Have you ever paused to reflect on our universe and how it is divinely designed by God. Or have you ever reflected on how fearfully and wonderfully made we as humans beings are!
My friends the next time you look up into space I challenge you to reflect on just how vast our universe is. For it consists of millions of galaxies and untold trillions of stars. Not only that but God has chosen to single out one special star, that we call our sun, to have nine planets orbiting it, with one unique planet, where eight billion human beings inhabit, called Earth. And the exciting thing about each one of the eight billion inhabitants on our planet is that outside of God, we are the most complex and divinely designed creatures in our universe!
If you have been following my blog for awhile you probably are aware of the many devotions I have written on just how vastly complex and divinely designed you and I are.1
In our world today, sadly, there are millions of atheists who choose to view God’s masterful design plan for human beings as nothing more than a fortuitous collision of random molecules that over vast eons of time produced you and me, rather than an act of divine creation. I firmly believe that if our atheist friends would just pause to ponder the absurdity of their belief system, which postulates that mindless matter and blind random chance were the driving forces that over billions of years formed you and me, they would realize that this system of creation takes far more faith than to believe in a creator God.
In closing, I leave you with the following quote by Peter Kreeft to share with your atheist friends: “There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems obvious: the first study divine design, the second study human undesign.”2
1 The following links will take you to just a few of my devotions that show us just how fearfully and wonderfully designed we really are:
The Human Eye – Evolution’s Worst Nightmare – Bible Apologetics – A DAILY DEVOTIONAL
Of Cell Phones and Cells – Bible Apologetics – A DAILY DEVOTIONAL
The Simple Amoeba – Bible Apologetics – A DAILY DEVOTIONAL
The Human Cell – Evolution’s Worst Nightmare – Bible Apologetics – A DAILY DEVOTIONAL
Fantastic Voyage! – Bible Apologetics – A DAILY DEVOTIONAL
George – Bible Apologetics – A DAILY DEVOTIONAL
Cellular Mysteries – Bible Apologetics – A DAILY DEVOTIONAL
2 110+ Peter Kreeft Quotes about education, culture, god – QUOTLR
Star Stuff and Soul Stuff: Why You Are the Universe’s Favorite Plot Twist…………………………….m.r.neveu
Every now and then, it’s worth stepping outside, looking up at the night sky, and letting my brain short-circuit a little. Not in the “I forgot my keys again” way, but in the “oh right, I live in a universe with trillions of stars and God still bothered to make me” way.
Curt puts it plainly. Our universe is “millions of galaxies and untold trillions of stars,” and yet God singles out one sun, one orbiting blue marble, and one species of two-legged wonder to bear His image.
That’s the part that gets me feeling soft. The universe is big…oh my…big…and still God seems to have a soft spot for this tiny, complicated creature who keep losing his car keys.
Geez, I sure seem complicated. Curt’s links read like a highlight reel of divine engineering. The human eye that makes evolution sweat, the amoeba that refuses to be “simple,” the cell that behaves like a microscopic city with better zoning laws than most municipalities.
Even the “Fantastic Voyage” piece reminds me that my bloodstream is basically a high-speed transit system with security protocols that would make the Pentagon jealous.
This is the part where I want to grab the atheist narrative by the shirt and give it a gentle pastoral shake. The idea that all this — the galaxies, the neurons, the retina, the DNA repair mechanisms, the whole cosmic machine — is just a happy accident of blind molecules bumping into each other for a few billion years? That’s not science. That’s optimism on steroids. Feel me?
Curt says it with a grin. The belief that “mindless matter and blind random chance” produced you and me requires more faith than believing in a Creator. And Curt’s right. If randomness is the author, then the universe is the greatest novelist who ever lived; somehow writing sequels that get more complex, more beautiful, and more improbable.
Here’s the thing: the Christian claim is far simpler, and far more daring.
I am not an accident. I am an intention. A deliberate act of divine imagination.
And that’s where the splendor really hits. The same God who sculpted galaxies also sculpted my blunt fingernails. The same God who hung Orion in the sky also wired my brain with 86 billion neurons, able to write this essay.
The same God who set the speed of light also set the rhythm of my heartbeat. It all makes me wanna come correct.
We are cosmic and intimate at the same time: star stuff and soul stuff.
Curt quotes Peter Kreeft’s line (like a mic drop.) Neurologists and astrophysicists tend to believe in design because they study the places where God’s fingerprints are hardest to ignore.
Psychologists and sociologists? They study human behavior, which is… well… less obviously designed.
So the next time you look up at the night sky, don’t just admire the stars. Remember that the God who made all that also made all this — you, in all your improbable glory.
…For the Children-
Hey kids…look up at the stars tonight. See how many there are? God made every single one… and then He made YOU even more special. Your eyes are like tiny cameras, your heart is a super-strong pump, and your brain is a sparkly control center that helps you think, dream, and imagine. You’re not a mistake or a random accident. You’re God’s favorite idea, made on purpose, loved on purpose, and designed with more care than all the galaxies put together.
The universe is God’s masterpiece, but you are His signature.
Thanks Curt.