Oh, Say Can You See?

As I was preparing my breakfast this morning it occurred to me, right out of the blue, what an amazing thing seeing is. I grew up in Southern California, believing that evolution was true and somehow Christianity was true too. The one came from school, the other from home and church. The main thing about Christianity that amazes folks is, or should be, the amazing miraculous claim that Jesus rose from the dead. Without that everything else is just silly. Of course, believing that Jesus rose from the dead, is silly if you don’t believe it.

So, back to the seeing thing. Evolution says that everything evolved from nothing, or big bang, to what we see around us today. Oh, I get it, we see around us today. But how does that sight thing work? How did we go from being cells floating around loose, to them getting together, to continuing to multiply, to become something else and on and on?

Okay, my thinking jumped forward several bezillion years to blind people. I’m pretty sure this isn’t how evolutionists think it happened. But still, how did blind people live in the world without all the cool things we have today that protect blind people from the things around them that can see? Or maybe we were the first mammals who could see? How did all those blind mammals find food?

Or take eyes and how they work inside the head with brains and all that. What kind of strange thing do evolutionists believe that cause us to go from a mass of junk in our heads to eyeballs and nerves and brains and connections and all that, so that in the end, we can see and catch balls, and shoot arrows, and grow things, and all the other thing we can do because we have eyes that see?

Then I got to thinking about all the other things that I can do, we can do, that we couldn’t do slowly, over time. I suppose we could go from not walking to walking over time, but what about all the muscles and nerves and bones that are required to do all those things?

Then I thought, which takes more faith? To believe that God created all this cool stuff and as part of it raised Jesus from the dead? Or to believe that all this, even the ability to think, happened accidentally, by chance over any number of years? I mean how could anyone live without being able to see? Or without his mouth working properly? Clearly, non-Christians have just as much faith as Christians. Theirs is just in things they haven’t thought through very well.

Another thing that came to me while I was writing this down. Both groups of people believe in miracles. Christians believe that God created stuff out of nothing, and mature stuff at that. They also believe that God created mankind to be in relationship with him and when they rebelled, he sent his son to pay the penalty for that rebellion. And then to prove it, he raised him from the dead. That miracle I mentioned in the beginning.

Non-Christians believe that everything came to be what it is from nothing, over a long period of time. That isn’t a miracle it’s a whole long line of miracles all run together, back-to-back-to-back-to-back, and in a random direction that just happened to end up where we are today.

So, both groups believe in miracles. One explains the data. God is good.

And I did get to eat breakfast.

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