I have to admit the idea for this blog came from something I read online a few days ago... but it got me thinking...

If science is so smart... why do some scientists state eating eggs is bad for you, while others state you should eat at least one a day.   Some say "no caffeine" (I don't care much for those guys) and others say "caffeine increases brain activity."  (Yay for them!)

Some say drink cold water because it burns more calories to warm it to body temp., others say room temperature water only.  You don't want to shock your system.

Yet others say "no chocolate..."   They couldn't possibly know what they're talking about so I stopped listening to them.

Sooooo....

Who do you believe?  I guess we have to go with our convictions.  My grandfather ate wonderful things like bacon, eggs and American fries every day for breakfast and lived to be a ripe old age.  Did I mention he smoked a pipe?   He was convinced he should eat what he liked.

His wife, my grandma, sat in her chair and ate Russell Stover candies daily with her chihuahua Fritzie.   She lived to be quite old, too.  As did the dog.   She was convinced that after raising ten kids she was due to sit in a chair and eat chocolates.

Aren't eggs, bacon, fries, smoking and sitting all day while eating chocolates bad for you?  I guess not.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and make a statement:  Scientists don't know everything.

Having stated this, let's look at something else scientists might be wrong about.  It's called Creation.   Crazy little particles spinning around and decided to explode and "Bang" there you have it.  Earth.  With all of its balanced eco systems.  And not too close to the sun.  Or too far away.  Just right.

And the perfect balance of oxygen in the atmosphere.  Not too much. Or too little.  But just right.

Need I go on?

Science can only guess at what the Bible states to be fact.  God spoke and "Bang!"  everything He said happened.  

My convictions tell me the Bible gives the true and accurate story of what happened way back when.  The time when there was nothing.  And God took that nothing and made something.

And I'm convinced that's how it happened.  

Today I was reading a page from The Case for A Creator by Lee Strobel..  He was writing on the subject of the earth being created by random happenstance. 

This example is my own, although closely linked to the example given in the text.  Suppose I was holding a bunch of markers in my hand, all with the caps removed and the felt tip exposed.  Now I take those markers and drop them from shoulder height onto the floor and several of them "accidentally" spell out my name accurately and completely.  Impossible, you say?  Of course it is. 

Yet those same people who would declare this to be impossible could be the same who stand on the infirm ground of claiming all of the universe "accidentally" fell together.  No Grand Designer.  No ultimate Plan.   If this is true, then why wouldn't the pens "accidentally" spell out my name?  It would seem the lesser of two improbabilities would be the writing.

"...it's supremely improbably that the fine-tuning of the universe could have occurred at random, but it's not at all improbably if it were the work of an intelligent designer.  So it's quite reasonable to choose the design theory over the chance theory.  We reason that way all of the time."  (Dr. Robin Collins... The Case for a Creator, Psalm 89:5-13)