On The Eighth Day God Made Time
If you want to confound an atheist, just ask him about three words. Before, Big, and Bang. The formidable Richard Dawkins himself found himself clueless when confronted with this. First, let’s define The Big Bang. The theory of this event is quite simple actually. In the beginning there was nothing. Then there was this explosion. Then there was something. Ear Splitting Shickle Boomer!
According to the logistics of this cosmic maneuver all that is or ever will be was compressed into a kernel the size of an atom. But I thought we began with an absolute zero. So, right away this begs the question, where’d the atom come from? And let’s define nothing. Inside this atom that we have yet to find the owner of, is everything. Uh, that includes space. There is a vast difference between nothing and space. Space can fill up nothing because space in and of itself is “something.” The very fact that the Hubble Telescope can see through “space” shows that it exists.
So we have to posit at least the possibility that something or someone put the atom there in the nothing. The end proves the means. So we at least must admit the atom is there. There it is, all bunched up, with no place to go. Everything that was, is, or ever will be from Galaxies to the Wing Stop in Killeen Texas is sitting there waiting to spring into action. Only one problem.
If there is a vast nothing, or unvast, ever what you call it, then there can be no “was” or any present existence or plans for the future which is crunched up in the atom. There is no “time!” Everything is that it is. The atheist view is this nowhere atom that appeared out of nowhere suddenly took it upon itself to expand and inflate all the goodies within. And astronomers have this down with stopwatch precision. One nanosecond later we have this, two nanoseconds, that and so on and so forth. They claim they’ve even found a smoking gun out there on the edge of infinity. Ripples of gunsmoke all over the universe from a gun that supposedly never went off because it was never there. So, we’re back to square one. Lot 0 Block 0 of Nowhere Subdivision. So, who lit the fuse?
This is where it gets cagey. Remember that tree of good and evil in the Garden of Eden? And if Adam and Eve ate of it they would have the knowledge of good and evil. God didn’t say they would understand it. They would just know it exists. Trying to understand good and evil is as difficult as trying to identify the origin of that atom we were talking about at the first. Dawkins couldn’t do it because we were never designed to understand that. Just like we can’t link the words “before” and “time.” Remember, time was in that ball of wax, too.
Because we can’t understand events without time but time is an update to help us understand. When we try to apply time to something not under time it just won’t fit. You’re trying to run a PC on a MAC platform. You ask God what time it is and He’ll tell you, “Now!” The atom didn’t appear out of nowhere. It had always been there. Just as God had always been there and our brains are simply not wired that way. When the voice from the burning bush told Moses, “I am that I am” Moses understood what he was saying but could never grasp why it was so.
Dawkins could not fall back on his Atheism because Atheism only allows for our dimension. You go up one and there’s no understanding. That’s where faith comes in. Accepting that there are certain things we will never understand because we weren’t designed to understand. Yet, there is the universe. We see the results of the first atom but we will never know why. And Richard Dawkins will never admit anything greater than himself as he stared at that atom through a filter of time. Ask him how that apple tastes now!
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