We live in a universe of order. From human bodies to heavenly bodies, things don’t just arrange themselves. When you move toward increased complexity, things are not more random but more ordered. If we threw the letters of the alphabet up in the air and let them fall, they would not likely come down in any order that made sense – I doubt they would even form one word as they scattered on the floor. But if those same letters are arranged purposely by an author, a designer, they are formed into something beautiful and complex. We then have something meaningful – like Shakespeare, or a poem, or lyrics to a song, which would never be created from the thrown and scattered letters.
Things in random order do not tend toward increasing organization but increasing disorder. An example of this is computer code. A computer needs a “coder” to write a comprehensible program. When Charles Darwin published his book in 1859, he had no idea about DNA, and the complex codes that give rise to human beings and animals. Since the human genome has been mapped, we understand how the arrangement of DNA is like computer coding in many ways.
Darwin always acknowledged there were weaknesses and gaps in his theory, and that is now more evident than ever. Time itself was always the hero of Darwin’s story, as I have heard Stephen Meyer say, however recent data suggest that there has simply not been enough time for the evolutionary changes he supposed, to take place to form all the various species on the earth.
But it seems the atheists and those who hold a certain worldview they feel they must defend, continue to cling to Darwin’s theory like a piece of driftwood in an ocean of evidence to the contrary. The complexity in living things, the systems that must work together and the enzymes that must be present to catalyze chemical reactions within the body all cry out that there must be a Designer behind it all.
It seems to me the atheists and doubters need one miracle to be true – the beginning just happened – without a Creator. However, the Christian worldview explains creation, explains it all. It not only explains how life came to be, but how we can have peace. Peace with God, peace with each other, and peace eternally.
Science, with all its helpfulness, can never explain everything about the world, and is not meant to. It can’t measure love, can’t define meaning, can’t define truth, and can’t bring peace to the world. A “double-blind study with a control group” cannot answer life’s deepest questions.
True science is always changing, always evaluating the evidence and coming to conclusions based on that current evidence. It’s ironic to me when someone says, “I trust the science,” when to be true to itself, “science” must admit that it might be wrong and must be open to further investigation! Think for a moment about how many times scientists have been wrong about things and told us things were not harmful when they actually were. Too many times to name here. What they tell us with such conviction today, might not be “true” 5 years from now, as more evidence comes to light.
As for me, I’ll trust in the Word of God, the foundation that has sustained so many for thousands of years, the foundation that has answers for life’s deepest questions, and the foundation that cannot fail. I’ll trust in the Kingdom that is unshakable and the One who rules it all.
How about you?
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