Two Scientists on Creation and Design
Story★★★★In the year 1863 two great scientists, Lord Kelvin and Baron Liebig, were walking in the country and came to a glorious view, and they stopped to take it in. “Do you believe,” asked Lord Kelvin, “that the grass and flowers which we see around us grew by mere chemical forces?” “No,” answered Baron Liebig, “no more than I could believe that a book of botany describing them could grow by mere chemical forces. If you come on a book describing your conifers and all the trees in the glen, you wouldn’t believe the book grew up by accident. ‘No,’ said Peter, ‘a book requires a thinker behind it.’ ‘So does evolution,’ I concluded. ‘And the thinker’s name is God.’ “
The point
Two scientists walking observe beauty and discuss design; one correctly notes that nature's complexity, like a book, requires a thinking creator behind it.