Frederic Lussky: Intelligent design at work

Published: Monday, March 3, 2014 at 4:43 p.m.

In Ann McFeatters’ Feb. 18 column in The Sun, she resurrects the debate on creation vs evolution. I would like to bring her attention to the following article which is at the crux of the debate, namely the development of living beings.

When a sperm with its set of chromosomes enters an ovum with its set of chromosomes, the resulting combined set forms a new DNA in a single cell and a new living being is formed. That cell then divides into two cells which in turn divide into four cells and so on, each cell having the identical DNA.

Somewhere in this process some cells begin to differentiate to start the formation of various organs of the body such as the heart, lungs, spine, facial features, fingers and toes and all the other parts of the body.What a miraculous process! How do those original cells know that they are to take on different forms? Is it just an accident or is there a plan in those original cells?

With all the different types of living beings, it is difficult to believe that the differentiation of the dividing cells is accidental. A dog sperm and a dog ovum unite to form another dog. No accident there.

If there is a plan in the developing cells, how did that plan get there? Plans are not accidents. They are deliberately formulated.

That being the case, there must be a planner who has programmed into the original cell the exact process that would be followed in the division of the cells to produce a completely formed organism of a specific type. That organism could be a human being, an animal, a bird, an insect or any other living creature. The question arises, who or what is the planner and what is the process?

There is only one answer to that question. An intelligence far beyond any human intelligence must have done the designing on all living things. The creationists firmly believe that an almighty God is the designer not only of living things but also of the entire universe. He has created the process and plan of cell division in the DNA.

The theory of evolution can not explain how that process developed. Those who would accept that theory do not want to believe that there is a God and they will grasp at every straw to try to rationalize their theory that living organisms mutated into other forms of life, that the DNA somehow changed.

Please note that the first paragraph is based on facts whereas evolution is a theory -- in no way proven to be true.

Frederic Lussky lives in Gainesville.


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