The Master Engineer

God is the master engineer. He did not just create life; He designed life to robustly respond to the environment. He over designed living things so that they could withstand, so far, thousands of years of mutational accumulation. His designs were holistic, in that He accounted for what each kind would need in the future. He built redundancy in the genomes to ward off the effects of decay, but He also designed specific aspects of the genome to change via mutation.

On the last page of Origin of Species, Charles Darwin wrote, “There is grandeur in this view of life,” referring to his claim that all life evolved from primitive ancestors. How wrong he was! Our God, however, is an amazing, fantastic, super-intelligent, all powerful, and omniscient Creator.

Consider the words of Paul: “For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” (Colossians:1:16For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
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There is grandeur in that view of life.