Faith in Creation is Easy

"For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God." —Romans 1:20 (NLT)

When I first started exploring Christianity in my college years, I was already full of skepticism about most "religious" things. I'd had both bad and ambivalent experiences regarding what it meant to have faith in the existence of God. None of it made sense at the time. Though, to be fair, I didn't look too closely either.

Evolution was what I'd been taught in school as explanation for the origin of life, and I accepted it because there was no alternative—no matter how little logic there was to this ridiculous probability problem. When presented with the idea of an intelligent designer, I realized how much more believable the idea of a Creator was in comparison to the probability of chance atomic and molecular activity leading to complex life.

The Problem with Evolution Theory*

"By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God's command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen." —Hebrews 11:3 (NLT)

An incredible amount of faith is required to believe in macro-evolution. To believe that a fish could, given billions of years of mutations, turn into a gecko or a cow or a swan, requires an impossible ratio of all the possible random outcomes to the one favorable outcome. The chances of these things happening are astronomical. So like...does it really make logical sense?

Which is more likely: that the complexity of every living thing and everything in the universe is a result of mere chance and impossible odds? Or that everything in existence is due to intentional, intelligent design? Evidence of intricate design is obvious even in a single human blood cell, which is comprised of a balanced system of parts, without which, the cell couldn't function at all.

When the Designer is Obvious

"The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display his craftsmanship." —Psalm 19:1 (NLT)

Let's remove the question of God's existence for a moment and just look at an example of the visible evidence around us. Imagine being one of the first human beings to stumble upon the buried remains of Pompeii in Italy in the late 1500s. (If you haven't seen images of Pompeii, look them up!) Over the next few centuries, the city was painstakingly excavated. Paintings, structures, and roads were uncovered, revealing a vast 170-acre area that could house nearly 11,500 people.

Upon seeing these discoveries, would anyone assume these things were simply the result of freak volcanic eruptions from nearby Mount Vesuvius? Or would it make sense that, over thousands of years, underground running water formed shapes like rooms in buildings? Or would it be likely that vegetation grew up the walls then decayed into shapes that resembled paintings? There are no living witnesses to the origin of this site, so how can we know what caused Pompeii to exist?

Well, the truth is so obvious that it would be absurd to even entertain the idea that this buried city was simply the product of an environmental phenomenon. No natural process could produce such an intricate place as Pompeii. Only human hands could have made this place happen.

Faith in Creation is Easy

Why is it so difficult to look into the complexities of, say, a feline eye and not see that it was designed a specific way? Why is it so unfathomable to look at how intricately the earth's atmosphere works to protect, nurture, and sustain life—especially in comparison to other planets in our solar system—and not see that there's specificity of design?

While people have been debating the theory of evolution against an intelligent designer since the 19th century, the answers to these questions are not as tricky as we think. From the tiniest mitochondria to the sophisticated global ecosystem, it's clear that somebody had to think these things up. Such beautiful intricacies don't develop randomly.

Somebody had the idea of two matching eyes. Somebody decided a heart and lungs were best for pumping blood and supplying oxygen to a living animal. Somebody designed a female egg to respond to a single male sperm to spark the beginning of a new life—and that those cells would come together due to a complicated desire for pleasure and/or reproduction.

Everything we see—from our phones and bathrooms to the mountains and oceans—was created for specific purposes by an intelligent being. To believe that this vast universe or the smallest life just happened due to mere chance requires a greater faith than faith in God requires. Believing in God and His ability to create something out of nothing literally answers everything.

It's easy to believe in the possibility of a divine designer as we explore scientific discoveries in various plant and animal life, ecosystems, and even celestial observations and physics. Having an intelligent designer leaves no further questions. Every question can be answered with this: "God designed it that way for a reason. Now let's find out what it is!"

* To be clear, we're not talking about micro-evolution, which is evolutionary change within a species or small group of organisms, especially over a short period of time. Micro-evolution is a proven and observable fact of nature. We're referring to the question about the origin of LIFE from the beginning—whether living things originated from an intelligent Creator or if they developed out of a primordial soup over a span of billions of years.