The argument about whether God created the world is much less an argument to do with facts than it is to do with the revelation of God’s wrath.
Sometimes people say, “Well, if only we could persuade people that God made the world, then they would see.”
But the fact is that the reason that people don’t want to admit that God made the world is that if they admitted that God made the world, then they would have to think about what God thinks of the world. And if they think about what God thinks about the world, then they would realise that he’s angry with the world.
Therefore, the best solution in some people’s minds is—either explicitly or implicitly—to say, “Well, God doesn’t exist; God didn’t make the world. And therefore, I can go on.”
The majority of people are not atheists. The majority of people would not say that they don’t believe that there is a god. The majority of people do believe that there is a god or a higher power or some kind of spiritual-realm. And yet, they live godless and wicked lives.
We have all lived godless and wicked lives without the Lord Jesus intervening, whether we’re card-carrying atheists or not. We are all practical-atheists whenever we have lived as if God is not watching us. What we”ve done is we’ve suppressed the truth. We’ve pushed it down as much as we can, like a beach ball in a swimming pool—push it down, push it down, push it down. It’s hard work, but we’ve all done it.