It Couldn’t Just Happen
From galaxies to dinosaurs, this Gold Medallion Award–winner guides children through life’s biggest questions, exploring creation, design, and faith with vivid illustrations and activities for ages 6–12.
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It Couldn’t Just Happen: Knowing the Truth About God’s Awesome Creation
Imagine, if you will, a child gazing up at the stars and wondering: How did it all begin? In It Couldn’t Just Happen, Lawrence O. Richards invites young readers (ages 6–12) on a remarkable journey through origins, life, design, and the mysteries of the world.
This 192-page, full-color volume—awarded the Gold Medallion Book Award—presents the grand questions: Did Earth begin with a Big Bang? Could we possibly have descended from apes? What became of the dinosaurs? And, is there life beyond our fragile planet? With each chapter, a new puzzle of existence is laid out and explored, not as dry facts, but as a living narrative that reveals a Creator’s hand.
Each section is punctuated with “Just for Fun” activities—playful pauses that encourage children to grapple with ideas, test their understanding, and see connections between scientific observation and biblical teaching. In presenting multiple perspectives on the age of the Earth, from literal-day to gap and day-age theories, Richards challenges readers to think critically, while maintaining a foundation of faith.
Families and homeschoolers praise the accessible language, engaging illustrations, and the way it encourages children to ask meaningful questions while reinforcing biblical truth. Some critics have noted that it simplifies or frames evolution selectively, but for many Christian families, this is its very strength: a text that equips children to understand mainstream claims and contrast them with Scripture.
What results is a text to be read and experienced: a companion for long conversations, a source for science and faith lessons, and a means of shaping children’s ability to see design and purpose woven into the natural world.
