"By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible."
I was struck by this verse (above) today. None of us were around when the universe was created. We know that God had to speak it into existence "ex nihilo," (from nothing). But this still requires faith. Does faith rule out reasoned considerations of how it (the creation) could have occurred? No.
You'd have to be a moron to think that anything can come from nothing. An infinite regress of causation is absurd. Evolution is a joke. So, it turns out, that though we exercise faith--our view is the only one that makes sense.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Does God expect us to have anything from ourselves? Who expects anything from a barren wilderness?" --Richard Sibbes, in "Glorious Freedom"]
