News flash: Without a Creator there is no earth. If you would call yourself an agnostic, a skeptic, or spiritual seeker, please read on.

Today’s Google Doodle shows a hummingbird, snow monkeys, a chameleon, a dung beetle and a moon jellyfish. It must be Earth Day! I love it. I’m currently writing this while sitting outside on a perfect day in Dallas, Texas. It’s 82 degrees, not a cloud in the sky and (as any avid North Texas cyclist would note), almost no wind… beautiful.

I love planet earth. I’m glad there’s a day set aside to “get your green on” and remember we have been given the great privilege and responsibility to steward our planet. But I must state the obvious: There would be no “Earth Day” if God had not created the earth. Like so many events, special days, holidays (formerly “holy days”) and reasons to celebrate our lives together, we most often find ourselves on adventures in missing the point. And today’s is so obvious it’s mind-numbing.

Let me state the obvious. The simple fact that the earth exists is evidence of the existence of God. I could go quickly to the God of the Bible but that’s not even necessary to make my point here. I simply want to go to Aristotelian logic to make a simple but profound point that is unavoidable, apparent, and incontestable. Aristotle’s law of cause and effect says that no effect can be produced without a cause. Every effect must have a cause.

The fact that the earth exists proves that there is a God. You cannot get something from nothing. It is scientifically impossible. And you cannot get living matter from non-living matter. It is scientifically impossible. Regardless of your personal views of creation, evolution, adaptation of the species, etc.. eventually you come to the “Uncaused Cause”- God.

Humans and the Universe itself are effects that must have a cause. Think about it: The fact that you exist is a key argument for the existence of God. People ask me, “How can you know God exists?” Because you do. It really is that clear. Could a computer suddenly come into being without an intelligent designer? Could a monkey in a print shop set Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in type? Could an eye that sees in 3-D and color happen by accident? Could the Universe or the human body come into being without a Supreme Creator? Scientifically impossible. Don’t allow your preconceived biases to lead you into absurdity.

Earth Day Fun Facts:

Looking at the Universe we see that there is Designer. Consider plain water. Water has a high specific heat. This means that chemical reactions in the human body are kept rather stable. If water had a low specific heat, we would “boil over” with the least amount of activity. The ocean is the world’s thermostat. The ocean keeps the earth warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Did you know that if the earth were much smaller an atmosphere would be impossible? If larger, the atmosphere would contain free hydrogen (like Jupiter and Saturn) and life could not exist on earth. The distance from the sun is perfect for life on earth. The smallest change would make it to hot or too cold for survival.

When you eliminate the answer before you ask the question it always leads to absurdity.

Many have eliminated God as the Answer to questions regarding origins, purpose, and meaning. Imagine that the number four does not exist. Eliminate it as a possibility. You then come to the question: What’s two plus two? It must be 3 or something close to five but it cannot be four. We’ve already decided four does not exist. Unless of course, it does. And to say that two plus two is anything other than four is absurd. This is why the definitive word about atheism found in the Bible is this: “The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” (Psalm 14:1). That may sound harsh to the atheist but what other word would you use for someone who eliminates the answer before asking the question?

As I am on Thanksgiving, I am on Earth Day: grateful. I’m thankful every day for the glory of the earth and this beautiful life on this planet. Are you thankful? If so, whom will you thank?