In Awe of Intelligent Design

It seems that everything is fine-tuned for life and survival, even the relationship between different organisms. The baby’s welfare is fine tuned to the umbilical cord and the welfare of her mother. Once she is born, another fine-tuned system kicks into play involving both the mother and her child. Bruce Malone, founder of searchforthetruth.net, has written:

·       Babies naturally know how to nurse.  Unborn children even practice by sometimes sucking their thumbs in the womb.  When a baby is placed at the nipple of his mother’s breast, a fascinating chain reaction is set in motion.  The sucking sensation sends nerve impulses to the hypothalamus in the mother’s brain.  The hypothalamus sends a message to the pituitary gland, which secretes the hormone oxytocin into the bloodstream. 

·       When oxytocin reaches the breast, cells are stimulated to contract, thus forcing milk into the ducts which carry a perfectly designed liquid to the nipple.  Milk starts flowing out of the breast within 30 seconds of a baby beginning to nurse.

How do these various necessary systems kick in at just the right time? We are led to ask, “What is not fine-tuned?”

We have lost our sense of awe at its ubiquitous marvels of designs, which should call our attention to their Designer. Perhaps instead we have banished this awareness.