It Couldn't Just Happen Quotes

“If amino acids can only be made where there is no free oxygen in the atmosphere, and porphyrins can only be made when there is free oxygen, then these things needed by every cell could not have existed together to form the first cell! What’s more, many of these compounds are antagonistic. They will combine and destroy each other—anywhere except within a living cell.”
― Lawrence O. Richards, It Couldn't Just Happen: Fascinating Facts About God's World

“In the world as we know it today, there is no way that life can simply start up on its own, coming from nonliving matter.”
― Lawrence O. Richards, It Couldn't Just Happen: Knowing the Truth About God's Awesome Creation

“Life can come only from other life.”
― Lawrence O. Richards, It Couldn't Just Happen: Knowing the Truth About God's Awesome Creation

“Yet, in the end, we don’t believe in creation just because it is more likely scientifically. We believe in creation because we trust what God has revealed to us in the Bible.”
― Lawrence O. Richards, It Couldn't Just Happen: Knowing the Truth About God's Awesome Creation

“Despite many things we can’t explain, a study of our world convinces us that the universe, our planet, and life itself, really could not “just happen.” In the beginning, there was God!”
― Lawrence O. Richards, It Couldn't Just Happen: Knowing the Truth About God's Awesome Creation

“Is it foolish to believe in God when we can’t solve all the mysteries that exist in our universe? Not at all! In fact, the more we learn about our universe and the more mysteries we uncover, the more we realize that it is foolish not to believe in God.”
― Lawrence O. Richards, It Couldn't Just Happen: Knowing the Truth About God's Awesome Creation

“We Christians can’t be sure about our scientific theories either. Just because a Christian scientist thinks something is true does not prove it. All scientists work with theories. No scientist can say his theory is a fact. The Bible is not a science book and does not try to explain scientific mysteries. What the Bible does do is tell us that the universe and life itself didn’t just happen! It tells us that God made the universe. God created the heavens and filled the space with galaxies of stars. God shaped our Earth, making it a home for living creatures. God created all living things. And, most special of all, God created human beings for him to love and for them to love him.”
― Lawrence O. Richards, It Couldn't Just Happen: Knowing the Truth About God's Awesome Creation

“Everything around us, including the delicate balance in nature that makes life on Earth possible, makes it clear: Our world didn’t “just happen.” Our world was designed, and even today Earth is guided and protected by God.”
― Lawrence O. Richards, It Couldn't Just Happen: Knowing the Truth About God's Awesome Creation

“Living things, like our planet itself, are able to use energy in an organized way and counteract the tendency toward disorganization. This simple fact convinced one Russian physicist that there must be a God controlling everything! As I thought about all of that, it suddenly dawned on me that there must be a very powerful organizing force counteracting this disorganizing tendency within nature, keeping the universe controlled and in order. This force must not be material; otherwise, it too would become disordered. I concluded that this power must be both omnipotent (all-powerful) and omniscient (all-wise and all-knowing). There must be a God—one God— controlling everything!3”
― Lawrence O. Richards, It Couldn't Just Happen: Knowing the Truth About God's Awesome Creation

“Earth alone in all the solar system contains a “zone of life.” Only here can water remain liquid, and oxygen abounds in free, active form. While all this may seem odd to people who do not believe in God, nothing about the Earth seems odd to the Christians. The Bible tells us that: The earth is the LORD ’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters. PSALM 24:1–2”
― Lawrence O. Richards, It Couldn't Just Happen: Knowing the Truth About God's Awesome Creation

“It is as if Earth were purposely hung in space, at just the right distance from the Sun, and provided with just the right amount of every element needed for life to exist.”
― Lawrence O. Richards, It Couldn't Just Happen: Knowing the Truth About God's Awesome Creation