AMAZING WATER
Job 37:10
"By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened."
According to evolutionary theory, all matter and energy were the result of a huge explosion called the "Big Bang." The laws that matter and energy must follow are also the result of that same great explosion. As a further result of these beliefs, evolutionists are convinced that things behave the way they do quite accidentally.
The first question that comes to mind is: How could an accident have produced the seemingly careful designs we see in the way certain important materials behave? Consider water, for example. Water is essential to life. Water, which is the basis of our blood, carries dissolved food to the deepest cells in our bodies along with oxygen so that our cells can live. Water dissolves the wastes and behaves in just the right way so that other organs can remove those wastes from our bodies. Is it an accident that only water, the very same material basic to the materials of life, also can do all these other unique jobs?
Water also refuses to act like most other materials. For example, we all know that when any material is turned from a liquid to a solid, it becomes more dense and therefore heavier. But when water freezes into ice, it doesn't do this; it gets lighter. If it got heavier, ice would sink in our northern lakes when it formed, and they would quickly freeze solid, killing all life in them.
The unique properties of water are only a few of the millions of so called accidents that had to happen "just so" - in harmony with millions of other details - in order to make life possible. All by itself, simple water testifies to a wise Creator.
Dear Father, I thank You for the wonderful way in which You have designed blood to work. But most especially do I thank You that Your Son, Jesus Christ, shed His blood on the cross for the forgiveness of my sins. Let me never take that wonderful blessing for granted in any word, deed or thought. In His Name. Amen.
Job 37:10
"By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened."
According to evolutionary theory, all matter and energy were the result of a huge explosion called the "Big Bang." The laws that matter and energy must follow are also the result of that same great explosion. As a further result of these beliefs, evolutionists are convinced that things behave the way they do quite accidentally.
The first question that comes to mind is: How could an accident have produced the seemingly careful designs we see in the way certain important materials behave? Consider water, for example. Water is essential to life. Water, which is the basis of our blood, carries dissolved food to the deepest cells in our bodies along with oxygen so that our cells can live. Water dissolves the wastes and behaves in just the right way so that other organs can remove those wastes from our bodies. Is it an accident that only water, the very same material basic to the materials of life, also can do all these other unique jobs?
Water also refuses to act like most other materials. For example, we all know that when any material is turned from a liquid to a solid, it becomes more dense and therefore heavier. But when water freezes into ice, it doesn't do this; it gets lighter. If it got heavier, ice would sink in our northern lakes when it formed, and they would quickly freeze solid, killing all life in them.
The unique properties of water are only a few of the millions of so called accidents that had to happen "just so" - in harmony with millions of other details - in order to make life possible. All by itself, simple water testifies to a wise Creator.
Dear Father, I thank You for the wonderful way in which You have designed blood to work. But most especially do I thank You that Your Son, Jesus Christ, shed His blood on the cross for the forgiveness of my sins. Let me never take that wonderful blessing for granted in any word, deed or thought. In His Name. Amen.
ONE DESIGNER
Romans 1:20
"For the invisible things if him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:"
If you give a design problem to ten different engineers to solve, chances are you will not get ten different solutions. In fact, you are likely to end up with ten solutions that look very much alike.
Now suppose 10,000 years from now someone found your ten sheets of problems, each with the design solutions offered by the ten engineers. Since they are practically the same, this person might conclude that each of the solutions was offered by the same person. He would account for their differences by saying that as each solution was tried, better ideas were developed. He would conclude that the solution most familiar to his own day was the final and most advanced solution.
When evolutionists compare creatures like humans with apes, noting the similarities, they are falling into the same trap as our theoretical researcher from the future. Certainly there are some similarities between humans and apes. However, the structure of the human eye is most similar to the eye of the octopus! The general pattern of the functional structure of hemoglobin in human blood differs by only one atom from the chlorophyll found in plants. And the protein in human milk is most like the juice of the soybean plant.
None of these comparisons offers any evidence for evolution. What they illustrate is that any good designer will solve similar problems with similar designs - they offer evidence that the creation is the work of a wise and powerful Designer!
I thank You, dear Father, for Your continued love for man despite our stubborn perversity. I thank You that You sought me when I did not seek You and that You first loved me so that now I might love You. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Photo: Ham, a three-year-old chimpanzee in the biopack couch for the MR-2 suborbital test flight, January 31, 1961. Courtesy of NASA.
Romans 1:20
"For the invisible things if him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:"
If you give a design problem to ten different engineers to solve, chances are you will not get ten different solutions. In fact, you are likely to end up with ten solutions that look very much alike.
Now suppose 10,000 years from now someone found your ten sheets of problems, each with the design solutions offered by the ten engineers. Since they are practically the same, this person might conclude that each of the solutions was offered by the same person. He would account for their differences by saying that as each solution was tried, better ideas were developed. He would conclude that the solution most familiar to his own day was the final and most advanced solution.
When evolutionists compare creatures like humans with apes, noting the similarities, they are falling into the same trap as our theoretical researcher from the future. Certainly there are some similarities between humans and apes. However, the structure of the human eye is most similar to the eye of the octopus! The general pattern of the functional structure of hemoglobin in human blood differs by only one atom from the chlorophyll found in plants. And the protein in human milk is most like the juice of the soybean plant.
None of these comparisons offers any evidence for evolution. What they illustrate is that any good designer will solve similar problems with similar designs - they offer evidence that the creation is the work of a wise and powerful Designer!
I thank You, dear Father, for Your continued love for man despite our stubborn perversity. I thank You that You sought me when I did not seek You and that You first loved me so that now I might love You. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Photo: Ham, a three-year-old chimpanzee in the biopack couch for the MR-2 suborbital test flight, January 31, 1961. Courtesy of NASA.
COULD SCIENCE MAKE AN EYE?
Psalm 139:14
"I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well."
Scientists have tried to tackle the job of creating a machine that is able to see as well as the human eye. In the process, they are gaining a new appreciation for the wonderful gift of sight.
They have learned, first of all, that no computer chip can be made today that could begin to do what the retina does. But, if it could be made, it would have to be something like half a million times bigger than your retina. One computer scientist has estimated that a computer chip that could begin to do what your retina does would have to weigh in at about 100 pounds!
The retina, which is something like a small slip of clingy food wrap, weighs less than a gram. It occupies only 0.0003 inch of space. On the other hand, the scientists' theoretical "seeing" chip would fill 10,000 cubic inches. And while your retina operates on only 0.0001 watt of power, the synthetic "seeing" chip would require 300 watts of power and a cooling system. Even with all this, it couldn't see very well. It would be able to resolve a square area of only about 2,000 units of vision - called pixels - while your eye can resolve five times that much! Such a chip would have the equivalent of about 1 million transistors, while your retina has the equivalent of 25 billion transistors!
Truly modern science offers elegant testimony to the fact that the eye could not have been produced by evolution - and that it could have been created only by a very wise Creator!
Truly, dear Lord, I am fearfully and wonderfully made! I thank You for all the senses You have given me. Even though they may not all be perfect, I ask that You would perfect them by leading me to use them to Your glory. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Photo: Plastic wrap - thicker than the retina.
Psalm 139:14
"I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well."
Scientists have tried to tackle the job of creating a machine that is able to see as well as the human eye. In the process, they are gaining a new appreciation for the wonderful gift of sight.
They have learned, first of all, that no computer chip can be made today that could begin to do what the retina does. But, if it could be made, it would have to be something like half a million times bigger than your retina. One computer scientist has estimated that a computer chip that could begin to do what your retina does would have to weigh in at about 100 pounds!
The retina, which is something like a small slip of clingy food wrap, weighs less than a gram. It occupies only 0.0003 inch of space. On the other hand, the scientists' theoretical "seeing" chip would fill 10,000 cubic inches. And while your retina operates on only 0.0001 watt of power, the synthetic "seeing" chip would require 300 watts of power and a cooling system. Even with all this, it couldn't see very well. It would be able to resolve a square area of only about 2,000 units of vision - called pixels - while your eye can resolve five times that much! Such a chip would have the equivalent of about 1 million transistors, while your retina has the equivalent of 25 billion transistors!
Truly modern science offers elegant testimony to the fact that the eye could not have been produced by evolution - and that it could have been created only by a very wise Creator!
Truly, dear Lord, I am fearfully and wonderfully made! I thank You for all the senses You have given me. Even though they may not all be perfect, I ask that You would perfect them by leading me to use them to Your glory. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Photo: Plastic wrap - thicker than the retina.
THE MARVEL OF LIFE
Job 12:9-10
"Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?"
We've all heard it said that we are made up of about 98 cents worth of chemicals. However, the living matter that makes up our bodies is very different from non living matter.
Our growing understanding of biochemistry continues to close doors to evolutionary theory and open doors to the Bible's claims about the origin of life. Many evolutionary scientists are admitting that to say life is simply the right kind of chemistry is like saying that a computer is simply the right kind of plastic, metal and electricity.
Growing knowledge of the intricate information codes in living things has led many evolutionists to search for other theories, and some have even considered creation. Creationism is not growing in influence because it has good funding - it certainly doesn't. Creationism is gaining followers because it is becoming increasingly clear that no known principles can account for the development of living things. If science is proving anything, it is proving that life is impossible and should not exist!
This is exactly what the Bible tells us. Without God's direct activity within the world, life could not have come about - only God can be the source of life. This clear fact should steer all of us to the rest of God's message in Scripture. There, God tells us that life is more than just food and drink - the material things of life. Full and complete life that satisfies the whole being is found only in Jesus Christ.
Dear Lord, only in You can I or anyone else find true life - life which never ends. Do not allow this truth to be clouded in my life or witness by the cares and concerns of the material needs of life here on Earth. Amen.
Photo: Colossus was the first electronic digital programmable computing device - just the right kind of plastic, metal and electricity.
Job 12:9-10
"Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?"
We've all heard it said that we are made up of about 98 cents worth of chemicals. However, the living matter that makes up our bodies is very different from non living matter.
Our growing understanding of biochemistry continues to close doors to evolutionary theory and open doors to the Bible's claims about the origin of life. Many evolutionary scientists are admitting that to say life is simply the right kind of chemistry is like saying that a computer is simply the right kind of plastic, metal and electricity.
Growing knowledge of the intricate information codes in living things has led many evolutionists to search for other theories, and some have even considered creation. Creationism is not growing in influence because it has good funding - it certainly doesn't. Creationism is gaining followers because it is becoming increasingly clear that no known principles can account for the development of living things. If science is proving anything, it is proving that life is impossible and should not exist!
This is exactly what the Bible tells us. Without God's direct activity within the world, life could not have come about - only God can be the source of life. This clear fact should steer all of us to the rest of God's message in Scripture. There, God tells us that life is more than just food and drink - the material things of life. Full and complete life that satisfies the whole being is found only in Jesus Christ.
Dear Lord, only in You can I or anyone else find true life - life which never ends. Do not allow this truth to be clouded in my life or witness by the cares and concerns of the material needs of life here on Earth. Amen.
Photo: Colossus was the first electronic digital programmable computing device - just the right kind of plastic, metal and electricity.
THE EYE'S COMPUTER
Matthew 6:22-23a
"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness."
Computer scientists, in trying to build a machine that sees like we do, have been studying how the eye works the miracle of vision. What they are discovering provides more scientific evidence that evolution is nothing more than a modern fairy tale for adults.
Computer scientists have learned that before one single image is ever sent to your brain, each cell of your retina must perform a huge number of calculations. Each second every cell of your retina performs 10 billion calculations! And you thought you couldn't do math!
What's more, these are not simple calculations. Dr. Joseph Calkins, professor of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins University, estimates that the fastest computer in the world would require many hundreds of hours to do what the cells in your retina do each second! It is easy to understand why a scientist who studies eyesight cannot accept the idea that the eye simply evolved.
The eye is witness to more than the fact of the Creator. The clear vision of His involvement with humanity begins when Jesus Christ gives us clear spiritual sight in cleansing us from our sins. Just as many people must wear glasses to see clearly, because of our sin, we cannot clearly see our Creator who seeks us. Yet He is not far away, and He desires more than anything else that we come to Him in the Name of Jesus Christ. In Christ you will see miracles greater than vision!
Dear Heavenly Father, grant me clear sight to see all things, spiritual and earthly, in the true light that You provide for me in Your Word. Let me see Your working in my life through Your Word so that my whole person radiates Your light. In Jesus Name. Amen.
Photo: Visual cortex (also called MT). Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Matthew 6:22-23a
"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness."
Computer scientists, in trying to build a machine that sees like we do, have been studying how the eye works the miracle of vision. What they are discovering provides more scientific evidence that evolution is nothing more than a modern fairy tale for adults.
Computer scientists have learned that before one single image is ever sent to your brain, each cell of your retina must perform a huge number of calculations. Each second every cell of your retina performs 10 billion calculations! And you thought you couldn't do math!
What's more, these are not simple calculations. Dr. Joseph Calkins, professor of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins University, estimates that the fastest computer in the world would require many hundreds of hours to do what the cells in your retina do each second! It is easy to understand why a scientist who studies eyesight cannot accept the idea that the eye simply evolved.
The eye is witness to more than the fact of the Creator. The clear vision of His involvement with humanity begins when Jesus Christ gives us clear spiritual sight in cleansing us from our sins. Just as many people must wear glasses to see clearly, because of our sin, we cannot clearly see our Creator who seeks us. Yet He is not far away, and He desires more than anything else that we come to Him in the Name of Jesus Christ. In Christ you will see miracles greater than vision!
Dear Heavenly Father, grant me clear sight to see all things, spiritual and earthly, in the true light that You provide for me in Your Word. Let me see Your working in my life through Your Word so that my whole person radiates Your light. In Jesus Name. Amen.
Photo: Visual cortex (also called MT). Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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