Who made the watch?

Many of us have in mind the "ideal" God. Maybe we think God should be capable, able to relate to us, care about us. The following qualities are pretty much what the Bible tells us about God...

Right now look at your watch. Now consider the nature of your watch. OK, hold that thought and read on. There's this very interesting movement in scientific circles today that you may not even be aware of. In fact it may not trickle down to the everyday high school classroom level for a number of years yet. That is unless your teacher studies this trend and is willing to take a big risk to deviate from the official curriculum. More and more scientists are buying into the theory of intelligent design. This includes scientists in physics, astronomy, molecular biology and genetics. These scholars have reached a conclusion from their research and the overwhelming volume of evidence that the complexities, structure and laws of the physical universe all point to "intelligent design" as the source. But here's the big problem- intelligent design means there must be a designer. This can only lead to the logical conclusion that God, the Designer, exists.

Consider these points:

Science has been surprised itself! As real science has advanced and scientific tools like super computers, the Hubbell Telescope and the electron microscope, just to name a few, have increased something different from what we might have expected has happened. Evolution (the theory that all life and the universe itself is just the result of time and chance without any real meaning) has not been proven or even strengthened.

These new scientific tools have found greater order and nearly unimaginable complexity from the level of the cell clear to the level of the Universe.

When Darwin arrived at his theory, during the mid nineteenth century, none of these fantastic scientific tools were available. He basically made field observations and jumped to philosophical, not even necessarily scientific, conclusions.

The Wristwatch in the Woods:

Remember your watch? Good, now just pretend you're walking through the woods and just happen to come across a watch just like it and perfectly good on the ground. There are several reasonable conclusions and assumptions you could make. But it would be really silly and ridiculous to conclude that the watch "just happened". Even if no one had stepped foot in that forest for billions of years it is not reasonable for the complex piece of precision machinery, the watch, to have "just happened". Yet this is exactly what evolutionists believe.

OK, let's add a possibility to the mysterious watch episode; perhaps there was a tornado in the area recently that blew through a nearby junkyard full of potential watch ingredients. Could you reasonably conclude that the 200-mph winds of a tornado in a junkyard worked together to make the watch from scrap pieces tumbling around in the air? No, complexity does not come out of chaos even with added force and time. Watches do not just come into existence, nor do strong random forces (like the tornado) make watches from junk.

It is very reasonable and logical to conclude that the existence of the watch means the existance of a watchmaker- a creator and designer of watches. How much more complex than a watch is the eye, interacting with the brain to enable color, three-dimensional vision?

The complexity and design found in nature points to a personal God. Does this absolutely prove the existence of God? No, but it's another very strong piece of evidence that helps solve the whole puzzle.

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