And we’re looking at day five in the creation, Genesis 1:20 to 23…Genesis 1:20 to 23. The text says, “Then God said, ‘Let the waters team with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.’ And God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves with which the waters swarmed after their kind and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that it was good and God blessed them saying, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas and let birds multiply on the earth. And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.”
Now we are in day five, as the text indicates. We have day by day gone through creation week with some amazing, amazing insights given to us by the Word of God. One of the things that continues to strike me as I read more and more, and what happens in a series like this pretty typically is once I start a series, all of you out there who are trying to help me start sending me things…books, e-mail, faxes, stuff off the Internet until my library swells beyond comprehension. And I have been reading, trying to read as much as I can possibly read, and the more I read the more interested I become. And I just kind of have to unload some of it on you.
The thing that continues to strike me in my reading, because I really have never spent a large part of my life studying science. I took in college whatever was required, and not one ounce of science beyond that and managed to forget most all of what I learned. But I am now sort of reintroduced to the amazing diversity and complexity of the created order. Those are the two words that stick in my mind, the diversity and the complexity of the created order which speaks to me of the immensity of God’s intelligence. It is staggering how as you begin to look at the creation with any kind of thought, any kind of depth, you come face to face with the immensity of the intelligence and power of God. And it continues to amaze me as I read evolutionists who want to deny God and to see the utter folly of their conclusions, the utter hopelessness of it.
December 1996 brought the death of an evolutionist and astronomer by the name of Carl Sagan, probably the most well-known astronomer in the world. His perception was that life just sort of happened. And he ended up his life with absolute emptiness, absolute hopelessness. And near the end of his life he was interviewed by Ted Koppel on television. Koppel asked Sagan, realizing he was at the end of his life, that he had spent his life in science studying the universe as an astronomer, he said, “Do you, sir, have any words of wisdom for the people of the world?”
To which Sagan replied, and I quote, “We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a hum-drum star that is one of 400-plus billion other stars that make up the Milky Way galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a large number, perhaps an infinite number of other universes. That is well worth pondering,” end quote.
He thought about it and he thought about it and he thought about it and he never let God be a reality. In the end, the most brilliant evolutionist only knows that the universe exists. He doesn’t know how, he doesn’t know why, and mostly he doesn’t know who the creator is. How sad. Everything in the universe points to God the creator. Even Albert Einstein said, “Of course there is a massive intelligence behind the universe, a man is a fool who doesn’t believe that.” And then went on to say, “But we could never know Him.” The humanistic evolutionist refuses to see what is obvious, refuses to meet the God who wants to be known.
Back to the created order itself, again the complexity and diversity leave you with no other possible explanation than divine intelligence and divine power of proportions beyond our comprehension. I just pick out little pieces of the created order that speak to this complexity and diversity and share a few of them with you.
Some birds navigate by the stars when migrating. How do they know how to do that? In fact, birds raised from eggs inside a building where they have never seen the sky can orient themselves toward home when shown an artificial sky representing a place they’ve never been.
Moths have two ears. Mites, little microscopic bugs, like to live in a moth’s ear. But interestingly enough, mites occupy only one ear of a moth. If mites get in both ears, the moth can’t fly, so scientists find mites only in one ear. How do the mites know that one ear is occupied?
And then the fascinating bombardier beetle has two chemicals in his little body which mix perfectly and at the right moment combine outside his body when they’re fired and they intersect, they explode in the face of the enemy. That’s why they’re called bombardier beetles. However, the two chemicals that create an explosion outside the body never combine prematurely to blow up the beetle. And by the way, how did the beetle evolve those explosives and keep them separate?
The University of Alberta Canada once showed that in that temperate climate there are an average of 18 hundred storms in operation at any time. And that those 18 hundred storms in operation at any time expend energy at the inconceivable figure of one billion, three hundred million horsepower. Where does that come from?
A Canadian physicist said a rain of four inches over an area of ten thousand square miles would require the burning of 640 million tons of coal to evaporate enough water for such a rain an to cool again the vapors and collect them in clouds would take another 800 million horsepower of refrigeration working 24-hours a day for a hundred days. And yet God by the massive power of the sun evaporates the water, refrigerates it in the sky, sends it back down again as water.
By the way, the average farmer in Minnesota is provided free of charge 407 thousand, 510 gallons of water per acre per year by that process if the annual rainfall of 24 inches is occurring. Where does all this power come from?
The U.S. Natural Museum says there are over 10 million different species of insects. There are twenty-five hundred kinds of ants. I know, they were all at your last picnic. One colony of ants can have as many as a hundred million ants. How do those little tiny things have such a reproductive system?
Some have estimated there are five billion birds in America. Mallards can fly 60 miles an hour, eagles can fly 100 miles an hour and falcons can dive at 180 miles an hour.
By the way, cod fish, not that you need to know, can lay nine million eggs, and herring only 70 thousand. I don’t have any other comment. Just that is enough to stagger me…nine million eggs, nine million little cod fish, that’s why there’s so many fish and chip places in England. They never run out of that stuff.
The earth is 25 thousand miles in circumference. It weighs six septillion, five-hundred and eighty-six, six trillion tons. Hangs in empty space. Spins at a thousand miles an hour with perfect balance and that’s important so that you’re not just jumping every time the earth moves. At the same time that it’s spinning at a thousand miles an hour, it is moving through space around the sun at a thousand miles a minute in an orbit of 580 million miles and does so at a perfect angle set to create the seasons which provide all the crops, which feed its inhabitants.
“This article originally appeared here at Bible Bulletin Board.”
