I watched as leading scientist Stephen Hawking recently hosted a television show about evolution and how it works. He explained the process (wrongly, in my opinion) whereby, over extremely long periods of time, species can turn into other species. I dealt with that subject in the past, and am supremely confident that Hawking is wrong.

But Hawking claims more. He says there is no god!  His position on the matter is our reminder that it’s the millions (maybe even billions) of people who believe as he does. So, what should we believers do about it? The best answer I can think of is the truthful teaching of the subject in our schools.

You may or may not be aware that most scientists are non-believers. Their reasoning is based upon a single premise: the supernatural! God, also referred to as an intelligent designer or higher power, to them is a supernatural myth. They can’t see or touch Him, therefore, He doesn’t exist. This is true of many other positions of scientists, which, incredibly, are often taught in schools as fact!

If I had the opportunity, I’d begin a debate with Hawking about God, starting with the formation of the planet earth. My arguments would contain the irrefutable LOGIC that proves my case…and, I believe, disproves his.

My first argument would be to state that the earth could only have come into existence in two ways–either chance or design. Most scientists think that everything just came into being by chance, beginning with the big bang many billions of years ago. That positon, of course, makes no sense. If that were true, brainless chance would have had to create everything on earth in advance of occupancy by humans and other animals, not to mention plant life. I’ll give a few examples of what I mean.

First, I don’t have a firm opinion as to the length of time it took the earth to form. For my purposes here, however, I lean toward the theory that it took billions of years to accomplish. It is very easy to conclude, as scientist will happily agree, that it originated from clumps of rocks and other heavenly bodies crashing into one another and growing by sticking together. Before it became as it now is, it was simply a very large, hot rock revolving around the sun.

Since nobody knows the actual truth, I’m going to assume that the sun and moon were present when the earth was in the process of forming. The sun and moon are the exact distance from us, enabling them to perform needed gravitational functions that are critical to supporting life on earth. (It would take a real scientist to further explain the points I’m making in these short paragraphs, so I’ll leave further research up to the reader.)

So, imagine this rock creating an atmosphere that will one day accommodate all breathing things. On top of that implausible act, how did it create the exact chemical contents that would be necessary if breathing creatures are going to occupy the earth? Critical to this would be the untold billions of trees it would take to recycle the exhaled air from all the humans and animals.

Also, creating fresh water for drinking, plus salt water in mammoth amounts (remember, all of this had to happen on a rocky surface) would be absolutely necessary. It’s also handy that water recycles itself (rain), so the supply would be endless. As a matter of fact, I can’t think of one thing on the earth that doesn’t recycle itself.

After all the new creations were complete, they  would be ready for use by humans, animals, sea and plant life from who came from knows where. Their body parts, internal as well as external, must be in perfect synchrony with their habitat. Their food must be agreeable with its mission to keep them alive. The air must be breathable. Their water must be drinkable and so forth. They must have brains of some sort, otherwise how could they function?

There you have it. It’s clear that someone with extraordinary power and skills beyond our comprehension, converted a very large and hot rock into a lush, very beautiful, AS WELL AS VERY FUNCTIONAL, home for us. There is nothing comparable to it in the observable universe. I’m sorry if Mr. Hawking doesn’t believe in God. Come to think of it, maybe he does believe, but fears ridicule by his fellow scientist for saying it.

We’ll know for sure when we get to Heaven!

Note #1: As I was writing this, I realized the subject was impossibly hard to put into just a few words. “All about science.org” is a huge source of information, which offers further details on the above subject, plus gets into other things that are interesting and often surprising.

Note #2: Some say that over a period of time anything can happen. Not true. Take a grandmother clock, leave it alone for billions of years, and see how long it would take it to give birth to a wrist-watch. It will never happen. Things like this fall under the heading: IMPOSSIBLE.

Note #3: I plan to offer something similar to the above with DNA. Stay tuned.