Quotes from Lawrence O. Richards

If amino acids can only be made where there is no free oxygen in the atmosphere, and porphyrins can only be made when there is free oxygen, then these things needed by every cell could not have existed together to form the first cell! What's more, many of these compounds are antagonistic. They will combine and destroy each other—anywhere except within a living cell.

What does this mean? Simply that to make DNA, you have to have DNA in the first place! You have to have the DNA code within the cell before you can make more DNA code. Without the complete code in the first place, there is no way to make the code necessary for every living cell!

God promised a blessing to those who read, hear, and keep the Word of God. This means he will help us understand it.

Everything around us, including the delicate balance in nature that makes life on Earth possible, makes it clear: Our world didn't "just happen." Our world was designed, and even today Earth is guided and protected by God.

It is as if Earth were purposely hung in space, at just the right distance from the Sun, and provided with just the right amount of every element needed for life to exist.

Earth alone in all the solar system contains a "zone of life." Only here can water remain liquid, and oxygen abounds in free, active form. While all this may seem odd to people who do not believe in God, nothing about the Earth seems odd to the Christians. The Bible tells us that: The earth is the LORD 's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters. PSALM 24:1–2

Life can come only from other life.

In the world as we know it today, there is no way that life can simply start up on its own, coming from nonliving matter.

Why? In the days of Jeremiah, God said, "I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem profaneness has gone out into all the land" (Jeremiah 23:15 NKJV). The prophets of Jerusalem should have been decrying evil by giving out the pure water of the Word, but they were catering to the morally corrupt by giving out the poisoned water of false doctrines. Hence, God judged them. What

1Shout to the LORD with joy, everyone on earth. 2Worship the LORD with gladness. Come to him with songs of joy. 3I want you to realize that the LORD is God. He made us, and we belong to him. We are his people. We are the sheep belonging to his flock. 4Give thanks as you enter the gates of his temple. Give praise as you enter its courtyards. Give thanks to him and praise his name. 5The LORD is good. His faithful love continues forever. It will last for all time to come.

1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

prize to be won by loving the world may seem desirable. But love for the world guarantees an empty, meaningless life, isolated from intimate relationship with God and void of the fulfillment that living in His will provides.

How vital then that we come to know God's Word as a familiar friend: Even the Holy Spirit cannot cause us to remember something we never learned!

Is it foolish to believe in God when we can't solve all the mysteries that exist in our universe? Not at all! In fact, the more we learn about our universe and the more mysteries we uncover, the more we realize that it is foolish not to believe in God.

Despite many things we can't explain, a study of our world convinces us that the universe, our planet, and life itself, really could not "just happen." In the beginning, there was God!

Yet, in the end, we don't believe in creation just because it is more likely scientifically. We believe in creation because we trust what God has revealed to us in the Bible.