Counsels on Secular Worldview

Counsel #7 — The Absurdity

Picture: Counsel #7 — The Absurdity CSe 32.1

Try grasping this thought - with a word or two, God speaks and produces a person, with billions of cells, each a tiny, sophisticated machine, containing millions of tinier protein machines that make energy, transport oxygen, read a DNA code, or unwind yards of DNA. That thought is and always will be totally beyond our understanding. CSe 32.2

If that seems too much to accept, try contemplating the alternative — a super (alien?) biochemist spends months in a lab inventing one of those protein machines, then sets it aside in a freezer while she invents another one. This goes on for some centuries. Then, she takes those saved proteins (those that haven’t spontaneously disintegrated) and works on fitting them together. If that is somewhat successful, her next step is to “light the fire” — start the precise chain of biochemical reactions necessary to make them work. And, ponder one more thought — if a live organism did not already exist as a pattern, the biochemist must figure out all of this by chance chemical combinations until finding something that works.^[31] CSe 32.3

“So God created human beings in his image. In the image of God he created them. He created them male and female.” Genesis 1:27 NCV CSe 32.4

“Science is ever discovering new wonders; but she brings from her research nothing that, rightly understood, conflicts with divine revelation.” Ellen White in Education, p. 128.1 CSe 32.5

Reflect: What do you believe takes more faith — the creation narrative, or the theory of evolution? Why? CSe 32.6