“Quite an Accident”

The atheist says: 

There is no God. All wonders around us are accidental. No mighty hand made the thousand billion stars. They made themselves. The earth spins itself to keep the oceans from falling off. Infants teach themselves to cry when they are hungry or hurt. Faith is  the crutch for the ignorant, the opium of the masses.  

Has he examined the evidence? Whose faith is based on fact? Which makes more sense? 

  • How does the sugar thermometer in the pancreas know the proper blood sugar level to keep us from falling into a coma and dying? 
  • How does the heart beat for years without faltering? It rests between beats! It pumps 800 million times in a normal life span, pushing enough blood to fill a string of tank ears that would stretch  from New York to Boston. 
  • The pattern of a person’s fingerprints never changes and no two persons are identical. What was “evolution’s” purpose in keeping these? 
  • Kidneys filter poison from the blood, and leave those components that are useful. How does the kidney know one from another? 
  • A brain weighs less than three pounds but directs all thoughts, feelings, and actions. Each cell dials messages to other cells in billions of different combinations. A cubic half inch of brain cells contains a lifetime of memories. Who gave the human tongue flexibility to form words, and a brain to understand  them, but denied it to the brute animals? Who showed a womb how to keep splitting a tiny ovum until a baby had the proper number of fingers, eyes, and ears in the right place and then release it into the world when it is strong enough to live? 

Certainly God exists! We are evidence of it. “For every house is builded by some man; but he  that built all things is God” (Hebrews 3:4). Let us join David in exclaiming to God, “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Marvelous are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well”  (Psalm 139:14). 

Paul told the Athenians about the “unknown God” (Acts 17:25) in whom “we live, and move,  and have our being” (17:28). Our secular society is forgetting that it is God who gives all the blessings we  enjoy (Jam. 1:17). May we magnify His name the true God of Heaven and earth. 

“Know ye that the Lord he is God: It is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves” (Psalm 100:3). 

Terry Hightower

No One Made It

Sir Isaac Newton was in his office one day when he received a knock at his door. He opened it to find a good friend of the scientific community who happened to be on the opposite side of the beginning of the universe controversy. 

As he entered the room his eyes were drawn to a large table on which sat a scale model of the universe. It was exquisitely detailed – painted even down to the circles of Saturn. It was mechanical – a handle caused the planets to rotate around the sun. This moving replica was an amazing site. 

“My, what a wonderful thing this is!” he exclaimed. “This is the most extraordinary thing I have seen! What genius put this together? I should really like to shake his hand.” Sir Newton replied, “No one made it.” His friend retorted, “You must think that I am a fool...Some very wise and talented person made this.”

Newton’s reply is still a wise answer to the current controversy. “This thing is but a puny imitation of a much greater system whose laws you know and I know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer and a maker. Yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker. Now tell me, by what sort of reasoning do you reach such incongruous conclusions?”

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