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257 Kendall Street
Burlington, WI 53105

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PASTOR'S PENS 2007

Grace Church of Burlington July 22, 2007 “Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.”                                                                                               Thomas Aquinas Fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearcher at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!                Recently, someone forwarded the above to me. Most of us have no problem reading it, though basically it’s gibberish. Our minds are nothing short of amazing! Did you know that less power is used by the human brain when it’s engaged in deep thought than a computer? The human brain is the most complex structure known to man. It’s been called a 3 pound miracle. Isaac Asimov, a biochemist and atheist, said in the science journal Smithsonian; “In man is a three pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.” The human brain consists of about 10,000 million nerve cells. Each nerve puts out between 10,000 and 100,000 connecting fibers by which makes contact with other nerve cells.  The number of connections altogether in the brain approaches 10 to the 15th power or a 1,000 million million every single day. A normal functioning human brain has 100 billion neurons linked to a complex network that is hundreds time more powerful than a home computer. There are more than 100 quadrillion intricate electrical connections within the human brain that sends millions of bits of information throughout the body. In less than 1 second, our brain can calculate the trajectory of a football thrown at 30 miles an hour towards us.             No wonder Dr. Walter L. Bradley, who co-wrote, The Mystery of Life’s Origin said “I think people who believe that life emerged naturalistically need to have a great deal more faith than people who reasonably infer that there’s an Intelligent Designer...I have been pleasantly surprised that what I’ve found is absolutely overwhelming evidence that points toward an Intelligent Designer. The evidence is not just convincing…it’s compelling…you really have to work hard not to get that conclusion.”             Yet in spite of the evidence of special creation, the popular American scientist, Carl Sagan, opened his book Cosmos by saying, “The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.” We are not children of God, but “children of the Cosmos,” according to Sagan. Most people think that Carl Sagan was an atheist or agnostic, but in reality he was very religious. He believed that if we are to worship something, “does it not make sense to revere the Sun and the stars?” Later in life he even proposed that god-like aliens would come to rescue planet earth. In his popular, made-for-television series, he eloquently stated that life began somewhere in a primordial slime pond. Think about that for a moment, even the slime on a pond is living. In fact, in any pond in the world if you take one drop of water from that pond and put it under a microscope, you will discover that every drop of water in that pond is teeming with life. This primordial pond, to which Sagan referred, would have been before one cell of life existed on earth — only non-living things would have been here. There would have been no grass, no trees or any other kind of vegetation — a landscape similar to the moon. There would not have been a single amoeba, bacteria or any other life form present. But somehow, in this pond, chemicals reacted to form the first cell of life. This cell would have to have been able to find food near (and remember there is nothing living to eat). This cell would have to take in food, process it and eliminate it, and somehow reproduce. And remember that a single living cell is exponentially more complex than our most sophisticated computer. If it were not, we could create life, but in spite of all our enormously complex technology, we have not been able to create one single living cell.             As Bible-believers we trust the Bible which authoritatively states, “In the beginning God...” In the New Testament we read: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life, and that life was the light of men” (John 1:1-4).             The origin of all life is God. Our lives are not the result of chance or some accident, our lives originated in the heart of a personal God.  He created us, loves us and has a purpose for our lives! As His special creation, do you know Him? Are you seeking to live a life surrendered to with His plan and purpose guiding your life?