Intelligent design

At the hospital this week I cared for a 96 year-old woman that had abdominal surgery. As expected, her body reacted with an immediate inflammatory response to the invasive procedure- she had a slight fever and her white blood cell (WBC) count was very high. If you're wondering, she recovered beautifully. But this experience- and every clinical experience for that matter- points me to God.

The human body is amazing- in the ways that it maintains itself and works to maintain homeostasis. It truly is magnificent, the way that your body systems communicate with each other, the ways that your body reacts to pain, the automaticity of the beating heart... the mechanisms by which it achieves all these. And these WBCs that are the first line of defense, do you know that millions of them will swim through your blood stream when you have an injury? They have so much responsibility to protect you, to keep you safe. They have so much purpose.

I am so sorry, but I refuse to believe that living things "just came to be". How can someone look at something in nature- something as irreducibly complex as the body- and still believe that millions of years ago, from NOTHING, "it just happened" that the right elements at the right time at exactly the right temperature reacted to form matter, which evolved over time to form what we see today??!! To me, that's so much more outlandish than believing in intelligent design!

The next time you look up at the stars on a clear night, or stand at the edge of the ocean and marvel at its vastness, or admire the daisies growing in your backyard, just please consider the possibility that these things were created and designed oh-so carefully by a Glorious, Holy, and Perfect God. It is His display of his glory in nature that renders every living being without excuse- Romans 1:20 "..for since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they [mankind] are without excuse."