Peter Kreeft once said: “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.”1
The human body is without a doubt God’s ultimate example of a divinely designed organism. Consider the following:
When you were conceived you started your journey in life as a single cell. By the time nine months passed, your original cell at the point of birth had multiplied by a factor of thirty trillion. While science can name the different parts of each type of cell as well as understand something of cellular duplication, it is at a complete loss to describe how your one original cell knew how to form heart cells and brain cells. Just listen to how apologist Frank Turek describes this amazing mystery: “As if they had minds of their own, your new cells-some of them eventually reproducing in the womb at a rate of more than 100,000 per second-knew where to go and what to do in order to become each of your major organs. How did certain cells “know” to become heart cells, while others “knew” to become brain cells? There is no known material explanation for their goal-directedness.”2
I believe that the more an open-minded scientist examines these mysteries the more he will realize that the evolutionary mantra of nobody times nothing equals everything is a vastly inferior explanation to the origin of life question than the simple biblical statement: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1).
Even though he declared himself an atheist near the end of his life, Linus Pauling, who won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, once remarked: “Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.”3 Just what would cause one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century to acknowledge the amazing complexity of a human cell yet reject the God who made it, is unknown, but Pauling, nonetheless, stood in awe at the dazzling complexity of the human cell.
Every aspect of the human body points to divine design. Yet humanity, because of sin, often refuses to acknowledge just how fearfully and wonderfully made we really are. Today many scientists know much about the intricate workings of the human cell and they still suppress the truth about our divine Creator. To me to deny that our human bodies are the product of an all-powerful and all-knowing super intellect and instead ascribe their creation and function to blind random chance, is the height of arrogance.
Blind random chance, my friends, can never produce the brilliant minds we possess. And the more scientists discover just how infinitely complex the human body is the more they must ascribe divine design to its creation. To do otherwise, to me, is to commit spiritual suicide!
1 Peter Kreeft Quote: “There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among…”
2 Charlie H. Campbell, Apologetics Quotes (Carlsbad, California: The Always Be Ready Apologetics Ministry, 2020), p. 56.
3 Charlie H. Campbell, Apologetics Quotes (Carlsbad, California: The Always Be Ready Apologetics Ministry, 2020), p. 53.