The Chicken or the Egg

27 So God created mankind in his own image,

    in the image of God he created them;

    male and female he created them. Genesis 1

I'm back!  For those of you wondering, I had a 7 lb, 7 oz daughter and she turned three months old yesterday.  I've still been doing my own continuation through Exodus, but wanted to deviate from that for this week and I'll get back to it next Friday (I'm sure everyone's been really missing out on Exodus and what Moses is up to while I've been on leave).

My daughter sleeps much better at night than my son ever did, however she totally hates taking naps, which I think is the only way he got his sleep.  I'm still up occasionally at night, but I'm pretty well rested most mornings.  Anyways, while up in the middle of the night, there isn't much to do besides quietly read on my smart phone and/or think.  A few nights ago, the eternal question popped into my mind.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Which quickly evolved into...

Which came first, the baby or the adult?

My thoughts change rapidly in my head, and within a few additional jumps, I started to think about evolutionists. Evolutionists believe that all life on our planet started with protein chains that banded together to make small organisms, which evolved into more complex organisms, further evolving into mammals, apes, and humans.  If you look at drawings and diagrams of the early humans, what is missing?  Babies.  The drawings showing evolution show those early humans as full grown adults.  There's no transition.

Ok, so an adult can forage and hunt for food, carry a club to protect itself, and whatever else is shown in the picture.  But that adult had to have started as a baby.  The protein chains didn't produce an adult male at random.  There had to have been a baby first.  At some point, there would have been ONE baby. 

My thoughts continued to try to think like an evolutionist (no, I'm not converting).  Well, the baby would have been taken care of by an ape.  Let's go further back up the chain - that means, ONE baby ape at some point.  Which would have been taken care of by... some other mammal.  Further up the chain - that means, ONE baby mammal... so how would that baby mammal eat without a mother to nurse from?

And there, I was stuck.  

I don't propose to have all the answers.  What I do have, is faith.  Faith that the Bible is the Word of God.  Faith that if God created man in his own image out of nothing, that he would be able to make man and not make a baby that grew up into man.  Faith that if he can make animals out of nothing, he made an adult chicken as well.

He is all powerful.  Nothing is impossible for our God.