Ramblin’ an’ Rumblin’ XIV
What Does It Take to Believe in the God of the Bible?
Author: John Wayne Brady
There are so many religions that protest the belief in the God of the Bible. So many people have been duped to believe that creationism is a farce and we are here by some cataclysmic event, “The Big Bang”, “Primordial Soup” or maybe some other inane theory. All these theories can be debunked simply by reading the Genesis account of the origin of the earth and everything in it.
While doing some research recently, I came across information from noted Cosmologist Carl Sagan. Although Sagan said he was not an atheist, he did say there was not enough evidence to believe in God.
Just the complexity of our planet points to a deliberate Designer. But before going there let’s just consider the human body.
Every second 100,000 chemical reactions take place in the brain. The brain has 10 billion nerve cells to record what we see and hear. That information comes to your brain through the miracle of the eye, which has 100 million receptor cells in each eye. Your retina also has 4 other layers of nerve cells. Altogether, the system makes the equivalent of 10 billion calculations per second before the image gets to the optic nerve. Once it reaches your brain, the cerebral cortex has more than a dozen separate vision centers in which to process it. Your tear ducts supply a bacteria-fighting fluid to protect your eyes from infection. The tears that fight irritants differ the tears of sadness which contains 24 percent more proteins. That’s not to mention the miracle of the ear and how it translates sound waves into meaningful speech and sounds; or of touch, taste and smell.
Part of your brain regulates voluntary matters such as muscle coordination and thought processes. Other parts of your brain control involuntary processes such as digestion, glandular secretions, the rate your heart beats. How did it accidentally happen that your body could speed up your heart rate to meet increase oxygen demand when you exercise and slow it down when the need is met? One square inch of your skin has about 625 sweat glands, 19 feet of blood vessels and 19 thousand sensory cells. Working in coordination with your brain, it maintains your body at a steady 98.6 degrees under all weather conditions.
Your stomach has 35 million glands which secret the right amount of juices to allow your body to digest food and convert it into energy for your muscles. To avoid digesting itself, your stomach produces a new lining every three days. Your body is an efficient machine; to ride a bicycle for an hour at ten miles per hour requires only 350 calories, the energy equivalent of only 3 tablespoons of gasoline.
You have more than 200 bones each shaped for its function connected intricately to one another through lubricated joints that cannot be perfectly duplicated by modern science. More than 500 muscles connect these bones. Some obey willful commands; others perform their duty in response to unconscious commands from the brain. They all work together to keep us alive. The heart muscle itself beats over 103,000 times each day pumping your blood cells a distance of 168 million miles.
Coupled with that, your lungs automatically breathe in the right amount of life giving oxygen (about 438 cubic feet each day), which just happens to be mixed in the right proportions (about 20 percent oxygen and 80 percent nitrogen) in our atmosphere. Each of the other vital organs and glands in your body works in complex conjunction with others to sustain life, which science cannot explain or create.
I haven’t even mentioned the complexity of cells. Listen to this: A single human chromosome (DNA molecule) contains 20 billion bits of information. How much is that? What would be its equivalent? Twenty billion bits are the equivalent of about 3 billion letters. If there are approximately six letters in an average word, the information content of a human chromosome corresponds to about 500 million words. If there are about 300 words on an ordinary page, of printed type, this corresponds to about two million pages. If a typical book contains 500 such pages, the information content of a single human chromosome corresponds to some 4,000 volumes. It is clear, then, on our DNA ladders that the sequence of rungs represents an enormous library of information.
Outside having presented this quantity of information containing only one part of the universe, the human body, the next amazing fact is that all this was written by Carl Sagan in his book, The Dragons of Eden, Speculations on the evolution of Human Intelligence (Ballentine Books, pp. 23-25) who believed there was not enough evidence to believe in God!!!
Well, if you dared to read all this I know you must be tired, but your wonderfully designed body will have you rejuvenated in a few seconds.
This is just the beginning of what makes the human “bod” operate. The information in this writing will not be remembered and that is not the purpose of the article. Thinking seems to be one of the most overlooked and neglected of all the wonderful assets God has blessed us with. Just take a few moments and think about the information you read and see how this could all happen without a great designer instead of happen stance of “Primordial Soup” or “Big Bang”. Your thinking may change about how you have viewed your-self in the past.
Aren’t you glad that God has blessed you with the wisdom to read His words and without scientific misinformation see what the Spirit tells you when you read His Words?
What Does It Take to Believe in the God of the Bible?
Author: John Wayne Brady
There are so many religions that protest the belief in the God of the Bible. So many people have been duped to believe that creationism is a farce and we are here by some cataclysmic event, “The Big Bang”, “Primordial Soup” or maybe some other inane theory. All these theories can be debunked simply by reading the Genesis account of the origin of the earth and everything in it.
While doing some research recently, I came across information from noted Cosmologist Carl Sagan. Although Sagan said he was not an atheist, he did say there was not enough evidence to believe in God.
Just the complexity of our planet points to a deliberate Designer. But before going there let’s just consider the human body.
Every second 100,000 chemical reactions take place in the brain. The brain has 10 billion nerve cells to record what we see and hear. That information comes to your brain through the miracle of the eye, which has 100 million receptor cells in each eye. Your retina also has 4 other layers of nerve cells. Altogether, the system makes the equivalent of 10 billion calculations per second before the image gets to the optic nerve. Once it reaches your brain, the cerebral cortex has more than a dozen separate vision centers in which to process it. Your tear ducts supply a bacteria-fighting fluid to protect your eyes from infection. The tears that fight irritants differ the tears of sadness which contains 24 percent more proteins. That’s not to mention the miracle of the ear and how it translates sound waves into meaningful speech and sounds; or of touch, taste and smell.
Part of your brain regulates voluntary matters such as muscle coordination and thought processes. Other parts of your brain control involuntary processes such as digestion, glandular secretions, the rate your heart beats. How did it accidentally happen that your body could speed up your heart rate to meet increase oxygen demand when you exercise and slow it down when the need is met? One square inch of your skin has about 625 sweat glands, 19 feet of blood vessels and 19 thousand sensory cells. Working in coordination with your brain, it maintains your body at a steady 98.6 degrees under all weather conditions.
Your stomach has 35 million glands which secret the right amount of juices to allow your body to digest food and convert it into energy for your muscles. To avoid digesting itself, your stomach produces a new lining every three days. Your body is an efficient machine; to ride a bicycle for an hour at ten miles per hour requires only 350 calories, the energy equivalent of only 3 tablespoons of gasoline.
You have more than 200 bones each shaped for its function connected intricately to one another through lubricated joints that cannot be perfectly duplicated by modern science. More than 500 muscles connect these bones. Some obey willful commands; others perform their duty in response to unconscious commands from the brain. They all work together to keep us alive. The heart muscle itself beats over 103,000 times each day pumping your blood cells a distance of 168 million miles.
Coupled with that, your lungs automatically breathe in the right amount of life giving oxygen (about 438 cubic feet each day), which just happens to be mixed in the right proportions (about 20 percent oxygen and 80 percent nitrogen) in our atmosphere. Each of the other vital organs and glands in your body works in complex conjunction with others to sustain life, which science cannot explain or create.
I haven’t even mentioned the complexity of cells. Listen to this: A single human chromosome (DNA molecule) contains 20 billion bits of information. How much is that? What would be its equivalent? Twenty billion bits are the equivalent of about 3 billion letters. If there are approximately six letters in an average word, the information content of a human chromosome corresponds to about 500 million words. If there are about 300 words on an ordinary page, of printed type, this corresponds to about two million pages. If a typical book contains 500 such pages, the information content of a single human chromosome corresponds to some 4,000 volumes. It is clear, then, on our DNA ladders that the sequence of rungs represents an enormous library of information.
Outside having presented this quantity of information containing only one part of the universe, the human body, the next amazing fact is that all this was written by Carl Sagan in his book, The Dragons of Eden, Speculations on the evolution of Human Intelligence (Ballentine Books, pp. 23-25) who believed there was not enough evidence to believe in God!!!
Well, if you dared to read all this I know you must be tired, but your wonderfully designed body will have you rejuvenated in a few seconds.
This is just the beginning of what makes the human “bod” operate. The information in this writing will not be remembered and that is not the purpose of the article. Thinking seems to be one of the most overlooked and neglected of all the wonderful assets God has blessed us with. Just take a few moments and think about the information you read and see how this could all happen without a great designer instead of happen stance of “Primordial Soup” or “Big Bang”. Your thinking may change about how you have viewed your-self in the past.
Aren’t you glad that God has blessed you with the wisdom to read His words and without scientific misinformation see what the Spirit tells you when you read His Words?