Blog for Friday, 16th February 2007

16/02/2007: Re: Is there an Evolutionist in the house ???!

Dave in Lake Villa wrote:

Could someone please tell me how Evolutionists/Atheists respond to these please ? Thanks.

1. Nothing produced something which then exploded its matter and out of that came personality, abstract thoughts, rationale, intuition, love, hate, discernment and even believe in a personal Creator.

You appear to be asking about the Big Bang. Firstly, this has nothing to do with the theory of evolution by natural selection: the universe was not created through a process of natural selection, but by the laws of physics.

For example, if I kick a ball, it keeps going in the same direction until something (a wall; gravity; friction; etc) changes its path. Similarly, if you set a star moving in a particular direction, it will keep going until it collides with another star or its path is changed by the gravity of some massive object. Simple laws of physics: testable, observable, widely accepted as fact.

Tracing the ball’s path backwards, you find my foot. Tracing…