This week's Paper Pulpit has been written by Rev. D Elwyn Jones

How strange that many other people, nowadays, blindly air their disbelief and never wonder at the beauty and sustenance which can come out of a tiny seed.

Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution challenged traditional views, namely, the realisation that the world was much older than one had previously thought and that the creatures had the ability to adapt to their environment causing them to evolve and develop different characteristics over time.

Nevertheless, it is interesting to note that he, a descendent of the devout Wedgewood family, believed in God

The initial impact of this has run its course. The new concept now emerging is that Nature is a product of an ‘Ordered Mind’, a ‘Designer’. Nature is not haphazard but orderly, meticulous and profound. Some scientists, formerly hostile to the idea of a God, acknowledge that this is so and many educated people now believe there is a meeting place between Christianity and Science. Science is good at discovering and describing developments over time. Christianity is far better at explaining the origins. ‘IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.’

Until Professor Dawkins produces life in a test tube (a vacuum) with absolutely nothing in it to begin with, I don’t really believe anyone will really be convinced that she can adequately explain how creation came about.

David Attenborough, with his spectacular Nature programmes, and others, speak with supreme confidence as though the emergence of life on earth was inevitable. Their belief that we are going to find many other ‘inhabited’ planets is speculation. Thus far, despite our Space Explorations, there is not a shred of evidence.

One must consider the possibility that C.S. Lewis was right when he called Earth the ‘Visited Planet’ – uniquely created and chosen by God – to be vibrant with colour, life and potential. The implications of this are colossal.

To where do we escape if we destroy our environment with pollution? Destroy this and we destroy ourselves!

When, in adolescence, I went through an Agnostic period where I felt I couldn’t believe in God; it was the bleakest, most meaningless phase of my life. It is a very lonely thing to feel that there is nobody bigger, better or wiser than oneself in all the Universe who can ensure that the future will work out in an orderly fashion and that, one day, life’s continuing mysteries can be explained.

When God became know to me life was full of meaning and purpose. I saw God in everything. Science can DISCOVER; it can’t CREATE.

A famous atheist was once asked in an interview, “Is there anything you miss in not believing in God?” She replied: “Yes, most of all, when something absolutely wonderful happens, I have no one to say thank-you to.”

“HARVEST” is our opportunity to say ‘thank-you.’