Not By Chance

‘By faith, we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.’ Hebrews 11:3

The human body is truly amazing. It contains up to 100 trillion cells, and each contains a database larger than the Encyclopedia Britannica!

Could all that have originated by chance?

Physicist Paul Davies makes this comparison: ‘It’s rather like exploding a stick of dynamite under a pile of bricks and expecting it to build a house. You may liberate enough energy to raise the bricks, but without coupling the energy to the bricks in a controlled way, there’s little hope of producing anything other than a chaotic mess.’

Clearly, it requires more than a pile of bricks to build a house. The intelligence of the architect and the skill of the builder are key components. And it’s the same with all the complexities of a human being.

The odds are zero that all the required elements necessary to initiate human life just happen to assemble themselves in the same spot on Earth at the same time.

And even if we did accept that notion, mere chance could never have put those 100 trillion cells together in the order required to produce life.

Prominent scientist Francis Crick wasn’t noted for his faith, but even he said, ‘The origin of life seems almost to be a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.’

Speaking of this miracle, the psalmist said, ‘You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made’ Psalm 139:13-14.