intelligently designed

Can you guess who this is?

It's me! It's an MRI of my brain. I had it taken a couple years ago when I was a subject in an experiment for other grad students. I just did a follow up session and they gave me my MRI files to keep.

These pictures blow me away for two reasons.

First, they illustrate how incredibly complex our bodies are and how there's just no way that we humans could have developed gradually over time from lesser organisms! From the few neurophysiology classes I've taken, I've discovered how far we've come in understanding the brain and it's inner workings. But even more significantly, I've realized how much we still don't know about our brains or how matter and scientific processes work to form abstract things such as emotions, desires, motivations, and state of minds. The only explanation is that we were created by Someone infinitely more powerful and glorious than us...

The second thing that blows me away is how far our technology and knowledge has come in the recent years. It was only a couple hundred years ago that scientists began cutting people open just to figure out what made us tick. And now we've developed ways to look inside humans and see in real time what our bodies are doing. I say this not to glorify man, but to glorify God since HE is the one that has enabled our understanding to increase. HE is the one that gave us the ability to think, reason, and draw rational conclusions. HE is the one that intelligently designed us (His intelligence is infinite). But I also believe that He, in is magnificent grace, designed us intelligently (our intelligence is microscopic) so that we can continue to magnify His name as we slowly uncover His greatness.