By Pastor Greg
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Not
long ago Bill Nye the Science Guy debated the Theory of Evolution with Ken Ham;
a Christian who believed God created life.
The media mad a lot of fuss over this debate, but truthfully most of us
have heard it before. Debates like this
have been happening for years. Facts are
presented, points are made, but eventually patience wears thin. And when it’s evident no one will be changing
their mind, people resort to insulting their opponent; calling them
simple-minded idiots.
Often,
those who embrace evolution become quite frustrated with those who embrace God
as the creator. And sadly, someone who
holds fast to the Creation story is claimed to be denying the scientific
evidence. Only a silly idiot would
believe God grabbed a handful of dirt and simply created Man. “Simply” created Man? Is that what you would call these bodies of
ours? “Simple”?
Actually,
it seems to me that those who embrace evolution are the one’s denying the
evidence. To me it takes a greater faith
to believe that somehow a handful of proteins, water, and basic elements of the
earth one day combined in just the right way and in just the right amounts in
order to become alive. That takes more
faith than to believe God stepped in and created life.
The
biggest flaw I see in the evolutionary argument is in their claim that life
began on its own; that in a disorganized and chaotic world somehow things
became more organized; that out of the mud something suddenly sprang to life on
its own. But in order for this to happen
life would have to break one of the basic laws of physics; a law which
demonstrates that things move from an organized state to disorganization.
The 2nd
Law of Thermodynamics basically states that in a closed system things move from
order to disorder. Life breaks down over
time, not improves – unless something acts against it. The research indicates that life began
somehow, but Evolutionists want us to believe that life broke the Law; that
over time things improved or became more organized. Creation, on the other hand, says that life
began because of God. For example, in
creating Man God took what was unorganized (the dust of the ground),
reorganized it and set life in order. “Then the Lord God formed (organized)
the man from the dust of the ground (disorganized). He breathed the
breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person”
[1] (Genesis 2:7). In other words, God intervened; He took the
foundational elements of the earth and created something absolutely
amazing. He created human life; a life
too complex to be simply attributed to chance.
Have
you ever studied the human body? Peer
into a microscope once and you’ll never forget what you see. Even in that tiny world the hand of God is
not too large to be seen. Take white
blood cells for example. Unlike red
blood cells, the white ones can mold and bend their shape. They wander aimlessly through the human body
without any purpose until, of course, the body is invaded. From fixing punctured skin to attacking
invading bacteria, this army 50 billion strong wage warfare daily against
anything that invades or attacks the body.
Within 30 seconds, a white blood cell envelopes a germ, completely
surrounding it. In about a minute the
white blood cell will detonate a chemical explosion killing the germ that has
become trapped inside, most of the time killing itself as well. Not to worry though. Inside your bones there is a factory making
more white blood cells each and every day.
And these white blood cells develop a “memory”. They remember the last invader and the threat
becomes “imprinted”. That way the next
time that flu virus invades the blood stream, the white blood cells are ready
to attack. Think about it; a defense
system in our body that “learns”.
Consider
the human eye as well. There are over
107 million cells in the human eye. 7
million of these are called “cones”. This
is what enables a person to perceive color.
As the wavelengths of the light spectrum pass across these cones, each
one of them fires off a message to the brain, enabling us to distinguish a
thousand shades of color. Humans have
three, responding to red, yellow and blue.
Most animals have none. Cats and
dogs have two. The remaining cells in
the human eye are called “Rods”. Rods do
not distinguish color, but help us perceive light. Rods are so sensitive that their range of
perceived light is a million points broad.
Every moment our eyes are opened millions of signals travel to the
brain, which combines each individual signal into an image that is
recognizable. In an instant we can tell
that two colors are different (we just don’t know that one is called pink and
the other salmon). I’ve often wondered
why humans developed three “cones” while most other animals did not. Why make the color scale so much more broad
for us?
The
human ear is just as amazing. Strike
middle C on the piano and your eardrum will vibrate 256 times a second (or 256
Hz). These vibrations on the ear drum
are transferred to tiny bones in the inner ear known as the Hammer, the Anvil,
and the Stirrup. They, in turn, send
electrical signals to the brain which translates it into sound. Truthfully, the piano does not make a
“sound”; it generates waves of compressed air that pound against the
eardrum. It’s the cooperation between
the ear and the brain that allows us to perceive sound. Incidentally, the human eardrum will react to
a sound so faint that it moves no more than a billionth of a centimeter.
The
most amazing part of creation, at least to me, happens at birth. As a baby grows inside the womb, its lungs
remain deflated. Babies do not breathe
before they are born. Oxygen for the
baby’s body comes through the umbilical cord.
An artery travels from the belly button to the heart, mixing mother’s
blood with the baby’s blood. Inside the
heart there is a special valve that allows blood to flow directly from the left
to right Atria (the two upper chambers of the heart). Only moments after the doctor cuts the
umbilical cord, the blood pressure changes in the baby’s heart, closing that
valve. In that moment, blood is diverted
to the lungs, and the baby takes its first breath. A baby’s first breath is not a cry of
protest, but a cry of life. And as I
think about this amazing transformation I am dumbfounded how this process could
have evolved. Without these things in
place, a baby would die either in the mother’s womb or suffocate shortly after
birth.
The
complexity of the human body alone is just as amazing as the complexity of the
universe we live in. All the elements
necessary for life are woven together with amazing precision; each designed to
function as part of the whole. Wiggle
the small bones in your foot. These
bones are about half the diameter of a pencil, and yet they support us when we
walk, or run, or play soccer. Rub your
finger across the back of your arm. What
you “feel” is the result of electrical signals being sent to the brain by
specialized cells (450 of them in one square inch of skin); cells so sensitive
that they can feel a line 2,500th of an inch deep. Marvel at a chemical called Keratin. It’s a complex protein that oozes out of
pores to become either a fingernail or a hair.
In birds, this same protein pushes its way out of a follicle, grows
erect and proudly unfolds as a peacock feather.
Chemistry becomes beauty.[2]
I do
not feel like a silly idiot who blindly accepts the Creation account as revealed
in the Bible. I don’t have to reject
science to believe in Creation. The
evidence indicates that things moved from disorder to order, which is exactly
what the Bible conforms. The Bible
simply says that it was God who did the organizing.
God’s
hand in creation is seen from the telescope to the microscope. There is nothing too large that might
diminish His glory, and nothing too small that does not bear the mark of God’s
craftsmanship. Actually, the more I
study life the more I see the thumbprint of God. The more science I learn, the bigger God
becomes. Just learning the basics of
human anatomy or even cell structure make me fall at the feet of our God in awe
and wonder.
Evolutionists
claim someone is an idiot to believe God simply picked up some dirt and
formed Man. “Simply” does not seem to
describe the human body. There is
nothing simple about it. Actually, as we
study the evidence, as we look at creation, we should stand amazed at a God so
powerful, so majestic, so awesome that in the moment it took Him to grab a
handful of dirt, He could create something as marvelous as the Human Body.
[1] Tyndale House Publishers. (2007). Holy Bible : New Living Translation.
(3rd ed.) (Genesis 2:7). Carol Stream ,
IL
[2]
For further reading on the
complexities of the human body, I suggest a book written by Dr. Paul Brand and
Phillip Yancey entitled Fearfully and Wonderfully Made. Many of the facts shared in this message came
from this book
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