Booger McLovin

God has written His presence into the very fabric of the universe. The heavens and the earth bear the marks of a perfect design, a design that allows life not merely to exist but to flourish. Science itself has admitted there is a beginning to all things. And if there is a beginning, there must be a cause. Every cause requires a causer, and that causer must be outside the chain of causes, the first and uncaused cause.

When I look at the world, I see creation everywhere. I do not see random piles of rock arranging themselves into a cathedral. I see stone shaped, measured, and set by a mind that intended it. In the same way, the universe is not a jumble of accidents, but a structure with order, symmetry, and purpose, built by a Designer who is also the Builder.

Every animal I see tells the same story. They did not simply arrive without a source. The question that children ask, and that philosophers have argued over, still presses in: which came first, the chicken or the egg? If life cannot spring from nothing, then it must have been given.

Some will argue that life is the result of chance. They speak of perfect conditions and immense spans of time, but such answers explain very little. Even the simplest single-celled organism contains staggering complexity, with half a billion pairs of DNA. DNA is not a meaningless tangle of molecules. It is a language, as exact and ordered as the code in a computer. It is the blueprint by which cells build, repair, and sustain life. To say this arose by accident is to believe that, if one spilled half a billion letters onto the ground, they would fall into perfect sequence to produce a flawless book, capable not only of describing life but of reproducing it. Such a belief calls for faith of an entirely different kind, one far greater than trusting that a Creator made all things.

When reason begins to press too closely, the atheist will often ask the next question: If God created all, who created God? The answer is simple. God is eternal. He does not live within time, space, or matter, for He is the One who made them. As Genesis declares, “In the beginning [time] God created the heavens [space] and the earth [matter]” (Genesis 1:1). The Creator is not bound by His creation. The One who made time is outside of time. The One who formed space is greater than space. The One who called matter into being does not depend on matter to exist.

If you wish to know whether God is real, look around you. Look within you. Consider that every building had a builder, every book had an author, and every song had a composer. The universe itself is no different. Its design points to its Designer, and the Designer has spoken, both in His creation and in His Word.