IN THE 1998 FILM The Truman Show, Jim Carrey plays Truman Burbank, a generally cheerful insurance adjuster in a cozy island town whose days run like clockwork—until the day a stage light falls out of the heavens and crashes near his car. As Truman begins paying attention to the world around him, he discovers little by little that he is the unwitting star of a reality television show. He begins looking back through his life and at the world around him, and he sees that the clues to reality were there all along.
The Truman Show is just a movie, of course, but it is still a good metaphor for how billions of people live their lives in this world every day. They go about their routines, sometimes suspecting the world around them is trying to tell them something about itself and what’s outside of it but failing over and over again to put those clues together. Meanwhile, billions of other people see the signs in daily life (the sun’s rising, the sea’s swelling, the changing of the seasons, the clockwork of the solar system, the intricacies of DNA) as if they are peeks behind the stage.
The world is telling us something; we just know it! It’s telling us something about itself, about us, and about what’s behind it all.
But what? What is it saying?
What are some of the hints and clues we see in creation that point us to the existence of a Creator?
Conversely, what are some of the aspects of creation that cause some people to believe that no Creator exists?
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