Look down your street. Gaze through your reflection silhouetted on your car window. Pause a moment at the traffic light. Consider the screen you see right now. You see homes, cars, offices and pixels. Never once do you question that someone built these things. The evidence is before our eyes. We see intelligence, and occasionally folly in the designs of all the stuff that surrounds us.

We can come to similar conclusions by observing the amazing design of God's creation that surrounds us. In theology this evidence of God's presence in creation is called the "teleological argument", or the argument from design.

I was reading a Discovery article about electric eels the other day. Scientists have been studying how the "Natural electric eel cells generate and release electric pulses of more than 500 volts." They are using virtual reality simulations to try and mimic and improve upon the organic battery in the eel. That is so cool!

This is just a sliver of the amazing creation around us. It is amazing the eel has this ability. It is amazing that people have this ability to study and build tools to study this process. And personally I find it amazing that anyone can doubt the design behind the eel or the brain of the human studying the eel. Scripture tells us the same thing: Hebrews 3:4 - For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

In a very simple way the scripture makes the argument that where we see design and existence there must me a designer, a creator.

(Continued Tomorrow)

David B. Moore