Today is Friday, December 28th, 2007; Karen's Korner #1218
Among other Christmas gifts, my mom gave many of us a little book titled, "If there is no God...." by Mark Winter.
Here are a couple of the scenarios Winter proposes:
If there is no God,
who programmed the most marvelous computer of all?
What if you could own a three-pound computer that contained
a hundred trillion bits of information--the equivalent of
twenty million books?
You already do--it's your brain!
"I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom."
-- Ecclesiastes 2:12
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If there is no God,
who crammed all the data into DNA?
DNA is the stuff of genes, which determines
everything from your hair color to height,
to resistence to certain diseases.
If the coded DNA instructions within one of your cells could be printed,
the information would fill a thousand encyclopedia-sized books.
"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know full well."
-- Psalm 139:14
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If there is no God,
how do we explain that a machine requires a maker,
but the universe does not?
A typical wind-up alarm clock contains about a dozen moving parts.
No one disputes that a skilled worker put it together.
Yet some people argue that the world does not require an intelligent maker -
the world that contains more than 9,000 species of birds,
70,000 kinds of trees, and 750,000 types of insects.
"For by him all things were created:
things in heaven and on earth,
invisible and invisible, whether thrones or
powers or rulers or authorities;
all things were created by him and for him.
-- Colossians 1:16
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If there is no God,
why have people seen angels?
Missionary John G. Paton and his wife prayed when a hostile tribe
surrounded their home one night. At dawn, the tribe suddenly turned
and ran. A year later, the converted chief reported that hundreds of men were
standing guard at the house--huge men in radiant garments with
drawn swords.
"Do you think I cannot call on my Father,
and he will at once put at my disposal
more than twelve legions of angels?"
-- Matthew 26:53
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