All profane people have always tried, at the devil’s leading, to erase the certainty we have to have concerning the creation of the world. They ask which came first, the egg or the chicken, and do so in jest so that everything will be called in question and people will stop agonizing over whether God is the cause of all things and whether we subsist by his power. The devil has used that ploy from the beginning. Others have indeed said that the world has not always existed. But so what? They have conjured up the most obtuse and absurd things a human could utter to resist God’s majesty, and they are unable to contemplate his glory, which ought to be evident as it displays itself so plainly before us. That is why they prefer -- I am not joking -- to say that the world came together by chance and that there were tiny objects tumbling around that the sun used for building the moon and the stars, the earth, the trees, and even man.
Could anyone think up a scenario more stupid than that?
The wind will blow as it may and make us tumble around and cause little things to heap together which cannot be separated, before our entrails could be enclosed within? Who is it that changes the bread and the wine and other foods into blood and provides nourishment for man? And then if, as I said, we but look at a single fingernail and a hair of our head, is that not enough to convince these contemptible people who are thus blinded and willing become like dumb animals?
In short, if we possessed a trace of discrimination and reason, Moses would not have had to be God’s witness, testifying that everything was created by him, for our capacity to reason and the order of nature show us that.
(Hat tip to The American Culture)
