One of my most memorable courses I took as an undergrad was, “Developmental Biology of Plants and Animals”. You can discuss the amazing complexity of living things, but when you study how these “living things” go from being a pair of cells to a complete horse, or turtle, or fish, or even a human being you see an orchestrated process that is just as marvelous as the final individual. Those two original cell have to produce all kinds of different cell at precise intervals in order to assemble a complete baby mouse let’s say. You have a skeleton to assemble, heart, lungs, teeth, etc. that all have to be produced in just the right place with all the blood plumbing and membranes to protect them and keep them in place.

All of this takes place at an amazing pace with even the slightest misstep resulting in disaster. This is a concert of both rhythm and melody that involves thousands of precisely timed events to complete. Several different ways of triggering the changes into the various cell types have been suggested. It’s not like a simple clock that moves its dials at a certain rate. Each of the 2 original cells set out on a fantastic mission to put together a 3 dimensional artwork that lives and breathes 10, 20, even 100 years or more. On top of all of that it can even produce new creatures like itself. If that wasn’t amazing enough consider the huge number of species that exist or have existed. Each one playing a unique concerto with its own style and execution.

Back in those days I was still a believer in “evolution”. I wasn’t really thinking about living things as being engineered. I was still living in scientific la la land. It really is time to start thinking and considering what living things really tell us. Science has taken a tiny variable in nature and turned into the some sort of magical creator with unlimited ability to engineer 2 million plus species of reproducing beings. So-called, “natural selection” is only a variable that has little power, if any at all, to engineer a new living species.

However, there is a person who can handle this sort of engineering and wisdom to make all of these creatures that can maintain a suitable environment for mankind. The “ecosystem” must have been thought out carefully and planned from the start. That individual is God. If you want to know how it all happened, it has been documented in the Book of Genesis. To say there is no God is to deny what is really there in nature. What we need to know is there and the rest is in the nature that is all around us. Genesis begins with, “In the beginning, God created…” Scientists talk in ignorance about “billions of years” and “adaptation” and “evolution did this and that”. Those are only ways to avoid the truth. Nature is a display of creative genius that requires diligent effort to ignore and science is doing just that.