LITTLE ROCK — “The brain is the center of a complex computer system more wonderful than the greatest one ever built by man. The body’s computer system computes and sends throughout the body billions of bits of information, information that controls every action, right down to the flicker of an eyelid. In most computer systems, the information is carried by wires and electronic parts. In the body, nerves are the wires that carry the information back and forth from the central nervous system. And in just one human brain there is probably more wiring, more electrical circuitry, than in all the computer systems of the world put together. Yes, it is a wonderful thing-this brain of ours.” (Quote from “The human body-God’s masterpiece,” Creation Magazine, September 1998.)
No one in their right mind would ever try to tell us that the computer systems of the world developed by chance or accident. Instead they would tell you of the number of great minds that came together over a period of 30-plus years to bring the computer systems to the point they are today.
Yet they will also quickly tell you that the human brain - though even more complex - is nothing more than the result of chance and accident. While they claim there is no proof of design in the human body, they would be insulted if we claimed there was no design within the computer systems of today - and they would laugh at us and call us ignorant - which is exactly what they do now when we say the body has design (I think they are confused).
Believers in the Word of God must recognize the double standard the world holds - and that double standard is even greater in these recent months. But the people of the world don’t see the obvious because that would point to God, a God who will judge sin (and no one wants their sin judged). They instead “create” and maintain a false science that has no proof and belittles believers in God for not accepting their “account” of things. I say “no proof” because they have the same evidence we have.
We look at the human eye, and say “What a design,” while they point at the human eye and say, “Isn’t evolution a marvel?” We must not be taken in by their self-imposed blindness. Instead, we must recognize the great design within us and praise the Name of the Designer.
Also, remember what Peter told us in 1 Peter 3:15: “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.”◊◊◊
Jim Duncan is the pastor of Mountain Bible Church, Mountain, Mo. He may be contacted at P.O. Box 146, Pea Ridge, AR 72751;
or by telephone at 417-341-8504; by e-mail at james.
[email protected]. His Web site is www.jamesduncan-writer.net.
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