The un-divine god of evolution

Genesis 1:1, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

In these ten words, we find perhaps the most terse, scientific statement ever penned. Time, space, and matter were created simultaneously and supernaturally by the uncaused, first cause. We call the Creator, God.

The rest of Genesis 1 goes on to explain how, in six days, God shaped the universe by His word. Genesis 2:2 then says God rested and made the 7^th day the Sabbath. Obviously, God didn't need to rest because He was tired. Rather, He ceased creating. Intentionally. So the Bible describes a brief time when everything in the universe miraculously began to exist, punctuated by a distinct event when matter/energy are no longer being created. This is consistent with what we've learned from science.

Apart from God, we have trouble making sense of the universe. You may remember learning about the law of conservation of energy which is sometimes summarized as, “energy can neither be created nor destroyed – it can only change forms.” But if energy can't be created, where did it all come from in the first place?

Natural laws are properties of the universe. We use them to describe how the universe behaves. Take gravity, for example. We're not sure what gravity is, but we're pretty successful when predicting how it behaves. But, if natural laws are properties of the universe, we can't really use them to explain the origin of the universe. Logically speaking, nothing can create itself; rather, everything that begins to exist is caused by something outside of itself. To invoke natural laws as some natural explanation for the universe, is like saying nature created nature, which is absurd. So the cause of the universe must be something outside of the universe, something “supernatural” by definition.

This line of argument has been called the Kalam Cosmological Argument. It's rather obvious and, to my knowledge, has not been successfully rebutted. Mind you, there have been many responses made by critics but, in my opinion, they all seem to suffer from a similar flaw. The critics are merely assigning divine-like qualities to the universe. They're essentially calling energy/matter eternal and uncaused.

Unbelievers are in denial about the religious nature of their beliefs about origins. They are trying to posit a creator with similar attributes that we normally associate with God. In other words, they want us to believe there is a supernatural, eternal, uncaused cause for the universe – but it's still not God! It's just something like God. The skeptics are invoking a god-like non-god to explain the same things Christians credit to God.

I've said before that unbelievers in God are believers in poofism. There was nothing then, POOF, there was everything. Time, space, and matter just poofed into existence. Something had to cause it to happen. They don't know what it was but they're sure it wasn't God. //RKBentley scratches his head//

I don't believe in God because it sort of makes sense. I believe in God because that's the only thing that makes sense. Everything we know about the universe confirms over and over there is a supernatural cause behind it. Deep down, skeptics tacitly admit this too. They just stubbornly deny Elohim is the Creator. The god of evolution is a capricious, clumsy, invisible god that is indistinguishable from dumb luck. They seek to rob God of His glory by worshipping the undivine god of evolution. How sad.