I published this several years ago.
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A guy in one of my online communities boasts he is an
atheist. I don’t ask him why he is an atheist. My discussions with such people in the past have always proven fruitless.
Anyway, so this guy types his arguments into a keyboard. I wonder if he has
ever thought about the decades it took for mathematicians, physicists and other
highly skilled men and women to design, develop, and program the current computer keyboard
(not to even mention the computer itself).
But complex mechanical creations aside, I also wonder if he
has ever considered the complexity of his well-designed body. Without giving it
so much as a thought, the atheist sits at his desk tapping keys of a complex combination
of metal and plastic and wire; Meanwhile, within his own body a bazillion multifaceted
processes are occurring simultaneously that permit him to tap on that keyboard.
For example, his eighth cranial nerve continuously monitors
his spatial position relative to the floor and the sides of the room. (Click
here for a more detailed bit of information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibulocochlear_nerve).
Without that nerve he’d be gripping the carpet because he’d sense the entire
room spinning out of control. That’s not all the eighth nerve does, but for
now, I hope I made a point about special design.
The atheist also moves his fingers and wrists in a very
controlled pattern. He could not do so without the precise design of specialized
motor and sensory nerves exiting his cervical and upper thoracic spine. In
fact, while he is typing, more than 200,000 (yes, two hundred thousand) neurons
permit him to do what he is doing because they are specifically designed to
permit him to move his fingers and wrists.
You can read more about that here: http://www.innerbody.com/anatomy/nervous/arm-hand#full-description
As the atheist watches the screen above his keyboard, his
eyes move with finely tuned and coordinated movements to the left or right or
up or down (specially designed cranial nerves 3, 4, and 6) depending on what he wants to see on the
screen. His pupils (cranial nerve 3) dilate or constrict depending on the
amount of light his intricately designed eye needs to focus a clear and sharp
image onto the retina at the back of his eye. That image is then converted into
electrical impulses and sent along the optic nerve (cranial nerve 2) to a location at the back of
his brain designed specifically for that purpose. It is there those electrical
impulses are organized to allow the cognitive portion of his brain to interpret
what he sees.
I mentioned neurons a moment ago. I wonder if the atheist
has ever considered the phenomenal complexity of those neurons that run every specially designed function
of his marvelous and intricate body. For example, each neuron needs a precise and coordinated flow of specific electrolytes into and
out of the cell membrane – potassium, sodium, calcium, chloride (to name few) -- AND at the correct levels until they reach
a specifically designed threshold to produce an electric current along the
neuron. If this does not happen, our
atheist will not be able to move his fingers . . . or anything else.
I hate to belabor the point, but let me include one more bit
of information about our extraordinarily designed body.
We all require an elaborate, perfectly sequenced set of
hormones to function. For example, when we get angry, our adrenal glands
release a hormone called adrenalin (epinephrine). Circulating along our ten
bazillion miles of expertly designed blood vessels, adrenalin attaches itself
to very specific cell receptor sites throughout our body. Once attached to
those sites our heart rate increases, our blood vessels constrict, our liver converts
glycogen into glucose, our pupils dilate . . .
I could go on, but you get the point. (By the way, what I just described
is the well-studied and well-known ‘Fight or Flight’ syndrome – a protective
measure built into our bodies for self-preservation).
We today know so much about the human body that I have for
many years defied atheists to read through even a HIGH SCHOOL biology text book
and then tell me our bodies are not clearly designed and programmed to an exponentially
greater degree than the computer keyboard.
So, if the keyboard would not exist without a creator, why does
any honest person think our body just happened to come into
existence by accident and without the design of a Designer?
In 43 years of talking with
atheists, I have never met one whose disbelief was rooted in ‘intellectual’
reasons. When I dug deeply enough, his disbelief was always rooted in moral
reasons. The person had made a conscious choice to turn from God so he or she
could live as they pleased.
The Creator of all that is seen and unseen is the same Person who designed our body – every part
of it. Organs, blood, electrolytes, neurons, cells, hormones – every part of
it.
But there is more. Much more. This
Creator – many know Him as the Heavenly Father – knows our name, where we live, and what
are our most secret needs. It is this same Creator who, because of His great
love for us, designed and implemented a flawless plan to reconcile sinners with Himself and live with Him forever.
He bundled that plan in the life,
death, and resurrection of His Son. We call Him Jesus.
Oh, Lord God almighty -- truly how excellent is your Name in all the earth.
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