Creation beliefs

August 31, 2005|By Steve Beckle.

Aurora — This is in response to some of the recent letter writers in the Tribune's Voice of the people section who have so smugly dismissed the creation view of the universe by arguing that the origin of the creator cannot be explained, hence a creator cannot exist.

Perhaps these people can enlighten us, then, as to the origin of matter.

What makes this an interesting exercise is that if the inability to explain the origin of a creator precludes the existence of one, doesn't the same argument apply to matter?

In other words, does matter not exist simply because we don't know how atoms originated?

More intriguing is that the first law of thermodynamics states that energy and matter cannot be created or destroyed but merely transformed into one or the other. Since the mere existence of matter violates this proven scientific law, I'm led to believe that something, or someone, not constrained by the laws of physics was involved in bringing matter into existence.

I can already hear the evolutionists conveniently arguing that the laws of thermodynamics didn't apply when the universe was created.

The way I see it is this:

Those who don't believe in a creator believe in a universe that either created itself from nothing (which is impossible), or instead has always existed.

And if it has always existed, then my belief in an infinite eternal creator is no less valid than is someone's belief in an infinite eternal universe.