Fingerprints of a Creator

Raising any finger to your eye without poking it you will see what could be the lines of a topographical map which represents your fingerprint. It sets us apart from one another, defining or incriminating us. If dabbed in ink and pressed to paper alongside 7 billion others they will be scrutinized and will ultimately match ours alone. Fingerprints are left marking all that we touch and provide evidence that lead back to us. If we look around, we see nature, life, a sun that provides light and an earth that rotates in its place in space. I believe this is all creation and not happen-chance. Fingerprints are left marked for all to see and we are without an excuse for seeing this, with Paul declaring this in Romans 1:20. “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from his workmanship, so that men are without excuse.” This world is more than just a spinning rock with a bunch of organisms living on it who struck it lucky when all conditions somehow came together and worked out on their own. Behind it all is a supreme engineer that has created this earth and set the ever-expanding universe in motion. A universe commonly described in the Bible as “stretched out”, consistent with the theory and evidence of an expanding universe. The Creator states, “It is I who made the earth and created mankind upon it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshalled their starry hosts.” The first words of the Bible state, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Quite a proclamation. The apostle John also believes, “Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.” The conditions of our early earth were not suitable for life to arise from non-life, any pre-existing life would have had to travel from another part of the universe to live here. Again, “without him nothing was made that has been made.” In the beginning there was intention and specificity, nothing was made without its purpose. This can all be easily argued rationally as there is a rational reasoning for how the earth and existence came about. A rational reasoning that stares blankly at you with empty eyes expecting you to take meaning from them. It brushes aside the big bang as something that just happened, the fine tuning and perfection of the universe is just random occurrence, natures regularity is something that apparently cannot be explained, and beauty and meaning are mere senses and convictions passed through evolutionary biology. It loses all its romance and intrigue; the fingerprints are wiped away and the end credits roll down with no one to attribute credit to. Timothy Keller in The Reason for God gives meaning to God as the sole contributor to all. “The theory that there is a God who made the world accounts for the evidence we see better than the theory there is no God. Those who argue against the existence of God go right on using induction, language and their cognitive faculties, all of which make far more sense in a universe in which a God has created and supports them all by his power.” Freedom is given in choosing how you see creation and a creator. There are differing views on and challenges toward the existence of God. It is a subject that divides people, yet despite the division and clouds of doubt we all still come to unwittingly question the reality. Christians and non-Christians alike have that in common, at some point they have both asked the question. So has the perfect crime been committed with no fingerprints at all, a book written by no author? We only have our lives to find out, take notice of the fingerprints and welcome their source. “God will invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does. When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks on to the stage the play is over.” C. S. Lewis.