Patrikin – Kinship through The Father

John Ortberg tells a cute little story in his book, Faith and Doubt, which I am enjoying:

A group of scientists decided that human beings had come a long way and no longer needed God.

They picked one scientist to go and tell God they did not need him anymore. The scientist went to him and said, “God we can make it on our own. We know how life started. We know the secret. We know how to clone it. We know how to duplicate it. We can do it without you”

God listened patiently and said, “All right. What do you say we have a man-making content?”

The scientist said, “Ok, Great. We’ll do it”

God said, “Now we’re going to do it just the way I did it back in the old days with Adam.”

The Scientist said, “Sure, no problem.” He reached down and grabbed a handful of dirt and God said, “No, no, no. You get your own dirt”¹

He tells it to put focus on the real issue of faith:

Talking about something that changes into something else and how long it takes for something to change into something else— that’s not what most cries out for explanation. The trick is how do you get from nothing to something, and why is there something? We all want to know.¹

1. Ortberg, John (2008-09-02). Faith and Doubt (Kindle Locations 856-857). Zondervan. Kindle Edition.