Creation Bullet Series: Destroying Darwinism, One Bullet at a Time
“By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.” — Psalm 33:6
Original Creation Bullet by Bill Nowers:
Cause and Effect: Without beating a dead horse, another example of the evolutionists’ false use of cause and effect is important. Everyone reading this has probably heard of the Big Bang. But how did it come about?
Years ago scientists studying the stars discovered what appeared to be a red shift in the color of the light coming from the stars. This could be caused by the Doppler effect of the stars moving away from us. The Doppler effect is the result of any wave action source, light or sound, when the source is moving away from us or towards us. If you have ever stood near a train crossing and heard a train coming, the sound would have a higher pitch as the train approached and immediately shift to a lower pitch as the train passed. The same principle applies to light waves. White light is composed of all the colors of the rainbow: Red-Orange-Yellow-Green-Blue-Indigo-Violet (remember the name Roy G. Biv). When light is passed through a prism, the colors are separated and the red color is the lower frequency. So if the light from the stars is shifted to the red, it indicates a lower frequency and it means the stars are all moving away.
Scientists quickly figured if the stars are all moving away, then they could back them up, in time, to see where they were a thousand or million years ago. They could have backed them up in time to where they were about six thousand years ago, and say that’s where they were when God created them. But being an atheist-dominated group, they continued to back them up to where they theoretically were all at a single point, say fifteen billion years ago. This single point, with zero dimensions, EXPLODED for some unknown reason, and at a temperature so high you wouldn’t believe it. This was the Big Bang. (I’m not making this up)
So starting with the effect, the red shift, the evolutionists determined the cause, the Big Bang. Or was God the cause and maybe there wasn’t any Big Bang.
The Big Bang is one of the most widely taught origin stories in science today—but does it truly rest on solid ground, or is it just another example of misused cause and effect? Bill Nowers digs into the logic (or lack thereof) that props up the Big Bang narrative, showing once again that atheistic science often begins with assumptions and then forces the evidence to fit.
The red shift observed in starlight is a real effect—just like the sound shift from a passing train. But interpreting that red shift as proof of a cosmic explosion from a zero-dimensional point is an exercise in reverse logic. It’s an effect being used to invent a cause, and not just any cause—one that conveniently eliminates God.
From Observations to Overreach
Nowers explains that if stars appear to be moving outward, scientists could reasonably speculate where they may have been thousands of years ago. But instead of considering a recent, divine origin, mainstream scientists—dominated by a naturalistic worldview—chose to rewind the clock billions of years and arrive at a single, dimensionless point that exploded for no known reason.
And from that explosion, they claim, came order, structure, gravity, galaxies, life, and eventually human intelligence. No designer. No Creator. Just unguided processes. As Nowers rightly notes: “I’m not making this up.”
Red Shift or Red Herring?
This evolutionary use of cause and effect reveals the bias inherent in modern cosmology. An observable effect—the red shift—is treated not just as data, but as dogma. The conclusion (Big Bang) is not derived from the evidence, it’s forced onto it. The actual cause could just as well be a supernatural one: that God created the heavens recently and set them in motion.
The Bible declares that God “stretched out the heavens” (Isaiah 42:5, Psalm 104:2). Isn’t that a more consistent explanation for cosmic expansion than a spontaneous explosion from nothing?
Exploding the Myth
The Big Bang theory is not neutral science—it’s a worldview narrative designed to displace the Creator. As with other evolutionary claims, its logic falls apart under scrutiny. Starting with the effect (red shift) and inventing a convenient, God-denying cause (Big Bang) is not science. It’s speculation disguised as fact.
Let God’s Word be our starting point, not man’s assumptions. “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
Next week: Creation Bullet #6 — “Definitions Matter: Micro vs. Macro Evolution”
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About the Author – In Memoriam
Bill Nowers (1925–2021) was a long-time VCA Board Member and founder of Creation & Evolution Science Ministries. His legacy of defending biblical truth lives on through this powerful series.
