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<\/p>\n\tText: Job 36:24-33<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nI. In outlining the sins of the people of the world, Paul noted that the Gentiles could be justly\ncharged with sin – Romans 1:18-23\n
A. No one has the excuse of not knowing that God exists.<\/p>\n B. He and even His nature can be seen in the things God has made, leaving all without\nany excuse.\n C. Over the years I’ve been collecting examples of the handiwork of God, which I\nwould like to share a few with you\n
II. Why incremental change doesn’t work<\/p>\n A. Have you played a word game where you start with a word and can make only one\nchange: you can alter one letter, add a letter or remove a letter. The resulting word\nmust still be a word.\n B. Basically evolution says that is the rule under which life as we know it developed.\nOne small change, an addition, or a subtraction, one at a time where each resulting\nsystem remains functioning life.\n 1. But they add an additional rule, the change must result in an improvement\nthat makes the life form more survivable than the prior form.\n 2. What people are finally recognizing is that this one change at a time\nmethod cannot explain life as we know it.\n 3. There are far too many complex designs in the world which contain\ninterdependent systems. All parts must be in place in order for the system\nto function.\n
a. Scientist refer to these system as irreducible complexities<\/p>\n C. You can’t even avoid these complexities by saying the system developed on the\nside.\n
1. If it isn’t functioning, then it can’t be selected as an improvement.<\/p>\n 2. What would drive hundreds of independent, unneeded parts to start\nfunctioning together?\n
D. By the way, this is where scientist for decades talked about vestigial organs<\/p>\n 1. There was a long list in the human body for a while. You know how many\nare left? ZERO!\n
2. It took a while, but we found reasons for every organ’s existence.<\/p>\n 3. The reason they were labeled vestigial was simply because the human body\nwas able to compensate when these organs were absent or not functioning.\nBut being able to function did imply it was the ideal state.\n
4. So now the fad is to look for “junk” DNA<\/p>\n 5. Notice that these evidences are based on lack of information, not actual\nknowledge.\n
III. Evidence from Biology<\/p>\n
A. Let’s take a look at your kidneys<\/p>\n 1. This organ is extremely complex, yet is so reliable that a human can survive\nwith a single kidney operating at a fraction of its capacity.\n
2. Its primary function is to filter impurities and toxins from our blood<\/p>\n
a. Each kidney has three layers, the cortex, medulla, and the pelvis<\/p>\n b. Blood flows into the cortex and medulla through the renal artery,\nwhich then branches into smaller vessels which then connects to a\nblood filtration unity called a nephron.\n c. Two normal kidneys have about two million nephrons, making up\nabout 60 miles of filtration surface if combined, which purify all the\nbody’s blood approximately every 50 minutes.\n d. That means it is handling about 400 gallons of blood each day. And\nafter being purified about 99% of the blood’s fluid is recycled back\ninto the body.\n 3. Many engineers, spending countless hours have worked to design an\nartificial kidney. We marvel at their feat of engineering, but we can’t see\nthe engineering God has placed into two fist size organs in our body?\n
4. Psalm 139:14-16<\/p>\n 5. Oh, and while it is filtering the blood, the kidneys also regulates the pH\nbalance of your blood, your blood pressure, and your blood plasma\nvolume. And it communicates with other organs in the body through\nhormones.\n
B. How about your eyes?<\/p>\n 1. It would take thousands of changes to genes in the proper order to cause a\nsightless creature to develop a crude light-sensitive patch. It would take\ncountless more changes to turn that light-sensitive patch into a fluid-filled\neyeball.\n 2. An eye that is not fully developed does not provide sight, so any mutation\nthat doesn’t provide some advantage would be eliminated by natural\nselection.\n
3. So how did the eye develop?<\/p>\n 4. There is no living evidence or fossil evidence in animals showing a gradual\ndevelopment of an eye.\n
a. Every known creature has a fully developed compound eye, a fluid-filled eyeball, or a light-gathering spot.<\/p>\n b. No one has been able to describe a sequence of step-by-step\nchanges to get from one to the other\n
5. Let’s just consider the lens of your eye. It is a marvel of chemistry<\/p>\n a. It contains a very high concentration of protein molecules in a\ntransparent water solution.\n (1) Did you know that protein molecules in a water solution are\nnot transparent, but opaque? (Think milk)\n (2) For example, here is a slide of keratin, the protein that make\nmakes up your hair and fingernails in a water solution\n
b. But eyes need the lens to be transparent to let light through<\/p>\n (1) After much research, scientists learn that the concentration\nof protein molecules are so high that the proteins pack\ntogether like the molecules of window glass.\n
(2) What is normally opaque suddenly becomes transparent.<\/p>\n c. So how many yeas was an evolving creature stumbling around blind\nbefore “random” mutations happened upon the perfect\nconcentration to pack protein in just the right way to make the lens\nof the eye transparent?\n (1) Shouldn’t natural selection make the creature with the \nnon-working lens extinct before it could randomly hit upon a functioning lens?\n 6. Here is another little fact, if you cut your skin, the cut heals from the\nbottom up and as a result scar tissue forms.\n a. But not the eye! When the cornea is scratched the cells of the\nseparated walls move toward each other and close the scratch,\ntherefore no scar tissue forms.\n b. If scar tissue formed every time we scratched our corneas, we\nwould be looking through a jumble of cloudy lines by the time we\nreached middle age.\n
7. Psalms 111:1-4<\/p>\n
C. The Unusual<\/p>\n 1. There is a rare Australian aquatic frog which has an unusual method of\nraising young. After the eggs are laid and fertilized, the female swallows\nthem.\n
a. Once swallowed, the mother stops eating for the next 8 weeks.<\/p>\n
b. After 8 weeks, fully developed little frogs come out of her mouth!<\/p>\n 2. Other animals, including most frogs can’t do this because the stomach acids\nwould destroy the young.\n 3. But these gastric brooding frogs can because the young release special\nchemicals which prevent the mother’s stomach from making digestive\nacids, so the newly fertilized eggs actually change their mother’s stomach\nfrom a digestive organ into a nursery.\n 4. So how did the first baby frog learn to turn off their mother’s digestion?\nAnd how did mom learn to survive eight weeks without eating?\n
5. Psalm 104:24-28<\/p>\n
D. The Common<\/p>\n
1. Ever wonder how those thin leaves on trees manage to survive high winds?<\/p>\n
2. Sure, many leaves get torn down, but look how many stay up. <\/p>\n 3. There are small grooves on the stems of leaves. These groves give the leaf\nstiffness in the up and down direction, so a leaf can face the sun, but allows\nrolling and twisting in other directions.\n 4. It is this flexibility that reduces drag and in particular in high wind a leaf\nwill curl into a cone and groups of leaves will curl into a cone shape that\nhas minimal drag\n
5. Proverbs 3:19-20<\/p>\n
IV. The number of examples is endless<\/p>\n A. The point is not only is there ample proof that there is a designer, but that God is\nmeticulous in His care and in the details\n
B. Psalm 144:1-4 – Man is so feeble, yet God took care of the details and still cares<\/p>\n
C. He watches and tends – Isaiah 40:10-18<\/p>\n
D. Yet He does not wishes any to perish – II Peter 3:9<\/p>\n
E. That is the God nature in part reveals<\/p>\n\t
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