The Case For God

Selected Human Body Functions

1. Examples of sophisticated bodily functions include digestion, excretion, sex, rejuvenation with sleep, brain functionality, and much more.
2. Examples of complicated body parts include Eyes, Nose, Ears, Hands, Arms, Legs, etc. These body parts are incredibly complex and involve a variety of interacting components ordered in such a way that they accomplish functions beyond the individual component.
3. A specific example of the body’s amazing sophistication is the ability of the eye to focus on different objects at different lengths, and to work in perfect and instant synergistic harmony with the brain to provide sight.
4. Childbirth is a miracle that perfectly combines the DNA of two people into a new, unique person. From that single cell, a complete individual develops with all its complex organs and systems and is born alive and functioning. Just Hold a baby in your arms and sense God’s presence!
5. Biologists have learned that each cell in the body contains numerous ultra-sophisticated molecular machines - there are literally trillions of such machines in the human body. Each cell contains more information than in all thirty volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica. These molecular systems provide information storage and transfer, functioning codes, sorting and delivery systems, self-regulation and feedback loops, signal transduction circuitry, and complex arrangements of mutually interdependent and well fitted parts to perform specific functions. The absence of any single component of these molecular machines would cause them not to work. See Video HERE.
6. The amount of information that could be stored in a pinhead’s volume of DNA is equivalent to a pile of paperback books 500 times as tall as the distance from the Earth to the moon – each with different yet specific content.
7. Scientists have discovered many human body structures that are incredibly complex and involve a variety of interacting components ordered in such a way that they accomplish function beyond their individual components.   The body’s overall interdependence upon  all of these parts and systems, and the fact that without any one of them they’d all be nonfunctional,  also make it difficult to believe the body has not been designed.

IS THE STUNNING COMPLEXITY OF THE HUMAN BODY POSSIBLY THE RESULT OF RANDOM EVOLUTION AND EVENTS?

7. Everything in the universe is fine tuned to support life on earth. Galaxies are moving away from the earth at a phenomenal speed of 100 million miles per hour as the result of the original big bang creation. This is precisely the rate necessary to enable the formation of galaxies. If it expands too slowly, it would collapse into a big lump. If it works to fast the matter would disperse. If our moon were larger or we had multiple moons, its gravitational pull would cause tidal waves and severe climate instabilities. If the earth was closer to the sun it would be too hot to survive. There is just enough oxygen on earth (21 per cent of the atmosphere) for creatures to breathe. If it were lower humans would suffocate, if it were higher, fires would erupt spontaneously. The size of Juniper is large enough to attract asteroids that would otherwise hit the earth. If there were more or less water vapor in our atmosphere it would be too hot or too cold to survive on earth.

8. Big Bang Theory: The majority of astrophysicists and cosmologists today believe the big bang represents the beginning of the universe some 13-15 billion years ago. It was a massive cosmic explosion that exploded the universe into existence from a tiny dot size. Something had to cause this big bang.

9. There are numerous improbable factors that must be precisely in place and balanced for the survival of life on earth. As one Scholar puts it: “The astonishing intricacy, harmony, and organization of the cosmos in allowing for human life is evidenced from the fine-tuning of the fundamental constants of physics, to the “just so” nature of the galaxy

Creation, Nature and The Universe - the probabilities of the scope and scales of the universe and the complexities of its contents (humans in particular), as noted in the above, make random coincidental creation impossible to accept. A correct evaluation of this evidence supports the fact that everything in nature, in fact, proves God exists as Creator. The summation of this is contained in the statement that all these aspects of creation simply could not have come into existence apart from the activity of an all-powerful God.

Humanities Inner Intuition & Sense of God - historical and testamentary documentation supports the notion that mankind has demonstrated a desire for, and an awareness of, existence beyond itself.

Sense of Right & Wrong: We all have an inborn sense of right and wrong that must have come from a higher power.

People & Love: There is a natural desire for love of others.

Philosophical – A variety of arguments support that it is not rational to reject the idea of God's existence:

     - cosmological - everything has a creator
    - teleological - all creation has purpose and therefore design
    - ontological - if it is greater to exist than not exist, the greatest existence is God

     - moral - sense of right and wrong demanding ultimate justice

Personal and Corporate Testimony – there are numerous individual historical confessions of specific and direct encounters with God both within and outside the context of scripture.