Truth

Can anything be bigger than God?

At first glance this appears to be an unacceptable question. God must be unimaginably greater than anything.

Than anything except truth.

For if, as the naturalistic atheists maintain, the truth is that there is no God that truth is greater than God. God cannot be greater than the truth.

The theory of evolution is sometimes set out as that ultimate truth that dispenses with God or gods. Galileo is often cited.

On discovering, in 1604, a supernova and having previously spotted sunspots the prevailing truth of the academic day - that of Aristotle - seemed to be untrue. Both academics and the Church authoriies of the day resisted his apparent heresy to maintain their truth that was not, in truth, true.

Today, claim the Neo-Darwinists, we have the same situation. The truth is that a natural process made everything. This truth makes God redundant and those who believe in God(s) are deluded.

Well, we've seen that the evidence points exactly the opposite way. Information - that is, an outside agency - is scientifically necessary to make a beginning. But then there are those monkeys. Remember them? The ones that type randomly trying to produce a work of Shakespeare. It cannot be done in the available time and space.

So how, on this theory, did the processes make the complexity of the world we find ourselves in? "Ah, " says Richard Dawkins et al., "You see when a monkey types the right letter, it is compared with the target letter and if correct, he stops". The monkey eventually hits 'W' and, matching the first word of the play, holds it right there to set off the writing of Hamlet. The monkey knows his job is done. In this way the impossible mountain of complexity is scaleable.

For all his protestations, Richard Dawkins does not believe in a Blind Watchmaker at all. He has to believe - because his logical mind shows him the truth - that there is a script on to which Darwin's theoretical randomness is being written.

Richard, who wrote the script? "Ridiculous," says Dawkins. "If you're going to say God is forever and beyond time and the mega-playwrght you might as well say that DNA is, or a spaghetti monster". Except we know for sure - he knows for sure - that DNA is not for ever and outside of time, and nobody actually professes to know a spaghetti monster which, anyway, presupposes a prior spaghetti maker. On the other hand, God is the plausible explanation of all necessary outside agency.

The Bible - and God - do not claim to be above the truth. They cannot be. Rather, the Lord Jesus taught that he is the Way, the Truth and the Life. The Word and Person of God are the most important aspect of the truth, and the part which if neglected leaves humanity's largest hole.