My wife just got home from surgery yesterday. Spinal fusion. All is well. But I was looking at that structure -- the spine. The spine is the core of the human skeleton -- all the rest of the skeleton rests on the spine. The stack of vertebrae form the structure. Each has a hole in the center that provides a flexible sheath for the spinal cord. The spinal cord connects the brain to the rest of the body, providing input to the brain and output to the body. At various places in the spine, vertebrae allow a pathway for a nerve bundle to be distributed to their relative portion of the body. It's all a very complex system. The whole thing screams design. And I think to myself, "I don't have enough faith to be an Evolutionist."
I recently watched an old Outer Limits episode. A scientist was trying to accelerate Evolution to make people intellectual rather than emotional and, thus, put an end to war and all that bad stuff. The narrator, at the end, said, that this was the ultimate goal of Evolution. I was baffled. Evolution is an unguided, random, chance-driven system whereby various genetic changes occur causing gradual change over time. Good or beneficial changes will be retained because of the principle of "the survival of the fittest" while negative or irrelevant changes will go away. So ... what's this about "the goal" of Evolution? Without an intelligence behind it, how can something have "a goal"? Beyond that, if we allowed for the possibility of "a goal" in a non-thinking process, how could it be "good"? An undefined, non-entity has a randomly-selected "goal" to achieve an end it cannot know because it doesn't know anything. That makes sense to someone?
We are indeed fearfully and wonderfully made. Sometimes, modern medicine figures things out and they can do amazing things to remedy problems. Sometimes they can't. Much too often they don't really know what is going on in the body. Like magnets, they don't know what's going on, but they can see the outcome and use it, and we call that "science." It is these kinds of things that sing to the glory of the Creator who knew what He was doing, had a goal indeed, and a good one. I find great comfort in that Being even when putting myself (or my loved ones) in the hands of inferior doctors because, ultimately, God knows what He's doing ... every time.
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First, glad to hear all is well with your wife! Second, I agree that the skeleton is amazing--especially how it so perfectly supports and protects all the other anatomical systems. Just the other day I watched a John 10:10 Project video called “Skeleton Keys,” which included an impressive computer graphic animation of the entire skeletal system. The video’s description box says this: “Sir Isaac Newton once wrote that ‘in the absence of any other proof, my thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.’” Another one of their videos (“Newton’s God”) closed with this quote from Newton: “He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.” There are such overwhelming arguments against evolution from the perspectives of every branch of science--as well as ethics, logic, etc.--that personally, I would be embarrassed to cling to evolution as an explanation for anything I see around me.
Design and purpose are evident everywhere we look. The creation gives evidence of the existence and power and knowledge of God. Those that deny the existence of any God must ignore their own senses to do so.
Glad the surgery went well, I hope it helps. Mine was a huge improvement for about 10 years, and now I'm looking at more.
If you listen to evolutionists, naturalists, and materialists long enough they will almost always sneak purpose in though a back door to add to what is defined as purposeless.
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