Chance Could Not Have Done It…

As men move farther out from the magnificent earth and look back on its awesome beauty, its movement, its precision and proportion, upon the wondrous working, and magnificent majesty of it all, we come to the quiet conviction of these simple words: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth….”¹ Chance could not have done it. “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.”¹

Well, man has done much with his marvelous God-given mind, in the discovery and use of natural law. But much as man has done, he has scarcely touched the surface of all this majesty of meaning, and of infinite understanding.

Think a moment of the organizing and engineering and operation of it all⎯of keeping a world within a livable range of temperature; of air and water renewing themselves; of insect, animal and bacterial balance in infinite variety. And the creation is evidence of a Creator, design is evidence of the Designer, and law is evidence of its Maker and Administrator.

“When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house;” wrote Bruce Barton, “when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied onto a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all… [this] could have been created… without any directing intelligence at all.”² Then and only then will I believe that this was done by chance ⎯or without eternal plan and purpose.

“Behind everything stands God….” said Phillips Brooks. “Do not avoid, but seek the great, deep, simple things of faith.”³ “And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.”