From Goo to Zoo to You?

He took a snapshot of his wife at the beach. It was a perfect moment in time with the late afternoon lighting the gulf waters and the tide rolling in on cue. The snapshot is of less than a second of the woman’s life, and yet when one views it, you see the coordination of an ongoing time continuum that maintains the light and the dark, and the planets in alignment so that the sun and moon can rise and set, and incoming and outgoing tides arrive on schedule.

If one were to take that time continuum for one person and stretch it over the space of his or her lifetime, it would seem nothing short of miraculous that all the pieces held together in perfect coordination. If one were to take the time continuum and stretch it from the beginning of time to the end of time, and then multiply it by the number of people who have ever lived, and calculate the permutations and combinations, it is impossible to believe that the orchestration of that world happened randomly.

If one were to view the perfect order in which all those people existed under a predictable moon and sun, among predictable planets, it would seem so wondrous that only an entity of greater and far superior power could ever have conceived of it.

Add to the picture, the number of organs and functions in a body, and how they work so perfectly together to maintain the human in either a state of homeostasis or of adapted imbalance. Add the number of critically aligned elements that must work together to create an ongoing physical history, and the mind cannot conceive of anything so vast and universal.

The evidence is too overwhelming to ignore. God lives and watches from way out there in his third heaven. We have unending miracles for which to be thankful, even if we are just standing here and doing nothing. It isn’t that hard to believe.