Blue-and-yellow Macaw by Luc Viatour
Have you ever stared an an incredible natural feature, a plant, or an animal of beauty and asked yourself, “Could this have evolved?” Many an astute observer of nature has. The founder of the scientific field of study called Wildlife Management is the famed conservationist, Aldo Leopold. Leopold said this in his 1949 environmental classic, A Sand County Almanac:
“I heard of a boy once who was brought up an atheist. He changed his mind when he saw that there were a hundred-odd species of warblers, each bedecked like to the rainbow, and each performing yearly sundry thousands of miles of migration about which scientists wrote wisely but did not understand. No ‘fortuitous concourse of elements’ working blindly through any number of millions of years could quite account for why warblers are so beautiful. No mechanistic theory, even bolstered by mutations, has ever quite answered for the colors of the cerulean warbler, or the vespers of the woodthrush, or the swansong, or -goose music. I dare say this boy’s convictions would be harder to shake than those of many inductive theologians. There are yet many boys to be born who, like Isaiah, ‘may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this.’”
What Leopold is saying is that nature figuratively shouts, “There is a God!” The beauty in nature is so stunning, so magnificent, so carefully crafted, that it speaks clearly of an artist – a Creator behind the art.
In the English language, we have an idiomatic phrase that speaks of one who “can’t see the forest for the trees.” The meaning of this idiom is that a person often can’t see the big picture when they are focusing so much on the small details. Literally, they fail to see the forest because the trees are in the way! Many a scientist would get a better perspective on the origin of life – they would “see the forest” if they would step back and look at the grandeur of what they are studying and see that there must be a Creator behind this.
Some atheists would dismiss what has been said above by casting it into the category called the “argument from incredulity,” meaning that when we don’t understand how things came about, we often resort to a supernatural explanation such as “God did it”. But given time, the atheists say, we will better understand how these things happened. We just lack the knowledge right now.
We offer a different viewpoint. And that is what this website is about. It is to show you that using common reasoning one should logically conclude that there is a Maker behind all of this. Creation by its very nature shouts, “There is a God!”
If you are not sure – still seeking truth in all of this, then read the various articles and give it all some deeper thought and consideration. Consider reading the article, How to Find God Scientifically if you are seeking the Creator. It is located under the “Other Nature” category. Also, consider reading the article, The Evolution of Vases, if you think evolution is a proven fact. Thanks!
Red Lory by Andrew Kraker