Thank You, Science
Within the last 100 years, this field of study, while still holding fast to its theory of evolution, has played a large part in substantiating the biblical viewpoint of how magnificently made we are.
The Bible talks about creation, while science speaks of evolution. So much has been written on this subject that I really don’t think it is profitable to go into much detail here. But I would like to make a few observations that will challenge you to the utmost of your intellectual capacity.
My main contention is that the biblical doctrine of creation should be taught alongside evolution in the school systems of today, and let the students decide which makes more sense. This sadly is not the case in almost every school in our country.
In the last 100 years there has been an explosion of scientific knowledge in the fields of human anatomy and cellular biology. Thanks to this incredible amount of factual knowledge, I feel that I can defend the following “mind-blowing” statement with no difficulty at all:
When you were first conceived, you were the product of the fertilization process of a male sperm and a female egg cell. Biologists tell us that you today, as you are reading this devotion, consist of over 40 trillion cells, and that all of them came from this original single cell. But what I contend is that this one single cell, within its deep makeup, had more knowledge contained in its tiny nucleus than all the accumulated knowledge of mankind from the history of its beginning until now. Wow.
Each human cell is basically similar in composition. Each one is made up of a substance called cytoplasm. Within the core resides the nucleus, which acts as a command center. Deep inside the nucleus of every human cell we find forty-six chromosomes. Each of these contains tiny substances called genes. These genes determine your various traits, such as your hair color, your weight and the 1,001 other characteristics that make you unique.
But making up each gene we find a substance called DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), which is the basic building block of life.
Enough of cellular biology. Clearly your DNA molecules by definition must have contained all the information needed and the ability to create who you are today. All of these tiny DNA molecules reside in that single cell, preprogrammed as it were. This one cell, somehow, knew when and how to divide to form two cells, then four and then clusters of others. It knew when to begin to form tissue and muscle fibers. It knew when to form your then tiny heart, brain and all of your organs. It knew how and when to differentiate between a liver cell and a brain cell.
It knew, that one original cell, how to exchange matter and energy in such intricate ways as to form entire systems within your then tiny frame. The digestive, circulatory, urinary and respiratory systems were completed in record time, until nine months later out you came.
This incredibly complicated, magnificently orchestrated process was again somehow preprogrammed deep within the mysterious chambers of your DNA molecules.
Around the world today, there are thousands of books written on every aspect of your complex makeup. Your eyes, ears, mouth, brain, heart, liver, hands and all the internal systems mentioned earlier have had countless thousands of technical volumes devoted to their study. Each of the above areas alone has its own doctor specialists. These wonderfully skilled and dedicated men and women have gone to medical schools for up to ten years just to understand a single tiny aspect of your incredible human anatomy.
As we begin our third millennium since the birth of Christ, there is still much knowledge that is lacking in all of the above areas. There are also so many other aspects and processes that go on within you that there is not enough space in this or any one article to mention them all.
But that one original cell knew more about these parts of your body and the processes that go on within and between them than all the textbooks ever written about them. For you see, that one cell “created them all.” Its knowledge was vastly greater than all of the accumulated wisdom of science today.
You have over 40 trillion cells in all. Each cell is like a factory, pulsating with energy and performing thousands of scientifically identifiable functions within a mere millisecond, twenty-four hours a day. All 40 trillion of these vast storehouses of data are constantly interchanging matter and energy. And all are coordinated through a most amazing display of electro-chemical impulses from your brain.
In tomorrow’s part III of this devotion, we will share that we stand at a crossroads that we must all contend with when we consider the question of human origins.