Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Sunsets and Mosquitos

I was just outside watching an amazing sunset and my thoughts turned to the awesomeness of God's creation. Specifically, I started thinking about mosquitos. (Totally natural, right? :-) Thankfully, we haven't had too many of those yet. But what I thought about was how they stick their noses into us and we don't even feel it as they suck our blood (great topic). As they stick us, they put a poison/anisthetic (that probably isn't spelled right) into us, which is what makes us itch afterward. Then I thought about how an evolutionist would respond to this and the response that seems to be typical (at least what I have heard) is something like "How amazing it is that they evolved that way so that we wouldn't feel it and, therefore, we wouldn't kill them while they fed!! What an amazing self-defense technique!" If evolution were true, then would it really be amazing that mosquitos could do that? After all, wouldn't it all be easily explained by science and not really amazing? Rather, what is amazing is that God created every single, minute, atomically sized part of that insect, He sustains that insect, and He does so in order that He might be glorified through it! So the language that should be used to describe the greatness of the glory of God is used to express amazement at a false belief that denies God that really shouldn't be all that amazing according to that belief anyway. The depth of our blindness and depravity and the greatness of the cross that allows us to experience the grace and mercy of God, which frees us from from that depravity. Hope this finds all of you well.

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