Ever found a penny on the ground?

It happens from time to time.

Ever found a quarter on the ground?

Wonder how it got there.

Someone pulls something out of a pocket…

scatters change on the ground…

picks up most of it but misses the quarter.

Have you ever found 30,000 coins on the ground?

That happens less frequently.

That many coins probably didn’t tumble accidentally from someone’s pocket.

That many coins would require another explanation.

Perhaps you’re in a wishing well…?

Meet Charles Doolittle Walcott.

In the early 1900’s he hit archaeological pay dirt.

Something like 60,000 individual fossils…

Of life forms that couldn’t exist yet.

The fossils were in the wrong geological strata.

And they were too diverse.

Evolution happens slowly and Walcott seemed to have discovered…

an explosion of life.

Evolution had a problem.

It had found 60,000 coins lying on the ground…

…but there’s no such thing as wishing wells.

Change dropping gradually from pockets…

over eons of time…

is the only process by which coins collect.

So science did the best it could with Walcott’s fossils.

Stashed them in the Smithsonian for a few decades.

Later, in the 1980’s, some scientists examined Walcott’s trove.

They questioned some of evolutionary science‘s previous conclusions.

And suffered scorn.

Because while nobody knows for sure…

how life came to exist on earth…

naturalists are certain that there’s no God.

“Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.”

Jeremiah 32:16