Critics of Christianity have a very difficult time denying the beauty, order, and complexity found in the world around them so they are forced to try another tactic – crush us under the sheer weight of God’s creative output. They point out that the universe is so immense that humans just have to be insignificant. If you can’t deny the masterpieces in the museum then call into question the observational skills of those perusing the halls.

We are puzzled by the dissonance between the creative genius of what we see all around us and the metronomic evolutionary public service announcement blaring overhead telling us that, “Visitors to the world museum must constantly keep in mind that the intricate paintings hanging on the walls are not composed by a master painter, but rather are the random doodlings of finger painting monkeys.” Even the scientists is told to ignore his highly trained ability to detect and study complex mechanisms and have “faith” that it magically appeared from an incredibly long series of random mistakes.

It’s astonishing that some of the smartest people on the planet, those who have spent lifetimes tacking letters of scholastic achievement to their names, are frequently those who ardently support the notion that man is insignificant. These academically gifted human beings, arguably the most intellectually different from every other animal on the planet, make the incredible claim that they are just fine-tuned apes. The multiple Ph.D.’s of human transcendence have somehow convinced them they are nothing but the ABC’s of immanence. They speak of evolution as if it were a series of collegiate weeding-out classes crafted to prepare us for the graduate school of humanity. The problem is that there is no good evidence our primate “ancestors” ever graduated and left The Animal House.

“Christian thought elevated man to something with divine potential while scientism, naturalism tries to make him return to swinging in the trees.” (David Bentley Hart).

In Genesis, God didn’t declare His creation to be “very good” until He had created mankind. The entire universe, rather than annihilating mankind, actually made him even more extraordinary!