In the teen class this week we looked at how we would go about answering someone that asked us to “Prove that God is real”. We dealt with some of the naturalistic arguments, that is, arguments from nature that came out of Romans 1 where Paul says that all of creation cries out that there is a creator so that men everywhere are without excuse.

When you look the “matter” of the universe, it is logical to ask where it all came from.

When you think about the motion of the universe, from orbiting planets to reverse orbiting moons, to the spinning of electrons… it is logical to ask “what
started it all and why does it continue?”

When you look at the design of the world and universe you see order and creativity and harmony. Why is there so much diversity and what sustains it all?

When you look at the immaterial aspects of man you see our moral nature, our desire for community and love. It is logical to ask why we have these qualities.

In Romans 1, Paul answers all these questions by looking at the one who created. He says that he created everything and sustains it all by the power of his hand, and that you can see God’s nature in his creation (our immaterial aspects). The evolutionary hypothesis tries to explain how the universe was created and explain how things came to be, but it severely fails at answering the question of why. Why did it all happen? Can we attribute it to a long and intricate series of completely random chances that somehow happened to work and then constant adaptation to our environment?

One of the coolest things that I found through this study concerning this question of “why” concerned the human brain. The author asked, if we evolved to adapt to our surroundings then why do humans have such vast brain capacity and function that no super computer can even begin to rival… yet is never even close to being fully used by any individual? Why have we evolved SO far past our surroundings and need? God says though Paul, that the evidence is so clear and undeniable that to deny it puts you without excuse. The fact is, the evidence that the atheist and agnostic claim to seek is staring them in the
face all day long.

Striving alongside you for the prize,

Jay