ICR:Were you there?  by Ken Ham

   "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?" (Job
38:4).

   What a science lesson God had for Job! God was teaching Job the
philosophy of science, a lesson everyone needs to learn.

   I like to paraphrase the verse this way: "Were you there, Job, when
I made the earth? Did you see Me do it, Job? Did you observe how it
happened, Job? Were you there to see Me create the world, Job?"

   Millions of people in today's world are taught that the earth and
the entire universe resulted from the Big Bang, a cosmic explosion
which occurred up to twenty billion years ago involving all the matter
and energy in the universe. In most instances in public education, this
is taught as if it were fact, and the gullible public, by and large,
just accepts it as so. Yet there is no scientific proof for the Big
Bang theory. It is just a story, based on the speculations of
scientistsfallible human beings who do not know everything and who
were not there to see it happen.

   Carl Sagan presents the Big Bang theory as if it were fact. We need
to ask him the same sort of questions God was putting to Job: "Were you
there, Carl, when the earth came into existence? Do you know anyone who
was there, Carl? Do you know anyone who has all the information?"

   The other important fact God was teaching Job was that only God
knows everything (has all information all evidence). No human being
has all the information. In fact, compared to what God knows, we
fallible human beings know next to nothing. Follow through the words to
Job in Chapter 38: "Who shut up the sea?.... Hast thou commanded the
morning?.... Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth?.... Where is
the way where light dwelleth? Knowest thou it?...Hast thou entered into
the treasures of the snow?.... Knowest thou the ordinances of
heaven?....Can'st thou send lightnings?...."

   We need to take the points God was teaching Job and apply them to
the way theories of origins are taught to our children. When they are
told that the universe and life evolved over billions of years, they
need to ask two basic questions: "What observer saw all this happen?
What scientist has all the information (all the evidence) who can
therefore scientifically prove that evolution happened?" The answer?
According to evolutionary theories, there were no observers to these
long-ago events, and there is no human being who knows everything!
Evolution is not a scientific theory; it is a belief based on the words
of sinful, fallible humans who have a small, finite amount of
information. Thus, when it comes to connecting the past to the present
to try and explain how the world came into existence, scientists could
be totally wrong. In fact, evolutionary theories themselves "evolve,"
as these scientists keep finding information that causes them to change
their ideas. The most that can be said is that some of the evidence can
be interpreted along the lines of the Big Bang scenario, but that is
certainly not the only interpretation possible, nor is it the best
interpretation possible.

   The Bible teaches plainly concerning Jesus Christ, the One "who
created all things" (Colossians 1:16), "in Him... are hid all the
treasures of wisdom and knowledge" (Colossians 2:3). The Creator God,
who has always been there, "changeth not," and knows all things (has
infinite knowledge). The only way we could ever come to the right
conclusions about anything is by starting with the word (knowledge) of
the One who knows everything, and build all our thinking, in every
area, upon that basis.

   It is interesting to note that God's Word, in II Peter 3, gives us
the prophecy that in the last days people will deliberately choose not
to believe that God created the world (described in Genesis 1:1-8) or
believe that He sent a worldwide Flood as a judgment against sinful men
(Genesis, Chapters 69) and that He will come back to judge the world a
final time, with fire.

   Sadly, the prophecy of people deliberately choosing not to believe
God's Word is being fulfilled before our very eyes. The majority of
people today believe the universe started with a big bang. Next the
galaxies and later the sun formed, and the earth finally came into
existence covered with "fire" (a hot molten blob)exactly opposite of
what the Bible says. They are taught there never was a worldwide
Floodexactly the opposite of what the Bible teaches. They are often
taught that the earth will die of the cold because of the earth's
freezing over when the sun runs out of energy exactly the opposite of
what God's Word teaches us.

   We need to ask ourselves this question: "Where do we put our faith
and trust? In the words of scientists who don't know everything, who
were not there? Or in the Word of Godthe God who does know
everythingand who was there?

   At the Institute for Creation Research, our highly qualified and
experienced scientists study the scientific data regarding origins, and
claim their research shows that the evidence from the universe fits
perfectly with what the Word of God says, and not well at all with the
evolutionary theories of men!

   Carl Sagan's Big Bang theory is WRONG! How do we know that for sure?
Because God was thereCarl Sagan wasn't! God knows everything Carl
Sagan doesn't! This world did NOT have a fiery start from a big bang,
but it surely will have a fiery end with a big bang, for "the heavens
shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with
fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be
burned up" (II Peter 3:10).

   What hope is there then? "Nevertheless we, according to His promise,
look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness"
(II Peter 3:13).

   What should we do about it? "Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look
for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace,
without spot, and blameless" (II Peter 3:14).

   We can also be diligent in telling others about the truth of
creation, man's rebellion, the need of salvation, and warning them of
the coming Big Bang !
