You don’t believe in God?
(or What really happened to Evolution on the way to reality?)
Originally written in May 2002, updated Feb 2010, 2023, and 2026
To not believe in God means you have to believe that a large number of random
events happened in the right place at the right time in the right way for you to be
sitting here reading this document. I will list a few items for you to think about.
Let me start with the Earth itself.
There is a list of 122 things that had to happen for life to exist on Earth. To list all
122 items is more than what I wish to do here, so I will only list a few.
The Earth has to be at an exact distance from the Sun. If we were any closer or
further by just a few miles, we could see by the change in seasons that we would
be too cold or too hot for this planet to sustain life.
The Earth spins on an axis that is tilted at just the right angle. Any more or less,
and the delicate balance between seasons would throw much of this planet into
vast cold or hot areas that could not sustain life.
The amount of land versus water is just right. A little less water and we would
have mostly dry arid desert land areas. A little more water and we would be
under an atmosphere of clouds, making life difficult to sustain.
The rotation of the Earth is just right. If it went faster or slower, the different
time of exposure to the sun would change the temperatures enough so the planet
would not be able to sustain life. This also affects our gravity pull. Could we
survive in a different gravity?
Our rotation around the Sun is perfect. Any change in the orbit around the Sun
would greatly affect our temperatures and our ability to sustain life.
Something very important: The temperature of the sun. We take for granted that
our sun has a constant temperature. Many stars fluctuate in temperature. Even
with solar flares, our sun remains at a fairly constant temperature. Consider that
the sun is hundreds of thousands of degrees hot; imagine if it fluctuated by a few
percent? The temperature variations on Earth would be unbearable. All the
factors are perfectly in place, and with a stable sun to keep the temperature
just right. It is like baking a cake. There had to be a chef.
When we look at how the weather patterns shape the overall environment, we
can see the delicate balance needed to sustain life. El Niño raises the temperature
in the Pacific by just a few degrees. This warming causes drastic changes in the
weather patterns. When writing this, my area of Southeast America is in a
four-year drought pattern because of a few degrees change in water temperature
that happened several years ago. Meanwhile, another area gets heavier than
normal rainfall and flooding.
The global warming Climate Change scare. Whether it is real or not, the fact
remains that scientists are afraid that if we raise the temperature of the Earth by
just a few degrees, we could destroy all life on Earth. Ruin the planet, they say.
How did we get such exact, perfect temperatures? By random chance?
The Earth had to have the right balance of chemicals, minerals, and water for
things to grow. Man breathes out carbon dioxide and needs oxygen. Plants take
in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen. Man needs fruits, nuts, and berries to
survive. Plants need natural chemicals to grow and produce fruits, nuts, and
berries. Scientists worry that the cutting of trees in the Amazon forest will upset
the delicate balance between animals and plants. How did we get that delicate
balance to start with? How did random chance know that man would need the
plants, and plants would need man? It looks like it was planned, doesn't it?
There's the evolution of plants. Humans need all sorts of nutrients that only plants
can provide. How did plants evolve with the exact vitamins and nutrients man just
happen to need to have a fully functioning, healthy body? Random chance?
Now there is the Ozone layer. I love this one. Life on Earth cannot exist without
the ozone layer. The ozone layer is a protective covering around the Earth; if
compressed, it would be a few millimeters thick. Without it, the sun's radiation
(UV-A-B & C rays) would burn every living thing up. The ozone layer is created
when sunlight interacts with oxygen (O2). You would need a sufficient amount of
oxygen to create the initial ozone layer to protect the entire planet. If you look
through most textbooks, they will not tell you how the ozone layer was first
created. They assume that it was just there (by random chance?).
Oxygen comes from plants, which take in carbon dioxide. If the carbon dioxide in
the atmosphere increases, plants love it and grow in greater abundance,
generating more oxygen. The ozone layer needs plants to generate oxygen, and
plants need the ozone layer to prevent being burned up. So how did Earth get the
large amount of oxygen to create the ozone layer to protect the planet thousands
or millions of years before the first plant ever evolved? Which came first, the plant
or the ozone layer? Are there rocks that can generate large amounts of oxygen?
No. Did aliens drop off oxygen generators and pick them up after plants developed?
Don’t think so. We needed plants to generate oxygen to create the ozone layer,
which was needed to support human life. How could this happen?
How did the ozone layer know that it had to be there? How did that little thin layer
decide to be where it is? Why did it know we couldn't live if it were not there? Did
we just happen to have an ozone layer and the right amount of oxygen from nowhere
to support life that wasn’t created yet, life whose creation is statistically and
scientifically impossible? So was all this really an accident? Possibly, they both
happened at the same time. It’s called creation.
In addition, we had to have the just right ratio of oxygen to CO2. Oxygen makes up
21% of the Earth’s atmosphere. If it were 25% or more, then fires would erupt
spontaneously. If Oxygen were 15% or less, humans would suffocate.
If CO2 levels were higher, then the runaway greenhouse gas effect would develop.
We would all burn up. If CO2 levels were too low, plants would not be able to
maintain photosynthesis. Thus, lower oxygen levels. Again, we would all suffocate.
These are just a few of the factors that were needed for life on Earth to exist. And
we haven’t even gotten to life itself. But we can see there are so many factors that
have to be perfectly balanced for life to exist, and any imbalance would leave this
planet lifeless. So how did we get that perfect order? If you looked at a jigsaw
puzzle laid out on a table, put together in perfect order, you couldn’t say that it
came together by random chance. You know someone had to put that puzzle
together. If I said someone opened the box, threw all the pieces in the air, and the
pieces landed together, in exact order, perfectly assembled on the table, you would
call me a liar for sure. But people who don’t believe in God easily say all the pieces
for life just fell out of space, landed perfectly assembled, and it happened by random
chance. Random chance? Ask a scientist how all these things came together so
perfectly, and you get all kinds of theories. But in our schools, evolution is
represented as fact, and they say creationism is a religious fairy tale. I think maybe
the science of evolution is a religious fairy tale.
Moving on, let’s consider the second law of thermodynamics: The law of Entropy.
This law states, "Energy spontaneously tends to flow only from being concentrated
in one place to becoming diffused and spread out." Simply stated, “Everything
decays”. Everything goes from a higher state to a lower state. Things rot. Things
deteriorate. Just walk into a vacant house that has been sitting for years. It
changed from the day the last family moved out. Is it in better condition or worse?
Worse, of course. It decayed. The paint peeled. The pipes rusted. There is wood
rotting. Why? Entropy. Put a brand new car into storage. Leave it there for twenty
years or more. When you come back, will it still look like a brand new car? Now I
do know it went out of style, but that is not what I’m talking about. It sat there and
rusted, and rotted, and faded, the foam in the seats stinks, and the engine won’t
turn over. What happened? Entropy again. Everything Decays. Every time an
object changes from one state to another, energy is given off, and the resulting
material is less than it was to start with. Evolution says the objects became more,
not less. Evolutionists would rather have faith in a process that goes against the
laws of physics than to admit there is a God. It is not a question of whether evolution
is right or not, but it is a group of men looking for any answer except believing in
God.
Evolution says we evolved upward, going against the laws of nature, “Entropy”.
Somehow, we fought against Entropy from a simple, single-cell organism into a
highly complex, well-organized, highly coordinated life form called man. Somehow,
someway, some strange still unexplained series of events, continued over billions of
years (it was millions of years when I was a kid in the 50’s, but they keep revising
the fact to fit their theory), causing cells to grow upward into higher and higher life
forms until we have all these different kinds of animals, plants and people. Well, I
have an explanation. It wasn’t a series of events; it was a single event. It didn’t
happen over billions of years. It happened in seven days. It is called Creation. You
look at the entire world. Not only do the things mentioned above indicate that
there had to be a Creator, but the design in all the plants, the animals, and man
himself says there has to be a designer. Take a leaf and look at it. It has a pattern.
All the trees have their own pattern. I can tell what kind of tree the leaf came from
by its pattern. So who designed the pattern?
Have you ever noticed that every few years, scientists and archaeologists seem to
make a new discovery, and each time the discovery causes them to “rethink” their
theories of evolution?
Scientists discovered a man’s fossils in China in the 90’s that pointed to two
different root chains of evolution for the African and Asian man. Two totally
different evolutionary processes created two different men who were the same
internally and externally, except for the skin color and eyes. Two different processes
of evolution created men with identical designs. Amazing! By the way, this got
swept under the rug out of sight because it contradicted all their theories.
Last year, they made more discoveries that they said meant the evolution process
started a billion years sooner than they thought. Still revising the “Facts”.
The entire process of evolution is based on theories, and then more theories are
created to fill in the gaps in the theories. Every time new evidence is found, they
have to create and adapt new theories to fit the evidence. In truth, none of the
theories line up with the facts. They are like myths of old. They start with a
physical reality (like a fossil or piece of bone), and then the imagination takes over.
That is what the science of evolution really is. Myths and creative imaginations that
are believed by men of science.
Now for the really good part: Man. Have you ever looked at your body? Have you
looked at it and wondered at how marvelous it is? Think of all the different parts
that work so well together. The body is full of so many systems, and they all work
together, better than any machine or device that man has made.
The nervous system. A tangle of fragile wires that run throughout the body, sending
precise messages back and forth to the brain. Man has yet to make a system that
works that well. The brain: Man has yet to make a computer that can accomplish
all the functions of the brain. Just to mimic the memory capacity of the brain, you
would need a building full of computers and hard drives to store and process all
the data. The interface between the brain and the nervous system. All those signals
are converted to meaningful messages from the body, and the brain responds by
sending messages that are converted back to signals that the body understands and
responds to. AT&T can only be jealous.
The digestive system and internal organs. They all work together like a complex
power processing plant that man has yet to duplicate. Know anyone with diabetes?
I do. Me. A few little beta cells lining the pancreas produce insulin. If they quit
working right, or your body develops a resistance to insulin, from that point on,
you are dying a slow death. Without those little cells doing their job, the sugar
(glucose) in your blood begins to destroy all the other organs in the body. Slowly,
one by one, they began to fail. The heart, kidneys, eyes, skin, and circulatory system
are all slowly destroyed. The greatest doctors in the world, working with the best
equipment and the accumulated knowledge of the most intelligent minds in the
world, are just starting to get an inkling of how the beta cells work. Why is it so hard?
Aren’t beta cells just one of those simple events that created themselves by random
chance?
The heart. It's a fabulous machine that works night and day. It responds to the needs
of the body and instantly reacts to the situation. Man is just beginning to build a
machine to substitute the heart, but their best work is still only good for a short
period of time. Random chance? Is it better than all the heart doctors in the world?
The lungs. You can’t do without breathing. Taking in all that oxygen that is created
by the delicate balance of nature. A balance that happens by random chance? When
the lungs aren’t working, you know it in instantly. Ask someone with cystic fibrosis,
or black lung disease, or asthma. All machines need fuel, and all machines need
oxygen to process the fuel. The lung is another perfect device in a perfectly made
machine. A perfect bellows takes in oxygen and blows out carbon monoxide.
Whoops! A bellows only blows air in and out. This one makes a transfer. It draws
oxygen in. It passes the oxygen to the blood and receives carbon dioxide from the
blood. Then blows the carbon dioxide out. What a device. Wish I had invented that.
Invent it? Man can’t even duplicate it. There is an artificial heart. There are
artificial legs and arms. But there is no true artificial lung. The process is so
complicated that it cannot be duplicated. Man can take your blood out of your body
and process it in a very complicated machine, imitating the lungs, and then put the
blood back into your body. Could you imagine all of us hooked up to machines,
running around trying to do our daily business? The reality is that once your lungs
are gone, that’s it. You die. The design of the lung is so far above man’s abilities,
and yet some think it happened by random chance.
The blood: the blood is amazing, it does so many things. It can carry oxygen and
nourishment to individual cells, utilizes insulin to pass the nourishment to the cells,
carries away impurities to the kidneys, and, most importantly, clots. If the blood
evolved like they say things did, then how did blood know it had to clot and prevent
the life form it was in from bleeding to death? While the life form was waiting for
things to evolve, if it got the slightest cut, it would die before the blood ever got a
chance to evolve. Any life form with blood would have to evolve over a long period
of time without ever getting a cut, but if it never got cut, so it would survive then
why did it learn to clot? No, blood clotting had to be predestined for it to ever be
functional. It had to do everything it needed to do right out of the box. The blood is
too complicated for it to have evolved.
The eye. An ophthalmologist and surgeon I once knew wasn’t a Christian, but he
strongly believed in God. He saw that the eye was such a perfect, delicate
instrument that it had to be created by an intelligent being. The way the eye works
means there had to be a God to create it. Nothing that complicated and perfect
could happen by random chance. The eye is another device that is so far above
man's ability that the best he can create is still on sale in the camera department
of a store.
And there is the muscular system. Again, nothing man has made can best the
muscular system. It is the greatest mechanical machine ever made. Yes, it was made.
Man can copy it. He can emulate it, but he can never duplicate it.
Another thing that is strangely opposite to the laws of physics is that the body can
heal itself. The natural order of things says everything decays, degrades, declines,
and wears out. The body’s ability to heal goes against natural law. If you built a car
and that car got crushed by a tree, it would simply stay crushed. The only way for
the car to be restored is to design a process that will bring it back to its original
state. A boulder is struck by lightning and splits in two. The boulder does not heal
itself. It is split forever. Life could not evolved if living things could not heal. If this
ability had to develop over time, then nothing would have survived the harsh, cruel
world long enough to develop. What type of life form could last for thousands of
years without the ability to heal? Doctors can do a lot, but they couldn’t do a thing
if the body could not heal itself. Your body having the ability to heal and restore
itself could have only come from some sort of intelligence. No logic in the world
could conclude that the ability to heal could have happened accidentally. The whole
human body is so complicated that it is beyond the ability of man to fully grasp. He
can doctor on it. He can try to patch it up. He can pathetically try to create
replacement parts. But he cannot ever restore the human body to its original
condition. Because the original is the most ingenious, most complicated design that
man has ever seen. Do you want to believe it was by random chance?
Then there is life itself. As you sit there and look at your body, think about it. Yes,
it is a wonderful machine. So complicated, all that blood doing its thing. The nerves
are doing their thing. The digestive system is doing its thing, and it's all working in
harmony as a perfectly tuned machine. Now ask yourself. Why? Why is it doing all
this? Why are you breathing? Why is your blood flowing and your heart beating?
Why? Because you have life. And where did life come from? Evolutionary scientists
(scientist really?) say life began somehow from a one-cell life form and grew and
multiplied into something higher (it overcame the law of entropy again) and grew
and grew and grew, got smarter and smarter, and now we have all this life running
all over the planet (a lot of them trying to kill one another).
How did that little-bitty cell get life in the first place? As I understand it, we need
three things to have a living organism at the basic level. An amino acid, a
chloroplast, and a protein. Somehow, those three items came together, had a
meeting, and decided to become a single living cell organism. Simple, right? Try
this. You believe in random chance? Okay. Take a blob full of amino acid, a measure
of chloroplast to process sunlight, and a pinch or two of protein. Now shake that
around in a jar for a while and then check it every so often to see if there is any life
in there. If you can’t find any life, then start shaking it again and again until you
have some life in that jar. (Now, moon shiners can find some life in a jar, but that’s
a different kind). Now you keep shaking that jar for a few thousand years, and
maybe, somehow, someway (they think) you might find life in that jar. The problem
is that the best minds under the best conditions with the best equipment still can’t
get those three little-bitty parts to come together and make a life. Yet all this is
supposed to have happened by random chance. Like I said, when I was young, they
used to say it all happened a few million years ago. Then they revised it to a billion
years. Now I think they are saying it’s somewhere around 4.3 billion years ago that
life began. You see, they are still figuring that if they shake that jar long enough,
sooner or later, they are still going to get life out of it. I think they would do better
if they talked to the moonshiners. They get a good brew, and it doesn’t take as long.
What are the statistical odds of life on Earth happening by random chance? How
difficult is it to win the Mega Million Jackpot? The odds say you are more likely to
be struck by lightning before winning Mega Million just one time. How about
winning the big Mega Million jackpot several times? Let's say five times. The odds
say that it is impossible. It will never happen. Now let's ask what are the odds of you
winning the Mega Million jackpot once every week for your entire life, about 3000
times are. You would say that is absolutely impossible. It will never happen. Those
are the same odds of life happening on Earth by random chance. It cannot and did
not happen. Do you still believe in random chance?
Here is another thing that doesn't fit logic or common sense. Even if there were the
rare remote possibility that life could have come from nothing, there is one thing you
cannot believe: reproduction. How would a fledgling life form know that it had to
reproduce and have the ability to do it? That is like telling a 1 day old child, "Well,
here you are. Now you've got to find food, feed yourself, and by the way, you've got
to reproduce before you die." That is what is required of a newly created life form.
It has to have some intelligence to begin with. It can't just be alive; it has to do
something to maintain its existence. Intelligent life can only come from an intelligent
source. Even if it is only a one-cell life form.
By the way, the chloroplast requires sunlight to process food, and the protein cannot
exist in sunlight. Gee, another conflict with the facts. I guess the little three-part
creature that came to life from nothing always moved around "sunny side up".
About 50 years ago, a scientist spoke at a UN conference and said that “it is proven
that Life can only come from other life, but because I cannot believe in a God,
therefore I must believe in evolution”. Gee, life can only come from life. That is the
process that science can prove. That is the real fact of life. Life cannot come from
nothing. Life cannot be created from nothing. The only good reason to believe in
evolution is that you choose not to believe in God. Ignore the facts. Make up some
facts. Do anything but believe in God. Is that true science? That is what I call a
figment of your imagination, a fairy tale sprinkled with scientific pixie dust.
Some scientists got together and, in a lab, under perfect conditions, after many trials
and failures, they created something similar to life. This was to be proof that life
could happen and justify their belief in evolution. The only problem is: The
experiment was created and planned. The equipment was designed, and the process
was controlled. The result, whatever it was, even if it was life itself, was going to be
the result of creation, a designer, an intelligent being, but not random chance.
Now, if you think life happened on this planet by random chance. That somehow all
the pieces came together like blowing up a junkyard and having all the parts fall into
a perfectly made Boeing 747, then there is one more thing to consider. All the
animals, insects, plants, and anything I left out, all live and function by instinct. Yes,
a lot of animals seem to be able to learn or react to training, but still, they operate
out of instinct. The only creature that doesn’t operate out of instinct is man. Man
reasons. Man thinks and makes moral decisions. Man has feelings and emotions.
Animals seem to have feelings and emotions, but man takes his feelings and emotions
and factors them into his reasoning and decision-making. Man has a mind, a will, and
emotions. Why? Why is he the only one? And where did it come from? Random
chance? Did we luck out or what? Nature drew lots, and we were the winners? The
bible says, “God breathed into man, and he became a living soul”. You have life, you
are living, and you have a soul, you have a mind, intelligence, a will, and emotions.
Did you see the movie AI? Artificial Intelligence. Men have spent millions of hours
developing computer programs that will have the ability to learn and make decisions.
Still, the somewhat successful programs can only process factual information. They
cannot process emotions and feelings. Thousands of hours of intelligent men trying
to do the seemingly impossible, mimicking the natural abilities of man. Natural
abilities that happened by random chance. Yeah right!
You have to answer one question and prove your answer. Can a series of random
events produce the highly involved and orderly complexities that we call life?
Morality. What is morality? You might say,” I want justice.” Compared to what? Where
did the concept of injustice come from if there were no standard of justice? How can
you say a line is crooked unless you know what a straight line looks like? To behave
righteously, we have to know the standard of righteousness. Why is it wrong to kill,
steal, abuse, and rape unless someone set the standard, or as we would call it,
natural law? What set that inherent nature within us that tells right from wrong?
God created us with a conscience that naturally tells us we did something wrong.
There is a natural law within us. Animals do not have a conscience. Only man. It is
man’s connection to God that tells him right from wrong. Righteous from unrighteous.
Moral from immoral. God set a straight line so we can see what a crooked line looks
like. Evolution cannot explain morality and conscience. Only a living God can.
Now, if you have decided in your soul (mind, will, and emotions) that you have life,
and it all came from a series of random events and happenings that by chance came
together at the right time, at the right place, in the right way, and out of all of it,
there you sit reading this. If, after all this, you still can’t believe in God, then your
faith must be overwhelmingly greater than mine. I believe it would take so much
greater faith for you to believe that all this happened through random chance than it
does for me to believe in God.
Now, if you truly want to know the truth about God. If you want to figure all this out,
do this: simply ask God to show you that He is real. If you ask with a sincere heart
and an open mind, He will reveal Himself to you, just you and Him, one on one. Ask,
and you shall receive.
If you are searching for the meaning of life, why are you here, or what is your
purpose, you will not find it in a science laboratory. All these are spiritual things,
and they can be found spiritually in the person of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
“Nubby” Cobb
