Many years ago, as a chaplain in the Defence Force, doing my National Service, a group of soldiers came and asked me to “prove to them that there is a God”.
I know the Bible, and I am personally convinced that there is a God. But how do you prove the existence of God? After a moment of panic, I took off my wrist-watch and placed it on a stone in front of the questioning soldiers. I proceeded to tell them that this watch was the result of the big bang thunder-storm.
They sat in total disbelief of my statement that lightning struck a rock and it melted and formed the watch.
So I tried a different approach. “During millions of years,” I said, “this watch evolved.” That didn’t work either. There was 100 per cent consensus that the watch had been created by an intelligent designer. Then I asked one of the soldiers to sit on the rock.
A minute of silence was observed before I spoke. “There’s no way to compare the complexity of design and function of a wrist-watch and a human,” I said, “therefore I have to assume that we are created.”
Looking at the man sitting on the rock convinced me that there is a God. Next time you doubt, hold a new-born baby in your arms and decide for yourself.
