Erosion can carve canyons but few would believe that it could carve presidents. Image courtesy of Wikipedia.
Joel Kontinen
It is not all too uncommon for sceptics to claim that design in nature is merely an illusion. Richard Dawkins, for instance, assumes that “the illusion of purpose is so powerful that biologists themselves use the assumption of good design as a working tool.”
Few would believe that erosion carved the US presidents on Mount Rushmore. However, the same people might refuse to believe that the human cell that uses nanotechnology to communicate with its environment and with other cells is intelligently designed.
Might this refusal to admit the obvious have more to do with ideology than with anything else?
The apostle Paul writes in Romans: “For since the creation of the world 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” (1:20, NIV).
Source:
Dawkins, Richard. 1995. River Out of Eden. London: Phoenic.
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