My cousin lives in an area that is impoverished and undeveloped. They are so poor there that a tornado once came through his home town and did $20 million worth of improvements!

What makes that joke funny (if you think it is funny at all!) is that it is ridiculous to think that a force as random and destructive as a tornado could create anything. It is ludicrous to think that such a wild, unpredictable force could do anything other than destroy.

Now, let’s talk about the likelihood that the universe was created by some type of big explosion. (You knew where I was going with this, didn’t you?) It couldn’t have happened that way! It is much easier to believe the biblical account of creation. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”—Genesis 1:1.