The Design

I'm sitting here in my computer programming class, obviously not doing my assignment, when I started to realize the complexity and the reality of Intelligent Design as we know it. This realization started when I simply put the heading on my paper, "Assignment 3: The Design."

In this class, our next assignment is to create a computer program that allows a person to play a real game of tic tac toe with the computer. Since this isn't really like the other two previous assignments given, our professor delgated most of our points for this to come from the actual layout of the program--the design. In this design, we have to go through step-by-step processes of how this computer needs to make this happen. My professor always tells us that a computer is slow and dumb. You have to tell it EVERY little detail and step or it won't do exactly what you want--there are no implications already within the computer.

The more I thought about it, the more it made since as to how God--an Intelligent Designer--would go about creating us. See, for this programming editor, all the tools necessary are there--it's merely lost in translation. Someone needs to know the language, the steps necessary, the details needed in order to untangle the mess and put it all into motion, creating a useful product.

The earth is like a computer editor in this sense. All the tools needed to create life are there but there's no way for them to come together as a useful product without a mediator--someone to untangle the mess and speak the language. Both the computer and the earth use impartial reasoning to dictate it's every move. Both are rather slow and somewhat dumb on it's own...Think about it, they have all these useful tools and processes available but yet they don't do anything with that unless otherwise dictated.

For example, every ingredient may be present within the atmosphere to generate a thunderstorm or even a supercell. However, all of this is in vain if there is no approaching cold front, high terrain such as mountains, or a similar "trigger." (We ran into this a lot storm chasing this summer). Something needs to happen to force all of these ingredients to come together, to mix them together in a big blender and produce this amazing, powerful, and awe-inspiring storm. All of the processes are present. The laws of physics and reasoning still apply. All of the ingredients there. Now what?

The Mixer.

All the physical laws and processes, chemicals, etc. were present during the time mankind came into existence but is that enough? These things needed a trigger, a mixer, a programmer, a Creator. Life needed an Intelligent Being to untangle the mess and put each process into motion step-by-step and detail by detail. Life needed a fluent speaker of the language of physics, reason, chemistry, and dare I say love.