Recently a friend introduced me to a new concept proposed by scientists called “Intelligent Design.” This concept stated that by looking at life forms and other parts of the universe that we can see that an intelligence --whether God or whatever-- has designed the world around us. This new theory of science is strongly disliked by atheists who believe that this theory opens the door to the possibility of the existence of God.

As you may know, atheism is defined as the disbelief in the existence of a God. This concept doesn’t allow the possibility of a Supreme Being or even a possibility of a designer of the universe.

But, just looking at life forms on this planet, we can see design from the smallest celled organism to the way the food chain works. Life in this world works in a systematic fashion so that if any parts are removed or damaged the system starts to break down.

For example, the bacterial flagellum, an outboard motor that bacteria use to navigate their environment, requires about 50 proteins to build. If any of these proteins are removed, the flagellum either won’t be built or won’t work. The flagellum thus seems to display not only specified complexity, but irreducible complexity.

Another example comes from an article in the journal "Science" where a team of researchers tinkered with a bacterium called Mycoplasma genitalium, which is the simplest known organism. The organism’s genetic code is about 580,000 letters long and spells out 480 protein-producing genes. After removing various protein-coding genes, the scientists have estimated that 265 to 350 of this bacterium’s genes are "essential" for the organism to live and reproduce under laboratory conditions, which is to say that it would not live well outside the laboratory without these proteins.

These are only a few examples of complex structures in our natural world that appear to have a design. There are many other examples that are very fascinating to study from just the common cell with its many complex parts to the basic laws of the universe such as the rings around a planet.

In Psalms 14:1, David states, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.”

Just by looking at the new concept of science and the general facts of Biology and the other physical sciences, it is foolish to say, “There is no God.”