Jesus Christ: Our Creator and Designer

July 31st, 2025
by Lance Waldie

Psalm 139:14-15 I am fearfully and wonderfully made… skillfully wrought…

What if you were to stumble upon a wristwatch in an open field? Would you conclude that it naturally grew there? Or would you conclude that there was a watchmaker and that someone dropped it there? This is an illustration that drives the question of God’s existence by design.

Observational evidence teaches that intricate design points to a designer—from paintings to cars to watches. Like the universe, these effects must have had a cause. Now as the design becomes more intricate, so does the designer. Naturally speaking, one can observe dams of debris and those built by beavers, but when one considers the Hoover Dam, one can only conclude an intelligent designer created it. The same is true for the great works of literature. A million monkeys with laptop computers could never produce a piece of literature worth reading. But an intelligent author can compose a great work through careful thought and design.

One might also notice the simple patterns in nature like those found in snowflakes and quartz crystals. Likewise, pebbles in a stream can be seen to have various patterns of erosion. But if one were to find a sentence etched in the side of a mountain or an arrowhead in the stream, these findings would point to something beyond that which is natural, namely a designer.

As to the universe, any observer can detect careful and intricate design. There are various forces working together that sustain the design and life that exists on earth. Each one benefits the other, and if one were to break down then the whole system would break down.

If one were to take a single DNA molecule—the building block of all life, they would find the same amount of information as is found in a single volume of an encyclopedia. Of course no one who finds an encyclopedia in an open field would conclude that it got there by chance. Anyone with a brain would know that some intellect created it. So why is it that when skeptics today find living creatures, composed of millions of DNA-based cells, they surmise that there is no Creator and that they evolved by chance? Even the late Carl Sagan is quoted as saying, “The information content of the human brain expressed in bits is probably comparable to the total number of connections among neurons—about a hundred trillion… If written out in English, say, that information would fill some 20 million volumes, as many as in the world’s largest libraries. The equivalent of 20 million books is inside the heads of every one of us. The brain is a very big place in a very small space… The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans.” Notwithstanding, Sagan scoffed at the idea of a Creator God and instead gave credit to evolutionary processes for life itself.

Evolutionists like Carl Sagan indeed have great faith! In spite of the argument for design pointing to an intelligent Designer, most of them scoff at the design argument and surmise that chance is responsible for the design of the universe. Problem is, the argument for God’s existence from the observable design has nothing at all to do with chance, which is nothing more than a word for odds in relation to man’s ignorance. Repeated observation (scientific method) reveals intelligent causes, and this is what science is all about—repeated observation, not chance. Therefore, the skeptic who thinks science debunks God and Christianity is actually ignoring science which points directly to an intelligent designer, namely God!

For the sake of argument, even if chance were responsible for the created order, the odds are far higher that there is a Designer. One scientist figured the odds for a one-cell animal to emerge by pure chance at 1 in 10⁴⁰⁰⁰⁰ (a 1 with 40,000 zeros behind it). That’s just a single-cell animal! The odds become infinitely lower for a human being to emerge by chance which would of course demand a man and a woman to perpetuate the species. The psalmist, however, believed in a Designer, knowing that God formed his inward parts inside his mother’s womb.

Food For Thought
You and I are “fearfully and wonderfully” made by God—what some scientists call the Intelligent Designer. But we know Him as God, as the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ not only designed each of us, He sustains us day by day as He sustains the universe itself (Col. 1:15-17). To give honor to the idea of chance, which is what the idea of evolution is based upon, is to deprive the Almighty Creator God of the honor of His work—both of the universe and man himself. To be sure, scientifically speaking, we cannot prove evolution or creation, for neither can be observed, tested, or retested. Both take faith to believe. Which one will you believe?