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12it is superstitious to accept a Creator God. Yet,they maintain silence.Why?Because they don't know. And what theyknow points to the irrevocable truth - as someprivately admit - that there HAD to be a CreatorGod, having supreme mind, that brought the universeinto existence.JAMES A. COLEMAN, professor of science andpopular science writer, startles us with these words:"Modern cosmology and cosmogony, like otherbranches of science, are concerned with investigatingthe laws of the universe. They DO NOTATTEMPT TO ANSWER questions relating toan Original Cause - that is, WHERE the laws ofthe universe came from or how they came intobeing" (Modern Theories of the Universe, page197).As a teacher, Dr. Coleman must face students,who ask, "WHERE did matter come from?" Afterall, it's a logical question.Dr. Coleman admits, "When giving a lectureon the ORIGIN of the universe, a scientist usuallyfinds it difficult to handle questioners who persistentlydemand to know WHERE the material originallycame from which now makes up the universe"(Modern Theories of the Universe, page 198).Yes, scientists probably find it difficult to"handle" questioners who would be so persistent!But you can believe many of them are "handled."Many a college student, asking embarrassing andpersistent questions of biologists, paleontologists,astronomers, ecologists and the like, are quiteeasily handled.Subjected to ridicule, referred to the "Scopes'trial," or simply told to shut up about it, theseeager questioners soon learn how to avoid the badgrades and embarrassing classroom scenes. They're"handled" all right - as shocking as it may soundto the uninitiated.By the thousands, young collegians are toldto forget all belief in God; to CAST ASIDE all traditionalvalues and "absolutes." They are subjectedto a great deal of intellectual pressure to simplyBE QUIET about religion and God in scientificclassrooms.Asking "Why" is Meaningless?FRED HOYLE, famed astronomer, says that evenasking such questIons as: "Where did matter comefrom?" is meaningless."There is," he tells us, "an impulse to askWHERE originated material comes from. But such aquestion is entirely meaningless within the termsof reference of science."Why is there gravitation? Why do electricfields exist? WHY IS THE UNIVERSE?"These queries are on the par with askingwhere newly originated matter comes from, andare just as meaningless and unprofitable."But, why? Is it really logical to reject an answerwhen no other is forthcoming?He continues:"If we ask why the laws of physics ... we enterinto the territory of metaphysics - the scientistat all events will not attempt an answer ... WEMUST NOT GO ON TO ASK WHY." (Frontiersof Astronomy, page 342.)But is it really meaningless to ask why? Ordoes the author want you to think it is, so youwon't?Science Cannot Answer "Why"Scientists don't know WHY there are laws, WHYthere is matter, WHY there is a universe, WHY thereis life. And they admit it!SIR BERNARD LOVELL, famed astronomer andDirector of the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories,Jodrell Bank, reviews the problem of theorigin of the universe."Any answer lies OUTSIDE the scope of scientificobservation and theory and ... the answer to thecosmological problem may well contain OTHERFACTORS than observational astronomy and theoreticalcosmology" (Our Present Knowledge of theUniverse, page 73).What are the "other factors"? None other thanthe Creator God!Although science knows something about WHATthe Universe is composed of, and a certain amountabout HOW it works, HARLOW SHAPLEY, one ofAmerica's foremost astronomers, confessed, "Butwhen it comes to 'why' we're stuck, all we cansay is 'God only knows.' And the information isclassified."Science has found the basic hydrogen atom,but who made the hydrogen atom? Science comesup against some things which are unanswerableas yet."When There Is No Proof -ASSUME!What do scientists do when they cannot provea theory?The very first thing to do, seemingly, isASSUME!A college textbook on geology declares, withoutthe slightest hint of blushing, "Since the problemof the ultimate origin of the universe may bebeyond the reach of human science, it is better for
13us to commence our discussion with the ASSUMPTION that certain arrangements of matter andspace are ALREADY in existence" (Stokes, Essentialsof Earth History, page 127).Notice!Where do scientists BEGIN? Where do theystart? With ASSUMPTIONS! With matter already inexistence.Since accounting for the origin of the universeis too painful a scientific headache for most astronomers,they conveniently start with just a smatteringof theory about the ORIGIN of matter, and thenproceed to an already full-blown, fantastic universecomplete with stars, planets, galaxies, and everythingelse!Outside Science?Evolution colors all scientific thinking, includingthe realm of astronomy. But it has NOT led toany satisfying answer!Scientists themselves admit, when pressed,"We are today under the spell of the evolutionarythinking begun 150 years ago by Kant and Laplacein astronomy, by Thomas Vuckle and Herder inhistory, by Bufion, Lamarck and Darwin inbiology." They confess, "We the children of thesegenerations automatically think in terms of evolution,assume that everything had a beginning,and that this beginning was 'chaos.' "And then, striking at the root of the problem,they are beginning to wonder, "The question nowarises as to whether astronomical problems can besolved by evolutionary trains of thought" (Kahn,Design of the Universe, page 202).Dr. Jesse L. Greenstein, astrophysicist at theCalifornia Institute of Technology, said in regardto the origin of the universe, "It is a terribleMYSTERY how matter comes out of nothing." Heasked, "Could it have been something outsidescience?" Dr. Greenstein confessed, "We try tostay out of philosophy and theology, but sometimeswe are forced to think in bigger terms, to go backto something outside science." (Los Angeles Times,July 30, 1961.)You have now read with your own eyes - theproblems astronomers face. God is rejected asCreator.But cosmologists have no substitute for Him.They admit that the origin of the universecannot be explained.Origin of Universe a MysteryScience has no answer for the origin of ouruniverse.Yet, much of science dogmatically INSISTS onrejecting the only possible answer - that of specialcreation by the great Architect of all that exists!God has not left science without a witness!Scientists SHOULD be the most awestruck ofALL MEN about God! Scientists, with their variousapparatuses for observation, measurement, andexperimentation - SHOULD be men of DEEP SPIRITUAL CONVICTION, absolutely thunderstruck by themagnificence of the things they study!Some are. By no means is all science completelyatheistic. Many leading scientists have cometo see the hand of a Divine Creator in our materialcreation - but they are vastly outnumbered bythose who deny that powerful hand.So - admitting they have NO ANSWER - theyfall back on an ancient superstition.And superstition it is.Strange as it may seem, atheistic science standsguilty of the very thing for which it accuses "Creationists."It stands guilty of incredible DOGMATISM- repeated insistence on doctrines NOT PROVEDNOT TESTED - NOT OBSERVED; and it stands guilty ofclinging to some of the most ancient superstitionsever to be hatched in the demented minds of philosophersof dim ages past - that this materialcreation "evolved" by accident, and that mancame from animals!This orderly universe operates on LAWS. It isUPHELD by laws. It exists for a great PURPOSEapurpose so far beyond the wildest imaginings ofmost professing Christians it would take theirbreath!The very One who DID all the creating cameto this earth with a message about that greatPURPOSE. But men rejected His message - whileprofessing to accept His person.But this Work of God ACCEPTS the wholemessage of Christ! We do NOT deny the accurate,measured, carefully PROVED scientific data of thismodern age - we welcome it enthusiastically! Butwe DO most seriously reject MYTH, and SUPERSTITION.And evolution is precisely that.Startling AdmissionsThe universe and this earth exists-that muchwe know. But where did matter come from? Whydoes this universe operate according to law? Howdid such awesome complexity in this universeandon earth arise?The question came up in a high-poweredmeeting of leading scientists some years ago.Harlow Shapley, noted astronomer, was explainingthe state of knowledge on the matter.
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