FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE

By (Unknown, from Evidence Bible compiled by Ray Comfort)

Do you realize that you sneeze at 120 miles per hour? Did you also know that every time you sneeze, you have been programmed to close your eyes (wouldn’t want them to pop out of your head)? Where does your hair grow from? How can the thin layer of skin on your head send out a special hair? It has been formulated in your genes to send out a certain type of hair for the head, hair different from that which grows on the arm, or on the eyelids or the eyebrows. Imagine if you had eyebrows or eyelashes that grew to the length of the hair on your head. Think of the fine row of hair that makes up the eyelash or of the way the hairs face the same direction on the eyebrow.

Have you ever studied the ordinary garden snail and wondered how its shell is able to grow in proportion to its body? When it is a baby snail, it has a baby shell. As it doubles in size, it doesn’t discard it. The hard shell also doubles in size. Do you credit the snail with having a mind brilliant enough to make its own shell?

How does a grubby little caterpillar get rid of all its legs while inside a cocoon, grow two fresh ones, then form itself into a beautiful butterfly? Perhaps you could mumble “evolution,” and believe that it could happen if millions of years were involved. But all this happens in a few weeks.

Do you give a baby credit for having the ability to grow its own teeth? How did you grow both sets of yours? If you ever decide to get false teeth, will you have them made, or will you wait for “chance” to make a pair for you? Look at your fingernails. Where did they grow from? What makes up their substance? Look at how your hands hold a book. Notice how the fingers cradle it while the thumb holds the pages. One thumb comes from the right side, the other from the left. Both thumbs bend forward. If they bent the other way, you couldn’t hold the book. Hands have been designed for the purpose of holding.

How is it that your lungs keep breathing irrespective of your will? You have been doing it without a second thought while you have been looking at your thumbs. In fact, becoming conscious of it can hinder the process. Lungs seem to work best without any conscious thought from the mind. How does your subconscience mind continually feed you with thoughts, even when you sleep? Listen to it talk to you and keep you company. It never stops. Try and stop it yourself. Stop reading this and try to think of nothing for five minutes. Bet you can’t. Your subconscious mind has been set in motion, and it has little to do with your will.

Think of the complexities of the human mind. It is feeding your understanding with knowledge right now by translating the shapes on these pages, speaking them to your mind, and automatically filing them in your memory bank.

Right at this moment, your liver, kidneys, heart, pancreas, salivary glands, etc., are all working to keep your body going. You don’t even have the power to switch them off and on. During your sleep tonight, your heart will pump seventy-five gallons of blood through your body each hour.

Contrary to common belief, your lungs are more than just bags into which you breathe smoke. They are designed to filter oxygen out of the air you breathe. These organs contain 300,000,000,000 tiny blood vessels called capillaries. Your entire blood supply washes through your lungs once every minute. In your lifetime, the marrow in your bones will create approximately half a ton of red corpuscles.

You have focusing muscles in your eyes that move an estimated 100,000 times each day. That same eye has within it a retina that covers less than a square inch and contains 137,000,000 light-sensitive cells. Even a wide-eyed Charles Darwin said, “To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.”

Your brain contains 10,000,000,000 neurons, microscopic nerve cells. Your stomach, which produces four pints of gastric juice each day, has 35,000,000 glands lining it. Next time you eat a delicious meal, be thankful to God for the 8,000 taste bugs that were put into your mouth. Imagine how boring eating would be without them.

George Gallup, the famous statistician, said, “I could prove God statistically; take the human body alone, the chance that all the functions of the individual would just happen, is a statistical monstrosity.”

Was it an accident that your ears were designed to capture sound? The grooves, bumps and ridges are made to catch passing sound waves and channel them into the eardrum. Again, your hands were made to grip and feel. The tongue was made to taste food and to shape speech. The nose was made to smell. What if your ears faced backwards or your nose was upside down (what a nightmare in a rainstorm), or your mouth had two tongues (splitting the tongue down the middle doesn’t count)? I am serious. If humanity just happened (with no purposeful design), why don’t we see such creatures? In fact, we see the very opposite. From the teeth of a dog to the legs of a grasshopper, one can see practical design in everything that has been made.

Now, if the incredibly brilliant, creative “force” made all things, then it is not only infinitely more intelligent than man whom it made, but it is surely familiar with what it has made. Not only did it create every one of the 100,000 hairs on the average non-bald human head, but it is also familiar with each individual hair. If the force can make the eye, it is not blind itself (see Psalm 94:8-9).

Creation reflects the genius of the Creator’s hand. Let’s look at a common cow. Someone once said, “How is it that a brown cow eats green grass which turns into white milk, then yellow butter, which is eaten by a man who grows red hair and blue eyes?” Think of how grass-cuttings become milk, cheese, and butter…all from a little stirring and churning. Imagine if you were able to invent a machine that could turn your grass into milk. Yet the cow does just that. Tell me how she does it. If it is so simple, make your millions by inventing a machine that turns grass into milk. Call it a “Lawn-Mooer.” The cow does it with little effort. Is she wiser than you?

Explain to me how a sparrow knows he is a sparrow and stays with other sparrows or how a baby knows how to look into the eyes of its mother when no one has taught it to do so. Tell me how strawberries can grow next to garlic, and yet both derive their own unique tastes from the same soil and water. How was a wasp made to that its wings flap at 100 times every second or the housefly at 190 per second or the mosquito at an amazing 500 times a second (not to mention the hummingbird which clocks in at about 20,000 times a second).

The most godless must be humbled by a sense of awe and wonder when standing beneath the mighty power of Niagara Falls or as he gazes into the Grand Canyon or stares into the infinity of space. How much more should we be humbled by the maker of these things?