Amazing how much garbage is out there that people digest just to try and prove that there isn't a God. Their "science" has become a cult in itself. Like this devotion says (and the Bible reiterates it) all you have to do is look around you and see the natural beauty of the Earth to know there IS A GOD!!!

Here I must admit, it must be much harder to believe that we simply spontaneously came into being and evolved into what we are today than having been created by God. If you ever have studied, for instance, how the brain works, you will be overawed by the complexity of the neurons, which communicate with each other electro-chemically. How every thought affect parts of the body. How the autonomic nervous system works. It is responsible for involuntary functions and homeostasis, the continuous balance that the body's innate intelligence maintains. How is it mathematically possible to have so many diverse life forms on earth that share the same blueprint in terms of having a heart, lungs, blood, brain and so on? You can argue about the mathematical possibilities that have made life as we know it possible. Change the tilt of the earth by just one degree and we might have a problem surviving. Look at the composition of water. Add or subtract just one or two molecules and water would not exist. Everything in nature, including all plants and other life, is very finely tuned. The odds against all this having "evolved" from single cell organisms are just too overwhelming!

The analogy in this devotion has nothing to do with the processes of evolution. It's disrespectful to reduce it to such a crude metaphor.

I also think the anology is a bit crude. However, the point it makes is still valid. It certainly takes a lot of faith to believe life evolved by chance. To believe life somehow swam upsteam against the current of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Also - the philosophical and logical extensions of an evolutionary worldview basically conclude that life has no meaning, there is no good or bad, or no wrong or right. Maybe that's the way it is - but I cannot believe that.

I think the point is more about the initial beginning of the universe (the big bang) eventually leading to life than evolution itself being compared to an explosion. To deny a creator you would have to believe that something came out of nothing at some point in the finite past. You would then have to believe from that massive explosion, and the blind, purposeless processes that followed, a simple form of life eventually emerged from the energy and matter that was thrown out. From that life, more complex life evolved, creating all the complexity that we see today, including our own species capable of contemplating what it all means and why we are here. Well, why are we here? If you imagine the universe without life, why would anything be here? Not only does it take a lot of faith to remove God from the picture, the universe doesn't make a whole lot of sense without Him.

My analogy was not meant to be disrespectful nor crude. In essence, I said what Austin said:"It certainly takes a lot of faith to believe life evolved by chance." If I cannot express myself adequately at times, you have my apology. English is not my first language.

Erik,
(yes i realize you spell it with a K) I have a hard time seeing the reduction to metaphor as disrespectful. If anything, look at it from the point of view of one who believes in divine creation: Reducing the complexity of life and its beauty to that of a 747 would be even more disrespectful if the motive were not pure.

Frits, I appreciated the comment you made about this devotion on creation. You have a very good way of expressing yourself and your ability to use the English language is far superior to that of some of the native speakers.

Frits- I was referring to RFTH's metaphor.
Rick- that may be the case, and if so I think the metaphor is a little more apt. I thought he was specifically referring to evolutionary processes, since that metaphor is often used by anti-evolutionists, only substituting a tornado in a junkyard for a landmine.