Faith-Based Origins
Probably, the greatest step of wisdom in the field of physical and chemical science is the first appearance of atomic based elements in a unique order. This order was organized into a highly usable arrangement known as the periodic table of elements proposed in 1869 by Dmitri Medeleev. This arrangement reflects each element with its own chemical symbol, name and atomic number that shows the number of protons in the nucleus of each element.
Dr. Henry M. Morris explains this wonder as follows: “It is remarkable that the relatively small number of basic elements—the dust of the earth—can unite into such a very large number of molecules, compounds, and mixtures, comprising all the different types of substances and materials in the world, living and nonliving.” The Biblical Basis for Modern Science , Henry Morris, p. 218.
However, a great deal of my defense for the Biblical view of young earth creation must deal with a non-scientific view of both creation and evolution. The Biblical predictability of the origin’s method is easily understood as an act of the supernatural Creator—but this again is an extension of Biblical faith and not a testable postulate!
We either assume that God used the infallible authority of His Word alone to speak the space/mass/time universe into existence just six thousand years ago, or we must postulate (by faith alone) from some natural model that has been adopted by a body of evolutionists from which assertions are made about the origin of the universe! This demands that we fill in the unknowable blanks in the origin’s process with “legitimate” scientifically sound steps that can produce the present universe with all its sophistication, variety and design—design, by the way, that did not have a designer (and this is the bane of the naturalistic point of view)!
Therefore, from the beginning of space/time, whether in the opinion of creationists or evolutionists, one of these models was chosen as a means of understanding the unobserved past. There had to be certain general postulates accepted by faith established (made up) from which to reason and manage the data to explain one’s view of the universe.
It must be stressed that since first origins happened in the unobserved past, and since science depends on accurate observations from which we determine our testing process, what we believe about it (and this is true for both creation and evolution) can only be assumed and accepted by faith ALONE!
G. Thomas Sharp
