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All of these famous scientists not only believed in God as a Creator<br />

and Ruler of the universe, but also were good Christians who went to<br />

<strong>Church</strong> and performed good deeds.<br />

CHARLES DARWIN (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882)<br />

Unfortunately, All of this changed when in 1859, Charles Darwin<br />

published his theory “On the Origin of Species”<br />

Scientists embraced the new theory without really evaluating the<br />

evidence for its validity. This led to the divorce between science and<br />

religion.<br />

According to Darwin’s theory, God did not create the world, it just<br />

came into being by chance and “survival of the fittest”.<br />

THE STEADY STATE THEORY:<br />

Since Darwin’s fantastic theory could not be statistically viable, that<br />

is to say, the odds of this happening were found to be one in a trillion<br />

to the power of trillion, “scientists” came up with another theory to<br />

support Darwin’s theory, which they called the “<strong>St</strong>eady <strong>St</strong>ate Theory”.<br />

According to this theory, the universe is eternal! And, since it is eternal,<br />

then statistical probabilities do not apply!<br />

Summarizing the belief of the scientific community, the French<br />

philosopher George Politzer wrote:<br />

The Universe was not a created object, if it were, then it would<br />

have to be created instantaneously by God and brought into<br />

existence from nothing. To admit creation, one has to admit, in<br />

the first place, the existence of a moment when the Universe did<br />

not exist and that something came out of nothingness. This is<br />

something to which science cannot accede. 1<br />

1915: ALBERT EINSTEIN: General Theory of Relativity<br />

In 1915, Albert Einstein postulated his General Theory of Relativity.<br />

We are not here to discuss this theory, which has some truths but also<br />

has some problems, but let us zero in on a set of equations which are<br />

called “The Field Equations”. By using these equations, one could<br />

1 George Politzer, Principes Fondamentaux de Philosophie,<br />

Editions Sociales, Paris, 1954, p. 84<br />

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