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“It didn’t Just Happen”
Categories: Apologetics(By Robert F. Knox, Jr. Taken from the Laings Bulletin Nov. 2, 1975)
Evolutionists and other such so-called “scientists” are fond of making the claim that our universe just happened into being. That somehow, in a way unexplainable, particles of matter just happened to come together and form the universe and all that it contains. That life somehow evolved or came into being by the same pattern of development. That is, all that exists is the result of pure blind chance.
“There is a story which dates back to the time when the statesman Benjamin Franklin was Ambassador of the United States to France. While living in Paris, Franklin was a member of an elite literary social and scientific club. At certain of the meetings of the intellectual group, atheistic sentiments were expressed, leaving the impression that only superstitious and uninformed still believed in GOD as the Creator of the universe. At the next meeting of the group Benjamin Franklin brought a beautifully designed and executed model of the sun and our entire solar system. The earth and the other planets were in their proper relationship to the sun and to each other and of appropriate sizes. It was a masterpiece. Upon seeing it, one of the sophisticated members of the club asked, “Who made it?” Dryly, without the trace of a smile, Franklin responded, “No one. It just happened.”*
Why is it that those who put forth such a doctrine, and those who believe it, can easily see the principle behind the model which Mr. Franklin had, but fail to see the same principle when applied to the real universe? Why is it that they can easily understand that a watch or a car had to have had a maker, but think that this grand complicated universe in which we live, and all of the life contained therein, just happened to come about by chance?
“…They are like blind people leading other blind people, and all of them will fall into a ditch." (Matt. 15:14).
*The section quoted was taken from the book, “I Believe Because….” By Batsell Barrett Baxter, p. 54.)
