If creation took place it did so via natural order. If there is a causing, governing force it is inherent in natural order. The questions that arise are, can a natural order system be self-arising, can our present order arise from the birth of a universe, can it produce life as a byproduct of the system itself, can it produce sentience as a further byproduct via systems of transmutation (evolution) to unfold degrees of complexity in lifeforms? Answer that and then we can either remove God completely from the picture, or not altogether just yet. -------------------- Some scientists claim that most of all plant and animal species could vanish from the earth in this century. I know of none claiming any new ones will come into existence. Why is that? Could it be that it is widely known that life requires a Creator? If so, why is there a reluctance to acknowledge the fact? (Genesis 2:1, 2) Thus the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed. And by the seventh day, God had completed the work that he had been doing, and he began to rest on the seventh day from all his work that he had been doing.
