The Most Foolish Question

We’re about to explore answers to five questions. If at first you think me a little simple for calling them life’s greatest questions, let me assure you that everyone will agree with me moments after we die. My hope is that we will find agreement in the here and now.

I begin with what I call the most foolish question. IS THERE A GOD? Most rational people over thousands of years agreed that there is. Their reasoning was simple. To every effect, there must be a cause. They took it for granted that you can’t get something from nothing. Awesome creation stared them in the face. That was enough evidence on the outside of man. Then there was the evidence on the inside—they called it the law of human nature—of right and wrong. That law was found in the most sophisticated cities or the darkest, most primitives jungles.

Of course there were always people who did not like the idea of a God judging their behavior. Enter Mr. Darwin and his fairy tale theory of evolution. You know, where all you need is enough time for a frog to turn into a princess. After all, we were told, the first cell was so simple and came out of those chemicals that blended in a soup. Nobody asked, “Then who made the soup?” and there were no microscopes to uncover the most complicated brilliance of a language called DNA found in every cell. So the theory of evolution was eagerly accepted by many “smart people” and sold to the gullible world as the “assured verdict of science.” Now God could be pushed into a closet, or better, disappear altogether.

No more. Since the old classical physics has surrendered to the new quantum physics, the fragile house of atheism has been coming apart. Instead of God being dead, Dr. Robert Jastrow, astronomer and director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at NASA says in his book, ‘God and The Astronomers,’ that since we now know that the universe had a beginning, there has to be a “beginner.” And Yale physicist and Nobel Laureate Professor Henry Morgenau says that, “there is only one convincing answer” for the intricate law that governs nature. That answer is “creation by an omnipotent, omniscient God.”

Ten English words open God’s testimony of Himself in the Bible. “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” “In the beginning”— something big is up! “God”—Someone big is in on it! “Created”—wow, no accident here! “The heavens and the earth”—our God is an awesome God!

Space is so vast we measure it by light years—that’s 186,000 miles a second. That’s light traveling around the world over seven times—in one second! And with some one hundred billion stars in our one galaxy, we would have to travel at the speed of light for 150, 000 years just to cross the Milky Way! But there are at least another one hundred billion galaxies in the known universe. That’s galaxies! No wonder 90% of all astronomers today believe in God!

That’s only the vast universe. What about little old you and me? Eyes so incredible that Darwin admitted getting sick trying to account for them. Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, famous Oxford physiologist, writes, “Behind the intricate mechanism of the human eyes lie breathtaking glimpses of a Master Plan.”

And your brain. There’s no way to take it in. Weighing but 3.3 pounds, it can perform what 500 tons of electrical and electronic equipment cannot do. Containing 10 to 15 billion neurons, each a unit living within itself, it performs feats that absolutely boggle the mind. What about your ears (hearing), nose (smelling), tongue (tasting), skeletal structure, flesh, skin. Oh my! And the heart—oh, your beautiful, beating heart!

Yes, there is a God—and He claims that you are not only fearfully and wonderfully made, but that He loves you and wants you to get personally acquainted with Him. That’s why only a fool—a very self-centered fool—would say, “Duhhh—there no is God” (Psalm 14:1;53:1).

"Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ" (I Corinthians 11:1)
The ST. PAUL SCHOOL, with Frank Eiklor, Eileen Young and Cecilia Contreras