Me: Look at what I am creating!

Prodigal: Creating is great, but God’s creation is amazing!

This is from the book Man Does Not Stand Alone by A. Cressy Morrison

The existence of our world and mankind defies all mathematical calculations of chance! This was driven home to me many years ago when I came across an illustration from a noted scientist. As I recall, he was a former president of the New York Academy of Sciences. It went something like this: “Let’s say I have ten pennies and I mark each one with a number (one to ten), then place all ten in your pocket. I would ask you to give your pocket a good shake so the pennies are no longer in any order in your pocket. What chance would I have to reach in and pull out penny number one? One in ten. Let’s say I put the penny back. Then I reach again into your pocket and draw out penny number two.

My chance of doing that would be one in a hundred. Putting the penny back, if I were to reach in and draw out penny number three, my chances would jump to one in a thousand. If I were to continue to do the same thing, in successive order, right up through number nine, do you know what my chance would be by the time I got to the number ten and pulled it out of your pocket? One in ten billion. If I pulled that off you would say, “The game is fixed!” My answer: “You’re right….and so is creation.”

Psalms 121:5-6

The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.

Jennifer Van Allen

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