There are been some silver linings in this COVID Scam-demic for me (these interviews on Steve Bannon’s War Room is why I believe that). One is that my mind has been open to some things I wasn’t open to before. (I guess you can teach an old dog new tricks!) For instance, I’ve always thought of organic as a fad and a waste of money. Now I’m not so sure. I wasn’t much for supplements, but now I am. I was not sure about vaccines before, but now I’m officially an “anti-vaxxer.” I used to buy into whatever the medical establishment said, and now it’s hard to trust much of anything they say. I used to never like when people used the phrase, “Big Pharma,” and now I get it. I’m grateful for many of the things “Big Pharma” does, but I no longer trust that they are disinterested parties in pursuit of the greater health of mankind. It would be easy for me to become a full-on cynic, but I can’t go there. There are many decent and well-meaning people caught up in things much larger than themselves, cogs in the wheel as it were, and they just go in the direction the train is already traveling.
The reason for this post is a podcast I listened to recently that my sister shared with me from a guy who is a health fanatic in every sense of the word fanatic, Dave Asprey. From a Christian perspective, he worships the idol of health. Spiritually, needless to say, that is not healthy, but I gather the spiritual is not a big part of his worldview. He seems to think he can defeat aging and live, as he said, several hundred years. Good luck with that!
The reason I was interested was a podcast I heard last year of a vibrant 83 year-old gentleman who said one thing he did to stay that was was to take minerals. Hmmm. That sounded important to me, so I did some searching but it didn’t go anywhere. Then in God’s providence (for the Christian coincidence doesn’t exist) my sister told me about this liquid mineral supplement she was taking. Hmmm, I need to check into that. Thus I came to listen to this podcast episode, “Why You Can’t Live Without Minerals.” I found it powerfully persuasive, and promptly ordered the product. But that’s not why I write this. I write because, you guessed it, God! Everything in life comes back to him, including minerals.
As I listened to the conversation I was blown away by the complexity and functionality of the human body and how it works. All I could think was, how awesomely great must be the God who created such bodies! My mind kept going back to the doxology Paul declares at the end of Romans 11:
33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments,
and his paths beyond tracing out!
34 “Who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?”
35 “Who has ever given to God,
that God should repay them?”
36 For from him and through him and for him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen.
Paul’s exuberance comes after he’s done his best to explain the meaning of redemptive history, but the same exuberance, and being left almost speechless, can be felt when we contemplate God’s revelation of himself in creation. As Paul says in the first chapter of Romans, “God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” Oh, and it is so obvious that we most definitely are without excuse.
If you listen to the discussion of minerals and the human body, the preposterous complexity and functionality of what God created is astounding, stunning actually. Yet here are two very intelligent people ascribing such amazing machinery to “mother nature,” or what nature can do. In other words, they seem to believe that chance and natural laws can explain, for instance, the marvelous machinery of the human cell, and the trillions of them working constantly in our body to keep us alive. No it can’t.
It’s not just that evolution is a bad or implausible explanation for the cell, it’s an impossible explanation. It’s actually a joke, a very sad one that deludes many people, but a joke nonetheless. One obvious reason is that nothing in the universe goes from less to more complex, from little information or energy to more. It’s called entropy, the second law of thermodynamics; everything breaks down, more to less complex, more to less information, more to less energy. Evolution insists the opposite is the case, and that is simply impossible. The only explanation for the cell, and everything else, is our Almighty Creator God!
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