Consider with me, for a moment, the smallest building blocks of matter. Start with the parts of an atom – protons, neutrons, and electrons, and how they combine with each other in different numbers to make different elements, and how these atoms combine together in different ways to make different molecules. Then think about how these molecules structure together to build everything else.

Now consider the smallest building blocks of life. Think about DNA – and not only its complexity, but how perfectly the molecules are structured together, and how consistent that structure is between living things. Then think about how that DNA acts as a blueprint, instructing each cell what to do and giving it a purpose. Then think about the cell, with all its complex inner workings and interactions with other cells, and how they all just seem to know what they’re meant to do. Then think about the number of cells that make up just one part of a living being – say, your eye. And all those cells work together perfectly to create a working eye, and they all interact with other cells, interfacing with the surrounding muscles and tissue, and sending and receiving massive amounts of information to and from the brain. And think about how many cells are in each of those parts as well, and how all of them also know what they’re meant to do. And think about how all these parts make up a fully functional body, complete with a consciousness and the ability to think and interact with the surrounding environment, also made up of all these building blocks.

Now think about where everything came from.

Many of us say that all of this was created by someone or something far more intelligent than us; that everything was carefully crafted by the hands of an almighty being. We say that everything was designed with intention and purpose, and that the pieces of the puzzle were all put together in order by a genius master planner.

Other people say that it all happened by chance; that everything in the universe was formed by a cosmic accident. They say that there was a big bang – a rapid expansion of matter that formed the universe. Then, somehow, life began. Non-living matter suddenly and inexplicably became living matter. Then, over a period of millions of years, this matter evolved into many forms, eventually ending with all the species we see today, including humans. Intelligent, living human beings, capable of thinking, acting, inventing, building, feeling, loving, and hating, complete with personalities, emotions, personal preferences, differing strengths and weaknesses, fears, and desires, evolved from an explosion of matter that was at one time not even alive.

And you tell me that my beliefs are unfounded and ignorant? That I’m a stupid, childish bigot, and I believe in a fairy tale? That evolution is obvious, and intelligent design is far-fetched? That in order to believe in God you have to be insane or delusional? Some people even say it is a proven fact that the big bang happened and triggered the evolution of life. Now who’s delusional?

People say that faith and science are incompatible, and that there is no place in the scientific world for the theory of intelligent design. But wait… isn’t science supposed to be the search for understanding through experimentation and observation? Doesn’t that mean intelligent design should at least be considered and studied – not thrown out the window and called superstition? It seems to me that it is easily just as likely (and in fact much more likely) that we were created as it is that we evolved from a mass of dead matter. In fact, the big bang theory contradicts one of the basic principles of biology – that living matter cannot come from non-living matter.

I guess the bottom line is that Darwinism is not perfect, and that intelligent design – a theory that is just as feasible – should have a place in the scientific community as a valid theory about the origins of life and a possible alternative way of thinking. Scientists are supposed to welcome the questioning and testing of current theories, not revoke it based on personal beliefs and opinions. After all, didn’t Darwin go against what was commonly believed at the time? Wouldn’t it be hypocritical to denounce one theory based solely on another unproven theory? Whatever your personal belief is, you have to acknowledge intelligent design as a possibility.

Yeah, I believe in the big bang… God spoke, and BANG – it happened.

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