THE INCREDIBLY SENSITIVE EYE
Job 19:25-27
"For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me."
The human eye is so incredibly sensitive that it can actually detect a single particle of light - a photon.
The truth is, the human eye is so sensitive that were it not for special features inside the eye that process the billions of pieces of information coming into the eye every split second, we would be overwhelmed. While the eye can detect even one photon of light, it will not pass an image on to your brain until at least six photons strike in the same area of the eye. If this weren't the case, on a dark night we would see nothing but static, since less than six photons could not be focused into an image and would appear to us as just static.
This special provision makes one wonder if the eye was not designed by an all wise Creator. After all, how could mindless chance and mutations know about the basic laws of physics that control light's behavior? The range of the eye's sensitivity is also a million times greater than our modern photographic films, providing us with a dynamic range of 10 billion to one. While the greatest sensitivity is needed on dark nights, an internal control in the eye reduces that sensitivity for bright daylight.
Science doesn't rule out God at all! Our knowledge of the eye's working demands the conclusion that we are the creation of a wise and powerful God!
Dear Father, while I am thankful for and amazed at all of the senses and abilities which You have given me, I am even more filled with wonder that this body shall be raised in resurrection, free from all imperfection, to live forever with You. I thank You for Your grace in Christ Jesus. Amen.
Photo: Photons emitted from a laser.
Job 19:25-27
"For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me."
The human eye is so incredibly sensitive that it can actually detect a single particle of light - a photon.
The truth is, the human eye is so sensitive that were it not for special features inside the eye that process the billions of pieces of information coming into the eye every split second, we would be overwhelmed. While the eye can detect even one photon of light, it will not pass an image on to your brain until at least six photons strike in the same area of the eye. If this weren't the case, on a dark night we would see nothing but static, since less than six photons could not be focused into an image and would appear to us as just static.
This special provision makes one wonder if the eye was not designed by an all wise Creator. After all, how could mindless chance and mutations know about the basic laws of physics that control light's behavior? The range of the eye's sensitivity is also a million times greater than our modern photographic films, providing us with a dynamic range of 10 billion to one. While the greatest sensitivity is needed on dark nights, an internal control in the eye reduces that sensitivity for bright daylight.
Science doesn't rule out God at all! Our knowledge of the eye's working demands the conclusion that we are the creation of a wise and powerful God!
Dear Father, while I am thankful for and amazed at all of the senses and abilities which You have given me, I am even more filled with wonder that this body shall be raised in resurrection, free from all imperfection, to live forever with You. I thank You for Your grace in Christ Jesus. Amen.
Photo: Photons emitted from a laser.
MICRO MARVELS OF THE HUMAN EYE
Matthew 11:4-5
"Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them."
The tiny computer chip - the basis of modern computers - is a thin wafer of silicon only about 7 millimeters across - about one fourth of an inch. This tiny chip might have the equivalent of 100,000 transistors built into it. Despite its size, hundreds of connections might be attached to it. The design of the computer chip is a marvel surpassed only by the amazing technology that can build it.
If you were to find a silicon chip laying in the silicon sand at the beach (which would be quite an accomplishment because they are so small!), you would never be able to convince even one engineer that the chip had formed through the chance movements of all that silicon based sand!
Now consider the human eye. The retina at the back of the eye is a very thin membrane, much thinner than even the clingiest food wrap. This retina contains not transistors but much more sophisticated photo receptors, each of which is a high gain amplifier. The retina doesn't have 100,000 of these, but rather it has 200,000 for each square millimeter of retina!
But the greatest wonder of all is how any scientist can say that your miraculous eye is the result of unguided genetic mistakes that, just by chance, resulted in the eye. Indeed, God's fingerprints are all over the creation, just as our human work is seen in the computer chip. How can one who can design only the computer chip dare question the One who can design the eye - and so much more?!
Heavenly Father, just as man's most creative technology is nothing compared with what You have made, so must I rely entirely on what Your Son, Jesus Christ, has done for me so that I may have the forgiveness of sins. Thank You. In His Name. Amen.
Photo: The blood vessels in a normal human retina. Courtesy of Mikael Häggström.
Matthew 11:4-5
"Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them."
The tiny computer chip - the basis of modern computers - is a thin wafer of silicon only about 7 millimeters across - about one fourth of an inch. This tiny chip might have the equivalent of 100,000 transistors built into it. Despite its size, hundreds of connections might be attached to it. The design of the computer chip is a marvel surpassed only by the amazing technology that can build it.
If you were to find a silicon chip laying in the silicon sand at the beach (which would be quite an accomplishment because they are so small!), you would never be able to convince even one engineer that the chip had formed through the chance movements of all that silicon based sand!
Now consider the human eye. The retina at the back of the eye is a very thin membrane, much thinner than even the clingiest food wrap. This retina contains not transistors but much more sophisticated photo receptors, each of which is a high gain amplifier. The retina doesn't have 100,000 of these, but rather it has 200,000 for each square millimeter of retina!
But the greatest wonder of all is how any scientist can say that your miraculous eye is the result of unguided genetic mistakes that, just by chance, resulted in the eye. Indeed, God's fingerprints are all over the creation, just as our human work is seen in the computer chip. How can one who can design only the computer chip dare question the One who can design the eye - and so much more?!
Heavenly Father, just as man's most creative technology is nothing compared with what You have made, so must I rely entirely on what Your Son, Jesus Christ, has done for me so that I may have the forgiveness of sins. Thank You. In His Name. Amen.
Photo: The blood vessels in a normal human retina. Courtesy of Mikael Häggström.
THE FAITH OF THE EVOLUTIONIST
Hebrews 11:3
"Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear."
Many people think that faith is strictly a religious matter and concerns unprovable issues such as angels, heaven and, of course, belief in the creation story. They further feel that belief in evolution is more reasonable, since it is based upon hard and proven facts. But is this true?
Faith is what we add to the evidences we have in order to provide our worldview. The less evidence there is, the more faith we need. Evolutionary scientists often admit that they, too, interpret the world in the context of their faith. Their faith is that everything and everyone got here by means of evolution.
Prof. L. H. Matthews, a well respected evolutionist, was honored by being asked to write a new introduction for the 1971 edition of Darwin's Origin of Species. In his introduction - speaking of evolution - he admitted, "Most biologists accept it as though it were a proven fact.. Although this conviction rests upon circumstantial evidence, it forms a satisfactory faith on which to base our interpretation of nature."
You see, this is nothing more than what Bible believing Christians do when they understand the world in the context of their faith. As Christians, we should not be intimidated into thinking that the faith of the evolutionist is somehow superior to ours for understanding the world!
Lord, the devil is not called the "Accuser" for nothing. He even tries to make the faith You have given me into a sin! Rather than being intimidated because I believe Your Word, I ask that You would give me a bold faith which does not shrink from speaking Your truth in love. Amen.
Photo: Title page of 1859 edition of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life."
Hebrews 11:3
"Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear."
Many people think that faith is strictly a religious matter and concerns unprovable issues such as angels, heaven and, of course, belief in the creation story. They further feel that belief in evolution is more reasonable, since it is based upon hard and proven facts. But is this true?
Faith is what we add to the evidences we have in order to provide our worldview. The less evidence there is, the more faith we need. Evolutionary scientists often admit that they, too, interpret the world in the context of their faith. Their faith is that everything and everyone got here by means of evolution.
Prof. L. H. Matthews, a well respected evolutionist, was honored by being asked to write a new introduction for the 1971 edition of Darwin's Origin of Species. In his introduction - speaking of evolution - he admitted, "Most biologists accept it as though it were a proven fact.. Although this conviction rests upon circumstantial evidence, it forms a satisfactory faith on which to base our interpretation of nature."
You see, this is nothing more than what Bible believing Christians do when they understand the world in the context of their faith. As Christians, we should not be intimidated into thinking that the faith of the evolutionist is somehow superior to ours for understanding the world!
Lord, the devil is not called the "Accuser" for nothing. He even tries to make the faith You have given me into a sin! Rather than being intimidated because I believe Your Word, I ask that You would give me a bold faith which does not shrink from speaking Your truth in love. Amen.
Photo: Title page of 1859 edition of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life."
WHAT IS FAITH?
Hebrews 11:1
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
What is faith? Is faith something we believe despite the facts, as many would tell us? Is faith a blind leap into the dark?
Hebrews 11:1 says, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Our Christian faith is not a blind leap into the dark. God has given us minds, and He honors that gift by giving us reason to believe that Jesus Christ is the promised Savior. Consider: God gave us hundreds of prophecies about this Savior, saw to it that each one was fulfilled in the life of Christ, and then made sure that people actually saw that the prophecies were fulfilled. That is indeed powerful evidence - more than reasonable cause for us to believe his Word.
Our argument from Old Testament prophecy also shows that God does not expect faith to be a belief in something despite the facts. The world that the Bible talks about - the one God made as recorded in Scripture and the one science studies - is the real, material world in which we live. Because we know that the Word of God is true, we have every right to expect the facts about this world as related in Scripture to agree with facts established by experience.
Faith, as the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen, is better grounded in God's Word and the world we know than is the so called science of evolution - which is truly a faith in things unseen.
Dear Father in heaven; I thank You that Your Word, the Bible, is true and trustworthy. Help me to use the Bible in a way that reflects its true importance and teach me as I study. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Hebrews 11:1
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
What is faith? Is faith something we believe despite the facts, as many would tell us? Is faith a blind leap into the dark?
Hebrews 11:1 says, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Our Christian faith is not a blind leap into the dark. God has given us minds, and He honors that gift by giving us reason to believe that Jesus Christ is the promised Savior. Consider: God gave us hundreds of prophecies about this Savior, saw to it that each one was fulfilled in the life of Christ, and then made sure that people actually saw that the prophecies were fulfilled. That is indeed powerful evidence - more than reasonable cause for us to believe his Word.
Our argument from Old Testament prophecy also shows that God does not expect faith to be a belief in something despite the facts. The world that the Bible talks about - the one God made as recorded in Scripture and the one science studies - is the real, material world in which we live. Because we know that the Word of God is true, we have every right to expect the facts about this world as related in Scripture to agree with facts established by experience.
Faith, as the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen, is better grounded in God's Word and the world we know than is the so called science of evolution - which is truly a faith in things unseen.
Dear Father in heaven; I thank You that Your Word, the Bible, is true and trustworthy. Help me to use the Bible in a way that reflects its true importance and teach me as I study. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
HAVE EVOLUTIONISTS FOUND A BAD DESIGN IN THE EYE?
Genesis 1:31
"And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."
Evolutionists, trying to answer creationist arguments, have suggested that there is an "error" in the design of the eye that any wise Creator would not have made. That "error" in design, as evolutionists call it, is that the retina of the mammal's eye is "inside out" - the light entering the eye passes through other eye tissue before hitting the photoreceptors. But is this really an error in design?
Dr. Joseph Calkins, a professor at Johns Hopkins University and a creationist, points out that the photoreceptors in mammal's eyes need the extra tissue. It provides nutrients to the retina. This is crucial, because the eye's receptors have a very fast rate of metabolism - they live out their entire lives in only about seven days!
If you have ever looked at the sun and then experienced an after image, you have probably burned out some of your photoreceptors. However, because your photoreceptors have such a fast rate of metabolism and they receive those extra nutrients from the eye tissue, the damaged receptors are all replaced within a few days! Besides, as Dr. Calkins points out, the tissues that lie between the light source and your retina are packed in so tightly that they are separated by less than the wave length of light, making them completely transparent!
It seems that the evolutionists' claim that the eye is poorly designed - and thus a product of chance rather than a Creator - was based on their ignorance of how the eye needs to work. Again, the evolutionary argument falls in the light of scientific knowledge, and once more we see the witness to our Creator!
Dear Lord, in order to avoid his own guilt, man would rather fault You, even claiming at the same time that You don't exist! I thank You that You have given me faith in Your love and forgiveness for me. I ask that my trust will always be in You and never in myself. Amen.
Photo: Courtesy of Petr Novák. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.
Genesis 1:31
"And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."
Evolutionists, trying to answer creationist arguments, have suggested that there is an "error" in the design of the eye that any wise Creator would not have made. That "error" in design, as evolutionists call it, is that the retina of the mammal's eye is "inside out" - the light entering the eye passes through other eye tissue before hitting the photoreceptors. But is this really an error in design?
Dr. Joseph Calkins, a professor at Johns Hopkins University and a creationist, points out that the photoreceptors in mammal's eyes need the extra tissue. It provides nutrients to the retina. This is crucial, because the eye's receptors have a very fast rate of metabolism - they live out their entire lives in only about seven days!
If you have ever looked at the sun and then experienced an after image, you have probably burned out some of your photoreceptors. However, because your photoreceptors have such a fast rate of metabolism and they receive those extra nutrients from the eye tissue, the damaged receptors are all replaced within a few days! Besides, as Dr. Calkins points out, the tissues that lie between the light source and your retina are packed in so tightly that they are separated by less than the wave length of light, making them completely transparent!
It seems that the evolutionists' claim that the eye is poorly designed - and thus a product of chance rather than a Creator - was based on their ignorance of how the eye needs to work. Again, the evolutionary argument falls in the light of scientific knowledge, and once more we see the witness to our Creator!
Dear Lord, in order to avoid his own guilt, man would rather fault You, even claiming at the same time that You don't exist! I thank You that You have given me faith in Your love and forgiveness for me. I ask that my trust will always be in You and never in myself. Amen.
Photo: Courtesy of Petr Novák. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.
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