In view of the fact that atheistic humanism, godless evolutionist and other forms of infidelity are having a field day, and the columns of nearly every periodical in the country are open to the false arguments of such infidels, it is important that all people, especially children, should be taught the truth about the existence of God. A recent issue of National Geographic magazine devoted a major part of that issue to declaring and depicting godless evolution as a fact. So it is with some cartoon books, and practically every biology book in every school in the land appeals to the minds of those from kindergarten up. Therefore, let parents be encouraged to study these simple lessons with their children, regardless of age, and have regular Bible study at home.
By “cosmos” is meant the world and all the stars, planets and galaxies that appear in the heavens. “Cosmological” is an adjective that defines the type of science that deals with the universe. L.S. Keyser thus defines: “The Cosmological Argument is the argument that the cosmos is an effect produced by a Primal Cause, which, from the nature of the case, must be a Person. Sometimes it is called the argument for causality, or cause and effect” (A System of Natural Theism, 46). Further he says, “The principle is that every effect and event must have an adequate cause. The world is here; we cannot deny its existence… It is also an orderly world, a cosmos, not a chaos, therefore, it could not have come about by chance. The only adequate cause on an orderly world is an ordering intelligence – a personal God” (192-193).
It may be and has been argued that if everything must have a cause, who or what caused God? What caused the what that caused God? To this there would be no end. Keep in mind that “everything must have a cause,” and “every effect must have a cause” are two different ideas altogether. God is not an effect, but the Cause, the First Cause that made possible every effect that may follow in the natural realm. So, God is the uncaused Cause, the Prime Mover. The following story helps to illustrate the principle.
There is the story which dates back to the time when statesman Benjamin Franklin was Ambassador of the United States to France. While living in Paris, Franklin was a member of an elite literary social and scientific club. At certain meetings of this intellectual group, atheistic sentiments were expressed, leaving the impression that only the superstitious and uninformed still believe in God as the Creator of the universe. At the next meeting of the group Benjamin Franklin brought a beautifully designed and executed model of the sun and our entire solar system. The earth and other planets were in proper relationship to the sun and to each other and of appropriate sizes. It was a masterpiece. Upon seeing it, one of the sophisticated members of the club asked, “Who made it?” Dryly, without a trace of a smile, Franklin responded, “No one. It just happened” (B.B. Baxter, I Believe Because… 54).
Once, a caravan was crossing a desert. After camping for the night, one of the travelers remarked to a neighbor: “A camel walked around my tent during the night.” The neighbor responded: “How do you know it was a camel?” Reply, “Nothing but a camel makes a track like these.” When we consider everything in the universe, the atom and its component parts, every blade of grass, petal of every flower, every leaf on the trees, the great mountains, rivers, oceans, yea, every drop of water, all of them constitute the “tracks of God.”
If anyone of us was shipwrecked and cast upon an uncharted island and saw footprints of humans there, we would readily conclude other beings were on the island. Tracks would be the effects; humans would be the cause. If a building were there and no persons to be found, the effect would declare there was a builder – a cause for it. This principle was stated long ago in Hebrews 3:4: “For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.” Psalm 19:1 affirms, “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.”
Albert Einstein, great scientist and mathematician, is quoted as having said: “I see at the beginning of the cosmic road – not eternal energy or matter, not ‘inscrutable fate’ not a ‘fortuitous conflux of primordial elements,’ the great Unknown – but Lord God Almighty” (The Evidence of God in an Expanding Universe, ed. by John C. Monsma 68).
