By Van Yandell
Retired Industrial Arts teacher, an ordained gospel evangelist and missionary
vmy2121@outlook.com
Colossians 1: 16 “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.”
Have you ever been anywhere on earth you could not breathe other than under water? We know that science and also Genesis chapter one (indirectly) tells us that humans and animals produce carbon dioxide and plants use that carbon dioxide to produce oxygen.
For creation, carbon based matter (the earth, Genesis 1: 1), water (verse two) and light (verse three), were/are necessary for plant growth and replication.
God set in motion and action the workings of the earth to support life. Many would have us believe these actions happened accidentally. Is spontaneous generation possible? Most scientists agree “No, it is not!” How can something come from nothing without a creator?
If we notice beyond a superficial study of Genesis one, God’s creation was done in a particular sequence. His creation of earth, water and light made possible the process of photosynthesis. That process produces chlorophyll of which a by-product called oxygen is produced.
In today’s world (and thousands of years previously), much of the land is and has been covered with forests. Those forests produce vast amounts of oxygen for us to inhale into our bodies to sustain our lives.
By our inhaling of oxygen, our lungs provide that element to our blood which feeds the thirty-trillion cells in our bodies. Without that oxygen we die. That procedure is beyond explanation to the average human but God had all this sequence determined before the creation of the world.
In the growth and replication process of plants, a product known as carbohydrates is produced. We consume carbs to give us energy. Carbohydrate is a contraction for “wet carbon.” Once again we find the presence of carbon necessary for life.
“When you eat carbohydrates, your body breaks them down into glucose (a simple sugar) which is then absorbed into your bloodstream; your pancreas releases insulin, a hormone that signals your cells to take up this glucose from the blood and use it for energy, essentially transforming the carbohydrate into usable energy for your body’s functions.” (copied)
I find it humorous many in our world believe this perfect order of physical accomplishments take place accidentally or by coincidence. To explain the perfection that can only be credited to a creator is beyond my ability but the disbelievers seem to rationalize that they are more intelligent than God.
Verses one through three in Genesis one are followed by God dividing the light from the dark, He called the light day, and the dark night. This cycling of light and darkness is necessary for the growth of some plants. Many of the crop plants that produce our food are such a case.
These actions of creation took place on what the Bible calls the first day. Could these actions by an even remote possibility have happened by chance? Chance is a statement in itself. Chance describes the statistical probability of something happening.
When we consider the fine-tuned and perfectly synchronized balance of the solar system, our galaxy and the universe, is it possible all this happened as a fluke?
Add to that the functions of our bodies. We have two plumbing systems (digestive and cardiovascular), and also an electrical system called the central nervous system. A part of those systems is a brain with thirty-three trillion neurons that are constantly making connections and disconnections (synapse).
The original question was, “Have you ever been anywhere you could not breathe?” When we consider the workings of plant growth, the human body (and all the other animals), how do we explain the even distribution of air to breathe?
In the Sahara Desert in Egypt, I had no trouble breathing. There was not a plant to be seen anywhere, just hot, blowing sand. Yet I could breathe!
Ecclesiastes 1: 6 “The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.”
Isn’t it amazing, God told Solomon to write this verse 3000 years ago? Solomon had likely never seen a weather satellite photo of the earth. His concept of “the world” was the area we today would call the Middle East, perhaps a little into North Africa and/or Western Asia.
Solomon was said to be the wisest man that ever lived (1 Kings 4:29-34). Yet, there is no way he could have possessed the knowledge stated in Ecclesiastes 1: 6. I well know many in our world are seeking proof of the authenticity of the Bible and Solomon gives us empirical evidence of its reality.
The writings of Solomon (Ecclesiastes and Proverbs) offer some of the most substantial verifications of the Bible being inspired by Our Creator God. We have the evidence of the age of the Bible based on the finding of the Dead Sea scrolls in 1947.
As we see, many of the teachings of God directly connect to our lives today and can be verified with sustained evidence. Knowing this we must always teach that eternal salvation is attained by a faith based belief (Ephesians 2: 8) in Christ Jesus crucified (Matthew 27: 35) for the remission of sin (1 John 1: 9) and resurrected (Matthew 28: 6).
