BETTER BY DESIGN

WIRE

Simple, yet someone whose name is lost in history invented wire and devised a method of producing it.

A NAIL

A nail is more complex than wire. Would you agree it required more ingenuity to invent nails than wire?

A SCREW

The screw is more complicated still and it required the invention of a screw driver to operate it.

Is this evidence of yet more ingenuity ?

A CAMERA

A big jump from the complexity of the screw to the complexity of the camera.

A NOTEBOOK COMPUTER

Computers are far more complicated than cameras.

Would you agree that the more complicated the design the more ingenuity is required to invent it ?

These objects did not evolve by chance. They were intelligently designed and developed. Try telling an inventor that his efforts are not intelligent.

Chance does not produce complex design. Design requires intelligence.

EMPIRICAL SCIENCE

[empirical :- based on observation - not on theory]

We have observed that:-

1. Design requires ingenuity.
2. More complicated design involves more ingenuity.

Is reason now going to be thrown to the wind as we consider an enormous jump in design complexity ?

A HUMAN EYE

Which is more complicated, the human eye's lens or the camera lens ?

Which is more complex, the human brain or the most highly developed computer ?

It follows that the human eye and the human brain required much greater ingenuity to invent them ?

Without question, we are "fearfully and wonderfully made." ¹ We are not the product of blind chance, nor of an impersonal "Force" or forces. We are designed and made by the supremely intelligent personality called "God". This is self-evident.²

In spite of the increasing scientific evidence of design in creation, why do many apparently highly intelligent people say "No, it is not designed, it all evolved by fortuitous chance." whilst others grudgingly admit the "appearance of design in nature" but deny that it is design?

DESIGN AND PERVERSION

A THREADED MALE PIPE SPIGOT

Ingeniously designed and made, but useless by itself.

A THREADED FEMALE PIPE SOCKET

This item is designed to match the male fitting.

Male fittings are not designed to connect together.

Female fittings do not work with female fittings.

These are a perversions of the designer's intention.

[ The Little Oxford Dictionary; Reprinted 1948 :- "Pervert v.t., turn to wrong use"]

Female fittings are designed and made to fit to male.

In the beginning there was one man - one woman. God designed and made it that way. That is how He intended it to be. "Marriage and the undefiled bed are altogether honourable but God will judge fornicators and adulterers". "One man - One woman" for life.³

Men and women are designed differently. Men are not designed to bear babies or to produce milk.

This is design, not the outcome of chance. Not even millions of years of chance.

Millions of years of chance would mean millions of years of accidents resulting in total chaos - not design, not even any "appearance of design".

People who believe in evolution deny that the complexity of design apparent in all nature requires an ingenious designer. Are the implications too far- reaching for them ?

RESPONSIBILITY BRINGS ACCOUNTABILITY

Since He designed all things, the supremely intelligent designer, the Bible calls God,⁴ is on the "outside" of His design - is not part of His design. The things designed are not the designer. He is in another "dimension". The Bible says God is spirit."⁵

Since He designed us as intelligent beings with free will, we are responsible for how we use or misuse our intelligence. It follows that we are responsible to the one who designed us and we will have answer to Him for every abuse and every negligence.⁶ When we die God will judge us by the Lord Jesus. He raised him from the dead as proof.⁷

WE CAN BE FORGIVEN

Sin is serious. We are all guilty of sin. We have no excuse.⁸ Sin corrupts, enslaves and destroys.⁹ The good news is that the Lord Jesus died on the cross to save us.¹⁰ We can be forgiven - totally forgiven.¹¹ We can be cleansed, totally. But we must repent - that is make a definite decision to stop sinning - trust the Lord Jesus implicitly and be baptised^*  in water to start a new life.¹² Then meet to meditate on the Lord Jesus with others of the same persuasion and to reinforce each other to positive living.¹³ Being assured of an endless perfect future in the next life.¹⁴

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BIBLE REFERENCES:-

1. 1 Psalm 139:14
2. Romans 1:19-20
3. Genesis 2:21-25, Mark 10:6-12, Hebrews 13:4, Romans 7:2-3
4. Genesis 1:1
5. John 4:24
6. James 4:17
7. Acts 17:31, Romans 14:10, 2 Corinthians 5:10,Hebrews 9:27.
   See our leaflet "No Corpse!"
8. Romans 1:18-20, 2:1, 3:23, Galatians 6:7. See our leaflet "Guilty or not Guilty ?"
9. John 8:34, Romans 1:24-32,6:16, Galatians 6:7-8, Ephesians 2:1, 2 Peter 2:19.
10. Matthew 20:28, 26:28,John 1:29, Romans 6:23, 1 Timothy 1:15
    The word "gospel" means "good news".
11. Psalm 51:6 103:12 Isaiah 1:18
12. Romans 1:16, Romans 6:1-4, Acts 2:38-40,17:30
13. Matthew 26:26-28, Acts 2:41-42, 20:7, Hebrews 10:24-25, John 6:68,17:33, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26.
14. John 3:16,36, 5:24,29, 10:10, 11:25, 1 Corinthians 15, Titus 1:2, 1 Peter 1:3, Jude 1:21