Where did we come from?  Why are we here?  Is there any meaning or purpose to life?  Is there life after death?  The question of our origin is very important, and continues to be a topic of great difference of viewpoint and intense controversy.

If we are simply the accidental accumulation of cosmic material, then there is no meaning to life, and we are morally free to do, as we like.  However, if we are the purposeful creation of God, then God owns us and has moral right to govern us.  Furthermore, it is God’s purpose inherent in his creative acts that gives ultimate meaning to things.

Historically, many intelligent and educated people have embraced the supernatural view of our origin.  However, in the last 150 years or so, powerful persons who reject the supernatural view and adhere to a naturalistic, materialistic position have gained control over our academic, governmental, news media, political, institutions and over most religious institutions.

Although roughly 50% of Americans believe the Creator God specially constructed this world, and although the founding principle of the USA, the Declaration of Independence, is plainly founded on this same understanding, people who hold to special creation are discriminated against in many ways. 

This author praises the Creator for the great opportunity the Internet or World Wide Web affords to publish the very great amount of evidence and logic clearly pointing to God’s special act of creation.  This same evidence and logic is deliberately and systematically suppressed, ignored and omitted from public view, by these academic, governmental, media, political, and religious institutions. 

I dare say that of people who have the opportunity to understand this volume of evidence, perhaps 85% will admit the special creation position is extremely strong and compelling. This can be seen in the proportion of Internet origin web sites favoring each of the two viewpoints.  If one looks at say, Yahoo’s origins site, one can see that perhaps 90% or more of the listed sites dealing with the origin’s question, favor the special creation position.  Only a few argue the evolutionist position.

This overwhelming majority in creationist origin web sites is due to several things.  First and foremost, is that tremendous advances are occurring in humanly made technology and, in parallel, tremendous advances in our knowledge of the intricacies of living things and in the marvels of the cosmos.  One’s mind naturally compares, on the one hand, human technology which we know demands the utmost of great creative intelligence, skill and hard work, and on the other hand the exceedingly high levels of technology in living things and in the cosmos as these higher and higher levels are revealed by further and further high tech discoveries.  Logic, one might even say common sense, demands, that if the advanced technology seen, and ever increasingly so, in human inventions, requires the utmost of very careful thought, intelligence, experiment, engineering and hard work, then so too must the incredibly high technology which is evident, and again, increasing so, as researchers probe deeper and deeper into the incredible complexities of the living world, and of the cosmos.  Secondly, it is due to persons of this persuasion boldly publishing this viewpoint in spite of ridicule, and discrimination by much of the establishment.  And thirdly, and I don’t mean to say lastly, the Great Creator himself continues to move time and space and all his creation toward a purposeful and meaningful climax and an ultimate conclusion.

Most who hold this position speak of several important features.  First, that the personal Creator God deliberately constructed this universe and all things in it.  Second, that the Creator found it necessary to destroy all air breathing life on this planet with a world wide flood of water and that this world flood is evidenced by billions of fossils, extensive layers of sedimentary rocks, massive fossil fuel deposits, and by many other geological features, as well as by a number of ancient historical documents, oral traditions, and artifacts.  Thirdly, that this world is young, on the order of 6-8 thousands of years, not millions or billions of years.  Historically, around 1800, Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin’s grandfather put forth his theory of evolution.  But is fell flat on its face because it was generally understood the world was about 6000 years old, per the Bible, and it was inconceivable that all life forms could come about by chance in this short time.  Between 1830-1850, Sir Charles Lyell, an attorney and very prominent early geologist, and a president of the British Royal Society, convinced people the world was very old, perhaps millions of years.  Then, when Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution in 1859, it caught on very quickly, because Lyell had stretched the time frame so that people could now conceive of all things evolving over a very long period of time.  Thus, the age of the earth is vitally connected to whether earth’s geology is the record of evolution or the record of creation and the great worldwide flood.

Although creationist arguments can certainly stand without any reference to the Bible or other religious teachings, since they are based on physical evidence and logic, most creationists do see that physical evidence and logic going hand in hand with the Bible.  Here the origins debate becomes more intense.  It is the correlation, the fit, between the Bible and Nature that causes intense concern.

It is my view that the Creator deliberately made Nature and Scripture (Bible) to fit or match in their testimonies.  I argue it is like a key and a lock, or like a computer network login and password, or like a military code and decoding book.  That is, the Creator wrote the Bible through the agencies of men, down through human history, and this historical record matches the evidence from nature, insofar as physical and historical evidence is understood.  It is because of this match, as a key and lock, or a login and password, that we may be confident the same almighty Creator is the maker of both this physical world and the Bible.  Thus, the Bible may be trusted in areas of spiritual truth, in regard to future events, and in regard to the hereafter.  The doctrine of special creation is crucial.