I ran into a Christian recently who asked, “Couldn’t God have used the Big Bang to get everything here in the first place?” Maybe they assumed the Big Bang just meant a loud noise when God spoke the world into existence (Psalm 33:6-7, 9). But the question indicated they didn’t understand the tenets of the Big Bang model.

Do you remember the tale of the emperor’s new clothes? Remember how the emperor went along with the ludicrous idea that he was wearing clothes when he was actually naked? In the story, he seems to have ditched common sense along with his apparel. A young child is the only one to tell it like it really is—“Look, he isn’t wearing any clothes!”

My grandfather was a careful gardener. He prepared the soil months in advance of planting season. He meticulously laid out the straight rows, scooped out the dirt, and placed every seed exactly where he wanted. When he finished, the dirt was mounded around the site of each buried seed to hold the correct amount of water and nourish the seedling as it grew.