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In the beginning, there was nothing. And suddenly for no reason, nothing exploded and created everything. You expect me to believe that?\nAt some point, by chance, the right chemicals happened to float together at just the right moment to be struck by an electrical charge and become life. You expect me to believe that?<\/p>\n
Somewhere two non-human mothers each gave birth to a human child. They were born at the same time and in the same place, one was male and one was female. These two new “humans” gave birth to the human race. You expect me to believe that?<\/p>\n
One of the descendants of these first humans was born with a knowledge of right and wrong. No longer driven by instinct, this person suddenly was making decisions based on a morality for which there is no real explanation. You expect me to believe that?<\/p>\n
I’m sorry. I don’t have that much blind faith. It’s all just too farfetched to be anything more than a fairy tale. I can’t believe intelligent people claim it is “science” (cf. I Timothy 6:20).<\/p>\n
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth<\/em>” (Genesis 1:1). I can believe that without stretching my imagination into the realm of the impossible. The universe was created by an all-powerful, all-knowing God. That I can believe.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Phil Grear In the beginning, there was nothing. And suddenly for no reason, nothing exploded and created everything. You expect me to believe that? At some point, by chance, the right chemicals happened to float together at just the right moment to be struck by an electrical charge and become life. You expect me…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-36565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-evolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48980,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/a-fundamental-question-concerning-abortion\/","url_meta":{"origin":36565,"position":0},"title":"A Fundamental Question Concerning Abortion","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"June 28, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"by Doy Moyer Many of the arguments concerning abortion are emotionally based. 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