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"So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."
(Genesis 1:27)
Let us take a look at a few examples of what exists today and ask the question: could everything have evolved on its own over time, or did God create it as Genesis and other biblical texts assert?
First the cell, which consists of proteins and nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) – each protein molecule has a sequence of amino acids similar to the way a sentence is formed. One cell has enough information in it that would fill up 1,000 encyclopedias. Darwin did not have an electron microscope like we do today that peers into the make-up of the cell with amazing precision. Darwin said in On The Origin of Species, p.171, that if it was ever proved that complex entities could not have evolved but instead appeared, then "my theory would absolutely break down." (Geisler and Turek, I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, p. 144-45)
Martin Luther said regarding Satan, "One little word shall fell him." And one little cell has felled Darwinian evolution. This tiny unit of protoplasm, as Webster defines it, is "the essential living matter of all animal and plant cells." The cell is 1/1000 of a millimeter in size and yet is incomparably complex, or as Michael Behe (biochemistry professor at Lehigh University) asserts, the cell is irreducibly complex and therefore impossible to have evolved. Each cell has "energy generators, defensive systems, transport systems, food factories, protective barriers, waste removal structures, and communicational processes both inside and outside its own cell limits." (Frank Harber, Reasons for Believing, p. 30)
Hawking said the cell appeared 3 billion years ago, and Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the DNA macromolecule, disagrees. He says that something this complex had another origin, and you must keep reminding yourself that even though it looks like it has divine design, it does not. He has a theory called directed panspermia in which he postulates that aliens (yes, aliens) placed live bacteria on a spaceship and sent it to earth. The aliens could not travel on the spaceship because of the length of time for interstellar travel. Contrast this with what Moses says, "In the beginning, God..." Johnson writes on p. 110, "Those who are tempted to ridicule directed panspermia should restrain themselves, because Crick's extraterrestrials are no more invisible than the universe of ancestors that earth-bound Darwinists have to invoke."
Mankind is God's highest creation, and according to Psalm 139:14, our awesome Creator fearfully and wonderfully made us. Isaac Newton said one only must look at his thumb and know there is a God. Consider the human brain. It is unlike any other entity on earth. It weighs about 3 pounds and has 15 billion neurons and billions more electrical connections. Michael Denton in his book, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, writes on p. 331, "Because of the vast number of unique adaptive connections, to assemble an object remotely resembling the brain would take an eternity, even applying the most sophisticated engineering techniques."
God or aliens? I am going with God!
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