Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Friday, December 03, 2010 11:23:36 AM
It is widely asserted today by the advocates of scientific materialism that the universe owes its origin to a primeval explosion in which only matter and energy were available. The existence of the initial matter and energy is assumed. Note that when we assert that Genesis is the divine history of origins, the immediate objection surrounds the origin of the Creator. Why will the materialists not apply the same criticism to their own explanation of origins?
What is the origin of the initial matter and energy? This question along with the question of the origin of the cell is not insignificant for a theory that is supposed to explain everything else. We assert that any theory of origins that does not address the origin of matter or the origin of the living cell does not really explain anything. When these things are a given, then everything else is hand waving and void of substance, because there is no foundational support.
But according to this view, everything that we experience, observe and measure in our world is solely the result of matter and energy. We know that energy is related to matter through Einstein’s mass/energy equivalence relationship E = m*c^2 or if we understood how to go the other way m = E/c^2.
The assertion that the universe arose solely from matter and energy is demonstrably false. The “big bang theory” is just as much nonsense as a perpetual motion machine. In our world there is an abundance of information such as in the cells of all living things. Since information is a non-material entity, it cannot possibly have arisen from unaided matter and energy. Thus the common big bang worldview is patently false. [Gitt]
The Bible teaches that this world has not arisen from material processes of over billions of years and that man is not the product of gradual evolution of life from non-life, but through the special creation of an all-powerful God in six days. So we read in Exodus 20:11: “For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but He rested on the seventh day.”