"When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers..." - Psalm 8:3
Luke Sanders played on one of my YMCA soccer teams and is now in the 8th grade at Evangel Classical Christian School. This is Luke's speech on God's fingerprint in nature:
What if I were to tell you that you are being held together by a million little crosses right now? Or that many things in nature correspond to a mathematical spiral? Or what if I were to say that the appearances of certain fruits and vegetables correspond to the appearances of the organs for which they provide nutrients? These ideas may seem far-fetched to some, but they are all fact. God has left us tiny clues and fingerprints that point to Him, an intelligent designer. An analysis of creation will demonstrate God's fingerprint in nature through laminin, the golden ratio, and "The Doctrine of Signatures."
Laminin is a small protein found in the human body. It serves as a cellular "glue" that holds our organs together and keeps them in place. The significance, however, lies in its shape. Laminin resembles a cross, similar to the one on which Christ was crucified. The tiny crosses stretch out their arms to other laminin bodies and hold us together, just like Christ. Louie Giglio, pastor of Passion City Church in Atlanta, said these words concerning laminin, "There are millions and millions and millions of microscopic crosses holding you together right now." Colossians 1:17 says, "He is before all things, and in Him all things are held together." This verse illustrates laminin perfectly. It tells us that Christ holds us together. Could He do this through laminin? Absolutely.
Leonardo Pisano Bigollo, or more commonly known as Fibonacci, discovered a set of numbers we know as the Fibonacci sequence. The sequence begins with the numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, and continues infinitely. To find the next number one must add the two previously found numbers together to find the next number. For example, to find the sixth number in the sequence, one must add the fourth and fifth numbers together. When the sequence is graphed inside a rectangle, it renders a spiral that is evident in most of creation. Such examples include flower petals, seed heads, pinecones, the way trees branch, sea shells, hurricanes, and DNA molecules. Even the huge spiral galaxies, such as the one we live in, correspond to this fascinating mathematical sequence. The sequence of numbers also corresponds to the length of the joints in one's finger. The joints are directly proportional to any three consecutive numbers in the sequence. Paul Dirac, English theoretical physicist and University of Cambridge graduate said, "God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world." While some may claim that the appearance of this sequence in nature is merely a coincidence, I will hold to the belief that it is one of the many signs God uses to point us to Him.
Have you ever eaten a banana and started to feel a little happier? And when you did, did you notice that a banana looks a little like a smile? Well, bananas stay true to their appearance. They look like a smile, and contain the protein tryptophan, which, when digested, is converted into serotonin, a neurotransmitter that helps improve one's mood. The same goes for broccoli. If you ask a small child what broccoli looks like, they will tell you a tiny tree. Well, if you look closer you will notice that if turned to where the stalk is pointing up, it looks like a lung. And broccoli contains vitamins a, c, d, and k which help improve lung function. The cutaway of a carrot reveals its inner rings, which resemble the human eye. And, not surprisingly, it contains beta carotin, a vitamin that helps our eyes see better. Starting to see a theme? Celery resembles a strong healthy bone, and is twenty three percent sodium, just like the bones it strengthens. Ginger resembles a stomach, and it helps us in digestion and has anti nausea effects. Kidney beans, get their names from an organ they resemble, the kidney, and just so happen to contain molybdenum, a protein that helps our kidneys. A cutaway of a mushroom resembles the human ear, and also helps us to hear better because of the vitamin d it contains. Finally, and most fascinating to me, is the walnut. It looks like a small little brain and even has a hard outside like the skull surrounding our brains. It contains the omega three fatty acids our brains need to function. Even more fascinating, extracts from the nut are now being used to treat alzheimers. Coincidence? I think it highly improbable. David Bjrklie, senior reporter for TIME magazine said in one of his articles, "A stupendous insight from civilizations past has been confirmed by modern investigative nutritional sciences. They have shown what was once called 'The Doctrine of Signatures' is quite astoundingly correct. This doctrine relates that every whole food has a 'signature' that resembles a body organ or physiological function and it is this pattern that acts as a signal or sign as to the specific benefit that the food provides to the eater." Maybe God was trying to help struggling Adam remember the health benefits of the food he was eating.
We have seen the fingerprint of God from the tiny laminin proteins all the way to huge spiral galaxies in which we live. God's fingerprint is demonstrated through laminin, the golden ratio, and "The Doctrine of Signatures." I should like to close with the wise words of our first President and founding father, George Washington, "It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a supreme being.''
Praise God!
Pastor Chris
"The gospel is the story of Jesus [what God's only Son has done for us that we can't do for ourselves], spoken as a promise." - Robert Jenson
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