2649) I have been reading (and listening via podcasts) to an amazing apologist and speaker, Dr. John Lennox.

Dr. Lennox is a mathematician at Oxford, and he’s been involved in many debates that are fascinating. One debate stands out to me, and it’s one he participated in with self-stated atheist and evolutionist, Richard Dawkins.

One thing Dr. Lennox asks Dawkins and those of great minds in other debates, many of which are scientists, is what Dawkins believes about the beginning of the universe. He and others reply that it’s a combination of random and accidental natural selection and mutations which happened and evolved via millions of years.

Dr. Lennox then asks, if you are doing important scientific work, with complicated equipment and databases, that will affect all of mankind from this point forward, would you choose to use equipment and other scientific things if you knew they resulted from random and accidental processes? All of them replied, no way!

Of course, Dr. Lennox goes on to connect the dots and say why would you never rely on information obtained in this manner but you believe the complicated universe is a product of these very things? (I realize that my summation of these important debates are simplistic considering their complicated discussions. I hope I’ve done them some justice.)

Colossians 1:15-17 tells us  God created the world. These were thoughtful and intentional actions, and not a mere accident.

Do these things really matter in a Christian’s life? I think so. If you know that the things that happened in history, all the way back to “in the beginning” and are currently happening, we can know it’s not accidental. There is a thoughtful and deliberate God in control of the universe.

If so, it is an easy conclusion that God is in control of my life.