The body is wondrously designed. Not only does it have the
machinery for life, it also has the equipment to maintain life, and this
equipment is incredibly complex. The Clotting
Cascade involves 10 distinct chemical processes, culminating in a scab.
Bruce Malone wrote:
- If one of these chemicals is missing or is in the wrong order, then a person would bleed to death. If the chemicals activate 20 minutes after the cut or if the clot does not cover the entire area, the result is again death. If the clotting continues without stopping, then the body’s blood system would clot up and the person would die. (Inspired Evidence)
This is only one of
the thousands of processes of our life sustaining equipment that are
irreducibly complex. This idea has recognized that all of the parts (chemicals) have to be present and connected for
the system to work. This argues powerfully against Darwinian gradualism – the
only mechanism the evolutionists have been able to propose to get us from A
(the first form of life) to Z (us). Instead, irreducible complexity insists
that gradualism cannot account for the development of any useful system.
Could other conceivable structures have performed the same
vital function as the Clotting Cascade,
as evolutions suggest? If they could, it doesn’t seem that they could do so as
well. I had been taking Prilosec for acid reflux. I was assured that there
wouldn’t be any side effects. The doctor spoke of this drug as if it
represented an advancement over our original body design. I thought, “If only
the body manufactured it’s own Prilosec and could automatically inject it into
my troubled stomach as needed!”
However, it seems that every drug comes with its own set of
side-effects – life-limiting characteristics. I subsequently found that this
was also true of my “no-side-effects”
Prilosec. Just today, the news announced that it has been found that all of
those powerful antacids tend to cause vitamin B-12 deficiencies and even the
early onset of dementia! Darn, but no surprise!
Perhaps then, God didn’t
goof when He designed our body without a built-in Prilosec pump! Have we ever
been able to make any improvement upon the healthy human body? Not as far as I
can tell! This speaks loudly in favor of intelligent design. If we intelligent
beings haven’t been able to improve upon the original design, perhaps the
original had been even more intelligently designed than we have acknowledged!
As I grow older, I have been eagerly awaiting for just one of aging’s changes to improve my
body. However, I’ve been repeatedly disappointed. My eyes, ears, sleep and even
bowels are all beginning to fail me, bringing me back to thoughts about my
former self – my original bio-chemical endowment. From my present partially-hobbled
condition, I am more amazed than ever with what God hath done!
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