Todd's Missing Television

Todd lived across the street from us for years. We love Todd so much. He spent just about every Saturday evening at our house eating, talking about everything under the sun, watching movies and hanging outdoors as much as we could. 

Todd calls us one day and says his house has been broken into.

(That's funny because Todd never locks his door. He doesn't even know where his house key is. It never fails that when his mother-in-law comes to stay, she ends up locking them all out of the house. Somehow, he always finds a window or a way to get in but he never has keys made. I laugh at that all the time.)

So being broken into is not an accurate way of saying that an unknown person has come into his unlocked house and has stolen things from him. 

Todd goes on to say that a television is missing and a glass jar of change has been dropped and the glass and the change is all over the place. He said it looked like they got scared and left in a hurry because nothing else was missing. Todd has many valuable items and if they had looked hard enough they would have found some expensive treasures. 

Todd called the police and a detective comes out to look around and dust for fingerprints. Todd tells the detective that this is a quiet area. The house sits at the end of a cul-de-sac. No one comes down here on purpose unless they live here. 

So, the next Saturday evening we are doing our usual thing and we start discussing his "break in". One thing that all three of us had thought about was that there were houses being built in the area and lately the cable company had been around because our internet was always going out. It really would be easy for someone that was coming to the neighborhood to see our habits and figure out when we were home or not. The crazy thing is that my own house was very seldom empty. I still had a kid in high school and one in college that were in and out of the house on a daily basis. We have other neighbors that are older and they never leave their houses. It really was a mystery how this could happen and not one person saw any suspicious activity.

Now let's think about this situation...

Possibility 1:

The television just disappeared and the coins fell by themselves. This happened randomly by chance. No person or thing did this. Things just came together at the perfect time for a television to disappear and for the coins to fall. It must have happened on its own for no reason.

Possibility 2:

A person or more than one person came into the house when they knew Todd was gone. They carried the television out and they dropped or knocked over the coins. There is evidence that the television is no longer in its place. There is evidence that glass has been broken and coins are on the floor. There are fingerprints on the door knob.


I know you get what I'm doing here. 

No one is crazy enough to think that Possibility 1 is the right solution, but that is exactly what people are saying about our existence and creation if they say there is no God. There was an explosion for no reason by random chance and poof... that got the ball rolling as they say. We don't know what really happened, but there is evidence that the universe is expanding as time goes on, so if you put that in reverse, it makes sense that there was a starting point. WHO put that into motion? Does it make more sense to say it was an accident than to say it was God?

The evidence that God exists is YOU, ME, THE SUN, THE MOON, THE ANIMALS, THE PLANTS, the WORLD and the AIR we breathe! Just like seeing the television gone and the coins on the floor. You don't need someone to do a scientific experiment to say someone entered Todd's house and stole from him.  Science can help, but it doesn't have to be the sole reason why we know things. Science can be involved in the fingerprints and putting the puzzle pieces together. Logic can be involved because we can put ourselves into the situation and realize certain things must have happened. You can even be philosophical and wonder why they left the coins...did they get scared?

The point is that we have evidence, but some of us refuse to see it as evidence. Why would we think we are smarter than our creator? Why would we think we need more evidence from him? Science is awesome and can tell us HOW something happened, but the WHY is not something for science to decide.

How can everything be organized enough to come together at the perfect time and then fall into place? Space, air, nature, life forms...it's all organized and is connected...this is beyond our thinking and our imagination!

Our heart is in the perfect location in our bodies. Plants give off oxygen and feed us! The sun is the perfect distance away from our planet. The food chain! 

How can believing in God be this difficult? It seems like the opposite should be true.