A reasonable explanation for the order all around us

Take the human heart, for example. This little wonder beats approximately 72 times per minute, 100,000 times per day and 22.5 billion times in a lifetime! It pumps five quarts of blood each minute, which works out to 75 gallons per hour! It contracts every second of every day throughout a lifetime, resting only 0.4 seconds between beats. And it weighs a mere 11 ounces The heart is compact, efficient and simply amazing!

Still skeptical? Take the human ear. Sound waves enter the ear, and are then amplified. They are then transmitted by vibration by bones and liquid, and then transformed again into electrical impulses on the way to the brain, which enables countless responses, such as the way we react to music. There are explanations as to what all happens, but they don't explain the sheer mystery of how mere sound waves can bring us to tears or make us jump for joy.

It truly boggles the brain, which, by the way, is another organ I wish I had room to discuss. It is truly amazing how much is stored in our brains, and how much it enables us to do. I also wish I had room to discuss the fact that we produce these things not in some super-technological lab, but in our own bodies.

I don't know how likely it is that some gases were arranged so that certain things formed together in such a cohesive way, but the odds have to be astronomically against any such occurrence. Of course, by mathematics there is always that one infinitesimal chance that it could happen.

Many people stake their beliefs on that chance. Not only against all odds, but against the laws of nature. This is a familiar argument, but I'll state it again: The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy -- that is, the disorder -- of an isolated system can never decrease. That means the disorder or chaos of a system will always increase. Nature tends toward disorder.

Hmm, this doesn't seem consistent with what we've always been told about our bodies evolving into such complicated, efficient systems, does it?

It makes it hard to believe that as one-celled organisms we evolved into what we are, instead of merely dissolving back into the primordial slime. Well, there's always that chance . . .

Pinning our hopes on that random probability is a tough bet to make, at the very least. There is a design to this universe. Einstein called it "the Reason that manifests itself in nature."

Let's give this "Reason" a better name. How about "Creator God?" That's who we've been talking about anyway. In view of the infinite wisdom needed to create the world around us, it would be easy to be overwhelmed by it, and assume that any Divine Being who could do that would not be interested in making himself known to us. But that is not the case.

"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities -- his eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse" (Romans 1:20).

It is sheer folly to deny the existence of a Creator God in view of the evidence we have in and around us, especially when based on that one infinitesimal chance.

A Creator God could have made it so that we would be blind to his handiwork. But instead he has left us a world filled with the imprint of the Divine. In our bodies and in our universe, he has left us his calling card.

If you're wondering where God is and why you can't see him, just take another look around you. He has made himself known to us.

There's a lot more going on in our bodies and our universe than we're aware of. It has been put there so that we can acknowledge the mark of the maker.

A Creator God wouldn't have made it any other way.