For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. 1 Corinthians 13:12 (NKJV)
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Work with me here a little bit as I attempt to explain why I believe in Intelligent design. First let us imagine having jigsaw puzzles. For the sake of this argument imagine that all the end pieces have been removed, you know the ones with the flat side you use to make the frame. Also I guess we must over look the obvious fact that someone put a picture on one side of each piece and cut each piece into different shapes. But again for this argument we need to assume some things just are.
Now take all 5 puzzles and dump them out onto the ground in one big pile. Throw away the boxes with the lids and any other instructions on how to put the puzzle together. Better yet, burn all that in a fire so there is no way you can refer to it again. Now pick up all the pieces and throw them up in the air and allow them to fall in random patterns around the ground. What do you see? Anything resemble a picture forming?
Okay try it again, and again, actually do it 60 times an hour for one solid week. What do you suppose is the likelihood of any of the pieces actually falling into place together where they belong? Do you think at the end of a week you would actually see a pattern emerging? How about after 7 weeks? How about seven months, or perhaps seven years? Maybe it will take 7 decades, or longer.
Pass on this routine to your children and then onto their children even down to the 5th generation. Do you suppose that by the time it reached your great great great great grandchildren that perhaps one of the puzzles will actually be put together?
What do you suppose the chances are that just by constant repetition of the same process, over and over again, patterns would actually emerge? I can suppose for the sake of this argument that indeed after a while you would start to see patterns emerging. I would doubt that they would actually look like what the puzzle designer had designed them to be, but indeed you would certainly have pieces hooking together over a long enough period of time.
Now let us take this argument one step further and actually apply just the slightest bit of intelligence to the matter. Let us start with the same 5 puzzles with all the end pieces missing and no box design, all together in one big pile on the ground, but this time instead of just picking them up and dropping them and allowing chance to play a total role in the process take up a few pieces and look at them for distinguishing marks and structure. I am sure that if you examine the individual pieces closely enough you will see some similarities and some differences. Applying some intelligence then you could start to separate like sized pieces with similar colorings together into groups. You may notice that the pieces from one of the puzzles is slightly larger than the rest and those you could easily separate by themselves. The remaining pieces may be distinguishable in a similar manner. Continue reading “Why I Believe in Intelligent Design”
