A friend of mine lent me a book called Coffeehouse Theology. As I've been reading it, I got to the chapter about proving, or, suggesting the evidence that God is in fact real. Keep in mind as you read this that this does not secure the fact that God is real, but gives very reasonable evidence that He indeed does. This evidence is called the Testimony of Nature.
The Testimony of Nature goes as follows. Take a minute to think about all of wondrous beauty there is on this earth. Think of all of the necessary ingredients needed to build a pine tree. Think of the trillions of gallons of water that there needs to be to keep the ocean flowing. Think of all of those sea creatures that inhabit that very ocean. Now dig deeper and smaller, insect small. Inside a caterpillar, there lies a brain like all of us. Inside that brain, there is 356 muscles that function in order to keep that millimeter wide brain working. Just in one caterpillar!
Let's take it just one more step deeper. The magnificent creation of human DNA. We as humans have discovered that our entire being and who we are is described in one single strand of DNA. Every single piece of us, that describes us and builds, is inside one strand of DNA. And that single piece of DNA is able to carefully and intelligently wrap itself up into one microscopic dot that is smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. There, that period. Your entire person is built into a strand of DNA smaller than that period. How mind blowing!
How could any of this be possible with just an accident happening in space? The Big Bang theory is described as an accident between chemicals in space. If those little chemicals accidentally exploding created this earth, are they really capable of creating all of those few things described in the above paragraphs?! How can an accident create those 356 muscles inside a caterpillar's brain? Or the trillions of gallons of water in the ocean? Or the complexity and perfection of our DNA? Only an intelligence far more intelligent than our own could have perfectly created such amazing pieces of artwork. And that intelligence is not a what, but a who!
I just wanted to share that with you all. I am in no way trying to teach you or press anything on anyone, but I am just trying to get you all to think for a bit and understand this testimony. Just admire how much we don't know and how much we have been given to know.
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