Let’s hop back in our time machine. But this time, we are going to grab a passenger. We will go back to one day after Adam was created and take him on a ride…
To a hospital. A big hospital with all sorts of different doctors in the various attached buildings. And we are going to take Adam from doctor to doctor, and we are going to ask them his age.
We take him to the GP, and he does a complete exam. Looking at his weight, and his height, and his development, he says he is X years old.
Then, we take him to the physical therapist. One with lots of experience working with infants, adults, and children. And he puts him through his paces: walking on a balance beam, doing jumping jacks, crawling on the floor… all sorts of things. And, again, we ask him how old Adam is (we gave him a pseudonym, of course), and he says he is Y years old.
Then, we take him to a speech therapist. Again, one that has experience working with all ages. And he listens to him talk (in Hebrew, of course). He puts him through all sorts of tongue twisters and other speech-therapist-type things, and we ask him, too, how old Adam is. And he says he is Z years old.
We continue through the hospital and ask everyone we find. And then, at the end of the day, we take a very tired Adam back to the garden and look at our notes. We arrange everything in a nice chart, and we examine all of the results. And do you know what we find? Not one person has put that they think that Adam is zero years and one day old. None of them!
We have no idea what they would say… whether they would guess fifteen years old or fifty. There would no doubt be things they were confused about, differences between the various doctors. But they would, under no account, give an age of ‘one day’.
There is a fundamental understanding of the concept of Special Creation. From a materialistic perspective, the world created by Special Creation must look older than it is. It is simply nonsensical to say it would look its age when its age is two days, or two hours, or two minutes old. There is simply no naturalistic way to reconcile such an age.
That is because the assumption, the unquestioned and unquestionable assumption, of the materialist is that the processes of yesterday led up to what we see today.
Let’s look at another example. Suppose you were to walk into a room and see some balls on a pool table. And they were moving around. And then suppose you were able to calculate the exact direction and speed of each ball, the bounciness of the walls, and the softness of the table and thus how much the balls would slow down over time.
Well, you could have some fun calculating where the balls would have been in the past… one second in the past, ten seconds in the past, etc. But because you know how pool is played, you would know that at some point, all of your calculations would be wrong… because, at some point, someone hit one (or more) of the balls with a pool cue. Or maybe some kid was in the room and pushed them or threw them or pushed his teddy bear against them.
But none of your calculations could tell you when that was. If you calculate a ball slowing down at a given rate and thus going backwards, you calculate it as having been going faster and faster… You can’t ever say, “Here is where it is hit”.
You might be able to find contradictions or impossibilities, as we have been doing here. There might have been a moment where two balls would have to have passed through each other, just as evolution has a problem with sexual reproduction, the first life, and a thousand other problems.
But your calculations could never have said, “Here is where it all began.” And we need to remember that.
