What explanation does the world offer for suffering?
Those who reject the Creator must explain how the world came into existence without God. Evolutionists and most other long agers believe that 14–15 billion years ago, a big bang caused the universe to begin from nothing. Galaxies, stars and planets formed as matter scattered across the universe cooled and coalesced. About five billion years ago, the earth itself began to form. The earth cooled for a billion years or so, water formed on the surface, and in this primordial ocean molecules somehow arranged themselves together to form the simplest one-celled life forms. Due to environmental stresses and other forces, random mutations led to survival advantages for certain organisms. These organisms gradually changed into progressively more complex organisms. The strongest organisms were able to survive and reproduce, and the weaker organisms died off or were killed by the stronger creatures. This merciless process eventually produced ape-like creatures and man himself. Thus humans are the
