If you are wrestling with whether or not you're the creation of a loving Creator or the accident of bacteria that evolutionists say came into existence all by itself, then may I suggest that you read the previous three posts and wrap up with this one?
The human body consists of about 75-100 trillion cells, and each cell has about 10,000 times as many molecules as the Milky Way has stars. Three hundred million cells die and are replaced in the human body every minute. All of the DNA in an adult human body could fit inside one ice cube, but if unwound, stretched out and joined end to end, it would reach from the earth to the sun and back again more than 400 times. Scientists estimate that they could fill a 1,000-volume encyclopedia with the coded instructions in the DNA of a single human cell if the instructions could be translated to English.
The epidermis, the outermost layer of the skin, sheds itself at a rate of about a million cells every 40 minutes. Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour, about 1.5 pounds a year, and grow all new outer skin cells about every 27 days, almost 1.000 new skins a lifetime. The skin is only about as deep as the tip of a ballpoint pen but the sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created. A human can detect the wing of a bee falling on their cheek from a height of one centimeter. There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being. When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 125 mph. In one square inch of skin we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, four yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors, 75 pressure sensors, 650 sweat glands, 60,000 pigment cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and an average of 32 million bacteria.
The last four blogs have made it abundantly clear that we [humans] are wonderfully made. With the information we now know about the human body, it would seem comical to the highest degree, that one would propose humans are the product of non-living matter that [somehow] just randomly came to be alive and then evolved into the magnificant beings we are today. From non-life to a simple single cell bacteria to someone who writes and reads blogs and makes and uses computers.
To me, it screams "NOT A CHANCE!"
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Evolution versus The Human Body (Part 3 of 4)
Ah, Lake Tahoe. A gorgeous vacation paradise located in both Nevada and California. My wife and I got to go there a couple of years ago for free. What a place. God is good! For a city boy that grew up in Ft. Lauderdale, FL it's a world of magnificant spendor and design. The best vacation my wife and I ever had! Anyway, that's not my point. My point is the design of it all. Everywhere you look, you just have to stare and gawk.
The spendor and design of the human body is without equal anywhere in the known universe. Evolution says that we all evolved from - get this - "non-living matter." In other words, if you choose to believe in evolution, you must accept the fact that you...every part of you...as complex as you are, became living from non-living matter. And somehow, all your genetic code sort of just gathered together and kept evolving over time to make you what you are today...all from something that was never alive to begin with. Sounds far-fetched to me.
Now consider the magnificant spendor and design of the human eye:
As you focus on each word in this sentence, your eyes swing back and forth 100 times a second, and every second the retina performs 10 billion computer-like calculations. The eyes can perceive more than 1 million simultaneous visual impressions, are able to discriminate among nearly 8 million gradations of color, can distinguish about 500 different shades of gray, and take in more information than the world’s largest telescope. Each time the eye blinks, over 200 muscles move and you blink 25 times a minute or over 6 million times each year. The retina inside the eye covers about 650 square millimeters and contains some 137 million light-sensitive cells; 130 million rod cells for black and white vision and 7 million cone cells for color vision. To focus all this, the muscles of the eye move 100,000 times a day. An eye weighs 1.25 ounces. By the age of 60, our eyes have been exposed to more light energy than would be released by a nuclear blast. Sight accounts for 90 to 95 percent of all sensory perceptions.
You're smart. You tell me: Does it seem logical that all this detail and genetic code randomly came together from non-living matter and somehow kept gaining more genetic code (from where?) to produce your eyes which can do all the above says and more? Honestly, I don't think so.
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The spendor and design of the human body is without equal anywhere in the known universe. Evolution says that we all evolved from - get this - "non-living matter." In other words, if you choose to believe in evolution, you must accept the fact that you...every part of you...as complex as you are, became living from non-living matter. And somehow, all your genetic code sort of just gathered together and kept evolving over time to make you what you are today...all from something that was never alive to begin with. Sounds far-fetched to me.
Now consider the magnificant spendor and design of the human eye:
As you focus on each word in this sentence, your eyes swing back and forth 100 times a second, and every second the retina performs 10 billion computer-like calculations. The eyes can perceive more than 1 million simultaneous visual impressions, are able to discriminate among nearly 8 million gradations of color, can distinguish about 500 different shades of gray, and take in more information than the world’s largest telescope. Each time the eye blinks, over 200 muscles move and you blink 25 times a minute or over 6 million times each year. The retina inside the eye covers about 650 square millimeters and contains some 137 million light-sensitive cells; 130 million rod cells for black and white vision and 7 million cone cells for color vision. To focus all this, the muscles of the eye move 100,000 times a day. An eye weighs 1.25 ounces. By the age of 60, our eyes have been exposed to more light energy than would be released by a nuclear blast. Sight accounts for 90 to 95 percent of all sensory perceptions.
You're smart. You tell me: Does it seem logical that all this detail and genetic code randomly came together from non-living matter and somehow kept gaining more genetic code (from where?) to produce your eyes which can do all the above says and more? Honestly, I don't think so.
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Monday, February 9, 2009
Evolution versus The Human Body (Part 2 of 4)
Why do you think it is...that when we watch something on the discovery channel about our so-called, pre-historic, ape men ancestors, the producers of the show get all excited about an archeological find like a plate or some sort of crude tool? Among other things, it's at least partly because they've discovered an object that reveals how advanced intellectually they were. Yet, whenever it is mentioned that the incredible makeup of the human body with all of its complexity has to have been made by an author with an intelligence far beyond ours, many simply dismiss it. So I'll ask you a second time..."Why do you think it is?"
Check this out. The heart of an adult beats about 70 to 80 beats per minute, 100,000 times every day, 40 million times a year and in 70 years it will have beaten 2½ billion times. As a pump it produces enough energy in an hour to lift 2000 lb. 3 feet off the ground, and efficiently circulate over 50 million gallons over the average lifetime. In one year, the average human heart circulates from 770,000 to 1.6 million gallons of blood through the body. There are enough tiny blood vessels called capillaries that if placed end to end they would stretch over 2 times around the earth. All this is done with just over a gallon of blood which circulates 1,000 times in a single day through the body on a daily 60,000-mile journey, 168,000,000 miles in a lifetime. A child has 60,000 miles of blood vessels, in an adult there are 100,000. Red blood cells live for a period of only four months and travel between the lungs and other tissues 75,000 times before returning to the bone marrow to die, being replaced by the bone marrow at the rate of 2 to 3 million a second.
Hey, maybe archeologists and other fields of sciences should get all pumped up about how magnificently complex we are. And recognize that just as a crude tool of the pre-historic past had a designer...an architect, so too, we, have an infinitely greater architect in the person we call God.
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Check this out. The heart of an adult beats about 70 to 80 beats per minute, 100,000 times every day, 40 million times a year and in 70 years it will have beaten 2½ billion times. As a pump it produces enough energy in an hour to lift 2000 lb. 3 feet off the ground, and efficiently circulate over 50 million gallons over the average lifetime. In one year, the average human heart circulates from 770,000 to 1.6 million gallons of blood through the body. There are enough tiny blood vessels called capillaries that if placed end to end they would stretch over 2 times around the earth. All this is done with just over a gallon of blood which circulates 1,000 times in a single day through the body on a daily 60,000-mile journey, 168,000,000 miles in a lifetime. A child has 60,000 miles of blood vessels, in an adult there are 100,000. Red blood cells live for a period of only four months and travel between the lungs and other tissues 75,000 times before returning to the bone marrow to die, being replaced by the bone marrow at the rate of 2 to 3 million a second.
Hey, maybe archeologists and other fields of sciences should get all pumped up about how magnificently complex we are. And recognize that just as a crude tool of the pre-historic past had a designer...an architect, so too, we, have an infinitely greater architect in the person we call God.
www.realitychurch.com
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Evolution versus The Human Body (Part 1 of 4)
The human body is nothing short of spectacular. The proponents of evolution claim that we happened to evolve...over time into what we are today. Their premise is: Time + Chance = Life.
To them, Shakespeare was wrong… “To be or not to be” is NOT the question. The question is, “Did God create man, or did man create God?” In other words, “Is man created in the image of God, or is God created in the imagination of man?”
In this four part blog, I want to take you on a journey where you can determine for yourself...with a simple dose of common sense, if you, I, the human race simply evolved over time or was purposely created by a being we call God.
Let's begin this by providing for you the complexity of the human brain:
The human brain is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter known in the universe. It controls over 100 billion nerve cells and generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world's telephones put together moving at speeds from 150 to 250 miles per hour (and if you’ve got Starbucks in you, the rate of speed quadruples).
At least 100,000 different chemical reactions occur in the brain every second. The number of possible different combinations of synaptic connections among neurons in a single human brain is larger than the total number of atomic particles that make up the known universe. The storage capacity is estimated to exceed 4 terabytes (terabyte = 1000 billion bytes). It can store, recognize and remember 10,000 different odors and differentiate between up to eight million colors and 500 shades of gray.
Can one really believe that we simply evolved by random chance?
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To them, Shakespeare was wrong… “To be or not to be” is NOT the question. The question is, “Did God create man, or did man create God?” In other words, “Is man created in the image of God, or is God created in the imagination of man?”
In this four part blog, I want to take you on a journey where you can determine for yourself...with a simple dose of common sense, if you, I, the human race simply evolved over time or was purposely created by a being we call God.
Let's begin this by providing for you the complexity of the human brain:
The human brain is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter known in the universe. It controls over 100 billion nerve cells and generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world's telephones put together moving at speeds from 150 to 250 miles per hour (and if you’ve got Starbucks in you, the rate of speed quadruples).
At least 100,000 different chemical reactions occur in the brain every second. The number of possible different combinations of synaptic connections among neurons in a single human brain is larger than the total number of atomic particles that make up the known universe. The storage capacity is estimated to exceed 4 terabytes (terabyte = 1000 billion bytes). It can store, recognize and remember 10,000 different odors and differentiate between up to eight million colors and 500 shades of gray.
Can one really believe that we simply evolved by random chance?
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
A Four-Pack
I sat across the table at a coffee shop from a young man in his mid-twenties who asked if I had some time to meet with him; he deperately wanted to get a fresh start in life. His past had been marred by using and selling drugs, bad company, and a home-life so dysfunctional that I could only imagine what it was like.
As he talked about what God was beginning to do in him, I just listened--hoping that he was truly ready...and willing to make the right moves in the right direction. After he shared his story, I began to share with him something I knew could help him in his journey to wholeness...something we could call a "Four-Pack of Success"
I told him that this "Four-Pack" is about laying the right kind of foundation that will produce real success in all of life's ventures. That if he regularly acted on these four principles, he would basically be guaranteed true success. As we wrapped up our time together, I prayed for him and challenged him to live out the "Four-Pack" as he began a whole new life.
The "Four-Pack:"
1. Get tight with Jesus Christ [He is the key to everything good].
2. Hang with the right kind of friends [They will define you].
3. Get your head on straight [Learn what the Bible says].
4. Find a godly mentor [He/she will help you become all that God destined you for].
Question. How are you doing with your "Four-Pack?"
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As he talked about what God was beginning to do in him, I just listened--hoping that he was truly ready...and willing to make the right moves in the right direction. After he shared his story, I began to share with him something I knew could help him in his journey to wholeness...something we could call a "Four-Pack of Success"
I told him that this "Four-Pack" is about laying the right kind of foundation that will produce real success in all of life's ventures. That if he regularly acted on these four principles, he would basically be guaranteed true success. As we wrapped up our time together, I prayed for him and challenged him to live out the "Four-Pack" as he began a whole new life.
The "Four-Pack:"
1. Get tight with Jesus Christ [He is the key to everything good].
2. Hang with the right kind of friends [They will define you].
3. Get your head on straight [Learn what the Bible says].
4. Find a godly mentor [He/she will help you become all that God destined you for].
Question. How are you doing with your "Four-Pack?"
www.realitychurch.com
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Please, No Religion! (Conclusion)
Okay, let's wrap this up with a few passages from God's Word that makes clear this catch-22:
Romans 3:20 - “No man can justify himself before God by a perfect performance of the Law's demands - indeed it is the straight-edge of the Law that shows us how crooked we are.” In other words, God says, being good enough is impossible.
Galatians 3:10-11 - And that means that anyone who tries to live by his own effort, independent of God, is doomed to failure. Scripture backs this up: "Utterly cursed is every person who fails to carry out every detail written in the Book of the law." The obvious impossibility of carrying out such a moral program should make it plain that no one can sustain a relationship with God that way. Is it clear? No one can have a relationship with God based on being "good."
God's plan has NEVER been that good people go to heaven or that bad people can't go. His plan has always been that FORGIVEN people go to heaven. Here, last verse and we're done:
"For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law." Romans 3:23-25, 28
You see, this is why Jesus came... to collide with religions that say, "be good and you'll get to heaven." No. Jesus says, "I am the way" to heaven. It's my sacrifice on the cross rather than your good deeds that'll get you eternal life.
Put your total faith in Jesus right now and what he did for you on the cross. You'll be forgiven, have a personal relationship with God, and you'll have a place secured in his Kingdom in the afterlife. It's the reason why Jesus came.
www.realitychurch.com
Romans 3:20 - “No man can justify himself before God by a perfect performance of the Law's demands - indeed it is the straight-edge of the Law that shows us how crooked we are.” In other words, God says, being good enough is impossible.
Galatians 3:10-11 - And that means that anyone who tries to live by his own effort, independent of God, is doomed to failure. Scripture backs this up: "Utterly cursed is every person who fails to carry out every detail written in the Book of the law." The obvious impossibility of carrying out such a moral program should make it plain that no one can sustain a relationship with God that way. Is it clear? No one can have a relationship with God based on being "good."
God's plan has NEVER been that good people go to heaven or that bad people can't go. His plan has always been that FORGIVEN people go to heaven. Here, last verse and we're done:
"For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law." Romans 3:23-25, 28
You see, this is why Jesus came... to collide with religions that say, "be good and you'll get to heaven." No. Jesus says, "I am the way" to heaven. It's my sacrifice on the cross rather than your good deeds that'll get you eternal life.
Put your total faith in Jesus right now and what he did for you on the cross. You'll be forgiven, have a personal relationship with God, and you'll have a place secured in his Kingdom in the afterlife. It's the reason why Jesus came.
www.realitychurch.com
Friday, January 16, 2009
Please, No Religion! (Part 2)
Here’s the video trailer playing in our heads: “There’s this good God who lives in this good place called heaven who saves a place for all the good people on earth after they die. But they all have to DO something… or more like a series of things that are considered good, so then their good will outweigh their bad and when they finally die, they head straight to this place called Heaven." If that makes sense to you, pause and think again. It really shouldn’t make sense and here's why:
[1] The theory that "good people go to Heaven" is untested. We have to actually be dead to prove this theory is legit. No one I know, except Jesus, can say they tested this out.
[2] We don’t know exactly what "good" is, do we? Is your standard of good, good...or someone else's? Who determines?
[1] The theory that "good people go to Heaven" is untested. We have to actually be dead to prove this theory is legit. No one I know, except Jesus, can say they tested this out.
[2] We don’t know exactly what "good" is, do we? Is your standard of good, good...or someone else's? Who determines?
- Those who attacked America on 9/11 thought they were being "good" according to allah and the Koran. My definition of good is far different. Is yours?
- If we did know what "good" was, we couldn't pull it off consistently.
[3] If there is some sort of heavenly scoring system, the Bible never says anything about it. You'd think if God wanted us to be good so we could get to heaven, He'd have something to say about how the "goodness factor" is measured. Problem is…He doesn't. Next Week: (Conclusion)
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