within a certain kind of animal. For example, according to microevolution, chihuahuas and great danes might have both come from a common ancestor: a generic dog/wolf. These kinds of variations have been observed, and they align with the limitations of mutations. After all, the genetic data in the original dog kind may have already contained the information to make a great dane and a chihuahua. However, this genetic data might not have been “turned on” yet to display these traits.

Therefore, although evolution has many problems with science, this is not the case for creation. For, for the creationist, this world is a miracle because God made it, and He sustains it. He is beyond the bounds of science, so He can do whatever pleases Him. He is not the author of confusion, but of peace, and so He set in order certain scientific laws for the world to normally function in, although He Himself is beyond the bounds of science (1 Corinthians 14.33). Seeing then that creation is true, what matter does it make? If Biblical creation is true, then what else does the Bible say?

The Bible says that God is love (1 John 4.16). The Bible also says that God is holy (Isaiah 6.3). And God is good (Psalm 119.68). This is bad news. Why? Because we are not. Have you ever lied? Have you ever stolen something? Have you ever lusted after someone (or even something)? Have you ever used God’s name in vain? Have you ever … sinned? The point is that, like me, you would have to say “yes” to these questions. However, one might not think that he or she is not all that bad. But what if a USB drive was placed into your mind and every sinful thought you’ve ever thought and every evil deed you’ve ever done was displayed on a large screen for all of your family and friends to see? Now this would be shameful. Not only to me, but to you. After all, seeing that God is God, He is the One that has established the rules and standards by which we would be judged. Therefore, we would not be judged based off of how we measure up to other people, but how we measure up to God’s limitless holiness. It’s like comparing your inherent righteousness, with all of those evil thoughts you’ve ever thought and all the wicked deeds you’ve ever done, to the beauty and majesty of the heavens on a beautiful sunrise or sunset. Yet even this is insufficient to demonstrate the holiness of God. This is more than just moral perfection: this is greater-than-perfect judgment, absolutely limitless beauty, incorruptible, unassailable love. Words simply can not describe God’s holiness: even music is insufficient to convey it. This matters because this is the standard by which we would be judged upon death. This is the measure we must meet to go to heaven. Else there is no recourse but hell. Why? Because of sin. Sin is the transgression of the Moral Law (1 John 3.4). In other words, sin is a violation of the Ten Commandments. God is the holy, incorruptible Judge. And seeing that He is God, He is the Owner of everyone and everything; therefore, when you sin, you sin against God. When you lie, you condemn yourself as, by definition, a liar. When you steal something (including, but not limited to, an idea that you wrongfully attribute to yourself), you are a thief. When you’ve lusted for someone or something, you fundamentally are a fornicator. And, just as fornication and adultery start in the heart, so does muder start in your heart. Whenever you have hated someone without a cause, you make yourself a murderer. Remember, this is all according to God’s standards. So, when He sees the tiniest tidbit of sin in your heart, this is the same thing as if you physically committed the crime. The Bible says that the thought of fooliness is sin (Proverbs 24.9). And the Bible says that the wages, the punishment, of sin is death (Romans 6.23). This is why we all deserve to go to hell. This is why I deserve to rot in the deepest pits of hell. Either we must pay our debt through forever populating hell, or we must find a Substitute to pay our debts for us.

That is where Jesus comes in. He is the Judge that would be just in sentencing us all to an eternity in hell (Romans 3.23, Romans 6.23, 2 Corinthians 5.10). Yet He is the One who is madly in love with you. As an overflow of this love, He came to this earth to live the perfect life you could never live yourself. Then, He died the death that you deserve to die, being made a curse for us, dying on the cross (Galatians 3.13). Three days later, He arose from the dead, defeating death, and demonstrating that love, true love, conquers all. “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:” (1 Peter 3.18).

Now, He offers His perfect holiness for your filthy rags of unrighteousness. He offers His greatest sacrifice for your wages of hell. He offers you the forgiveness of your sins, of which you have no lack. And He offers you so much more. He is calling you into Divine Romance, Fraternal Love, Paternal Devotion, Eternal Life, all with Him! Please, don’t turn Him down, but…

“[...] Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house” (Acts 16.31).

Trust in Him as you would trust in a parachute. Turn from your sins. Turn to Him. Receive Him as your Lord and Saviour. And give Him your love and loyalty. Forever.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3.16).

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