Wondering Wanderean Notes: Examples of Design in Nature (14 of 14 notes)

Part Three
Theology Proper: 16 PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

Physical phenomena. The inorganic world also manifests design, making possible plant and animal life upon the earth. There has been much speculation about the possibility of life upon the other planets of our solar system where temperatures may range all the way from searing heat sufficient to melt lead to frigid cold where there is no atmosphere or an atmosphere of poisonous gases with little or no water. If life exists under such circumstances it must be vastly different from any kind of life man has known. But here upon earth we find a very delicate balance of many factors which make life possible. Life would be impossible if any one of the following were changed only a few percent: the distance of the earth from the sun, the percentage and kinds of gases in our atmosphere, the freezing point of water, the amount of heat radiated by the sun, the size and distance of the moon, and other factors too numerous to mention. If mountains were more numerous or had much higher elevations, eternal snows would pile up until most of the water would exist as ice. If the atmosphere were less dense we would be bombarded daily by millions of meteorites which now burn up in their passage through the air. It is very difficult to believe that blind chance could have produced this intricate balance in all realms of nature. One scientist, commenting upon this point, has said that there would be as much probability of chance producing a universe of order such as we see around us as an explosion in a type-foundry producing Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary.