The Christian Challenge (4)

Our study in science can show us what elements are in the composition of a plant. We can learn of the interaction of sunlight and chloroplasts; we can see the way a root takes up liquid by the process of osmosis and how water travels up through a plant against gravity by transpiration and cohesion. Other processes can show us what is going on scientifically when we study. We may be able to explain what is happening, why it is happening, perhaps even when it should be happening. What we cannot explain is how it came to happen – unless you concede that God created. If you think that statement is wrong then pray explain how did elements come together and form life? The mystery of life is beyond human comprehension. Should this not be so? But even if man did come up with manufacturing a life form, would this not only prove that he had copied one small part of creation using the intelligence God gave him in the first place? Meanwhile imagine the horrors that mischievous mankind could come up with if left to his own devices and permitted the secret of creating many life forms? We are already playing with fire mixing and altering what already exists. For example we have even used bacteria in warfare, and are experimenting with mutations and viruses to form bio-weapons. Although we do not always like some of the created species (for example thistles) we can only wonder at the vastness and complexity of life forms. In these lives that exist there can be so much beauty. There is so much variety, yet there is so much consistency, such as the individual shape of leaves on trees of a species and fingerprints or retina scans on mankind where no two are identical. There are so many colours. The eye can pick out a single colour alone like in the vastness of a cloudless azure blue sky. It can also make out many colours of the spectrum at the same time for example in the picturesque display of a peacock’s tail plumage. We can but wonder and be fascinated by so much complexity, beauty and wealth of variety in creation. Is your imagination whetted? Then can you imagine an old ford car driving into a garage and then the doors are shut? Over some days the car is dissolved and a soup like liquid is produced. A few more days and the doors are opened again and a helicopter comes out, unfolds its rotors and after a while, flies off. Such was the allegory put forward at the end of a modern film on metamorphosis. The narrator honestly said that allegory came nowhere near the complexity of an egg turning into a caterpillar, turning into a chrysalis then turning into a beautiful butterfly. Not only that but internally engineered to its own unique colourings, able to find its unique food, take in poison to become toxic to predators, reproduce and even navigate. The example given was that of the Monarch butterfly. If you have not seen the film titled ‘Metamorphosis’, please do. I highly recommend it. In fact I dare any self-confessed evolutionist to watch it and remain an evolutionist! Now, there is a challenge.