The amazing and beautiful world – does it point towards a super intelligent designer? How beautifully and masterly designed, our world is! Does it not demand an immensely intelligent and a powerful designer! As scientists have explored our universe, they have become more and more aware of how unique and well-designed our world is. They see more and more what exact and specific conditions are needed if life is going to survive. The earth itself appears to be carefully designed for life. Remember we are not still living in an age, like that of Charles Darwin, when science was not advanced to study our world in detail. The beauty of this earth is amazing, whether it is over the earth, under the sea or in the sky. It is full of living beings with immense beauty, and so intricately made that, we can never think that all these beautiful things arose out of just chance. For example, just look at the fascinating lives in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, which you can see by snorkeling down there. There giant clams with their exposed mantles green with microscopic algae. Schools of colorful fish appear and disappear among the coral. The coral itself is a wonder to behold, living organism miles long in a rainbow of colors and an endless array of shapes and sizes. When you go to the details of these living creatures, we are wonderstruck. The giant clam has an interesting, mutually beneficial relationship with the tiny, one-celled alga called symbiodinium. The giant-sized clam, at four feet long and up to five hundred pounds, sits on the ocean floor with its two shells spread apart and its fleshy mantle exposed to sunlight. The algal cells live within the cells of the clam’s mantle, where they produce food by photosynthesis, whose numbers may be around millions or even billions in one clam. The algae obtain nutrients from the clam, and the clam gets part of its nutrients from food produced by the algae. In this symbiotic relationship, the giant clam and its algae can live for up to one hundred years. Cooperative mutually beneficial relationships are common among living organisms. Plants capture energy from sunlight and use it to convert water and carbon dioxide into food, and oxygen is released in the process. Animals recombine the oxygen and food to release the energy for growth and movement. Carbon dioxide is produced in this process, which is used by the plants again to produce food. These mutually beneficial interactions among plants and animals make survival possible for a rich diversity of living creatures, including humans. The palolo worm is another fascinating creature that lives in the corals of the Great Barrier Reef, and in many other places in the South Pacific. They look like a flattened earthworm, grow to about a foot in length, and live in tunnels in coral, where they feed on algae. This worm is very famous in Samoa. Each year, at a certain time, the Samoans wade out into the sea to collect the eggs of the palolo worm. This event is so predictable that even local calendar is set depending on it. At the season for breeding (spawning), the tail breaks off, filled with eggs or sperms, and floats to the surface of the sea to be fertilized. Nearly all the worms in an area release their eggs together. The precise timing of this behavior is especially impressive. Somehow, the worms can sense when the time is right, which begins just seven days after a full moon that occurs between October 8 and November 23. A crow-sized bird known as the Shearwater is another creature that might be spotted along the Great Barrier Reef at certain times of the year. Shearwaters spend their entire life at sea, except for when they are breeding. They are marvelous navigators. They wander freely over the oceans without losing their way. They leave their nesting burrows before dawn and return to them after dark, which means they must be able to find the exact location not just of their island, but their burrow on the island—in the dark. Scientists are not sure exactly how they can do that. The amazing ability of these birds to navigate was tested by an experiment in Great Britain using the Manx Shearwater. Scientists flew a group of Manx Shearwaters from Great Britain to Boston, in the United States, and a second group to Venice, Italy. Both groups of birds returned to their nesting burrows in Great Britain within about two weeks. Shearwaters do not normally fly over land at all, so it was even more remarkable, how they returned home. Many other creatures have the ability to travel for hundreds or even thousands of miles and return to the exact starting place. Besides these marvelous creatures, there are many other examples of amazing life that could be explored—the production of light by the firefly, the generation of electricity by the electric catfish, the ability of the bat to navigate in the dark using echolocation, the transformation of a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly, and many more. But most of the time, we don’t consider the intricacies of this world that is needed, in order for life to thrive. Living organisms must have exactly the right combination of environmental conditions. This includes a suitable source of energy (such as sunlight), raw materials for constructing cells and tissues (nutrients), a suitable medium in which the chemistry of life can occur (water), and a suitable temperature for the necessary chemical reactions. As far as we know, no other place in the universe has the right combination of these features to support living organisms. Sunlight is such a common, ordinary feature of our daily lives that it’s easy to forget how special it is. Some types, such as gamma rays, are so powerful they easily destroy life. Other types, such as radio waves, are so weak they could not provide the energy needed for life. Visible light, the light we can see, has a moderate amount of energy. It is strong enough to trigger some chemical reactions, but not strong enough to tear apart the molecules that make up the bodies of living organisms. The fact that our sun produces this kind of light is one of the most important reasons why life can survive here. Most stars in our universe don’t provide the right amount of energy to support life as we know it. Our world and our sun are special! The sun also produces the right amount of heat for life on earth. The temperature of the earth is determined by the heat output from the sun, the distance from the sun to the earth, and the ability of the earth to hold on to the heat. If the earth was farther from the sun, it would be too cold. If closer to the sun, it would be too hot. Carbon dioxide and water vapor in our atmosphere help hold the heat from the sun and maintain a suitable temperature. Thus the survival of life on our planet depends on the right interaction between the earth, its atmosphere, the output of the sun, and the distance between the earth and the sun. If one of these factors were to change dramatically, life on our world could easily become extinct. Life also requires a source of raw materials and a way for them to react chemically. The earth provides these in the right combinations. Water is one of the most important raw materials for life, and our earth has a lot of water. Some of the other planets and moons in our solar system appear to have some water, but not stable bodies of liquid water like our earth has. Water is so crucial for life that scientists looking for life on other planets look first for water. If there is no water, there’s not much reason to look for life. Life requires numerous kinds of materials that our world supplies. Carbon is especially important because it can combine chemically in so many different ways. It turns out that carbon has some very special properties that could make it rare, but our world has enough carbon to support huge numbers of living organisms. Life also requires hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, nitrogen, sulfur, and small amounts of many other elements. We live in a well-designed world, with exactly the right conditions for life. We are surrounded with living creatures with amazing abilities and interdependent relationships. These creatures exhibit an astounding diversity of shapes, colors, behaviors, and habitats. All these things suggest that there must have been a Creator who intended for the world to be an interesting and beautiful place. To summarize, which needs stronger faith? 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Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 04:00:39 +0000
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