Last week I had an appointment with a speech therapist who showed me a model of the vocal chords and how they function. The intricacy of the design and how this part of the body functions reminded me of what the Psalmist David said in Psalm 139:13, 14: “You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”
David did not have the knowledge of the human body we have today. Even with his limited knowledge he understood the complexity of the body. The New Living Translation puts it this way: “Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.” David knew that he was a created being – not some product of blind chance or mindless evolution. The more we study the human body, the micro and the macro universes we see evidence of design. Everything shouts “designer’s workmanship.”
In a conversation with my dentist several months ago regarding his dental studies, he openly ridicules the thought that the way our mouths function have come about as a result of evolution. He sees complexity wherever he looks. And what he sees is evidence of intelligent design. Irreducible complexity is what marks evolution theory for what it is – a sham. It once was thought that the single cell was simple – it’s very complex. Have we become so gullible to believe that as long as we add enough years and chance to the mix the implausible becomes probable?
Ravi Zacharias, an Indian-born Canadian-American apologist, in one of his weekly blogs, decries the fact that so many college/university students today are brainwashed by certain philosophical theories. He states that evolution in its starting point and even in some of its sustaining ideas is not a scientific theory – it is a philosophically driven theory. This is what led to such a dramatic change in the life of Phillip E. Johnson, retired law professor at University of California-Berkeley, considered to be the father of the intelligent design movement. When he began to study evolution so profoundly Johnson said, “this thing is philosophically, prejudicially driven. It is not scientifically driven.”
People who believe in Biblical Creation – that is that “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1) and all life – are often looked on with derision and ridiculed by the so-called “evolutionary scientific” community. An increasingly greater number of scientists are leaving their evolutionary design theories behind because they no longer stand up to the evidence they see all around them of intelligent design.
Dr. Jim Mason, who has a bachelor of science in engineering physics from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. and a PhD in experimental nuclear physics from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. will be speaking in Thompson this weekend May 1 3 at various venues. He is retired and presently on tour with Creation Ministries International Canada. He will be sharing exciting evidences to support the Bible’s history of creation as well as providing resources to go “in depth” after the meetings.
I invite you to come and hear Dr. Mason share and answer questions skeptics often ask about the Bible and science. On Friday at 7 p.m. he will be at the Multicultural Centre at 97 McGill Place for a talk on “How to Survive as an Evolutionist in a Created World.”
On Saturday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. there will be a brunch meeting with a silver collection at Thompson Christian Centre Fellowship at 328 Thompson Drive. Jim will speak on “Does the Bible Conflict with Science?”
On Sunday at 11 a.m. at the Thompson Pentecostal Assembly at 126 Goldeye Crescent he will speak on “Origins by the Book.”
His final talk will be on Sunday at 7 p.m. at the First Baptist Church at 456 Westwood Drive with the topic: “I am Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: Biological Evidence for Creation.”
Ted Goossen is pastor of the Christian Centre Fellowship at 328 Thompson Dr. N.
