Since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes, his eternal power, his divine nature,

have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made.

You cannot conclude anything other than that. There was an eternal pre-existing creator,

and consequently those who reject that and suppress that truth, Romans 1, 20 says,

are without excuse.

Welcome to Grace To You with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson. In your day-to-day life,

you probably use a computer or a smartphone or some piece of technology that you don't understand

100%. In other words, just because you don't know what every button does and can't explain

the engineering behind the device, that hasn't kept you from using it. Today on Grace To You,

John MacArthur is going to help you apply that principle to a vital biblical doctrine,

the origins of the universe. He'll continue his look at the battle for the beginning by

showing you that you don't need to have an advanced degree in science or seminary training for

that matter to defend what the Bible says about creation. And if you have a Bible, turn now to Genesis

chapter 1 and here's John. And we're looking at day 5 in the creation, Genesis 1, 22, 23,

Genesis 1, 20 to 23.

Text says, then God said, let the waters team with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly

above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens. And God created the great sea monsters

and every living creature that moves with which the waters swarmed after their kind and every

winged bird after its kind and God saw that it was good and God blessed them saying, be fruitful and

multiply and fill the waters in the seas and let birds multiply on the earth. And there was evening

and there was morning of fifth day. December 1996 brought the death of an evolutionist

astronomer by the name of Carl Sagan, probably the most well-known astronomer in the world.

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