Wednesday, April 9, 2008

evolution? how should i know?

so get this: i am in hawaii on the beach and all i can think about is how to refute evolution. what is my problem? but here’s why - tiny shells. yeah, that’s what i am thinking about. shells smaller than my fingernail. but here’s the thing: i was looking at the tiny shells and they all are so amazingly designed. they are covered with ridges, spirals, and bumps and are all colored uniquely and brightly. each spiral fit perfectly into a pointy little tip; each bump was colored differently than the shell. everything about them screamed "I WAS DESIGNED!" there’s no way millions of year could ever create anything so intricate. especially something so precise and tiny. did this one little cell grow and twist into a perfect spiral like evolutionists believe. or did all the shells grow into the perfect shape to house the tiny organism without the aid of a creator. even the intricate animal that used to inhabit this house refutes the theory that it just happened on its own. intelligent design. i am not saying God made everything and i can find that out just from this little shell. i am saying there has to have been some type of designer - a creator - an illustrator. the same illustrator who paints the sky beautiful colors every night. the same creator who shaped the magnificent landscape i am surrounded by. the same designer who made the brightest and most brilliant fish i have ever seen. how can people deny a creator? unintelligence cannot create something aesthetically appealing. unintelligence cannot create life. life cannot come from non-life. it just doesn’t make sense to me. if it doesn’t make sense for a tiny little shell to have been created by evolutionary processes, how am i supposed to accept that everything in the entire universe came from it. it doesn’t sit right with me. here’s the other thing, if you do believe that all of this came from God or a Designer, think of how powerful he is. it would take me hours to mold anything into the shape of some of the shells i saw. and to be able to perfectly shape shells so small i can barely see them would be impossible for me. but He did it perfectly and flawlessly, but that’s not the most amazing part. the most amazing part is that he created it with his mouth. he spoke and there it was. that little shell was created by God in less than a second. he spoke, it appeared. and it appeared perfect and beautiful. but not only did that one shell appeared, but every shell on every beach everywhere in the world. in the little space in front of my mat i found at least 200 tiny little shells. those shells covered the entire beach. can you imagine the millions and millions of shells created by a couple words from the mouth of God. the mouth of a God Almighty. he spoke millions of shells into existence within seconds. he created all that we will ever see, experience or know without even lifting a finger. this entire world and everything in it was nothing for Him. he created it without any work. it was like nothing for him to construct a universe. and as i hold that little shell in my hand, i have to realize that the God who created every single thing around me still knows me. still cares about me. could kill with just a single thought, yet he doesn’t. i deserve to be killed, i don’t deserve a single breath in this perfect creation he has made, and yet he lets me enjoy it, take it all in. why? because he loves me. that’s why. because he loves his creation. he loved the little animal who used to inhabit this shell and specially created this animal to fit into this shell. i am so small compared to Him. i am miniscule. anything i could ever do would not even compare to what God can do. so to Him i say thanks. thanks for giving me a chance. thanks for specially creating me. thanks for the world he has given me to look at and stand in awe of. He is mighty. i am nothing. this little shell, no longer filled with life, shouts out to the world "GOD IS HUGE AND MADE EVERYTHING AROUND YOU!" all we have to do i stop and be quiet anough to listen to it.

Psalm 46:10a - "be still and know that I am God"

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