Friday, September 5, 2014

PURPOSEFUL DESIGN OF THE UNIVERSE


We in the dental profession focus our attention, energy, resources, plans, hopes, and passions on all aspects of the art, science, and business of dentistry.  Sometimes, however, one must take a break from the dental world to focus on other thoughts, other priorities, other possibilities.  With that in mind, pause for just a moment to consider the words of Dr. Werner von Braun, the first director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center who has long been accepted as the “Father of the American Space Program”.  In a May 1974 article, Dr. von Braun wrote:  “One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be a design and purpose behind it all…The better we understand the intricacies of the universe…the more reason we have found to marvel at the inherent design upon which it is based…To be forced to believe only one conclusion---that everything in the universe happened by chance---would violate the very objectivity of science itself…What random process could produce the brains of a man or the system of the human eye?...They (evolutionists) challenge science to disprove the existence of God.  But must we really light a candle to see the sun?...They say they cannot visualize a designer.  Well, can a physicist visualize an electron?... What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electron as real, while refusing to accept the reality of a designer on the ground that they cannot conceive Him?”

What are your thoughts---our universe is here by providential design or by chance??

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