Well, I'm going to breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

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

Well, recently, a self-described humanist skeptic attempted to disprove the common claim that an atheistic universe cannot explain the design that we see in the universe, especially the complexities of life.

Posting on X, the skeptic posted a video of a jumbled container of nails being shaken until

all were perfectly lined up, insinuating that, yes, disorder can evolve into order.

Well, rather than the cunning critique of a theory of creation as he imagined, the user

seemed unaware of the obvious holes in his theory of creation, as he imagined, the user seemed

unaware of the obvious holes in his theory, for example, who made the nails, where did the

container come from, who put the nails in the container, and who did all that shaking. The entire

demonstration, in fact, required an intelligent designer that imagined the experiment to begin

with, that provided the materials in a particular

order, and then acted toward a particular goal. Also, as our former colleague Shane Morris observed

on X, nails in a box failed to approach the complexity of DNA, and the skeptics experiment only

worked because of underlying order in the universe, order that his worldview simply cannot

explain. Back in the 20th century, a group of students were taught a more complicated version of the

nail experiment in the Miller-Uray experiment, scientists claimed to have made amino acids in a lab,

and that it was a small step from creating life from non-life. As it turns out, the

experiment had too many faulty variables to ever be proven valid. Even so, had the amino acids

actually been created with proper controls, as Dr. Stephen Myers and James Tor point out,

complex chemicals are a long way from life. The real tragedy of these

claims about amino acids and ordered nails is that people actually believe them. Many people

still believe that science has proven that God does not exist or is at least unnecessary.

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