"Sir Isaac Newton was
in his office one day when he received a knock at his door. He opened it to find a good friend of the
scientific community who happened to be on the opposite side of the beginning
of the universe controversy. As he
entered the room, his eyes were drawn to a large table on which sat a scale
model of the universe. It was
exquisitely detailed -- painted even down to the circles on Saturn. It was mechanical -- a handle caused the
planets to rotate around the sun. This
moving replica was an amazing sight.
“My, what a wonderful thing this is!” he exclaimed. “This is the most extraordinary thing I have
seen! What genius put this together? I
should really like to shake his hand.”
Sir Newton replied, “No one made it.”
His friend retorted, “You must think I am a fool...Some very wise and
talented person made this.” Newton’s
reply is still a wise answer to the current controversy. “This thing is but a puny imitation of a much
greater system whose laws you and I know, and I am not able to convince you
that this mere toy is without a designer and a maker. Yet you profess to believe that the great
original from which the design is taken has come into being with either
designer or maker. Now tell me, by what
sort of reasoning do you reach such incongruous conclusions.”"*
Design demands a
designer. We take that as a given in
everyday life. When we see a beautiful
new home, we never question that some intelligent and resourceful person or
group of people designed and built it.
But for some, that common sense response is jettisoned when it comes to
the Designer of the universe. Why is
that, I wonder? Could it have something
to do with the fact that this Designer makes some claims upon our lives to
which many are unwilling to submit?
Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
God loves you!
Mike
*Mike Johnson, in The Truth: God
or Evolution, Marshall/Sandra Hall, Baker Book House
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