Devoted to the Propagation and Defense of New Testament Christianity
VOLUME 20
November 21, 1968
NUMBER 29, PAGE 3b

Order Argues Intelligence

Jim Everett

Order and systematic arrangement can be observed and calculated in the "four corners" of the universe. As far as man can see with the most powerful telescope, he sees orderly arrangement. His findings with these lenses stagger the greatest imagination because of the limitless expanse and possibilities. He turns his attention to the smallest microscopic being and still he sees a system that functions in orderly processes. Wherever he looks — from infinity to the infinitesimal — he finds order.

The question that remains logically and reasonably unanswered by the atheist is, "How did order come from chaos?" Is our cosmos, which can be timed to the accuracy of a split second in the systematic revolutions of planets around the sun, a product of a CHANCE that is so remote that it is an absolute impossibility?

Scientists depend upon the accuracy of the universe to carry out their marvelous feats. Such feats are the product of pooling an immense resource of intelligence, and they would be impossible without this combined effort. What a paradox for intelligent men to study the laws that govern the universe, and then deny that the very thing that they have studied, measured, calculated, and used is the product of intelligence. If it takes the combined intelligence of some of the most learned men in the world to orbit a vehicle around the earth, is it not logical that the very laws they have studied and used are the product of intelligence. Yet, if the atheist and evolutionist be right, our world is the result of non-intelligence.

The housewife goes about her daily chores of setting the house in order. As she works, she dusts, sweeps, washes, picks up the clothes of the husband and puts away the toys of the children. When she has finished, the house is in order. An ungrateful husband may not appreciate all the effort and may take it all for granted, but no one would be so foolish as to assert that the house set itself in order — certainly not the wife whose back aches from her labor.

Faith is the result of a reasonable, logical process. The atheist and evolutionist have faith but their faith denies that order is the product of intelligence — this is unreasonable and contrary to the very principle by which they conduct themselves. It is much more reasonable to believe that ORDER is the product of INTELLIGENCE. It is illogical to believe that systematic arrangement could have brought itself into existence.

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