This Happened By Accident?

A few days ago I was sitting in my cabin sipping hot black coffee at daybreak. I was looking out my window towards Lake Superior watching two pairs of ducks paddle around. The males were white with black heads and the females were kind of drab brown. For no apparent reason, one of the male ducks took off suddenly and flew in a large circle around the bay just skimming the water's surface. He was flying so fast he covered perhaps a kilometre or more in a few seconds. Faster and more maneuverable than any man-made machine could possibly fly. At the end of the flight he whistled by my cabin perhaps at a final altitude of 20-feet or so. He then made a final circle and landed beside the female duck as if to say, "Did you see that Babe!" "I can really fly. I'd also make a great daddy - if you're interested."

I took another sip from my coffee and reached for my laptop. Just then I noticed a small spider rappelling down a single strand of web preparing to land on the table. The spider had descended from one of the rafters on the ceiling. I made no attempt to squash this spider. Rather I marvelled at it's amazing ability to manufacture it's own rope, as needed, and rappel effortlessly down to the kitchen table. It would be like me doing the same thing from the top of the CN Tower - which certainly has been done by several of my former SWAT colleagues across the province. Only they had to bring their own rope, folded neatly into a bag worn on their thigh. I don't know of any SWAT guys that can fabricate a rope inside their body and dispense it out their butt as needed.

It is at times like this - when I marvel at nature - that I am confident there is an intelligent Creator. Some people believe all of this happened by accident. I think believing that creation, with all of it's amazing complexities, happened through evolution and accident, takes far more faith than believing in a God that created all things.

Many people get tripped up on the details. The seven-day creation story being one of the stumbling blocks. But if you think outside the box for a minute, what is a day to a timeless God? Could God have created the world as we know it with all of it's complexities in seven, billion-year days? Why not?

Don't cut the rope because it doesn't fit into your intelligence bag. Believing in God means that you have to admit that some things are beyond your level of security clearance. Try acknowledging that if there is indeed a God - then he's probably a lot smarter than you are, and you'll never comprehend how things came into being. Or at what point does the galaxy end, and so on.