Intelligent Design

In an article entitled "The Wonders of the Natural World: God’s Design,” university professor Gerald R. Bergman points out how advanced God’s creation is over human invention:

• Before we ever discovered and harnessed electricity, electric eels have generated their own electricity at will, up to 700 volts.
• Before we ever invented electric lights, fireflies were flashing their signals to one another, and certain fish in the ocean depths produce light to guide their travels.
• Long before we learned to navigate the seven seas, birds traveled from the Arctic to the Antarctic, landing at the same nesting sites year after year.
• We take pride in our jet aircraft, but octopuses used jet propulsion long before us. In its bulbous body is a muscular "sack” with a small opening. When an octopus expands the sack, water is sucked in, and when it vigorously contracts it, the water spurts out in a jet. By alternate expansion and contraction of this muscular sack, the octopus can jet-propel its way through the water.
• Before we ever designed and built suspension bridges, God’s spiders demonstrated engineering feats of amazing brilliance.
• Bird’s nests display a high level of engineering skill in masonry, weaving, tunneling, and structural strength necessary to build them.
• Bees, with their wings, "air-condition” their hives.
• Beavers build large dams out of trees and mud.
• Wasps manufacture a type of paper.
•  Man has developed radar and sonar systems, and this development is seen as a miracle of science. Yet bats can do the same thing. Scientists have blindfolded bats and set them loose in a room which has been strung with many thin threads. Scientists found that the bats can dart around the room without striking a single thread because in flight they emit supersonic sound pulses. These hit objects and bounce back to the bat’s ears.

Why is it we attribute to blind chance that which we have accomplished only by intelligent design?^*

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