The Big Bang and all that

The origin of everything

Letter to the editor;

PLAN A: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (and life) from available materials. The evidence in the rocks shows that this started about forty five hundred million years ago and continues to this day.

PLAN B: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (and life) out of nothing, starting just over six thousand years ago. (Just ignore the evidence in the rocks.

PLAN C: Random movement of subatomic particles brought forth great numbers of stars, which fusion-cooked them over billions of years into atoms of iron, hydrogen, carbon and so on, to fill up the Periodic Table of Elements. Random combinations of certain of these atoms brought forth all of the amino acids – and therefore eventually proteins – so that life was inevitably originated.

PLAN D: We don’t care how it all started. We are satisfied to eat, drink and party.

PLAN E: (other) specify: _________________________________________________

There are advantages to Plans C and D; No God to worship. No Commandments to obey. No meetings. No responsibilities. No prayers to pray nor psalms to sing. We get to make up our own rules as we go along.

However, if either A or B is true, then we are responsible to Our Heavenly Father for our treatment of each other. Jesus told us, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.” Whether you believe that Jesus is God-in-the-flesh, you have to know that He told us that principle correctly. (Atheists also believe we ought to be decent to one another.)

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona