"I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as divine revelation, and therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God."   Charles Darwin in a letter to a friend in 1880

A conversation:

First man: I believe that the world was created by God.

Second Man: How ignorant! How can Christians stake their lives on faith in an eternal God?

First Man: So what do you believe?

Second Man: I believe in an ancient universe, billions of years old. Gases were present in that environment , and these gases eventually caused an explosion. This explosion formed the planets and set off a chain of events that caused single cells, which also formed from the explosion of gases, to slowly evolve over billions of years into all of the animals, and eventually man.

First Man: Wow! You're right, I must be ignorant. I'm lucky to have your vast experience, study and intellect to explain all this to me. But, I have one question: Where did the gases come from?

Second Man: Oh, they have always been there.

First Man: So, let me get this straight: You believe that everything in the universe was created by gas that has just "always been there"? I believe in the eternal God, while you believe in eternal gas. Yet, you marvel at my faith?

The fool says in his heart, "There is no God" Psalms 14:1, NIV

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.    Genesis 1:1, NIV