Intelligent Design and The Miracle of Life

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

3.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from All’s Right with the World by Charles B. Newcomb.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We are just beginning to recognize as a scientific fact that "all action is in mind." So far, we have dealt mainly with the external expressions rather than with true causes. The science of thought has not been included in our studies. All our life as yet is "miracle." All its processes are complex and inexplicable. Who can pretend that it is otherwise?

Our universal discontent is an admission that as individuals we have failed to understand and control life’s conditions. Where then is the intelligence that has controlled it? Are we ready to assert that life is governed by accident and is chaotic? Cannot we extend the faith of which we have such constant illustration in our relation to the body, to include the "circumstances" of our life as well?

If we do the thing that lies at hand, we cannot fail to find our place in the system of humanity. We will fulfill our destiny at every point. Life is an intelligent design. We may not yet see the right side of the pattern that is being woven. The looms seem often cruel. But as Emerson says, we lie in the lap of an immense intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth.

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1:11.3	Welcome to our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. Today's talk was edited and adapted from All's Right with the World by Charles B. Newcomb, published in 1897. Every act of our lives is an act of faith, based upon experience.
2:00.0	We take food and drink into our mouths without thought of the process of nutrition
2:06.6	or understanding how waste tissue is restored.
2:11.6	We take air into our lungs, though ignorant of the chemistry by which it will oxygenate the blood.
2:20.6	We fall forward as we walk, depending on our unconscious will and muscle to maintain our center
2:29.2	of gravity. We direct our steps to a distant point without anxiety, lest our brain should become confused and fail to lead us back.
2:42.4	As the jingle rhyme so quaintly puts it, my feet they take me through the house. They hoist me up the stairs. I only have to steer them,
2:55.6	and they take me everywhere. We fall asleep without concern, surrending all consciousness
3:04.8	and confident of a fresh awakening in the morning.
3:10.0	We need not fear to trust too much to God, when we are sure it is God we trust.
3:18.9	Our only limitation is, like Peter is walking on the waves of Galilee, in our want of knowledge,
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