Divine Design

Isaiah 40:12 “Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, measured heaven with a span and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure? Weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?”

We just finished up our “Programming of Life” video series in our Wednesday evening Small Group Bible Study. With the probabilities of life generating  from non-life and information developing from nothing being far beyond functionally impossible, it is a wonder that the theory of Macro-Evolution is still supported and indoctrinated today. It isn’t real science because they assume and do not follow where the empirical evidence leads.Science is knowledge and design is evidence. In this Bible Verse above, the answer to this rhetorical question can only be God, the divine Designer of all the intricate interrelationships of His great creation. A study on the true science within this verse reveals that four of the disciplines of natural science are implied here, and in each case a key principle of that science is anticipated. 

The emphasis is on the precision of the divinely allocated quantities of each component. First, there is the precise balance of the waters of the earth between the oceans, rivers, groundwater, and atmospheric waters. Hydrology is the science of Earth’s waters, and life on Earth is dependent on the fine-tuning of the components of the hydrologic cycle.

Job 28:24-25 “For He looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heavens, to establish a weight for the wind, and apportion the waters by measure.”

The atmospheric heaven also has been carefully dimensioned in size and composition to make life possible, as formulated in the science of meteorology.  

The “dust of the earth” is nothing less than the basic chemical elements out of which all things are made. The accuracy with which elements combine with each other is based on their valences, and all of this is involved in the study of chemistry. The principle of isostasy (“equal weights”) is the fundamental principle of the science of geophysics, involving the weights of mountains and hills, continents, and ocean basins. Design implies a Designer.

Romans 1:18-22 “ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because 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, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools.”

God does not deal in chance and caprice, even with inanimate physical systems such as mountains and waters. Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Trust in the Divine Designer of Heaven and Earth, the Cosmos and all that lives and breathes; your Maker. 

Blessings.