The Great God of Creation (Drew Deighan)

Creation Reveals God’s Power and Purpose

Since the world was created, people have seen the earth and the sky through everything made.

My soul pray Alve, all ye how to his temple draw near him in gladation. To the Lord's sister, how not see how thy desires have been in what he ordained. To the Lord, let all ye adore the Almighty, the King of Kings.

90 verse 2 says, Before the mountains were born, or you gave birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God, and you are greatly to be praised. Let's sing together.

Bless your name, O God, each day that I vote. From dawn to setting sun, your greatness I'll proclaim. Your glory far exceeds all human thought. So with each breath I'll bless your name, O God. Your name will be revered by children yet to come.

As generations sing of wonders you have done, your strong and mighty deeds are always clear. So with each breath I'll bless your name, O God. Your name will be revered by children yet to come. It's the Lord's gracious hand provides for all who live and breathe.

Your mercy runs to find the helpless and the weak. When we call out to you, you hear and all our needs your gracious hand provides. The Lord to be is the Lord. Without end, creation will rejoice. When works of wicked men you finally destroy, your power will proclaim till Christ descends.

And you will reign forever without. To be praised is the Lord. To be praised is the Lord.

Let's pray together. Lord, you are great and greatly to be praised. Lord, we know that it's not about singing with our lips simple words. We want it to resonate in our soul. We want it to be a response of our surrender, the surrender of our life to you.

We know that you made us to worship. Lord, let our lives be just that. Completely and sold out, surrender to you. Let our lives only be for you.

Take my life consecrated Lord to thee. Take my moments and my days. Let them flow in ceaseless praise. Take my hands and let them move. At the impulse of thy love. Take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for thee.

And let me sing always only for my King. Take my lips and let them be filled with messages from thee. Take my silver and my gold. Not a mite would I withhold. Take my intellect and use every power as you choose.

Take my gifts of wicked thine, it shall be no longer. Take my heart, it is thine, it shall be thine. Take my love at your feet, it's treasure store. Take myself and I will be ever only. Thank you so much, Lord.

Thank you, Father, for giving us life and breath this day. Father, we pray that we would use it to your honor. And we thank you, Father, for those who came up to the front today. And Lord, that you are working in their lives.

Father, students gaining an education. Father, I'm just praying, Lord, that they would use that. Father, to further your kingdom and be with them. Protect them from false teaching, Father, in anything they would see in the education system.

And Father, just Lord, cling hold to your word and to your glory. We also thank you, Father, for those who were baptized last week. Lord, what a beautiful thing. We pray that you would be with all those who are baptized, not only committing their lives to Jesus before, and then testifying of your greatness in their lives at that baptism.

But now working forward, Father, in their hearts and lives each and every day, Father, so that, Lord, you would be king and first place in all that they do. We're so grateful, Lord, to you for this. We pray for this time now for you to guide us through your spirit in Jesus' name.

Okay.

So yeah, what an honor to be up here.

It's amazing.

So I don't have any context to start with.

I thought, well, what should I do?

And I'm going to start at the beginning, folks. I'm going to turn in Genesis 1 -1. You don't have to turn there. I'm just going to read Genesis 1 -1. But there will be some scriptures we'll turn to later.

So keep your fingers on your Bible for that. So Genesis 1 -1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. You've heard that, right? I hope we believe that. That statement is profound. That statement tells us of God's great power, his great wisdom, and his great purpose.

Because someone who creates, or a great builder, a great creator, does things for enjoyment, for a purpose, to be with that creation, to see it through. And the Lord certainly does that with his creation.

Let's turn as well to Psalm 148. We can turn there. There's five verses I want to read there. A little bit of a lengthy section. And we're going to find out that this creation came about because of the word of God's power.

He simply spoke, and it was. And the scriptures say that several times in several different places. For instance, in Genesis 1, it says, let there be light. The Lord said, let there be light.

And there's light.

Let's read Psalm 148, 1 through 5. I'm reading from the New American Standard. It says, praise the Lord. Praise the Lord from the heavens. Praise him in the heights. Praise him, all his angels. Praise him, all his hosts.

Praise him, sun and moon. Praise him, all stars of light. Praise him, highest heavens, and the waters that are above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the Lord, for he commanded, and they were created.

He is the author of all things. He created all these things with tremendous wisdom and power. And it's interesting in this verse 5 of that psalm. The word for created is bara, bara in Hebrew. What that means is out of nothing.

Meaning that out of nothing, God brought these things into existence. Just by the word of his power. And that word bara is very interesting. In Greek, or excuse me, in Latin, the phrase is ex nihilo. That's going to become important in a second.

Now, all these statements I just read from the Bible are some of the most beautiful and most profound we could ever read. They're also the most attacked. If someone does not believe in the Lord or wants to disprove a creation account, that person or that group of people will go after Genesis, go after God's existence, and try to disprove the very nature of our God and his creative abilities.

So we're going to talk today about some of the defenses for creation. And then spend a lot of time enjoying his creation and praising his name for that very.

Creation.

And it's going to be a joy to do so. The way this message is going to go, it's going to look a lot like our apologetics class on Monday nights. For those of the guys that are part of that class. And if you're not, and you'd like to just watch online, go ahead.

Go onto the Cornerstone YouTube channel and you can do that. Right now it's only the guys in there, but you can watch online. And I feel a little bit bad because creation and evolution is not my subject.

It's Matt's subject. But we cross over sometimes.

It's OK. We enjoy each other.

So he's going to teach on this coming up shortly. So this is going to be kind of a starter for that. Now, can something come from nothing? As we just said, God created something from nothing. But it's not like the philosophers who used to speak of something from nothing.

Parmenides was a philosopher in the 4300 BC. He predated Socrates and Plato and Aristotle. And he came up with the phrase, and this is a Greek, or excuse me, he was a Greek. But the phrase is Latin again.

It's ex nihilo, nihilo fit. For out of nothing comes nothing. Meaning that if you don't have anything to start with, the end result of nothing is going to be nothing. There's not going to be all of a sudden something that pops into existence.

But God, when it says he bara, he created, God existed from all eternity past. He is self-existent. He is not a created being. And he existed from all time. So when it says God bara, it means he, the beginning, was the creator.

He was the effect, or the cause of the effect that was the creation. So the philosophers put together a lot of logical rules and logical rules. Basically theorems and proofs to try to understand how the world came into existence.

What its origins were. And also how to study what the truth was. So they came up with another law. It's called the law of causality. Meaning that if we see an effect somewhere, we know it had to have a cause.

So there's a cause and effect. Which means it's impossible again for something to come from nothing. Because there's no cause, and the effect again would be nothing. So that's great. But scientists aren't so easily swayed to that.

They think, well, wait a second. If I say what you just said, if I believe what you just said, if I forgive you, I have to believe in a holy God. I have to believe in a loving and all-powerful God. I don't want to do that.

I want to find another way that creation could have happened. So they formulate theorems and theories. We're going to see if some of those hold water to the ground. So first is, could energy come from nothing?

Well, first law of thermodynamics says there's a conservation of energy. Any system that has a total energy, and an isolated system cannot change. That means energy is conserved. Energy is not created, nor is it destroyed.

That means energy can't come from nowhere in a system. It's going to be disseminated somewhere. It's going to be used somewhere, and then pushed to somewhere else. It can't just come out of nowhere. So that would break the first law of thermodynamics.

Okay, what about matter? Could matter come from nowhere? Could it just pop into existence? And this includes, by the way, the Big Bang, because when they talk about the Big Bang, they talk about this incredibly dense singularity that's all compressed.

It's like when you think of a white dwarf or something. But they can't explain where gravity came from. They can't explain where the singularity came from. They can't explain where the explosion came from.

They just say, well, it was there. Okay, so their god is the eternal singularity. That's what some of the arguments would be. But we're also going to talk about why that breaks down in a second. Let's get back to nothing.

Can matter be produced from nothing? Well, the logical statement is no, it cannot. Scientists aren't easily disproven. Some scientists, Lawrence Krauss, Stephen Hawking, who most people heard of Stephen Hawking, right?

And Michael Caillou define nothing as an unstable quantum vacuum. And they say, well, in that unstable quantum vacuum, you can have potentially a particle appear. Because in the quantum physics world, you can have these particles that mirror each other, and some of them are visible.

And they say, we could actually possibly agree. Now, that's a theory. And that's a very unproven theory that this actually could happen. But it's a theory. But we have a response from a philosopher named David Albert.

And he criticizes Krauss, pointing out that his definition of nothing presupposes quantum fields, obeying the laws of physics. He has nothing whatever to say on the subject of where those fields came from, why the world should have been consisted of particular fields as it would have, or why it should have consisted of fields at all, or why should there have been a world in the first place, period, case closed, end of story.

He says, you're presupposing all of these things before you get to your theory. You're stacking theory on top of theory on top of theory on top of theory. And this David Albrecht says, we're not going to accept that as an explanation.

So the scientist's response to that is this. I don't give a blank what David Albert says. When nothing is mentioned by the philosophers, I don't care. Albert is a moron. So that's the scientific response to somebody questioning your theories.

It's like, OK, I have a theory. Don't dare question it. You know, I don't care if all my suppositions and assumptions don't really stack up. I'm just going to keep on going with my theory. So they didn't particularly like the philosopher's answer to that.

Now, what about life? We don't have an answer for energy matter. What about life? What if, actually, we say, we're not going to be concerned with the fact that there is a world, there are elements in the world, there is energy in the world.

We're not going to explain where any of that came from. But if we have all these inorganic pieces of material, is it possible that life could come from inorganic sources? So if you could put up the next slide.

Does it ever work in the slides back there? There was an experiment done in the 50s, actually. And it was done by two scientists named Miller and Urey. And what they wanted to do is they said, well, look, if we get hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen together, and we put them in a container in the right amounts, in the right forms, and you can see there's compounds here.

So they're also assuming chemical compounds, chemical bonds. They're not going to explain where those laws came from as far as chemical attractions and things like that. They're just going to say, we know this stuff existed in a primordial state, in some kind of an atmosphere that was very volatile.

And by the way, there's electricity in that atmosphere. So there's going to be lightning strikes. And we're going to apply a charge to all these things. And you know what? We're going to bet that it produces light.

And they're also going to have a heat source down here. Well, guess what happened? Well, they did produce, down here, organic compounds. They're known as amino acids. And you guys know amino acids are part of the whole DNA chain, protein chain.

Amino acids chained together form the basic building blocks of life. And the scientists were like, I told you so. And they did their little dance. And they were so happy to say, we knew it. We could prove it.

But what happened here? First off, they have a very controlled environment. They controlled this environment. They controlled the exact materials they had. They controlled the electrical charges. They controlled the heat source.

They controlled the whole process. What do we have here? We have an intelligent design of an experiment that presupposes, by the way, what the building blocks of life are. Because they had to know ahead of time that these things are going to comprise the basic building blocks of life.

Not only are their assumptions amazing, because they're assuming that all these things exist. But then they actually form this experiment with exactly the right parameters. And they come up with the result that they were looking for.

What they proved was, yes, if there is an intelligent design with an intelligent designer, yes, life can come from that. So they actually proved intelligent design in their little model here. So I thank them for that.

And basically, what they did is they reverse engineered life as we know it and the compounds we know it. But that doesn't dissuade the scientists very often. As I said down here, this is amino acids that they produce in amino acids.

Well, amino acids themselves are just a very small part, they're a building block of a protein. And a protein is really the building block of life. Mathematical calculations have been shown to say, well, if you really did have these elements existing in nature in some kind of random form, and you did have energy, electricity, and all that, the odds of a amino acid chain being formed together, coming together by chance, is 10 to the 150th power, just to form one protein.

So 10 to the 150th power is beyond numbers we can imagine. If we think of billions, it's 10 to the 6th. We think, or excuse me, 10 to the 9th. Millions is 10 to the 6th. So quadrillions, quintillions, we kind of lose the numbers after that, and even like, you know, maybe the next baseball contract will be a quadrillion or something, we're not really sure.

But those kind of numbers are off the charts as far as imagining things. Those odds are astronomical. But the scientist says this, some of them. This is a blogger named Dwayne Anderson, he's a biologist.

He says, now in the video, now this is a video that describes what I'm just talking about and the probability of something coming together to form life. He says, they calculate the odds of a particular protein being formed by chance.

It's a relatively small protein, but it still has 150 amino acids chained together. The odds of that particular sequence coming together purely by chance is indeed astronomically low, to the point of being virtually impossible.

But then he says this, he says, that's irrelevant. For one thing, that particular protein didn't come together purely by chance. It evolved through a long selection process. Selection can change the odds, and he doesn't understand mathematics too well.

He might understand biology a little bit, but he doesn't understand mathematics too well. He says, selection can change the odds of something happening from being virtually impossible to being inevitable.

That sounds really good, if you're not a mathematician. If you're a mathematician, you realize what he did there is he inserted a force, an intelligent force he called selection. That's not the way probability and chance works.

He's saying there is an intelligent selection that continues to move along the chain. And what he is also doing is basically proving that, yes, these things can happen if there is an intelligent design and an intelligent selection made along the way.

Folks, you are not going to win the argument very often with folks who are set in scientific ways. You can share a lot of information. You can share a lot of truth. The way the truth is going to be revealed to you is going to be the specific revelation of God's word, because it's going to speak to your heart.

The Holy Spirit will speak to you when you open the Bible. But he will also speak to you when you behold his creation itself. I believe Michael said earlier, if he didn't, we'll say it now, Michael Stockland, who's leading our worship, that in the creation, God has revealed himself.

His eternal attributes and divine nature are clearly seen and by what he has created. And for those who deny that, they are basically suppressing the truth in their hearts, because even someone who doesn't believe, really down in their heart, they really do believe.

It's just that they don't want to. They don't want to accept that there is a holy, loving creator that is going to hold them accountable for what they know. Because if we admit that there is a creator and we have been created by a God who's all-powerful, we also have to say, Lord, that means you have a, basically, a control of my life, is really what it comes down to.

You have to admit that you have to give an account to that. People don't want to do that. So they come up with explanations like this man, Dwayne Anderson, and try to get around the mathematical odds of creation.

Now, if we ignore everything we just talked about, if we say, well, okay, forget about energy coming into being from nothing. Forget about matter coming into being from nothing. Forget about the fact that life might be able to be produced from nothing, or by chance through various means.

Is there a process, then, if all of this has been started, if we have eternal elements that came from somewhere, and if we have this basic building block of life, these proteins that can be made, can we say, then, that there's a process of evolution that will take over at that point, and things will naturally get more and more complex and more and more, I'll say, interesting as the chain goes on.

Can we make that argument? Well, there's some laws against that, too. The first one we'll talk about is the law of entropy, which is the fact entropy is the measure of disorder in the system, or in the environment.

So the definition of entropy is this. All things tend towards disorder, especially as the second law of thermodynamics states that as one goes forward in time, the net entropy, or degree of disorder, of any isolated or closed system will always increase, or at least stay the same.

Entropy is simply a measure of disorder and affects all aspects of our daily lives. In fact, you can think of entropy as nature's tax. So things decay. Things get more disordered. And as you got out of bed this morning, when you went to bed, maybe your hair kind of looked okay, but you found out what disorder was in the morning.

That's the normal event of things. And unless you put an active force to that disorder, you kind of look like me when you come into the sanctuary. Your hair's all messed up or whatever. But that happens all over the place in nature.

Even, does anybody watch the Mysteries of the Abandoned? That's a show on, it's like AME or something like that. But they'll show these incredible facilities or structures that people have made. There are marvels of engineering, some of these things that you see on AME.

The Mysteries of the Abandoned, though, show what happens after things have been abandoned for 50 years or so. Incredible things. And do we see those things getting better or are those things decaying?

Those things end up crumbling. Those things end up decaying. And that's the natural order of the second law of thermodynamics. Things decay. Things go into more chaos. The only way you can have things coming into order is if forces apply.

And there's an intelligence design that brings things together. Now, there's also another concept in nature called irreducible complexity, which means that if there is a system out there that has many intricate parts working together, but if you remove one of those parts, the system will fail.

That means that system is irreducibly complex. And Darwin himself said this. He said, so this is Charles Darwin, the father of the evolutionary theory concept. He said, if it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications through mutation and whatnot, my theory would absolutely break down.

So Darwin said that. So do we see irreducibly complex systems in nature? There's a man named Michael Behay who put out a book in the early 90s called Darwin's Black Box. And he brought up this issue and talked about blood clot, talked about the human eye, talked about flagella, which is the organ at the back of a single cell would make it move.

You remember from biology class, the flagella that would flap around and the little cells would move around. And then the cilium as well. That's another complex. There's a ton of them. The bombardier's beetle defense system, which has poison within itself.

And it's gonna, like if a predator or a threat comes, it's gonna inject that poison at the back end of itself and try to dissuade that predator. But the problem is if you say, well, over time, the bombardier beetle has evolved.

You have to consider that because he has to have a mechanism for releasing the poison. He has to have a mechanism for generating the poison. He has to have a mechanism for storing the poison when he's not using it.

And all of these things have to come together. It's a lot more complex than that.

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If he doesn't have one of those things, his defense mechanism fails and Mr. Prang Manista comes along, has a snack called the bombardier beetle because he couldn't defend himself. So there would be no more defense system for the bombardier beetle in that case.

But there's so many other cases where this happens. Now, again, scientists didn't give up here because they tried to go after the hay. As a matter of fact,.

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There was a conference where they say the hay didn't approve his point enough. And they did so by creating two computer simulations that showed that what we think could be irreducibly complex systems in nature actually could come about by another means, which is incredible to me.

You think of the human eye and all the things that are necessary for the human eye to operate. What the argument was in some of these cases were some of the scientists said, evolution is a random process which can go in any direction.

So what you could have here is like, okay, you have an irreducibly complex system at level this. But what could have happened is that in evolution, it could have gone around this way and gotten actually more complex.

And then it actually devolved back into this incredibly complex system, which cannot be reduced any further. And what I say to that is, that's a faith-based approach. That is not a scientific-based approach.

That is a faith-based approach to the possibility of evolution ever occurring. The mathematical odds are incredible. The intelligent design of these systems is incredible. But as I said before, usually you don't win arguments with folks that are set in their ways.

And the fact that somebody would actually say that it has to be more complex first in order to devolve into a less complex system is an incredible statement to make. But the scientists at that convention said, Mr. Behay, we think they proved you wrong.

And by the way, they proved it wrong with computer simulations. I'm a computer programmer, okay? And I write simulations for a living. I very, very much understand what random number generators are and how you can make random draws by chance.

It's kind of simulated nature. But the problem is, when you write a computer simulation program, you do so with a bunch of algorithms that you have designed. You have done so with a model that you think is going to work.

And you don't necessarily predict the results all the time because you're making all these random choices. But you can't say that computer simulations aren't driven by the programmer. I know very much that all the assumptions I put into my programmers are very much based in here and in here.

The things I've known, the things I've learned, the things I've put together. So basically, again, they have proven that, yes, if there is an intelligent programmer behind the simulation, then yes, you can direct these things to happen.

So in all the cases that I've mentioned so far, there's always been the problem of intelligence behind it. How did all this happen without an intelligent designer? So I think the horse has been out of the barn for a long time about intelligent design.

Scientists are even coming to that conclusion now. But now they're coming up with crazy theories about, well, maybe we were planted by aliens at some point in time. And really, they were much smarter than we were.

But they left us here. And we don't know where they are now. But when you think about all these assumptions, presuppositions, and these, this ends up not really being science. This ends up being a belief system, a philosophy of those who are willing to hold tight to the concept that there is no God.

They are not willing to relinquish control or give an account to a holy and loving creator. They want to hold to the fact that there is no God. But as I said before, even in their hearts, down deep, they know the scriptures tell us that they're suppressing the truth right now.

But what do we say? Do we know an intelligent designer who has created all things? Let's turn to Psalm 8, verses 1 through 4. So I'll read from the NASB version. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is all thy name in all the earth, who has displayed thy splendor above the heavens.

From the mouth of infants and nursing babes, thou hast established strength for praise because of thine adversaries to make the enemy and the revengeful cease. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon, the stars, which thou hast ordained, what is man that thou dost take thought of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?

The psalmist was reflective. The psalmist looked out at what they see, and hopefully we all do that at some point. We should do that. We should look at what is out there. We should take care of the things that are around us to observe things.

Life is so busy.

Life goes so fast, you know.

The Lord said, Jesus said, you know, observe the sparrows, right? When he was talking about anxiousness and the great sermon on the mount, he said, look, they don't toil and they don't spend. He's talking about the lilies of the field in that case, but he says they don't gather or reap in the barns the little birds of the air, but your heavenly father provides for them.

He says, observe the birds. Now, some of us know those verses real well. Actually, you know, those verses are kind of familiar, but I wonder how many of us actually go out and do what the Lord commanded us to do, which is observe the birds.

Go out and take a look at the birds. Go out and look at the night sky. And how does that compare to man? It's like when we look at the expanse of the heavens and we think, oh Lord, this is beyond comprehension, the things I see, the things I wonder about, the things that you have created.

Who am I that you would care for me? Just a little speck of dust in the universe, but yet he does care for those he's created. He's created you with a great purpose and he does care for you. And we're gonna talk about that a little bit later as well.

Let's turn to Psalm 19 verses one through four as well. So we'll be in the Psalms today a little bit. The heavens are telling of the glory of God and their expanse is declaring the work of his hands. Day to day pours forth speech and night to night reveals knowledge.

There is no speech nor there are words. Their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the earth and their utterances to the end of the world. So what's he saying here? He says, well, first he says that the expanse of the heavens is declaring the glory of God.

But then he says, but they don't say anything. Their voice isn't heard. But then he says, but the utterances of those things go out through the entire world. Even those things don't speak audibly to us.

They speak to our hearts. All of creation is speaking and it's speaking loudly that the Lord God created all these things and they did so for his glory. They're declaring the work of his hands. And the Psalmist again in Psalm 19 is just acknowledging the beauty and the wisdom and the power and the might.

Of a great creator God. Now, if we go back to the human eye for a second, and we talked about the complexity of the human eye just a little bit, human eye is very complex. And Darwin struggled with the eye a little bit.

He was wondering like how he's ever going to prove that this is like an evolutionary process that this came to be. And I think it's interesting because man has tried to mimic certain things in creation.

Because we have observed things and we see things that are just incredibly complex and wonderful and we think, gosh, that's a good design. I think I'll try to copy that. The camera is one of those things.

The camera is an attempt for us to, like the human eye, capture an image. And it is amazing to me. I just, you know, the human brain is another whole. A whole issue together. But the fact that we can actually capture an image with, you know, all the apparatus that we've been given with the lens and the cornea and the retina and the optic nerve and everything that has to come together, the rods and the cones and all that, and our eye adjusts so quickly to light and able to focus so much more than really any camera and do so much more than any camera.

But then that image gets sent to our brain and that image means something to us. Like how then do we process all these things? Because I know what I'm seeing right now. And I can see, you know, all your faces and in my memory bank, I have all these things stored up and I know so many of your faces and know who you are.

And it's like, how is that possible? It is just incredible. Now a camera is fantastic. And you remember way back in the day, I think the camera was late 1800s, something like that. But I'll say photographs, for sure, where they had the flash powder on a strip and then you had the light, the flash powder and it blew up.

But that light then was reflected on an image that was behind, or I guess it was in front of the people who were getting the photograph. And you see all those old pictures from the 1800s and whatnot. You're like, you know what?

That was incredible that man figured that out, how to do that. And the cameras have been getting better and better and better ever since then. And some of you guys have an iPhone. That's pretty good. But from what I hear, the Samsungs are better, I think, maybe, with the pictures.

So I was like, sorry, you know, if you have an iPhone. Sorry about that. But this is another example of, there was a design already out there. Did man create this?

Well, yeah, we did.

We created in the image of God and we have creative abilities. But what we did is we saw how things worked and we mimicked them. We do that with airplanes and the flight of birds, things like that. And the original is always so much better and so much more complex than what we've tried to mimic or recreate.

You know, we try to create robots. We try to create airplanes that fly, you know, nice. And usually, you know, when you get on a flight and, you know, the pilot comes in, he's like, boom. You'd never see a bird do that in a tree, right?

You see the birds, you know, flying in and out of trees and they come in, they're so precise, so beautiful. They fly so much better than anything we have ever created. And the same thing with the camera.

But the idea is all of these things, all this complexity, testifies to the brilliance and the wonder of God. But there are also so many things that humans have no idea. When we observe things, we have no idea how they occurred or how they happened.

I have some examples of that here. If you go in a desert, and in particular where it's very dune-y, like it's like a sand dune, like a beach kind of thing, but it's across the long expanse, you hear music playing.