Glenn Christian Foundation Church

Omnipotent Design

I love eggs. Thanks to them, breakfast is my favorite meal of the day.

I get my eggs locally. More specifically, my backyard just beyond the clothesline, from a building right next to the horse pasture. Residing there, are two dozen hens my wife calls “ladies” working under the careful supervision of a very handsome rooster who doesn’t answer to the name of “Jay”.

“The incredible edible egg” is a famous slogan trademarked by the American Egg Board. Eggs are nutritious, convenient, versatile, and taste great. I think that’s impressive, but not incredible. Now I do believe eggs are incredible, mind you, but just not for those reasons.

What does make them incredible is this: its’ delicate shell contains all of the instructions and material needed to assemble a small creature of such amazing complexity, the human mind can scarcely comprehend. If warmed to 99.5 degrees (mother hen temperature) for exactly 21 days, a small but very lively chick will emerge complete with 2 eyes, beak, brain, claws, fuzzy feathers, and a double helping of cuteness. None of these parts are evident when I create a world class western omelet. In fact to me, it just looks like yellow goo.

Immediately upon hatching, they see, hear, breath, run, eat, tumble their un-hatched siblings around and chirp incessantly. Properly cared for, they will grow up to match an internal set of blue prints, and behave in accordance with a program written somewhere inside their tiny little brains. In short, they will look and act like chickens, regardless of whether they actually ever see another chicken during the course of their lives. Eventually, the females will produce more eggs, which everybody knows is a crucial ingredient to waffle batter.

Now I like to make things. Over the years, I’ve built things like clocks, barns, hand carts, and even an automatic horse waterer. I put together a bicycle once that said “some assembly required”. That meant that the box contained barely recognizable bicycle parts broken down into individual molecules. Any one of these projects exhibit overwhelming evidence of intelligent design, except for maybe the bicycle. But if that bicycle were found on another planet, it would be hailed by the scientific community as “proof of intelligent life” on that planet. Even the suggestion that it could exist without a maker would be ridiculous.

As innovative as a bicycle may be, its’ complexity is dwarfed by the incredible intricacy of the life producing egg. In all of mans accomplishments, we have never created anything that compares to the wonder of life. More incredible to me is that those who cite complexity as proof of creation refuse to believe that life itself has a Creator. It’s said that we are the end result of a cosmic accident, and the random shuffling of amino acids in a primordial soup that existed billions of years ago. Excuse me for being skeptical.

I do agree with them about one thing. Anything with such clear evidence of design and purpose must have a Creator. I embrace the Biblical account. The first chapter of Genesis tells us,

“And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and …..Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so: and God saw that it was good.” (Gen 1:21, 24, 25 KJV)

And then Genesis goes on,

“… God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” (Gen 1:27 KJV)

We are God’s crowning creation! David says regarding our construction that we are “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14 KJV). Jesus said that “the very hairs of your head are all numbered.” You are not here by accident. Romans 14:7 tells us,

“For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.” (KJV)

You have a Designer, and you have a purpose. The next time somebody suggest that your existence is a result of random chance, think of “the incredible edible egg™”. Remind them that even bicycles don’t happen by accident. Some assembly is required.

Stephen Sprague
May 2008