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 
scientists fallible 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 
Flood exactly 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 God the God who does know everything and 
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 there Carl 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 !

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