The Marvel of Design

Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. The marvel of design, and they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth. And the men marvelled one at another. Genesis forty-three thirty-three. When creationists calculate the extremely low probability of the chance origin of life, many evolutionists scoff at the calculation, alleging that any one arrangement of the components of a simple living molecule is just as likely as any other arrangement.

So it is no great marvel that the components fell into this particular arrangement. This is a puerile argument, of course, quite unworthy of the intelligent scientists who use it. There are, at best, only a few arrangements that will contain the organized information necessary for reproduction, compared to zillions of arrangements with no information at all. This fact is beautifully illustrated in our text. Why should Joseph's brothers marvel when they were seated in chronological order of birth by a host who presumably was entirely unaware of that order?

They marvel because there are almost forty million different ways in which the eleven brothers could have been seated. It seemingly couldn't happen by chance. Maybe an evolutionist would not marvel that this unique seating arrangement happened by chance, since he somehow believes that far more intricately organized arrangements than this happen by chance to produce our universe and its array of complex systems. Anyone else?

However, would immediately have realized this, and so the brothers of Joseph marvelled one at another.

So also, when we behold the wonders of design in the creation, we should lift up our eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things. Isaiah forty twenty six. If you've enjoyed today's devotional, be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, and please rate and review so more listeners can find us. To support ICR's ministry, visit icsr.org/slash. Donate.

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