The Latin phrase ex nihilo is used to signify creation "out of nothing." "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form and void and darkness was on the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light" (Genesis 1:1-3).

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1). Both Creation as explained by the Bible and evolution as explained by man are based on faith.

"The more one studies paleontology the more certain one becomes that evolution is based on faith alone" (Louis T. More, evolutionist); "What is evolution based upon? Upon nothing whatever but faith, upon belief in the reality of the unseen--belief in fossils that cannot be produced, belief in the embryological evidence that does not exist, belief in the breeding experiments that refuse to come off. It is faith unjustified by works" (Arthur N. Fields, Australian geologist); "Evolution is a time-honored scientific tenet of faith" (Professor David Allbrook, University of Western Australia); "Meanwhile, though our faith in evolution stands unshaken, we have no acceptable account of the origin of species" (William Bateson, evolutionist); "Neither evolution nor creation can be either confirmed or falsified scientifically" (Dr. N. Heribert-Nilsson); "Creation will present a parallel to the theory of evolution itself, a theory universally accepted not because it can be proved by logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible" (Professor D. M. S. Watson); "I suppose the reason we leaped at The Origin of the Species was because the idea of God interfered with our sexual mores" (Sir Julian Huxley); "Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one . . . It may be claimed that the theory of descent is lacking, therefore, in the most essential feature [an eyewitness to its occurrence] which is needed to place the theory on a scientific basis" (T. H. Morgan, from Evolution and Adaptation).

We do have an eyewitness account of creation. In fact, we are acquainted with the Creator Himself; and not just acquainted with, but known by and dearly loved by Him.

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. This is what the ancients were commended for. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what is visible." To me, it takes a lot less faith to believe that God did all this than that there was a big bang and it just all happened; that slime oozed out of water (that just happened) and began to breathe, and developed into me. I think I like the idea of being made of dirt over that of being made of slime.

Dr. D. James Kennedy summed it up: "In Grimms' Fairy Tales someone kisses a frog and in two seconds it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In evolution, someone kisses a frog and in two million years it becomes a prince. That is not science. It is simply a faith."

This has been said before, but it's a strong argument--If I put my faith in God, and the world ends and I was wrong, what have I lost? Just a lot of hardship and heart ache and hassle. But if I put my faith in scientific evolution, and the world ends and I was wrong, what then have I lost?