This incredible medical breakthrough says a lot about who we are.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

According to the Associated Press, African scientists have developed and the World Health

Organization has approved the first malaria vaccine.

This is huge.

Malaria is one of the deadliest scourges in the tropical environment.

Still takes the lives of over 400,000 a year, many of whom are children living in Africa's

poorest regions. Our variability to achieve medical breakthroughs like this point to our

God-given design and our role in the created world. God didn't place Adam in the garden

to lounge about, but to work. Human beings were to tend the garden. Since the fall, our calling

has also included using our God-given abilities to push back on death and disease, frustration, and toil.

But in an atheistic worldview, a disease like malaria isn't something wrong, it's just something that is.

And humans are mere animals, not image bearers, basically victims of the natural world, not stewards.

It turns out atheism just isn't big enough to explain all that humans can do.

I'm John Stonström.