Did we human beings come from bacteria from Mars? Astonishing claims were made in August 1996 by astronomers who claimed to have identified a meteorite which landed in Antarctica, but which had allegedly come from Mars millions of years ago. Contained in the rock were the fossilized remains of bacteria, or, as some said, "evidence" of bacteria, meaning evidence that bacteria had contributed to the decay of living material of some kind, which had been fossilized.

        All major media news sources quickly trumpeted the story. President Clinton began pledging a renewed American effort in space. A NASA representative began speculating about a manned trip to Mars by the turn of the century!

        Some major news personnel, with coy smiles and laughter, began suggesting we are all really Martians!

        Is any of this true? For if it is, you and I may as well chuck our Bibles into the trash bin! After all, the Bible says God created the heavens and the earth.

        Our universe is an awesome place. Countless galaxies exist, vast distances from our own, consisting of hundreds of billions of stars.

        We have long suspected, and now know, that there are other planetary systems held in the gravitational field of distant stars other solar systems. Is all this in place for a purpose, or is our universe, our solar system, and the earth itself merely an "accident."

        Can we know why the universe exists? Why is there life on this earth?

        For centuries, man has wondered, "Are we alone in the universe? Is there life on neighboring planets?" For centuries, men have speculated about life on Mars. Many of us remember the incredible national panic when Orson Welles announced an "invasion from Mars" on a radio program many decades ago?

        Today, those who believe in aliens who visit earth, UFOs, and life in outer space are excited greatly encouraged by these sensational new announcements of astronomers and the liberal media. Why are we humans on this earth, a tiny speck in the vastness of space? Evolutionists have not the remotest idea. To them, we are cosmic accidents the result of billions of years of gradual change the descendants of amoeba.

        Evolutionists scornfully scoff at the Bible, which says, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..." (Genesis 1:1). "Where did you get this God'?" they ask. "Where did He come from? Who made this God?"

        Believers in God and the Bible might ask the same questions of evolutionists. Many accept the "big bang" theory, which states that a primeval "atom" of unimaginable size suddenly exploded, hurling matter in all directions matter which became the stars, planets, moons, and comets of our universe. Creationists might ask, "Where did you get that gigantic hydrogen atom?" "Who made it? Where did it come from? What caused it to explode?"

        Can the existence of God be scientifically proved? And if it can, does God reveal to us why the universe and our solar system exist, and why He created life on this earth?

        Could it be that our awesome universe, our beautiful world and all humanity, were deliberately planned and created for each other; that there was a great transcendental purpose?

Did We "Evolve" From Lower Life Forms?

        Millions do not believe in God. Evolution is no longer a "theory" to them, but proof that life has been around for millions of years, thus rending the story of Adam and Eve pure myth.

        Millions more, including many who go to church each week, are "theistic evolutionists." They believe that a "God" of some kind used evolution as His creative process.

        Still others insist that the Bible is the true record of the creation of mankind, and that there is no conflict between the Bible and true science.

        Is any of this true? Can you prove it one way or the other?

        Today, even the television documentaries on wildlife and nature are filled with statements about evolution. As children sit transfixed before the TV watching killer whales, or hummingbirds, or elephants, the narrator invariably speaks of how these creatures "evolved" into their present form; how "evolution" provided them with their techniques for survival.

        Few question the smooth, professional voice of the narrator. Why would a child of six, nine, or eleven question something as awesome as the wildlife programs shown on television?

        If they have no alternative; if their parents have not taught them about God, and about the glaring flaws in the theory of evolution, then millions of children are fair game for the anti-God, anti-Bible, anti-Creation forces in the media.

        The liberal media have made "creationists" into extremists by portraying anyone who believes in God and the Bible as some wild-eyed fanatic who might show up on the doorstep of an abortion clinic with an automatic rifle blazing!

        Of course, anyone who believes in Jesus Christ would never contemplate such a thing, but the modern media paints anyone who believes in Christ with a broad brush. The so-called "Christian" conservatives are downright dangerous, according to some liberals. Evolutionists and agnostics scoff at those who believe in God.

        Of course, if evolutionists can do away with the concept of a Creator God, then they destroy any basis for conscience, for morality, for the difference between right and wrong, except as it is permitted by decadent societies. They reject the judgment day, believing there is no God Who will judge His creation.

"In the Beginning..."

       In their patronizing hauteur, evolutionists sneer at those who believe in God, the Creator of all things, saying, "You can't have something from nothing there had to be some origin."

        Then, evolution says, "In the beginning was the hydrogen atom. And then that atom exploded. And then..."

        But let's apply logic to the evolutionists' claim. Where did they get their "hydrogen atom"? How could it have come into being? How could all the known matter in the universe have been contained in some one great mass made only of hydrogen, which is but one of the elements an odorless, colorless, extremely light weight gas which burns readily, and which, when combined with oxygen, forms water? How could this super-gigantic single "atom" have contained iron, copper, tin, molybdenum, aluminum, sulphur, iodine, phosphorus, gold; all the minerals, metals, and elements that make up "matter" ?

        How could this single, gigantic primeval "atom" have been somehow suspended in "space"? What is "space"? Where did "space" come from? Where does it begin? Where does it end? Is it endless? Evolutionists say it "exploded." But how did it come to explode? What is an "explosion"? What agent would have caused such a gigantic, universal explosion? How could simple hydrogen, the so-called "building block" of the universe, suddenly convert itself into the minerals and elements that make up the billions of stars and planets?

        Why would pure hydrogen simply explode, unless there had been some exterior agent which caused the explosion? By what law was it an explosion instead of an implosion?

        They don't know. They have no answers.

        But they have faith! Faith blind faith in the theory of evolution is not based on substance or fact, or even on logic, but is based on an empty theory.

The "Faith" Called Evolution

        Evolutionists sneer at religionists and creationists, regarding them as uneducated dunces who cling to ancient Hebrew fireside fantasies to explain away the unexplainable. they view churchmen's creeds and dogmas as but relics of ancient superstition. They themselves stand exposed as the high priests of an empty, dogmatic faith.

        Like high priests of a mystery religion, these erudite teachers delve deeply into chemistry, biology, astronomy, geology, paleontology, comparative anatomy, and nuclear physics. They deal with law, design, intricacy, interdependency, symbiosis all of which present proofs of the existence of God yet blindly refuse to admit there had to be a great Lawgiver; had to be a great Designer; has to be some powerful Sustainer who controls all these forces.

        No individual is more favorably positioned to see, with his own eyes, the marvelous proofs of God than a chemist, or a physicist, or a geologist, or any other scientist who studies into the material universe.

        Of course, not all of them are evolutionists. Many professional scientists do believe in God. many have written brilliantly about the proofs of God which are available in the universe, beneath our feet in the rocks of earth, and all around us, in the immutable laws which acts upon us.

        Evolution is more than pedantic science. Evolution stands exposed as a superstition. And, like all mystery religions, the superstition of evolution was born of motive.

        There are reasons why men choose to believe in evolution instead of divine creation.         Listen to this admission: "It is the business of science to offer rational explanations for all the events in the real world, and any scientist who calls on God to explain something is falling down on his job. This is one piece of dogmatism that a scientist cannot allow himself" (The Mystery of the Expanding Universe, William Bonner, p. 119, emphasis mine).

        But do not scientists allow themselves just a little "dogma" from time to time? A famed astronomer dabbled in a little dogma of his own not at all unlike some of those of the universal church when he said, "There is an impulse to ask where originated material comes from. But such a question is entirely meaningless within the terms of reference of science. Why is there gravitation? Why do electrical fields exist? Why is the universe? These queries are on a par with asking where newly originated matter comes from, and they are just as meaningless and unprofitable" (Frontiers of Astronomy, Fred Hoyle, p. 342, emphasis mine).

        But why is it meaningless to wonder why? The Bible answers the why of the universe, why the world was created, why God put man here!

The Universe Had a Beginning

        Though evolutionists scoff at the Bible with its opening statement, "In the beginning God created...," they know that the universe had a beginning.

        They know that our solar system is composed of matter, and that matter had an origin.

        What is "matter" ? There are any number of "scientific" definitions. Matter is anything that is an object. It occupies space and has weight, or "mass." Yet, even electricity can be called matter, and matter can be called energy in certain forms.

        Since all matter is subject to inertia, and will resist any change in its motion, it is said to have weight, because it is attracted to the gravitational pull of the earth.

        Matter can be liquid, solid, or gas. It can be organic or inorganic. You and I are composed of matter of the minerals and the elements of this earth like water, iron, iodine, and many others.

        The smallest particles of matter that can be identified as having specific properties are molecules. Thus, a molecule of air, or iron, or tin, or sugar, can be identified because of its structure; in the case of air, because of its atoms of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and other, rarer gases.

        Some molecules are composed of only three atoms. Others are very complex, composed of dozens of atoms. A molecule cannot be seen with the human eye. It is estimated that an empty milk bottle contains 27,000,000,000,000,000,000 (twenty-seven quintillion!) molecules of air. A tiny teaspoon may contain 9 octillion, 940 sextillion molecules of water. That's 9,940,000,000,000,000,000,000,000!

        Each molecule is made up of atoms, arranged in intricate, law-abiding, harmonious ways. A molecule of sugar contains atoms of hydrogen, carbon, and hydrogen. It would require about one hundred million atoms stacked atop each other to represent the thickness of the piece of paper these words are printed upon.

        Yet, the atom is like a giant when compared to its parts.

        Not so many decades ago, scientists thought the atom was the smallest particle of matter. But with the growth of nuclear physics, we have learned that an atom is like a tiny universe in constant motion. Every atom, science knows, is composed of a tiny nucleus (the word meaning "a nut-like object").

        The nucleus within an atom is so tiny it would be like a gnat flying about within a large building. Still, the nucleus contains about 99.95 percent of the matter in an atom.

        Outside the nucleus, but contained within the atom, are infinitesimally small electrical particles whizzing about in an area that is said to be 50,000 times the size of the nucleus!         An atom is incredibly complex. It is organized. Atoms are like bundles of organized energy made up into matter.

        Scientists consider the nuclei of atoms to be made up of even smaller "subatomic particles." One of the "larger" subatomic particles, the proton, is so small that it would require 2.5 trillion of them the equal one inch!

        Considering such incredibly tiny sizes, how much do scientists really know about atoms and subatomic particles? One particle, "discovered" a few years ago, had a lifetime of only "one ten-thousandth of a millionth of a millionth of a millionth of a second"! Yet, they tell us, this is ten times the lifetime of similar particles. By the way, don't automatically believe that statement just because it is here in print. Actually, there is much disagreement about subatomic particles.

        No "model" or artist's sketch could adequately depict atomic structure. Up until thirty years ago, scientists had classified about thirty-four subatomic particles they claimed were "observed" on photographic plates and in cloud chambers.

        Nuclear physicists have admitted there is no consensus among themselves about atomic particles. Wrote Walter S. Houston in Frontiers Of Nuclear Physics, "In practice the physicist uses whichever view [of what elements make up atomic particles; the basic structure of matter] suits his calculations. In many respects the physics of elementary particles today is at a very real crossroads. It will be fun to watch men struggle to adjust observation to theory, to find the new observations that help build a more adequate model. Curiously, although many people call physics an exact science,' there is more confusion than certainty in the nuclear particle field today" (ibid., p. 5).

        With the advent of nuclear physics, man learned how to "split" atoms how to fission the nuclei of atoms, which causes explosions of mind-boggling proportions.

        Where does this energy come from? Who put it there?

        The nucleus of an atom makes up 99.95 percent of its "mass." Noted physicist Fritz Kahn said, "In contrast to its small size, the nucleus is incredibly heavy. If a drop of dew were made entirely of nuclear mass, it would be 130 trillion times heavier than it is now, composed of molecules of water. A solid lump of nuclei the size of a lump of sugar would weigh 24 billion kilograms; 26 million tons! That's equivalent to five hundred battleships of 52 tons each!"

        As mentioned, the atom is like a tiny universe; vast in the relative size of the nucleus, and the distances between it and the various subatomic particles whizzing about at incredible speeds.

        Kahn said, "Despite the vastness of the atom, it is extremely difficult to press one atom against another or to compress the orbits of the electrons. Electrons revolve 6 times 10 to the 15th power times per second, of 6 quintillion times per second around the nucleus. A system with such a quotient for rotation is harder than steel, no matter how small the mass or how great the distances. An atom behaves like a propeller which makes a million revolutions a second."

        What is nuclear energy? Kahn said, "Since the protons are all equally charged, they strongly repel each other. If the twenty-six protons inside the nucleus of the iron atom were liberated from their bonds, they would fly apart with a pressure of seven times ten to the 15th power atmospheres [an "atmosphere" being the average air pressure at sea level, or about fifteen pounds per square inch]. The released energy corresponds to a temperature of more than 100 million degrees. Vehemence of action and million-degree heat are the nuclear energy' we gain by fissioning the nuclei of atoms, or, as it is generally expressed, nuclear reactions."

        Energy had to come from somewhere. No physicist seriously believes the "yellow dwarf" star that is our sun somehow invested the earth with all this stored energy.

        Said Kahn, "Since energy is liberated when an atom nucleus is split, energy must have been invested in the nucleus. We do not know how nuclei originated. To combine 26 positively charged protons into a unit requires an energy of billions of degrees of heat and a pressure of more than seven times ten to the 18th power atmospheres. Even in its fieriest days the earth could never have furnished such power, nor could the sun have endowed the earth with such power."

        Such is the power and energy stored in matter that just one ounce of matter contains energy equivalent to 625,000 tons of TNT! You and I are composed of matter. All the physical universe is composed of matter.

        One thing is sure. The more science discovers about matter; the more technically intricate the information available to nuclear physicists is, the more law abiding and predictable they find our earth and all matter to be.

        To deny that all this intricacy, interdependency, harmony, structure, and complexity had a Maker, a Designer, is like walking into a forty-room home with a huge library filled with rare books, several fireplaces with the hearths already alight, an indoor swimming pool, and vast kitchen with food on the stove, and claim the home had no architect, no builder; that the books had no author or publisher; that everything in the house and the house itself are the result of blind chance.

Matter Can Be Changed But Not Lost

        All matter the rocks under our feet, trees, water, grass, air, our own physical bodies are therefore composed of energy arranged in different complex forms.

        When a nuclear explosion occurs, a small amount of matter is released as a very large amount of energy. Yet, nothing has been lost, only changed from one form to another. The original matter has been changed into energy. Since no new matter is being created, it is obvious that matter had a beginning.

        Our physical universe is gradually running down. This is proved from the laws which act upon radioactive elements; that U-238, uranium, is gradually losing its radioactivity until, over vast periods of time, it becomes Pb-206, or lead.

        Science does not know how matter, and therefore the universe and the solar system, could have originated except by having some kind of a "creation," a beginning.

        Science cannot explain how elements of high atomic weight, including uranium, just referred to, or thorium, are constantly giving off radiation until they are changed into radium, lead, or polonium, which are lighter elements. What is known is that matter is gradually losing energ; that our sun and other stars are giving off radiation into space.

        Sir James H. Jeans wrote, in his book, Eos, Or the Wider Aspects of Cosmogony, "The universe is like a clock which is running down, a clock which, so far as science knows, no one ever winds up, which cannot wind itself up, and so must stop in time. It is at present a partially wound-up clock, which must, at some time in the past, have been wound up in some manner unknown to us."

        Obviously, all matter had a beginning.

No Past Eternity of Matter

        With the discovery of radium and the rapid progression of scientific knowledge in nuclear physics, it has become known that at some time in the past, "matter" simply did not exist.

        Where did the energy that is matter come from? Since all matter is made up of atoms, and since each atom is like a tiny universe, with electrical particles whizzing about within at a vast distance from the nucleus, where did these perfectly arranged, law-abiding electrical particles come from?

        One of the properties of matter is its solubility. Can it be dissolved into another kind of matter, like sugar into water? Another property is its density. Obviously, cork floats, while iron, extremely more dense, sinks. Another property of matter is its form: gaseous, liquid, or solid.

        Dozens of laws act upon matter. They are inexorable, immutable. Man cannot change them. They are like living laws, since they are continually sustained, and completely dependable.

        Matter can be changed from one form to another. Water can be frozen into a solid, or evaporated into the air.

        Science did not invent these laws. Scientists, over hundreds of years, have discovered laws which are utterly dependable, which act the same way every time.

        Atomic structure, nuclear physics, and laws concerning the conservation of energy demonstrate to us that there has been no past eternity of matter. Matter, which is really energy arranged and compacted together in various forms, has a definite beginning in the past! The creation demands the existence of a great Creator!

        Science recognizes there are two absolute laws, called the "two laws of thermodynamics," which act upon all matter. The first is the law of the "conservation of energy," which states that while energy can be changed from one form to another, nothing is lost nothing is created or destroyed. The second law states that while the total amount is unchanged, there is always a tendency for it to become less available for useful work.

        P. W. Bridgeman, in his article, "Reflections On Thermodynamics" (American Scientist, Vol. 41, p. 549), wrote, "The two laws of thermodynamics are, I suppose, accepted by physicists as perhaps the most secure generalizations from experience that we have. The physicist does not hesitate to apply the two laws to any concrete physical situation in the confidence that nature will not let him down."

        All geological and biological processes are governed by these two laws. In no case is any new energy being created! Yet, during the remote past, at the original creation of the earth, matter and energy were being created. God designed, then produced flawless order, harmony, intricacy, and interdependency (such as symbiosis) into our earth. Science does not know the origin of matter, or why these laws operate as they do.

        Consider the laws that act upon us; laws which govern all science; laws which are like living forces, and which are sustained each and every day.

        One of the greatest laws, one with which all of us deal each day in dozens of ways, is gravity.

        As you read, it is acting upon you. Your furniture, your every possession, your own body at this instant is being held in the gentle grasp of gravity. Pick up any object near at hand and drop it. It is gravity that pulls it down. Yet, we almost never think about it. It is something we take for granted.