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Ms. Eloise heard a knock at the door one afternoon, and shuffling her way over to it, opened it to find Kyle, a sweet-but-hyper little boy, standing on her porch clutching a baseball glove. The elderly woman, a grandma many times over in her own right, immediately recognized the sheepish look on the little boy’s face.
Kyle looked up at Ms. Eloise and politely said, “Something of mine has made its way into your garage and I’d like it back, please.” Ms. Eloise walked him around to the garage door and as soon as she opened it, noticed two recent additions: a baseball lying in the corner…and a cracked window with a baseball-sized hole in it.
Ms. Eloise looked down at Kyle, crossed her arms, and asked, “How do you suppose that ball got in here?”
Kyle looked at the ball, the window, and then Ms. Eloise. Thinking quickly, he said, “Wow! I must have thrown it right through that hole!”
In essence, Kyle’s explanation required Ms. Eloise to believe an extreme coincidence: that the baseball-sized hole in her window and the boy looking for a missing baseball had nothing to do with one another.
That argument sounds a lot like the rationale used by those who reject God’s role in Creation. We all see the same thing when we look at our world:
- It’s the only known planet to have water in a liquid form.
- Earth has a perfect balance of water and land.
- We’re located in “the habitable zone,” the perfect distance between Earth and the sun ensuring our planet is neither too hot nor too cold.
- Earth has an atmosphere that shields its inhabitants from dangerous radiation and (most) of the debris flying through space.
- We have a moon of perfect size and proximity to us that ensures life-giving tides to the creatures of the seas.
Some want us to believe that a completely unique Creator and an equally unique Creation have nothing to do with one another. They’d have us believe that our world looks exactly the way it does because of a series of completely random events…that have never been repeated…not even once…even though there are billions and billions of other planets.
Put that way, it sounds like another extreme coincidence, huh?
Topics Illustrated Include:
Accident
Apologetics
Baseball
Beliefs
Coincidence
Creation
Earth
Evidence
Explanation
God’s Power
Kids
Skeptical
Sports
(Resource cataloged by David R Smith)
