Someone once told me that people either believe that things in life are planned, or that they believe in the bump-bump theory.
This is true in thinking about the origin of life. People who believe God’s Word know that God created everything in the universe. People who don’t believe this believe that all matter, energy, laws of chemistry and physics, and all of time itself all somehow came into being in one gigantic primordial soup. Some material in that soup bumped into some more material and made something, then that bumped into another something and made something else. And after many, many, many bump-bumps, we ended up with Charles Darwin.
Charles Darwin wasn’t very good at history or science. History tells us that Aristotle conceived the idea of spontaneous generation – that life could come from dead matter (maggots from dead animals, for example). Fortunately, scientists didn’t believe that science was settled, and as they investigated, they discovered that life was actually coming from other life. Like Aristotle, Darwin also made an observation and jumped to a wrong conclusion. Observing that species of animals could change and adapt to their environment, he made the logical fallacy that bump-bump they could also change from one kind of animal to another, something for which there has never been any proof. The main reason people believe the theory of evolution is that they don’t want the moral consequences of believing in God.
The bump-bump theory is popular in daily life, too. Some people believe that bump-bump they just happened to run into this person at that time, or that bump-bump this thing just happened to them, or that bump-bump something worked out just right. Other people, even knowing that time and chance happen to all, recognize God’s hand of providence in their life and seek God’s guidance for their footsteps.
The bump-bump theory is popular in government as well. You could believe that bump-bump Cassius, Brutus and others just happened to run into Caesar on March 15, 44 BC, or you could believe that it was a planned assassination. You could believe that bump-bump CIA men, mobsters, and Cuban agents just happened to show up in Dealy Plaza on November 22, 1963, or you could believe it was all planned. You could believe that a massive consumer need shows up bump-bump just when the giant corporation has a supply available, or you could believe it was all planned. In these cases, believing in bump-bump is easier than believing in massive conspiracies or massive evils.