Intelligent Design in Humans
Thomas B. Warren wrote, “the existence of one human being constitutes evidence that God exist.” The Psalmist said, “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well” (Psalms 139:14).
A single human cell is so complex it illustrates an abundance of evidence for an Intelligent Designer. It has a nucleus with a nucleolus where ribosomes are assembled, chromosomes contain the cell’s DNA, endoplasmic reticulum to store proteins made by ribosomes, mitochondria that produce energy for the cell, Golgi body that package and distribute proteins, centrioles to assist in cell reproduction, etc. Each of those “…cells function like a walled city. Power plants generate the cell’s energy. Factories produce proteins, vital units of chemical commerce. Complex transportation systems guide specific chemicals from point to point within the cell and beyond. Sentries at the barricades control the export and import markets and monitor the outside world for signs of danger. Disciplined biological armies stand ready to grapple with invaders. A centralized genetic government maintains order” (Newsweek, “The Secrets of the human Cell,” by Peter Gwynne, Sharon Begley and Mary Hager, August 20, 1979, p. 48).
All of this in a space only 1/10000th of an inch in diameter. “Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 grams, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machinery built by man and absolutely without parallel in the non-living world” (Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Adler & Adler, 1985, 250). No one can fathom the idea that a single human being with 100,000,000,000,000 cells could come together by mere chance without an intelligent designer.
Complexity of DNA is fast becoming a key piece of evidence in the argument for an Intelligent Designer. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a molecule that encodes the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and many viruses. Bill Gates said, “DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.” It is like a three-dimensional copy machine.
“Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in” (Sam Kean). If you unwrap all your DNA, you could reach the moon six thousand times. In a recording of the 2004 symposium ‘Has Science Discovered God’, organized by The Institute for Metascientific Research, Professor Antony Flew [longtime prominent atheistic philosopher ] says: ‘What I think the DNA material has done is show that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinarily diverse elements together . . . The enormous complexity by which the results were achieved look to me like the work of intelligence.” Dr. Jeff Tomkins a Genetics professor at Clemson University writes, “That’s the biggest problem for evolution: how life got started. Because you need DNA to make proteins, you need DNA to make RNA, and you need RNA to make proteins. So, it’s worse than ‘what came first, the chicken or the egg’.”
Have you ever wondered why your stomach does not digest itself? After all, the stomach secretes a mixture of digestive juices that are so strong that they can dissolve zinc. One of the main components of the digestive juices is hydrochloric acid. Hydrochloric acid is an extremely corrosive liquid. It will eat through skin or muscle or even metal plates of zinc, magnesium or aluminum. Fortunately, the stomach has three separate systems to protect itself. First, the lining of the stomach, gastric mucosa. This layer of cells is very dense and reproduces itself very rapidly. The gastric mucosa can actually be totally replaced in only three days. Second, the cell walls are made up of lipids. Lipids are fatty substances which ionic acids like hydrochloric acid have a hard time penetrating. Third, the outer layer of cells is covered with a layer of carbohydrates which reduce the corrosive action of the acid on the stomach wall. Be glad that at each meal what you eat does not cause you to digest your own stomach.
The human heart is an amazing pump. It operates twenty-four hours a day for over one hundred years without missing a beat. It pumps a total of 100,000 tons of blood in the average person’s lifetime.
Don’t let all this intelligent design of your body go to your head. Unless we are talking about your brain. These three pounds of mystery only makes up two percent of one’s body weight yet uses 25 percent of one’s blood supply. An 83,000-processor supercomputer can only match 1% of a human brain.
The theory of evolution cannot account for all the intelligent design found in creation. Many may not be willing to accept God as the Creator, however, they cannot accept the alternative anymore. Some still will tenaciously cling to evolution despite the evidence. Could you imagine an archeologist at an Indian burial site digging up a sharp flint arrowhead and claiming that it just happened to exist by time and chance. Its design was not the product of an intelligent mind. Yet the human brain, cell, and DNA are far more complex in design than an arrowhead. However, we are told these are all the product of time and chance.
– Daniel R. Vess