What are some of the aspects of the human body that point to the intelligent design of God?

For example, how does the function of your eyes, lungs, and even the function of your individual cells,

point to God as an intelligent designer?

And how does religious observance affect the person's physical and mental health. We'll answer these questions and a whole

lot more with our guest today, Dr. Rick Zimmerman, a physician and infectious disease and vaccine

specialist at the University of Pittsburgh. I'm your host Scott Ray, and this is Think Biblically

from Tabal School of Theology at Biola University. Rick, welcome. Really glad to have you with us on

a fascinating topic that I think our listeners are going to be enthralled by.

Well, it's such a pleasure to be here. Thank you for inviting me.

My pleasure. Now, your thesis is that medicine provides multiple signposts to an intelligent designer such as God.

In your view, and you cite, we'll talk about a number of these,

but let's start with what you think is the best and clearest example of that

from your research.

I think the human eye is just incredible.

There's in the back of the eye, the retina,

where the images that come through the eye are processed and changed into nerve impulses.

And it's not just a few cells. There's over 10 million retinal cells that have been placed there.

And those then turn the images into electric signals that go through over a million optic nerve fibers to the brain.

And just to understand what that requires for a single retinal nerve,

that we take 10 milliseconds of it. It's about 500 differential equations being solved 100 times, an immense amount of work that is being done

by just a single retinal nerve cell to take those images and give you that to your brain.

And the possibility of that, of all of those things coming together, sort of by chance, is, you

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