Design Demands a Designer

My family loves fresh vegetables right out of the garden. I know you do also because you are enjoying fresh vegetables and sharing them with others. Right now, gardens are in full swing with tomatoes, lettuce, squash, and so on. It is amazing that we can plant a seed in dirt, and with the addition of sun and water, plants grow and produce food (Matthew 5:45; Acts 14:17). It is like seeds were designed to do this. What an amazing design for a seed to grow into the same kind of plant it came from just to create more seeds so that type of plant will continue to survive. 

We see design in our bodies as our minds and bodies work in harmony to create the garden. I can learn that tomato seeds grow tomatoes, and if I want tomatoes, I need to plant tomato seeds. My mind uses the knowledge it has gained to tell my body what to do to grow tomatoes. This may involve buying fertilizer, digging holes to the right depth, and weeding around the plants. Then my body can eat tomatoes, and that provides my body with the energy I need to live. How can my mind and body do that? What incredible design we see in our bodies!

Not only do we see design in tomatoes and our bodies, but we see the design of those two things working together. Because there is design in nature, there must be a designer (Psalm 19:1-2; Romans 1:18-20). What if I were to tell you that the house that I live in was put together by a tornado? The tornado blew through and placed all the lumber, bricks, plumbing, landscaping, etc. in the exact place it needed to be.  You might try to commit me to a mental institution because chaos (the tornado) does not create design (the home). Yet people today are trying to teach this fact, saying life began randomly and accidentally with no God. You are not a random accident. God created you; why not worship Him?