Well, that wasn’t so hard now, was it. This thought came to me as I was reading an article yesterday about “How the body builds a healthy relationship with ‘good’ gut bacteria.” There is only one explanation, only one, for the preposterous complexity of the human body’s immune system (not to mentioned everything else), and that would be our almighty Creator God! The Apostle Paul tells us “the secret” to seeing God in everything: “God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so they are without excuse.” So, when we open our eyes in the morning we should see . . . . God! He is invisible, but everything that exists has been made by him and reflects him, including our eyes, brains, nervous systems, and every cell in our bodies that allows us to see and perceive him through all that he has made. So when I read the first few paragraphs of the article, guess who I thought of? Give up?
Our body’s relationship with bacteria is complex. While infectious bacteria can cause illness, our gut is also teaming with “good” bacteria that aids nutrition and helps keep us healthy. But even the “good” can have bad effects if these bacteria end up in tissues and organs where they’re not supposed to be.
Now, research published in Nature reveals insights into how the body maintains this balance. Investigations with mice demonstrate that early life is a critical time when the immune system learns to recognize gut bacteria and sets up surveillance that keeps them in check. Defects in these mechanisms could help explain why the immune system sometimes attacks good bacteria in the wrong place, causing the chronic inflammation that’s responsible for inflammatory bowel disease, the study’s authors say.
“From the time we are born, our immune system is set up so that it can learn as much as it can to distinguish the good from the bad,” says Matthew Bettini, Ph.D., associate professor of pathology at U of U Health and co-corresponding author with Sloan Kettering Institute immunologist Gretchen Diehl, Ph.D. “Our studies make clear that there is a window in which gut microbiota have access to the immune education process. This opens up possibilities for designing therapeutics that can influence the trajectory of the immune system during this early time point.”
I couldn’t get past the first sentence without thinking, God! As I read on, I just shook my head, dumfounded by the God who could create something so intricate and dynamic and capable of living and adapting to life in a world of constant challenge and change. Let me get this straight. Our body’s relationship with bacteria is complex? You don’t say. I see that the body somehow maintains a “balance” so we can be healthy. Lucky us! And the human immune system “learns”? It “sets up surveillance” that monitors these bacteria? And from birth “our immune system is set up so that it can learn as much as it can to distinguish the good from the bad”? I wonder who set it up? Or was the “set up” a con job, a trick to get us to believe that an all powerful, all knowledgeable divine being did the setting up, but really didn’t?
According to our secular elites who control education, entertainment, and most media, that’s exactly what it is. There is only the “appearance of design,” because we all really know that it was merely random material processes that did all this by the “fact of evolution,” as the evolutionists never tire of telling us. And this evolution can account for “the immune education process”? I don’t think so. Yet all the materialist (matter is all there is) can do in the face of such staggering complexity is exclaim, Praise chance!
The human immune system can only be explained by God. We call this explanatory power. What best explains our immune system? It ain’t a God-less universe driven by matter and chance, that’s for darn sure. And the agnostic can’t run and hide behind, well, I don’t know. I’m just not sure about this whole God thing. Baloney! It’s way too obvious for, I don’t know. They are “without excuse.” If you have children or grandchildren (this blog does have something to do with parenting after all), read this article with them, and then look them in the eye and ask them: Do you really think this can be explained without our Almighty Creator God? Not a . . . . chance. It’s easy to teach them to see God in the human immune system, and in everything else, to make them immune to the lies of the devil that creation was not created.
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