Today’s Verse—Psalm 139:14
How you made me is amazing and wonderful. I praise you for
that. What you have done is wonderful. I know that very well.
Our bodies are totally amazing! Here are some cool findings from the Reader’s Digest Book of Facts and other sources . . .
• It’s possible for the human nose to recognize fifty thousand different scents.
• If all the blood vessels in your body were strung end to end, they would stretch around the world two and a half times.
• Bones are four times stronger than concrete.
• Nerve impulses from your brain to your arms and legs travel at 170 miles per hour.
Can you believe that some people actually think that the human body has no Creator? That it just “happened”? That the human body somehow formed on its own from random cells moving around? How could anyone look at how incredible the human body is and not be amazed by the One who obviously created it?
Others believe that the natural world happened all by itself. That there are scientific explanations for everything, and that there is no room for God in the equation.
Scientist and famous atheist Richard Dawkins once said, “Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.” That guy needs to stop talking, because he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Faith isn’t the absence of thought, and it’s not a cop-out! It is completely logical and reasonable to look at the world around you and believe that it had a Creator— that’s faith.
Just because you believe in God doesn’t mean you have to stop thinking or believing in science! There is a lot of scientific evidence that supports the existence of God.
Loquacious Learning with Eugene
Before I became a Christian, I admit to having difficulty combining the ideas of science and faith. Now I look back and I can’t even see how I could look at things any differently. It is estimated that there are one hundred thousand million stars in our universe. How can you deny the existence of a God big enough to create them all?
Perhaps the most famous scientist of all time, Albert Einstein, said, “I want to know how God created this world, I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know his thoughts, the rest are details.” If only all scientists were as smart as Einstein!
When you think about it, faith is kind of easy at times. It’s easy to look at the world and believe in the magnificent God who created all of it. The more you look at the world, the more you see God’s fingerprints all over the place.
Daily Challenge
Go on the Internet (with your parents’ permission) or visit the library to find information about the human body. Write down ten amazing facts and present them to your family. Thank God for being such an incredible Inventor.
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Exercising Faith Theme Memory Verse—Hebrews 11:1
Faith is being sure of what we hope for. It is being certain of what we do not see.