The Great Designer
“The heavens are telling the glory of God; they are a marvellous display of his craftsmanship.” Psalm 19:1 TLB* Whether you look at the universe through a telescope or a microscope, you discover that God is the great designer. Let us look at three of the things He designed: 1. Temperature: The sun’s surface is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and we are 93 million miles away from it – just the right distance. If the earth’s temperature was 50 degrees hotter or colder all life would cease. Think about it: why wasn’t the earth placed twice as far away, or twice as close? 2. Rotation: We rotate 365 times a year as we pass around the sun. Suppose we only rotated 36 times? Well, our days and nights would be ten times as long. We would be terribly hot on one side, unbearably cold on the other, and life as we know it would cease. 3. Air: Oxygen constitutes 21 per cent of our atmosphere: the precise balance of air we need to breathe. Why not 50 per cent? B...