God’s Design and Order

Psalm 19:1-4 “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.”

Our church’s mid-week topical Bible Study series on Focus on the Family’s “The Truth Project” enters Lesson Seven, which is covering God’s Harmonious Systems and arranged Social Order.  Romans 1:19-20 says, “What may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.” I heard famous English ethologist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins answer the question by Ben Stein in the movie “Expelled”: “What if, after you died, you ran into God and He said what have you been doing; I’ve been nice to you and look what you did?” , which was “Sir, Why did you take such pains to hide yourself?” The “finite” wants to see the “infinite”, yet doesn’t see the clear attributes of God, though invisible Spirit, in the unmistakable intelligent design of the cosmos, the irreducible complexity of natural systems and components, the beauty and intricacy, orchestration and harmony of life that is impossible by time and chance. Ignoring the facts and proofs of creation in design, information and order clearly seen in nature and the universe demonstrates unbelief, not science, because their worldview starts with “no God”.

Job 12:7-8 “But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you; and the birds of the air, and they will tell you; Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; and the fish of the sea will explain to you.

Dr. Del Tackett explains that the above Bible verse tells us to study the complex anatomy and unexplainable instincts of the animal kingdom, not just for the question of the origin of life, but to see the fingerprints of God in His incredible design and order of His Creation; not random chance by godless evolution processes. He gave the example of the Chicken Egg with its shell that has over 10,000 pores to allow oxygen in and carbon dioxide out, with four vessels from the developing chick (2 attach to the yolk for food and 2 attached to the outer membranes to breathe), with the air sack at one end to give the fully-developed chick 6 hours of air to break a hole in the shell with a special “egg tooth” on the beak. But the design and order go much further in the architectural development of the chick. Please, if you can, purchase a copy of the DVD titled “Flight – the genius of birds” @ http://illustramedia.com/ and see the actual filmed stages of the chicken from egg to chick and be amazed at life. You will also see the unique structure of the bones and feathers of this blessed creature that shouts of intelligent design and conducted order. See the unexplainable complexity of the Hummingbird and the seemingly impossible navigation skills of the Arctic Terns, who migrate from the North Pole to the South Pole and back to the same nesting areas annually. Explain that without God. I challenge you to watch this documentary titled “Flight” to see and hear the birds tell you about their Divine and Sovereign Creator in unmistakable design and order with great glory. The truth is manifest, shown and clearly seen in creation.

1 Corinthians 14:33 “For God is not the author of confusion but of peace.”

The Atom, cellular system, skeletal system, circulatory system, photosynthesis, coral reefs, metamorphosis, pollination, water cycles, lunar tides, the solar system and tot he countless systems in between ... all are in perfect harmony, perfect order, and in perfect relationships, both within the system itself and in relationship to the systems around it. Random, purposelessness, mindless forces should produce a random, purposeless, mindless cosmos, but that is not what we have. What we have is the design and order of Creator God.

In Christ, Brian