This past fall, we sponsored an Essay/Art Contest entitled, “Who Created All Things?” We are publishing the winning entries in this month’s developer for all of our readers to enjoy!
Man’s Inventions Versus God’s Masterpieces!
By Taylor Simpson, 11th grade
Two puppets, one pink and one yellow, are lying on the ground, waiting for their paint to dry. They are also wondering where they came from.
“Someone must have made us,” Pink said.
“How could anyone make something like me?” said Yellow… “I say we’re an accident, somehow or other we just happened.” Pink could not believe what he heard. “That’s preposterous!”
…Yellow got up and began pacing. “Well, it could be something like this. Suppose a branch broke off a tree and fell on a sharp rock in just the right way, so that one end split open and made legs. Then winter came and this piece of wood froze and the ice split the mouth open. Then maybe one day a big hurricane took that piece of wood and sent it tumbling down a rocky hill with little bushes, and it got bumped and chipped and brushed and shaped this way and that…That piece of wood could have hung around at the bottom of that hill for eons, until one day – zing! – lightning struck in such a way as to make arms, fingers and toes… Eyes… could have been made by insects boring in, or by woodpeckers, maybe even by hailstones exactly the right size hitting repeatedly in just the right places.”
“Hmm,” said Pink, “How come we can see out of these holes…? And hear?”
“That’s what eyes and ears are for. What else would you do with them?”
Perhaps the greatest question man can ask is “Who is responsible for my existence?” Everyone wants to know the answer to this, for it gives them the foundation for how they should spend their lives. Because of this, every man needs to make a choice: whether to follow the proven truth, or their inventions that best fit their own idea of convenience.
The proven truth is so simple that even a child can explain it. The one Bible verse many young children learn even at the time they are first learning to speak is Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Right there is an explanation for the existence of everything around us.
Some may say that they do not believe in the Bible. That is a difficult statement to live by after looking at all of the evidence for the Bible’s authenticity. In 1 Peter 1, Peter says this of the Bible: “We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well to take heed,” and in verse 20 and 21, “Knowing this first, that no prophecy is of private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man; but the holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” The Bible is the surest Word there is, and the most reliable history text.
Man’s constant battle against God is to get what he wants. If a pleasure oriented person cannot get what he wants inside of a Christian life and the proven truths of God’s Word, he abandons them. When Darwin climbed the side of the mountain on his famous expedition, it seems that the world abandoned these same things.
Today evolution has rocked the world as the greatest propaganda in history, with the most devastating results. Yet, God has shown mercy to some who have dared to dig deeper into this theory and discover the real answer to their questions. It is these that look back and wonder how a theory like this can be so easily accepted and believed.
How can evolution be accepted? How can a doctor leave an operating room, look at a sonogram, or study DNA and believe that it all happened by chance? The answer is simple, yet astounding. It is because they want to believe it. Even though the theory is equivalent to just a clever joke, they believe it just because it is easiest to.
The best example of this is man’s treatment toward God’s gift of children. Instead of seeing marriage and children as sacred, man has mangled the original sanctity of marriage into something that gives them only pleasure, certainly not what God intended. The outcome of this is the greatest atrocity that exceeds the horrors of war. Man taking science as God gave it to us and twisting it around for their own interests has brought about the deaths of millions of children each year; their parents are ashamed, or do not care about anything but seeking out their own amusement which often cannot be done with one of God’s precious little ones to “deal with.”
This issue goes right back to the original question; “Who is responsible for my existence?” And, again, the same two choices; either believe the absolute truth, or invent your own “cunning fables” to explain it as best suits your interests. Those who choose to abort their children are accepting the latter choice. Instead of wanting to live with the guilt that they have murdered an innocent child, mothers across the country are dismissing them as nothing but a creature that is only in the first stages of evolution, so is therefore not yet a person. With that perspective, newly conceived children are worthless.
The same can apply to the disabled. Disabled children are abandoned, or aborted in early pregnancy as new tests can now tell whether or not they are healthy; these tests are often incorrect. Another example is Terri Schaivo, killed because she seemed insignificant in her husband’s eyes. So many of these murders happen every year, but that is only because people are believing what they want to believe to make their lives easier. Man, they say, is a coincidence, something that began as an amphibious creature, or a pool of glop, or a catastrophic explosion. Anything that began as this is not worth much.
People are constantly contending against God. This is seen in the Old Testament account of the Tower of Babel; men trying to make a tower up to heaven, and be greater than God. It continues as atheists try to prove themselves right. Scientists, not wanting to believe in God but knowing their theories are unsound, continue to try to prove themselves right. There are experiments with chambers which are supposed to duplicate the earth’s atmosphere and be able to sustain life, yet they end in failure. Other attempts include operations to make someone “better” than the way God made them and dictators who try to become a god to their people. A very applicable example is study being conducted to try to clone humans, actually trying to create something as well as God has. Yet man is not able to start with nothing; they still must start with “something.” That “something” is what God has created.
Man’s fight against God has gone further than we can imagine. Man is stubborn, not wanting to be proved wrong. Yet eventually, we will be faced with the realization that God is the Supreme Power over everything. Nothing and no one, no matter how learned or accomplished, can be equivalent to His might and authority. Romans 14:11, “As I love, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”
Whatever man believes about his beginning shapes his view of his own importance. So now, you are given two choices. You can believe that you are an accident. You randomly happened, and just seemed to come out alright after millions of years of adjustments. Or you can believe this. You are a divine plan, your life having been carefully thought out an eternity before you were born. You are someone with a specific purpose in life. You were handcrafted by a perfect Maker, who does not make mistakes. Each nuance of your body has been put there with a job to keep you alive and healthy. Everything around you has been made with a purpose to fully sustain you and give you exactly what you need. You are thought of and loved immensely by the one, true Almighty God.
Which will you choose? One brings real, true happiness, such that cannot be obtained by your own works; the other brings a lifetime of striving toward goals which are impossible to reach. The choice is simple, but at the same time difficult. Will you take the step out of the cultural loop, a circle which continues going round and round trying to find happiness, yet still comes back to the same spot? The decision is yours.
Just then, a man came shambling along, humming. He picked up Pink and looked him over. Then he picked up Yellow and looked him over. “Nice and dry,” he said. He tucked them both under his arm and headed back where he’d come from.
“Who is this guy?” Yellow whispered in Pink’s ear.
Pink didn’t know.
Excerpts from the book Yellow and Pink by William Steig, Copyright © 1984