Intelligent Design

May 12

This isn’t original but it’s too good an analogy to omit from any discussion of the veracity of the intelligent design theory. Nobody would suggest that a Boeing 747 was assembled when a strong wind gathered the necessary parts to make the aircraft and somehow placed them together in functioning form. Anyone who’s seen the effects of a tornado is aware that the reverse outcome is far more likely to occur in a strong wind!

Yet those same people have no problem negating the idea of there being an intelligent design for the universe. Though they can clearly see the necessity of having an intelligent mind behind the design and assemblage of an aircraft or a woven carpet or a finely-crafted piece of furniture, they insist the worlds that exist came into being by the chance meeting of molecules that managed to fuse together in the precise order that the various forms of life and matter we see surrounding us require.

What that exercise in convoluted logic seems to state most emphatically isn’t the conclusiveness of the evidence that a man uses to confirm his denial of a Supreme Being; rather that a man has decided against believing in God and will use any contrivance of argumentation to justify his position! There is an old saying that one can take logic wherever he wants it to go, but the ‘logic’ that negates an intelligent mind behind things as complex as man and his world certainly is illogical!

How significant are the words of David in Psalm 139:13, 14 which affirm, “You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. All Your works are wonderful, that I know full well.” What inner peace we achieve, what tranquility of mind and spirit becomes ours when we simply allow ourselves to rest in the care of One who designed and formed us. Rather than rationalize Him away, let us place our lives in His hands.