In the spirit of “honor to whom honor” is due, David writes in Psalm 139:14, “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made…” With the ever-increasing knowledge of our universe and the ability to explore with high-powered microscopes that which is invisible to the naked eye, the truth that was so obvious to the psalmist three thousand years ago has become many times more evident.

The marvel of the human body is a gripping testimony to the existence of God. Wayne Jackson cites evolutionist and paleontologist George G. Simpson who says that in mankind “one finds the most highly endowed organization of matter that has yet appeared on the earth…”¹  If alive today, Simpson would be blown away by the ballooning support for such a conclusion.

How does a rational mind interpret the facts now known about the human body? Wayne Jackson illustrates the level of imagination required to eliminate the role of a Creator.

Professor Edwin Conklin of Princeton University compared the random origin of life to an explosion in a print shop producing an unabridged dictionary. Sir Fred Hoyle, one of Great Britain’s prominent scientists, has argued that the chance of higher life-forms emerging accidentally is comparable to the charge that a Boeing 747 jet could be assembled by a tornado sweeping through a junk yard. Dr. Hoyle also likened the random construction of life to [an innumerable host of blind men] 10^50 (one followed by fifty zeros) simultaneously solving scrambled Rubic cubes. Evidence points to the fact that life cannot generate itself.²

The human body operates with a phenomenal combination of strength, agility, adaptability, and resilience that enables us to have dominion over all other creatures. Even a peak at the human body and the few of the functions within it, reveals a high level of organization that demands a Divine designer.

FROM SYSTEMS TO CELLS
The human body is composed of eleven major systems that work in concert with each other: circulatory, respiratory, digestive, excretory, nervous, endocrine, immune, integumentary, skeletal, muscle and reproductive systems.³ These systems contain groups of organs (heart, brain, stomach, etc.) that cooperate to perform particular bodily functions.  Organs are made up of groups of tissues (muscle tissue, nerve tissue, epithelial tissue, and connective tissue) that work together.  Tissue is formed from cells engaging in the same activity.  The cell is the smallest unit of life and comes in different types, shapes, and sizes specialized for specific activities. Could any of these systems develop on their own? No! All of them developing independently of each other and then working together so seamlessly is remarkable evidence of our Creator’s touch.

The human body is composed of 37 trillion cells that, on average, are less than a thousandth of an inch in length.⁴ We have millions of cells on every square inch of skin and millions of blood cells in a drop of blood.  Imagine guiding the critical activities of all these cells on a continual basis. No worry! Most cells have a nucleus which serves as their “brain” or control center.⁵ Each cell is like a mini version of you. Dr. Paula A. Johnson, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, says that every cell has a sex – male or female.⁶ This sophistication cannot be the result of chaos, chance, and accident.  No, David had it right thousands of years ago; we are fearfully and wonderfully made!

Article by: Brett Hickey

 

Works Cited:

¹Wayne Jackson, Human Body: Accident or Design? 1993, 5.

²Ibid, 3.

³https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-are-the-organ-systems-of-the-human-body.html. Accessed 12/8/2017.

⁴Jackson, 6.

⁵https://www.msnucleus.org/membership/html/k-6/lc/humanbio/4/lchb4_3a.html. Accessed 12/8/2017.

⁶https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/01/05/every-cell-has-sex/lgnbRyR1FvVqA9ccbKM5iI/story.html. Accessed 12/22/2017.