Design and Perfection In Our World

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Design and Perfection In Our World
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Design and Perfection

• Hebrews 34
• For every house is built by someone, but He who
  built all things is God.

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Design and Perfection

• The perfection of complex structures has always
  been one of the strongest evidences of creation.
• (Steven Jay Gould, Of Turtles, Vets, Elephants,
  and Castles. New Scientist, Jan. 11, 1979)

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Design and Perfection

• For, even if we allow that chance might have
  occasionally hit on a relatively ingenious
  adaptive end, it seems inconceivable that it
  could have reached so many ends of such
  surpassing perfection.
• (Michael Denton, Evolution A Theory In Crisis,
  p.327)

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Design Of The Human Body

• Psalm 13914
• I will praise You, for I am fearfully and
  wonderfully made Marvelous are Your works, And
  that my soul knows very well.

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Design Of The Eye

• To suppose that the eye could have been formed
  by evolution, seems, I freely confess, absurd in
  the highest degree.
• (Charles Darwin, The Origin Of The Species, p.250)

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The Human Eye
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The Human Ear
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Designer Of The Eye And Ear

• Proverbs 2012
• The hearing ear and the seeing eye, The LORD has
  made them both.

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Design Of The Brain

• In terms of complexity, an individual cell is
  nothing when compared with a system like the
  mammalian brain.
• (Michael Denton, ibid, p.330)

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The Human Brain
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Design Of The Brain

• In spite of the steady accumulation of detailed
  knowledge, how the human brain works is still
  profoundly mysterious.
• (Francis Crick, Thinking About The Brain,
  Scientific American, Sept. 1979, p.219)

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Designer Of The Brain

• Job 3836
• Who has put wisdom in the mind? Or who has given
  understanding to the heart?

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Designer Understood From Things That Are Made

• Romans 120
• For since the creation of the world His invisible
  attributes are clearly seen, being understood by
  the things that are made, even His eternal power
  and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,

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Design and Perfection

• The inference to design is purely an induction
  based on a ruthlessly consistent application of
  logic of analogy. The conclusion may have
  religious implications, but it does not depend on
  religious presuppositions.
• (Michael Denton, ibid. p.341)

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The Heavens Speaking Of The Designer

• Psalm 191-3
• The heavens declare the glory of God And the
  firmament shows His handiwork. 2 Day unto day
  utters speech, And night unto night reveals
  knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language
  Where their voice is not heard.

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Design and Perfection

• It is the sheer universality of perfection, the
  fact that everywhere we look, to whatever depth
  we look, we find an elegance and ingenuity of an
  absolutely transcending quality, which so
  mitigates against the idea of chance.
• (Michael Denton, ibid, p. 342)

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Design and Perfection

• If it could be proved that any part of the
  structure of any one species had been formed for
  the exclusive good of another species, it would
  annihilate my theory, for such could not have
  been produced through natural selection.
• (Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, p. 302)

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Symbiosis Of The Yucca Moth And The Yucca Plant

• Symbiosis
• The association of dissimilar organisms to their
  mutual advantages.

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The Yucca Moth And Yucca Plant
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The Yucca Moth And Yucca Plant
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Instincts

• Many instincts are so wonderful that their
  development will probably appear to the reader a
  difficulty sufficient to overthrow my whole
  theory.
• (Charles Darwin, The Origin of The Species,
  p.228)

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Instincts

• The plain fact is that the genetic mechanism
  shows not the slightest sign of being able to
  convey specific behavior patternsWhen we ask
  ourselves how any instinctive pattern of behavior
  arose in the first place and became hereditarily
  fixed we are given no answer.
• (Gordon Taylor, The Great Evolution Mystery, p.
  221)

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The Artic Tern
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The Artic Tern Migration Route
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Instinct

• How Can millions of blind termites synchronize
  their labors to build and air-condition their
  elaborate structures?
• Instinct

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Termite Mound
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Termite Mound
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Instinct

• How do the mimosa girdle beetle know it must lay
  its eggs under the bark of a mimosa tree branch,
  come in a foot or so toward the trunk, and cut
  the bark all the way around to kill the branch,
  because its eggs will not hatch in live wood?
• Instinct

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The Mimosa Girdler Beetle
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Instinct

• How does a dancing honeybee tell other bees where
  nectar is, how far it is, in what direction it
  is, and what kind of flower it is on?
• Instinct

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The Honeybee Dance
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The Honeybee Dance
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Instinct

• How can the spider the lives in its diving bell
  under water know that when the oxygen is gone it
  must cut a hole in its underwater bell, release
  the stale air, mend the hole and bring down a
  supply of fresh air?
• Instinct

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The Diving Bell Spider
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Designer Of The Designs

• Hebrews 34
• For every house is built by someone, but He who
  built all things is God.

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