by Tom Wacaster
Over the past two
decades I have had numerous occasions to gaze upon the internal works of a
computer. I am always amazed at the circuitry and complexity
therein. An accident? Of course not! Now consider man. As
Shakespeare once said, "What a piece of work is man!" Here is
what our God has made: THE EARS: A piano has 88 keys, but each of your
ears has a keyboard with 1500 keys. They are so finely tuned that you can
hear the blood rushing through your vessels. The outside of your ear can
catch up to 73,700 vibrations per second. THE EYES: They are both
microscopes and telescopes. One can look upon a star millions of miles
away, or inspect the smallest of insects. THE FEET: Each foot has more
than two dozen bones, none of which is wider than your thumb. But the foot is
so manufactured with its ligaments, tendons, muscles and joints that a 300
pound man can put all his weight on these tiny bones. THE HEART: This
little muscle is about the size of your fist, but it beats 4320 times an
hour. That amounts to approximately 40 million beats a year. A single
drop of blood can make a complete trip around your circulatory system in 22
seconds. When considered as a whole, indeed, we are wonderfully made. And
to think that somebody came up with the silly notion that this happened by
chance! Three weeks ago I had the opportunity to hear a wonderful lesson
on the very topic we are considering. Here is but a portion of the
wonderful evidence that indeed, we are wonderfully made:
The basis for the
development of a human being in his mother's womb is a complex molecule known
as DNA - deoxyribonucleic acid. DNA is the coded information, present in every
cell, that forms the instruction manual for human development. The code of DNA
is composed of four chemical bases Badenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymineB
represented by the letters A, G, C, and T. Human DNA consists of about three
billion bases arranged in such a way as to form inconceivably complex
"words." These genetic "words" are the basis of life.
Without this information the cells cannot reproduce and the body cannot be
formed in the womb. The position of each base or "letter" is highly
significant. Genetic diseases such as sickle-cell anemia and Down Syndrome are
caused by glitches in the genome, some as subtle as a single misplaced
letter. If written out, the information in the DNA of one cell would fill a
thousand six-hundred page books. What is the origin of this information? The
complexity of DNA is evidence of design. Perhaps one of the clearest descriptions
of this implication from DNA was stated by Charles Colson in a Breakpoint
commentary titled, "Little Green Men." If one were walking along the
beach and saw ripples in the sand, he might reasonably conclude that the
regular pattern they formed was merely the result of a natural process of waves
lapping on the beach. However, if on the same beach he were to see the words,
"John loves Mary" scratched into the sand, he would immediately
conclude that an intelligent being was responsible for the sentence. These
simple words communicate information. In a similar way, the "words"
of DNA are not just randomly produced patterns. They communicate information
that could not just happen. Colson concluded that, if "John loves
Mary" scratched in the sand had to be the product of an intelligent being,
how much more the DNA code.
No wonder the Psalmist
proclaimed: "We are fearfully and wonderfully made."