There's no question: Science and technology have made astounding advances in the past several decades. New worlds of information are being opened to us almost daily. We send spacecraft to chart and study the universe. Robots probe the oceans' depths to discover previously unknown life forms or peer inside the wreck of the Titanic. Scientists unlock the mysteries of DNA and chart the human genome. But the more we learn about the world we live in, the more we see how intricately designed and beyond our understanding it is.

How did such an amazingly complex and wonderful world come into existence? Was the universe born 20 billion years ago when "a very small agglomeration of matter of extremely high density and temperature" exploded, as proponents of the big bang theory claim? Did life on Earth originate by chance some 3.4 billion years ago, and did we evolve from lower life forms, as evolutionists teach? Is the Bible's explanation of creation--"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1)--at odds with true science?

In this issue of Activated we look into some of these questions.

Keith Phillips
For the Activated family