Designed For Life

Isaiah 45:18 “For thus saith Jehovah that created the heavens, the God that formed the earth and made it, that established it and created it not a waste, that formed it to be inhabited: I am Jehovah; and there is none else.”

I've always loved “Science”, and it’s interesting that the word comes from Latin word "scientia”, meaning 

"knowledge".  God’s creation fascinates me with its complex design, intricate balance and incredible beauty. I read an interesting article by Tom DeRosa, Director of Creation Studies Institute where he points out that in Isaiah 45:18, it is apparent that Jesus Christ, the Creator of the cosmos (John 1:1-4), made the earth with the purpose of it being inhabited by every life form including human beings. Every living creature gives testimony of an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent God. It is here on planet Earth, fashioned and so intricately designed by God in such exquisite detail, that we are in awe with regard to its ability to sustain such a wide variety of life. The incalculable conditions that are in place to maintain life make this planet a very special place not only in this galaxy, but also in the entire universe and this Scripture certainly affirms that truth. 

Isaiah 45:12 “ I made the earth and all the people living on it. With my own hands I stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all the stars in the sky.

DeRosa explains that put this fine-tuned uniqueness to the test. This is known as the Anthropic Principle - the planet earth perfectly designed to sustain life - and scientists have taken just 20 examples out of a list of hundreds of required physical conditions that are needed in place to protect and sustain the fragility of life, including the Sun’s relative distance to earth, the right kind and ratio of atmospheric gases, the perfect thickness of the earth’s crest, the relative position of the planets in our solar system, the earth’s moon being the correct size and distance from the earth, the sun being the right size and type of star, the plentiful supply of water occupying 70% on the earth’s surface, fine-tuned universal forces like gravity, Light has to have the correct wavelengths for plants to utilize the essential life sustaining process of photosynthesis and list goes on. After carefully examining the data, these scientists came to the conclusion that it would be statistically impossible to reproduce the conditions necessary to sustain life here or anywhere else in our vast Galaxy. With the list of the universe’s vital physical constants that all have to be perfectly fine-tuned to support life, the conclusion is that the evolution of life is a mathematical impossibility. There are so many more of these universal forces that have to be finely tuned that one would be forced to conclude that this planet is perfectly designed for life. The fine-tuned factors that sustain life have to be so refined that they can only come from a divine Planner, a benevolent Creator, who thought it and then spoke instantaneously into existence, offering a powerful witness to our great God and Creator, Jesus Christ.

Revelation 4:11 “Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and were created.”

DeRosa adds that the study of living things with all their integral parts working together to accomplish a common goal is a marvel in its own right - the unique complex systems that operate to almost maximum efficiency. They are all designed to accomplish the necessary tasks to sustain life and enable reproduction so that life can continue. Today, life can only be understood in terms of millions upon millions of well-defined and mostly invisible molecular parts interacting on many different levels with almost 100% efficiency. Lastly, these organisms can repair themselves in the most orderly manner making earth’s organic based life forms incomparable to anything in the known cosmos. Because of the mounting evidence against inorganic materials suddenly coming to life, many evolutionists have abandoned their theories of life spontaneously forming here on earth. Instead of giving consideration to the possibility of an Intelligent Designer or Creator God for the origin of life, they attempt to dismiss the challenge of scientific data.

Evolutionist and atheist, Richard Dawkins candidly admits in his 2009 bestselling book, The Greatest Show on Earth: “There are various theories for how the origin of life might have happened. None of them is yet convincing. It may be that none of them ever will be, because it may be that we shall never know fully what the conditions were. Dawkins admits the lack of scientific evidence, with regard to how complex life came into existence, is a big mystery of evolution. He goes so far as to state that it may never be known. This exemplifies the dilemma that evolutionists have when it comes down to the origin of biological systems. There is no answer forthcoming, only a blind faith that evolution can happen, even when the laws of probability say that it cannot. Evolution cannot explain the origin of life or the factors that sustain life as it is observed on earth, the origin of complex biological systems.

Genesis 1:1& 31 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good.

Another serious problem for proponents of evolution is the existence of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). This molecule is a self-contained, superbly planned, information system. This remarkable molecular machine with its amazing design utterly destroys any vestiges of scientific validity concerning a purely naturalistic evolutionary scenario. When faced with the grandeur of the DNA molecule, and its immense information system, those that follow the irrational belief system that molecules, under the right circumstances, can morph themselves into men are silenced by their own ignorance. Evolution cannot develop the “information” within DNA. Famous French biologist Jean Rostand stated: “Evolution is a fairy tale for adults.” But only by Creator God do we truly live “happily ever after”.

Colossians 1:12-17 “Give thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light. For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

In Christ, Brian