Stands to Reason?

You will probably not believe this, but hang on as I try to convince you nonetheless. Much to my wife’s surprise, I washed and dried a load of dirty clothes the other day without even being asked. Yes, that does happen occasionally. But that’s not really the astonishing part. The amazing thing was, when I opened the dryer to get the clothes out, every single article of clothing was already folded and ready to be put away. To be clear, I don’t mean that my wife had beat me to the laundry room and already folded everything. I mean, when the timer went off, I opened the dryer door and the still-warm clothes were all neatly folded. Imagine my complete and utter shock! Every towel and t-shirt was folded just the way my wife likes them. Her work clothes were already matched up and color coordinated. All my dress shirts were wrinkle-free and buttoned properly, ready for a coat hanger. And as if all that wasn’t shocking enough, amazingly, not only were there no missing socks, but all of them were already paired up and neatly tucked into each other, ready for the sock drawer. I am telling you, folks, this really happened. I mean, what are the chances?

But hang on, something else extraordinary happened that day. As I walked out of our laundry room, with my arms full of still-warm clothes, I inadvertently knocked my laptop off the kitchen island. Somewhat dazed and confused by this baffling clothing miracle, I didn’t notice my computer so close to the edge of the counter and knocked it off. It hit our hardwood floor and splintered into a thousand pieces. In about two seconds, I went from absolute shock to complete terror. Every sermon, article, and random idea I have written over the last seven years was on that computer. I dropped the clothes on the couch and put the fragmented remains of my laptop into a cardboard box. What a mess. The screen was cracked, of course. The keyboard had popped off the frame, and many of the keys were scattered across the floor. The battery had fallen out of the bottom, and the wiring was broken. My heart was shattered into as many pieces as that computer.  

I grabbed the box, scrambled out the door, jumped in the car and headed to the computer repair store in town. On my way, some knucklehead suddenly pulled out in front of me. I slammed on the brakes, and the box with my computer inside slid out of the seat and hit the floorboard. Hard. I could hear the random pieces bouncing around. Needless to say, my stress level was through the roof!

But hang on; you will probably not believe this… when I walked into the repair shop and opened the box, my laptop was in perfect condition! The screen wasn’t shattered. The battery was back in place. Believe it or not, every key lying loose in the bottom of the box was somehow back where it was supposed to be. I mean, the “qwerty” keyboard was reorganized in like-new fashion. I couldn’t believe my eyes! I was speechless! All I could figure was that when the box hit the floorboard, somehow, everything popped back into its proper place?!

Incredibly, I pressed the power button, and it came on! The Windows logo appeared in moments, and every file was still there! The employee thought I had lost my mind when I tried to explain what happened, but turning the computer around, he noticed the broken battery cord wasn’t connected to the port, yet somehow the laptop was still functioning! Now, he, too, was flabbergasted. 

But wait a minute, you are probably not going to believe this either, but perhaps the most staggering surprise of all was this: when I opened the files on my computer, this article you are reading was already there! Seriously, I didn’t write it; the article wrote itself! I mean to tell you, folks, this is some astonishing stuff! You believe me, right? There’s no way I am making all this up, right? Who has heard any craziness like this?  

Oh, wait a minute, I have. I remember back in school, they taught us about this thing called evolution. In fact, our daughter said most of her college professors teach evolution as scientific fact, not theory. 

Well, my dear readers, I tell you what: the day I open the dryer and every article of clothing is neatly folded and ready to be put away, I will believe in evolution. The first time someone dumps some glass, lithium, and metal in a box … throws it against the wall, and out comes a functioning computer, I will believe evolution. 

After all, if randomness can produce order, at least once in the millions of loads of laundry done, at least one pair of socks would have magically matched up. Or one towel or t-shirt would come out neatly folded. It stands to reason, does it not? The answer is, of course not. 

Yet, people still believe in evolution. They think systems are far more complex and interconnected than any computer program and have somehow just started functioning. They believe non-life somehow produced life, and chaos created order. Quite curiously, the same people would think me a fool for claiming my clothes folded themselves, my laptop fixed itself, or this article wrote itself. 

The theory of evolution doesn’t stand up to reason: rational, Biblical, or scientific. Instead, it is a corrupt concept developed by Satan intent on blinding the minds of unbelievers to the true God, lest the light of the Gospel should appear to them (2 Corinthians 4:4). 

I think I will stick with, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). 

That stands to reason. 

P.S. (I bet some of you wish those clothes would fold themselves!) 

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