When I was in sixth grade science in the public school system, I was taught that nothing became something, and then it blew up and became everything. And then 15 billion years later, we crawled up out of the ooze onto the shore, and here we stand today. And so I wanted to read a little parody about creation, evolution, and the Big Bang. In the beginning, there was nothing, and then boom, for absolutely no reason, nothing exploded into everything. Not just some things, but all things, including space, time, energy, and the unshakable human desire to debate things on the internet. Somewhere in the chaos, Atoms, those tiny little things that nobody can see, but everyone seems to believe in, decided to start playing a cosmic game of Lego. Through billions of years of mindless trial and error, they just happened to assemble into stars, planets, and eventually self-aware primates who argue about how it all happened. Fast forward a few eons and a primordial soup, because that's what a good, what's a good story without a soup? Got hit by just the right lightning bolt, conveniently delivered by the universe's unseen postal service. This soup, rather than just sizzling into a cosmic omelet, magically decided to become Life, this first living thing, let's call it a goopzilla, wiggled, split in half, and started making copies of itself. Somewhere along the line, this actually became male and female counterparts, somehow. Some of these copies had tiny random mistakes, little miracles, if you will, that just so happened to turn a floating blob into a fish, a fish into a monkey, and a monkey into a guy named Carl, who complains about Wi-Fi speeds. Through the power of time, accident, and sheer stubbornness, these monkeys developed language, wrote philosophy, and eventually figured out how to take selfies. And yet, despite evolving into highly intelligent beings, they still stub their toes on furniture and believe that hitting buttons on a plastic rectangle will somehow explain the mysteries of existence. And so here we are, tiny cosmic accidents hurling through space on a wet rock, convinced that our thoughts and opinions matter, all while a flaming ball of gas 93 million miles away ensures that we don't freeze to death. If this all seems unlikely, don't worry. Scientists assure us it makes perfect sense. Just trust the math. You know, there was a spelunker named Jean-Marie Chauvy, who I think it was just a few days before Christmas in 1994. They found the entrance to a cave in Southern France in a place called the Ardèche Gorge. And the Ardèche Gorge is a beautiful place. It's got a really big natural bridge, and it's pretty remarkable place. And these guys were walking along, detecting, looking for subtle air flows, which would alert them to the presence of caves. And so they found a little subtle airflow, Jean-Marie Chauvet did, and they discovered a cave. And inside this cave were some of the most incredible bits of ancient human artwork ever discovered. In fact, it was so remarkable. I actually bought a book that has really, really well made pictures of all of these drawings on the walls. And they are truly spectacular. Horses and bears and lions and all kinds of stuff like that. And it's just absolutely incredible. the level of detail and the level of expertise that these individuals had to make all this stuff. And scientists went down there and immediately they knew that these were made by ancient human beings. Now, why would they think that human beings with intelligence and with artistic abilities and things like that, why would they suddenly assume that they had created all this stuff? Why would they assume that? They weren't eyewitnesses of that. They didn't see these people go down there and make these remarkable drawings. They just assumed that they were made by intelligence. Why? Well, because clearly there were pictures of elephants and bears and lions, bison, rhinoceroses. I mean, it is truly amazing stuff. You see these pictures on the walls in there. It's really, really rather incredible stuff to see how artistic they were and how remarkable these drawings are. But it's very important that we recognize that no one attributed them to chance. No one thought, well, you know, maybe the Maybe the concretions and the secretions of rocks and maybe it just happened to create what looks like a herd of lions running and a herd of horses running along on the wall and fighting with each other and things like that. Nobody thought that. Why? Why? Why did no one think that something that is infinitely less complicated than a person might've happened by accident? Because it's plain and obvious that it didn't. It's plain and obvious that it didn't. The thing is, think about this. If you were to come across the faces of Mount Rushmore, which those four presidents, Roosevelt, Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, no one has ever stood there and looked at that and thought, imagine the odds that rain and wind did that by accident. I mean, imagine the odds that that could actually happen on accident. No one has ever done that. People recognize that intelligence did this, that this was well thought out. This is something that human beings did on purpose to create these likenesses on the side of that rock face. But why? Why would they assume that and they would never assume that rain and wind did it by accident? Because of the information, because of the complexity of it. When those spelunkers went into that cave, they realized this is incredible. This is artwork made by people. People made this stuff. And so they immediately sealed off the cave and they called the authorities and they've studied it for years and years and years. And they actually made it a life-size replica of it because you're not allowed to go into it because even breathing can mess up the preservation of these incredible drawings. It's spelled C-H-A-U-V-E-T, Chauvet. That was the fellow's last name that discovered it. And you just think, wow, these guys were, those people were very, very artistic back then. And they really did amazing work on that wall, and did so many amazing drawings. And the people knew right away, this needs to be, you know, a World Heritage site, we got to make sure that we protect this, that we take care of it, make sure it doesn't get messed up by anything. We don't want anyone to hurt this. And so They immediately sealed it off. And it's been a place where scientists go in there, you know, once in a great while, they'll go in there and study it, but they don't really let anybody in there because they don't want to harm the, these beautiful drawings on the walls. Now, why again, do people look at things like that and think, well, clearly this is made by an intelligence and they know that, and there's no doubt about it. This is made by intelligence, by people, by human beings on purpose. because of the design, because of the thought that went into it, because only a mind can do things like that. And so scientists recognize, they see the faces of Mount Rushmore all well clear. In fact, we know the documented history of that. We know exactly where it comes from. We know when it was made, who made it, who the main architects were and things like that. And so there's no doubt about it. This was made by people. We have documentation, we have pictures and we know the whole process and we know why and everything else. But the fact is these same individuals will look at a baby, will look at a human being and think, well, that's an accident. They'll look at something infinitely, infinitely more complex than cave drawings, infinitely more complex than a sculpture in the side of a mountain and say, either ET made it or it's an accident. Either ET made it or it is an accident. I've always found that to be just remarkable. What does that show? It shows that man has a vested interest in not wanting God to exist. It shows that man is really foolish. And when scripture says that, when it says the fool has said in his heart, there is no God, it's not an insult. It's not saying that people are dumb. What it's really saying is that mankind is dense. Man is rebellious. Man doesn't get it. It ought to be plain and obvious. It ought to be clear as the noonday sun that God made these things. God made human beings. God made life. God made these things that have infinitely more information in them than the drawings of a cave or the sculptor on the side of a mountain. And so today's April 1st, it's April Fool's Day. I wanted to do something about the Big Bang. I'm not trying to be condescending or insulting or anything like that. I know there are people who are smarter than me that believe this stuff, but I just would encourage you to ask yourself, why? Why do you believe it? Why do you believe that an explosion created everything? Don't explosions usually destroy things? And how could something as complex as life assemble itself in soup by accident? How could that possibly happen? Would be my question. The fool has said in his heart there is no God, it says in Psalm 14, verse 1. As I said, that's not an insult. That's simply a statement of judgment. It's a statement that the person who believes things like that is suppressing what they know in their heart of hearts is true. I'll never forget, there was a fellow that showed up at church when I was in college, and he was not a churchgoer. He'd never really been to church. And he was a physical therapy student and they were doing a gross anatomy where you actually take apart a human cadaver. And so they were taking apart a human body. And he said, looking at the wrists, looking at the carpal tunnel and the way that the bones of the wrists are put together, he said, it was very obvious to me, I was looking at something that God made. And then I looked at my own wrists and I knew that God made this too. And so I thought, well, I know God made me, maybe I should go to a church. Thankfully, he went to a decent church where he heard the gospel, he believed, he was baptized. It was an amazing, amazing thing. He shows up at church because of looking at the human body and he could see. Not, well, maybe aliens made this. It was a divine intelligence of unimaginable wisdom made this. So today's April Fools, I was encouraged to do a little video on this topic of April Fools. Uh, when the scripture says that it's an, it's a statement of judgment about stubborn unbelief. It's not about intelligence. Most unbelievers are smarter than me. The only reason I'm a Christian is God showed me my sin and God showed me my need for a savior. God showed me that I needed Christ. I needed to be saved. And I sure do bless his Holy name for showing me that. Um, because I was very lost before the Lord opened my eyes to see. So I hope that you'll take this to heart. I hope that this is helpful. The Lord Jesus extends his heart and his hands out to the whole world and says, if you want deliverance from that kind of foolishness, that kind of suppression of what is plain and obvious, it's obvious that God made all this life. It's obvious that it's designed by not, not extraterrestrials, even, even extraterrestrials, if they exist, which they don't, but they couldn't design a DNA molecule in the enzymes that read the code and build an organism. Obviously a divine intellect of unimaginable power and wisdom made all these things. Please consider that. If you have a Bible, read, read the gospel of John, read the gospel of Matthew, read the book of Romans and look at what it says in the opening chapter, Romans chapter one, that since the creation of the world, God's invisible attributes, his divine power and divine nature are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made. Please consider that and consider the fact that you have a conscience that bothers you because God is a God who's going to judge this world in righteousness. Please consider that. And I would encourage you, come to Jesus. He extends his arms and his heart and his grace to the world and says, come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and lowly in heart. That's the good news. God will forgive you if you'll come to him. Jesus Christ is able to save to the uttermost all who come to God through him. So I would encourage you, please do that. Please do that while there's time and give your heart to him and turn from your sin and believe the gospel and trust in Jesus's finished work to save you. Thanks for watching or listening.