“That your faith should not stand in the
wisdom of men, but in the power of God”
1 Corinthians 2:5
Evidence for God’s Existence
Design Demands a Designer
(The Teleological Argument)
• The wisdom and intelligence of God are
seen in His creation (Psalms 104:24; 136:5;
Proverbs 3:19).
– God’s creative skill is like that of a “master
craftsman” (Proverbs 8:22-31).
– The existence of a watch requires the
existence and skill of a watch-maker
– The existence of the world declares that God
exists and that He is a skillful designer and
builder.
Evidence from Design
The Earth
• The distance between
sun and earth is 93
million miles.
10% variation in either
direction would make life
on earth impossible.
• The earth rotates on its
axis at a speed of 1,000
mph. Faster rotation
would cause devastating
cyclones; slower rotation
would result in
overheating and
overcooling during long
periods of day and night.
Evidence from Design
The Earth
• The earth’s distance from the
moon creates tides of the
proper magnitude for the health
of the oceans and the
shorelines, without frequent
inshore flooding.
• The tilt of the earth on its axis at
23 degrees accounts for the
seasons that are vital to life
(Gen. 8:22).
• The earth’s surface is 72%
water which moderates
temperatures worldwide.
Through photosynthesis,
microscopic plants in the seas
supply about 90% of the earth’s
oxygen.
Evidence from Design
The Human Body
• “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and
wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your
works, and that my soul knows very well.”
(Psalm 139:14)
– The human body is a tremendous feat of
Divine engineering.
– In our current study, we will consider only a
small fraction of this evidence.
Evidence from Design
The Human Body
• The function and complexity of cells in
the human body.
– The body is composed of over 250 different
kinds of cells totaling about 100 trillion cells in
a typical adult.
• Each system of the human body has its
own amazing design.
– The respiratory, cardio-vascular, nervous,
digestive, lymphatic, endocrine,
muscular/skeletal, urinary and reproductive
systems of the body could not have
developed by chance
Evidence from Design
Consider the brain & central nervous system
o Composed of over 10 trillion different cells.
o These cells send electrical impulses at a rate of 273
miles per hour
o Nerve cells in the body send 2,000 impulses to the brain
every second.
o These impulses come from 130,000 light receptors in the
eye, 100,000 hearing receptors in the ears, 3,000 taste
buds, and over 500,000 touch spots
o The brain produces more than 50 drugs, ranging from
painkillers (like endorphin) to antidepressant drugs (like
serotonin).
o The brain allows you to remember words, smells,
pictures, and colors.
o It has been estimated that it would require 500 sets of
encyclopedias to hold the information found in the brain.”
Evidence from Design
Plant and Animal Biology
 FORM follows FUNCTION
 The parts of animals and plants are obviously
designed to do what they do!
 Consider the design in different birds: bills,
feathers, bones and claws are all engineered
for specific functions.
 Or look at the dental patterns and digestive
systems of herbivores versus carnivores and
see how each is designed to accommodate
the diet of the particular species.
Form Follows Function
Form Follows
Function
The images to the left are
faces and upper teeth of
bats that eat insects (top),
fruit (bottom) and a
combination of fruit and
insects (middle). The
image below is a vampire
bat.
Form Follows
Function
Form Follows Function
Form Follows Function
Form Follows Function
Evidence from Design
Plant and Animal Biology
 Animal Instincts and Migration Patterns
• Monarch butterflies are born in the northern
United States, and then migrate up to 3000
miles to spend the winter in Mexico. What is
amazing about this migration is that butterflies
never meet their parents, but they are able to fly
to the same place in Mexico where their parents
or grandparents wintered a year earlier.
• Monarch butterflies have been known to fly more
than 375 miles over water non-stop in 16 hours.
Their trip takes them eight to ten weeks.
Monarch Migration Patterns
Evidence from Design
Plant and Animal Biology
 Dependent Symbiotic Relationships
 Many living things rely on one another.
Some are dependent on other species for
their very existence. Examples include the
yucca plant and yucca moth, termites and
their intestinal flagellates, clownfish and
anemones, and corals and zooxanthallae.
The mutual dependency of these and
thousands of other species can hardly be
explained by evolutionary chance
Symbiotic Relationships:
Cape Buffalo & Oxpecker Bird
Yucca Plant & Moth
• The Yucca
Plant is only
pollinated by
the Yucca
Moth
Termites & Flagellates
Although termites can
physically chew and
ingest wood, they are
incapable of chemically
digesting cellulose into
sugars. They rely on
intestinal flagellates,
e.g. Pyrrsonympha spp.
and Trichonympha spp.
which are capable of
producing cellulose.
These genera of
flagellates reside in the
hindgut of termites and
provide nutrition for
them. They are not
found anywhere else in
nature.
Clownfish & Anemones
• An anemone provides slow swimming
clownfish with protection.
Clownfish bring food to the anemone.
Coral & Zooxanthallae