A Time to Understand: The necessity of Understanding

by Larry Allen

Is God There? Is it possible for nothing to produce something? Can there be designs without a designer? Why is the world about us like it is? Let's reflect together about what we see. Intricate designs are not self-producing! They cannot be — no more than a dictionary can come from an explosion in a print shop! 1. Where there is a universe, there must be a Creator. (Where there is stuff, there must be a Stuffer.) Around 1700, Isaac Newton published what he had learned about gravity. He had a friend who denied God's existence. One day his friend told him he did not believe in any God; everything just happened. After he left, Isaac Newton patiently built a scale model of the sun with the nine planets in their orbits about it. The next time his friend visited him, he saw it. ?Isaac who made that? That's beautiful,” he said. ?Nobody,” said Isaac. ?No, really, that's a wonderful model. Who made it?” ?Nobody.” Isaac Newton made his point. He had answered his skeptical friend with great force. It is as though he said, ?You are asking me to believe that all the amazing things we see about us just came to be by chance. At the same time you refuse to believe chance made a simple, little model of one tiny part of it. You think the model must have a creator. Yet you refuse to believe in the Creator of the real solar system.” Designs How could there be televisions unless somebody designed and built them? How can there be creation except that God made it? Gordon Olson1 tells of the combined precision of the eye's 107 million elements working together perfectly to give us eyesight. We ought to worship God for such amazing designs.

287 pages, Paperback

Published September 28, 2018

About the author

Professor of Economics and Finance at Lamar University, Texas.