| That is what a leading anthropologist, Loren C. Eiseley, | | | | same logical conclusion as that reached by an |
| an evolutionist, called our brain back in 1955. Man today, | | | | outstanding consultant engineer who struggled for two |
| with all his increased technology is still dumbfounded at | | | | years designing an electronic brain? He said After |
| what our brain is capable of doing. It has 10 billion nerve | | | | facing and solving the many design problems which |
| cells, any one of which may connect with as many as | | | | [the computer] presented, it is completely irrational to |
| 25,000 other nerve cells. The number of | | | | me to think that such a device could come into being in |
| interconnections which this adds up to would stagger | | | | any other way than through . . . an intelligent designer. |
| even an astronomer and astronomers are used to | | | | . . . If my computer required a designer, how much |
| dealing with astronomical numbers, reports one | | | | more so did that complex . . . machine which is my |
| reference work, and it adds A computer sophisticated | | | | human body. |
| enough to handle this number of interconnections | | | | Could all these examples of design merely have just |
| would have to be big enough to cover the earth. | | | | happened? George Gallup, a renowned statistician, one |
| Yet all of this is miniaturized into a mass weighing | | | | who carefully compiles figures and facts on certain |
| about three pounds (1,360 grams), small enough to fit in | | | | subjects, once said I could prove God statistically. Take |
| your two hands. Fittingly it is called the most highly | | | | the human body alone the chance that all the functions |
| organized bit of matter in the universe. | | | | of the individual would just happen is a statistical |
| Our brain is capable of something for which no | | | | monstrosity. In other words, the chance that all of this |
| man-made computer has ever had a capacity | | | | could just happen without some directive power is, in |
| creative imagination. This was especially evident from | | | | reality, impossible, a statistical monstrosity. |
| the experience of composer Ludwig van Beethoven. | | | | The great physicist Lord Kelvin who at the time of his |
| When one of his greatest works, his Ninth Symphony, | | | | death, was without dispute the greatest scientific |
| was introduced, the audience broke into frantic | | | | genius in the world, reached the same conclusion We |
| applause, they loved it so. Beethoven was not audibly | | | | are absolutely forced by science to believe with |
| aware of it; he was totally deaf! Just think, he heard | | | | perfect confidence in a Directive Power in an influence |
| the full richness of the composition first in his own | | | | other than physical or dynamical or electrical forces |
| imagination and then set it down in notes, and he never | | | | . . . You will be forced by science into a belief in God. |
| actually heard one tone. What power of creative | | | | We can see convincing evidence of God’s |
| imagination our brain possesses! | | | | existence through (1) sound scientific logic and |
| Is it not obvious that there are examples of superb | | | | (2) existence of design in the world around us. |
| designing in our body? Should we not be drawn to the | | | | |