Designs Need a Designer - Reason #5

Did you know that there are birds called data loggers which can fly about a year without landing once? (1)
Or did you know that if you took all your DNA and stretched it out, it would reach from the Earth to the Sun - about 98 million miles - and back hundreds of times? (2)

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There's so many wondrous and mysterious facts about the world that it is difficult to wrap our minds around. It's amazing that things can work together in harmony so well. It's almost as if this world was not a mere accident. If the world was purely an accident caused from the right material, that would be the biggest coincidence to ever occur in history. Yet statistically speaking, the way the world was created is pretty much statistically impossible.

St. Thomas Aquinas' fifth proof discusses how the natural world always seems to work towards a goal. Things that are not knowledgeable even work towards a goal. For example, flowers just grow and bloom. Our bodies also inherently do not have knowledge in them; they just know how to breathe and grow. The natural world works in a way where everything compliments each other, where everything tries to attain the best possible result.

Since most things are not knowledgeable yet still work towards a common end, it is logical to assume that this is not merely happening by chance, but on purpose. We know that things that do not have knowledge cannot be moved towards a goal unless they are guided by someone with knowledge. This can be exemplified in our classrooms at school. A child can't be given a calculus problem and be expected to be able to solve it at first without the guidance of a teacher. In Summa Theologica, St. Thomas Aquinas gives the analogy of an archer and an arrow. An arrow cannot be guided towards the target without the assistance of the archer.

So knowing that most things in nature are not inherently knowledgeable and knowing that those without knowledge must be guided in some fashion, it is logical to come to the conclusion that there has to be a being out there who possesses the knowledge of the goals and ways of reaching those goals in which all the natural world is aiming for. This being is what we call God.

This concludes the five proofs of God! I'm really excited to have been able to take this journey of learning more about the logic behind God. Please note though that my belief in God goes way beyond these more formal proofs of God. I believe in God for a variety of reasons, but it is both a comfort and sort of cool to know that there is actual logic behind God too. If you are interested in more, I encourage you to read the exact words of St. Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica. PDF versions of the work are available online.

God bless!

Your Sister in Christ,
Emily

(1) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/swift-bird-10-month-migration/
(2) http://www.sciencecentres.org.uk/projects/handsondna/4.8%20-%20Amazing%20facts%20and%20quiz%20questions.pdf