Many years ago, the former Governor of Tennessee, Robert L. Taylor, listened with exasperation to the atheist Robert Ingersol. The speaker was waxing eloquent about Darwin’s new-fangled theory of evolution. On returning home, the Governor picked up his pen and wrote: ‘What intelligence less than God could fashion the human body? What power is it, if it is not God, that drives that throbbing engine, the human heart, with ceaseless, tireless stroke, sending the crimson streams of life through every vein and artery?’
Without doubt, the wonder and complexity of the human body points to a Creator infinitely superior to any human intelligence. How rightly the psalmist thanked Jehovah, saying, ‘I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made’ (Psalm 139:14). Part of the wonder is that we don’t have to remind our pulse to beat or our heart to pump. We never have to think about it, because every second of every day our body undertakes this and an enormous number of other tasks without requiring any thought from us.
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