Herbert Spencer, evolutionist and skeptic, declared that five things were necessary for creation-Time, Space, Matter, Force, Motion. We would not suspect Spencer of being influenced by Scripture in this pronouncement, yet these are the very five things stated by Moses in Gen. 1:1, 21In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. (Genesis 1:1‑2): -
TIME -"In the beginning."
SPACE-"God created the heaven,"
MATTER-"and the earth."
FORCE-"God," "the Spirit of God."
MOTION-"The Spirit of God moved."
How is it that Moses, living in the fifteenth century before Christ, should have put upon record these five essentials for creation, which Herbert Spencer, with all the accumulated knowledge of the nineteenth century after Christ at his command deemed necessary? Think of Moses in the desert inscribing the story of creation as found in Gen. 1 and 2, and further, that this story should have been preserved to mankind all down the ages is an astounding miracle. How blind is the man who fails to see the guiding hand of Divine inspiration as Moses wrote down the message given to him.