When one contemplates the function of the human body we can only marvel at the masterful design of such an efficient and resilient creation. Wait? I thought Darwinism explained how humans were created through evolution? Can the Teleological Argument actually confirm the existence of God?
In the teleological argument we posit that the level of mathematical perfection that we see in the universe could never happen by itself in some sort of biological accident. The absurdity of this conclusion becomes evident as you begin to really look at the world around you. In fact, you can start with your own body. Consider the following: Your eye has an optic nerve that connects your brain to your eye. That optic nerve consists of about 1 million "cables" all bundled together to collect light and transfer an image from your brain to your eye. This system is so sophisticated in its redundancy that you can lose 400,000 "cables" before your vision is impacted. This system has amazing similarities to the engineering design of the camera. A system that it took man over 6,000 years to develop. Consider this: The eye has a convex lens. The camera has a convex lens. The eye has a mechanism to control light flow called an Iris. The camera has a mechanism to control light flow called an aperture. The eye has a mechanism to detect light and translate that into electrical conduction. We call that the retina. The camera has a mechanism to detect light detection and translate that into electrical conduction. We call that film. The creation of the camera required an engineer, therefore, is the argument requiring an engineer to create the human body feasible?
The intricacies of the human body have been regarded, even by the scientific world, as miraculous. Your kidney has the most amazing filtration system known to man. Each kidney has about 1 million little filtration systems call nephrons. Each nephron has a filtration engine called a glomerulus. Each glomerulus has it's own cardiovascular system. Your kidney performs six or seven vital functions without which you would quickly assume room temperature. One of them being blood pressure. The filtration system in your car, the air filtration system in a building, can't touch the elegant complexity of this system.
No one can discount the importance of DNA, Deoxyribonucleic acid, the king of complexity. So what does DNA do? DNA contains the instructions needed for an organism to develop, survive and reproduce. Each human being has, in a single gram of DNA, roughly the same storage capacity to hold every bit of data ever recorded by human beings.
It does not start and stop with the human body, in fact every system in every animal organism has precisely this level of sophistication. Right down to the lowly one celled amoeba. And we haven't talked about the cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, neurological, gastrointestinal, reproductive, or respiratory systems.
Look at the amazing complexity in the animal kingdom.
* The Canadian Geese fly in "V" formation during their migration to minimize wind resistance and conserve energy. They rotate turns in the front moving to the back when they get tired. It is the same strategy that professional cyclists use when competing in events like the Tour de France. How do they know how to do this?
* The Cheetah has a specialized respiratory system that allows it to go from a normal 60 breaths per minute to 150 breaths per minute to furnish its high octane engine with the oxygen needed to go from 0 to 60 mph in three strides, maxing out at about 75 mph!
* The vision of the owl allows it to spot a rabbit at two miles away in tall grass. The great gray owl can hear a mouse squeaking from a distance of two miles away! (of course my mom could hear me cursing under my breath from about that same distance, so this isn't that impressive to me!!)
* The salmon returns to the precise place where it was born in a river or stream after a roughly 3 year journey out to the ocean. How does it know how to return to the exact same spot? Recent studies have shown that they use the magnetic field of the earth to guide them from the ocean back to their place of birth. (Wow!! We've only had GPS for roughly the last 40 years. These guys have had it since the beginning of time!)
* Consider the incredible mountain climbing ability of the big horned sheep. A hoof with a hard edge and a soft center. It's hooves act as suction cups. It can grab the tiniest indentation on the side of a mountain and be glued to that surface. It has two independent toes to provide additional stability. It's hooves look like the exact same design as.....hold it......the suction cups designed by man. (Imagine that!)
Did this level of sophistication just jump into existence, or was an engineer in charge?