WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?

Perhaps you have uttered the above words to someone who has appeared unexpectedly in your life. I would like for us to think about the question in its truest sense in continuing our thoughts from last week. Where did we (mankind) come from? Charles Darwin, and other evolutionists would have us believed we have evolved over a period of millions of years. The basic idea is that humans and apes derive from a common ancestor that lived a few million years ago. As evolution took its course, man went one way and the apes went another. What is there in man that provides evidence of intelligent design? It is as plain as the nose on your face. (Once again, the credit for the scientific information comes from apologeticspress.org).

Scientists, designers, and researchers have been trying for many years to develop “electronic noses.” One of the ideas is that they can be used to “sniff out” chemicals used in explosives, if they can be developed with a sense of smell. Thus far, they have failed to master this ability. The “e-nose” simply has not been able to perform up to the standard of the human nose.

The average person’s nose can detect over four thousand scents. I can remember as a child waking up almost every morning to the scent of coffee brewing. Those of you who have never been around an old-fashioned percolator do not know what you are missing (“Mr. Coffee” just does not cut it as far as the aroma goes). I never once woke up, smelled that aroma, and thought it was chicken frying, or a pie baking, or raw sewage. Smells register in your brain and alert you of things that are pleasant, unpleasant, or even dangerous.

How is the nose able to detect odors? There is a patch of yellow-brown tissue about the size of a penny on the roof of each nasal cavity. Each patch has about ten million receptor cells, plus six to eight tiny sensory hairs that project from each cell. All of this is connected to the brain, which is just about an inch away. The brain processes the data and registers them for future use, eventually possessing the capability of matching various odors as being sweet, bitter, flowery, or any one of thousands of other scents.

This is just one example of the design involved in one small part of the human body. No one would argue that the “e-nose” just happened with no one responsible for its design, and it does not work as well as the real nose. How can it be that the real thing just happened that way with no designer (creator) involved? It is indeed true that “…His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,” and we are indeed “without excuse” (Romans 1:20).
--Lamar